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Show WIMTRY WEATHER. 'Tis Bitter Cold in Europe, and Snow a Foot Deep Covers the Ground in Many l'laees. Reg-ular Blizzards Prevailed in Many Sections Rivers Out of Their Banks Doiug; Much Damage, 'TIS BITTER COLD IN FRANCE The Gold Wave oa the Baltic A Fierce Storm Raging in the Ohannol Islands Today. CYCLONES AT HOME, TOO. Fatalities From the Storms in the CreelL Nation -The lee tiorpe at Wiuuepeg Broken With bynauiite and tho Flood Crisis is Thought. to Have Passed. London, April 18. The severe weather which set in here, last week contiuues. In many places the ground 1 covered with, snow a foot deep, aud regular blizzards havt occurred, doing enormous damage to fruit aud Vegetables. In many places the rivers ovorflowed thoir banks, and the adjacent country is tloocued, and crops destroyed. In some places tha situation is really serious. The snow aud sleet prostrated the telegraph poles and cut oil telegraphic communication. So serious was the destruction to the wires that tho ordinary force of linemen were unable to cope with the difficulty, und soldiers were ordered to their assistuu.ee. Great damage was done to crops in tho channel islands. A heavy storm is raging today in North Wales and Cheshire. Advices say the cold wave is beginning to be felt on the Baltic. Dispatches from Pari and the north of Franco say that hail and sleet ia falling, and the weather is bittey cold. FLOODS AND STORMS AT HOME. WiNxn'EG,;April IS. The tlood crisis here is thought to have passed. Yesterday in order or-der to relieve the pressure of the ice on the Louise bridge, the Canadian Pai Ific railway used dynamite freely. This sturted the iea to move. It poured past in great volumes, swelling everything before it. Boat housed were crushed, telegraph poles snapped, switch boxes were torn away, scows thrown upon the banks and portions of the piers M of the Broadway bridge were swept down the) stream. The water hus beguu to fall raoidly and unless the ice jams farther down the stream, as it did in 188J, which was the direct cause of the disastrous tlood of that year, it is probable the worst has been seen. The Northern Pacific tracks along the river front are rapidly growing visible again. Gl-thkie, April IS. Reports from thu I wesU.ru part of the Creek Nation s y that j. iCal cyclone passed through there, destroy lug over a dozen houses, many barns and killing; three people and mauy horses and cattle. "Whitehall, Ills., April 18. The heaviest rain ever known here fell last night. Hart-well Hart-well levee, which protected several thousaud acres of farming land, mostly planted in wheat, broke. The whole country is under water. All the county bridges were swept away; all the bottom lands along streams ia submerged. Many thousaud acres of wheat are destroyed. |