| Show europe experiences coldest winter in century with 16 feet of snow ui in the south LONDON feb 11 ice and now snow stretched tr etched today in a bleak blanket across europe from scandinavia to the balkans some town frozen in faced food and fuel shortage ice wi was plied piled high in rivers in the baltic ships of vardoui sizes were held tight in an ice crush in jugo slavia the moslem town of gradska near neaz Saraj evo was dug out of the mow snow after belne being buried tor for nine days food and fuel was gone and many of the inhabitants were ere dell army sappers reached the maroone marooned d villagers after others had failed passengers on the simplon express which a week seek ego ago was buried in an avalanche near arrived at it constantinople from little the worse for their harrow arg experience among them as fir gilbert gilbort clayton new british high commissioner to arak deark dad had the wont ice con lations since 1893 1803 many winds lelands sere ere cut oft off one of them has jeen isolated since january 11 ice breakers had the greatest difficulty keeping open wo skaters crossed the mund to sweden an I 1 ice br brenker eiLker rescued the passengers of a liner frozen in the catogal Catt tat gal the terry ferry mecklenburg was as stranded with a ship load of passengers from germany germany suffered kennely from the I 1 ice and cold many riven rivers were frozen over river traffic almost everywhere stopped there were many deaths danzig harbor artze or over at kid kiel thre e ark wark d to keep a channel clear from hamburg cane cone word that traffic between the nordstrand and the mainla id was maintained by I 1 means of motor buses running on the ice the canal was vias frozen 0 er at kael kariel storks arching ilog from the south were sere td led by the populace to present prevent their starving gwehe hu hundred ildred miles of the danube rh aher er va nere ere frozen over and blocked with ice tee aich in many places piled several feet high giving rise to tears fears of floods when A hen the thaw comes le the lowest temperatures since ranging from zero fahrenheit ht at budapest to 22 decrees below at Mate conditto Condl tio a ft ere extremely were severe there vere many deaths railroads i sere ere blocked with anav nine feet deep in place places and many smaller corr nun aties it lee cre cut off from tood food supplies C tv streets were ere mostly deserted shops and theatres closed shipping ans ns stepped iby a fierce gale four omen died at thessaly thessally greece cheit sixteen feet of snow demoralized nil all transportation end and made 1 of the innab tants there were acre scattered scitt ered reports of depredations arm famished wolves the worst came from rom Bra bratislav bratislava tisla a czechoslovakia both rumans humans and cattle were sere victims hi in numerous small towns and villages at galanta villagers had to 0 o barricade themselves to keep from being attacked the town reported a nineteen icae ear old boy killed by the animals after he had exhausted ammunition from a pistol he be carried A woman also was killed and several per ions sons badly mutilated warsaw experienced the arst worst cold in more than years telephone and arid telegraph service over all ill of poland was interrupted A coal shortage was threatened by interrupted railroad traffic |
