Show THE the dispatches bring word that many of the vessels tor for whose safety serious fears were expressed are corning into port now that the storm on the west coast of europe has abated it in a satisfaction to receive this measure of good news for the heavy loss logs of life and property that was reported duri during n g the progress program of the storm is cause enough for sorrow A gale of sixty miles per hour especially i e ally on the coast of england where its force is unbroken by moun tai caius U or hills of considerable size is som something thing terrific the heavy damp atmosphere exerts a power sufficiently strong to throw god sized children to the ground and frequently grown up people are served that way in the open street it to is no wonder that the pressure of such a gale wasele are at the mercy of wind and waves and that such gi gra aa I 1 steamers as the lucanda dare not venture along the rockbound rook bound 0 bat of ireland in an attempt to enter port the cold wave that accompanied the abe storm in england is hardly in a country like ours the dispatches state that seven neven degree of frost front was wa felt or a temperature of 26 25 degrees above zero that would not net occasion even a sharp frost here but in the dense moist atmosphere of england it means that unless unions a person to is fairly well protected freezing to death to is not a remarkable event under such a condition it is not strange that several persons met with just this thi fate an instance of the cold riold spell of three years ago an in england maybe may be cited when the thermometer marked seven even degrees of frost A postman going his bis rounds in a small town in kent I 1 was frozen to death while making his regular morning trip it was wa noticed that at several places where his bis horse stopped the postman did not get down from the cart and on examination he be was found to have perished by cold the feenan witnessed on vessel driven ashore along the coast are painful in the extreme it to Is a harrowing experience for brave men to the rigors of a seafaring life to be almost within hailing balling distance of a stranded vessel and be powerless to aid the perishing crew yet rauch was the experience on the east coast of england in the abe recent storm vessels Vess elfr were stranded on a sandy beach within three hundred yards of shore while the members of the lifesaving life saving edving crew were unable to do more than watch the sailors oli clinging nging to the rigging until they were washed oft off or dropped from numbness into the raging sea in such a storm the life boata are of little more use than a muesel shell in ft similar storm two years ago the lifeboat service at dover made desperate attempts to reach a vessel in such a position and i had two crews drowned after thirty hours effort a boy who had bad been lashed to the rig ging was taken off but the rest of the crew of nearly fifty had been all washed away the recital of such experiences does not have the effect of causing the ordinary landsman lan deman to euvy envy those who 4 go down t the sea aw s but it brings a feeling of satisfaction to residents of this intermountain inter mountain auntry that they are at an altitude that relieves them from many such euch inconveniences and have the mountain peaks bare and rugged though they be to protect them irom from the fierceness of the hurricane |