Show A LONDON FOG the following paragraph from a late english paper will give the reader some idea of a london fog a sort of meteorological phenomenon which we would rather read about than experience the different omnibuses omni buses on the several aises vises were for some time obliged to be preceded by men carrying lighted links but at I 1 length the vehicles were obliged to stop alt elget herand by that means the greatest confusion f was created so that it was a work of no BO little danger for a pedestrian to cross any of the roads the different vessels proceeding on the river with the to be moored in the roads above bridge the wAt watermen termen wa ermell and lighterman ligh termen however in several instances being unable to see the buoys had no alternative left but to allow their craft to drift along with the tide and several vessels were driven against the piles of the bridges and it is feared that some of the wa termen have met with watery graves aves the greatest care was obliged to tr be e taken by the officials of the railway companies in in starting the trains traine and also in seeing that the london termini were ke kept t clear for or the expected incoming trains train wt flat daybreak on wednesday morning the fog still continued to hang over the metropolis and it became denser as the hours advanced until by I 1 ol 01 the whole of london hiis was enveloped in such a cloud of darkness that traffic on the railways and the Th thames ameer was almost at a standstill and business at the different ah shops 8 and elsewhere could only be carried on 7 by y the aid of gas lights during this fol fog seven persons lost their rives at stourbridge Stour bridge bri ge by drowning in in consequence of the darkness and several people were run over and killed in london |