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Show FEARFUL BLIZZARD IN EUROPE. Many Fatalities From Cold Reported From Spain and Portugal. Paris. France and the greater part of Europe are experiencing the bitterest bit-terest year-end in a decade. Blizzards Bliz-zards and floods have done great damage inland and gales of exceptional excep-tional violence have ravaged the coasts. In Spain and Portugal cold has caused numerous deaths. In the south of France the temperature has registered some degrees below zero, falirenheit. Mount Vesuvius, in Italy, is covered with a mantle of white. Germany is now in the grip of storms, and in many places, including includ-ing Berlin, there have been heavy snowfalls. In France and southwest Europe the railroads are out in many places and this section practically is isolated so far as telegraphic communication com-munication is concerned. Conditions are at their worst in southern and central France, which usually are favored by mild winters. Scores of villages which ordinarily never see snow now are cut off. The suffering of the poor is intense and deaths from exposure are common. |