Show FORTY PEOPLE DROWN Mariners Manners Lose Los Their Lives in Shipwrecks Shipwrecks Shipwrecks Ship Ship- wrecks on the Italian Coast During Fearful Gale I LONDON Feb Feb 3 The The recent gales have hav been succeeded by heavy snowstorms snowstorms snowstorms snow snow- storms in western western Europe pe and the ship shipping ping alOng th the coast of Spain Spain has suffered suffered suffered suf suf- considerable damage Forty lives are reported to h have he e been lost in shipwrecks on the Italian coast Several persons were killed by avalanches avalanches avalanches ava ava- lanches in Italy Rivers there have their banks a score of bridges have l been een broken and many towns are blocked by the snowA snow A village e near Verona has been wrecked by the storm and ce certain tain districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis adjacent to to-r to Rome have been flooded Th There r Is' is is' is three e feet of now siow at Turin and Milan I J A German bark stranded tr n on St St. l I Maria Marln rock off the Scilly is islands ands this evening and was broken up p b before fore the lifesavers life sav ers era reached her The crew of the bark was nas drowned ned Much uch North sea wreckage wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- age i is washing ashore at Sheerness The mail steamer Marie Henrietta smashed a wheel on her way from Dover Dover Dover Do Do- ver to Ostend and became ble after that Her passengers had a terrible experience The vessel essel was short of fuel and provision but managed Saturday and Sunday with difficulty to retake more coal The tugs standing by the Marie Henrietta attempting to tow her were were also short of or coal A steam packet Will ill leave Os Ostend tend this m morning to tow the Marie Henrietta to that port The Dover Ostend service is again suspended l today The Dover Calais Channel service is also suspended the boats now plying to Boulogne instead The other channel vessels were main r tamed with difficulty last night Dover Dover Dover Do Do- ver reports the pr present gale galeto to Lo be the most severe In years and that it is accompanied with unusual cold |