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Show Dousland in safety. But upon there arrival ar-rival there they were unable to retusn, and in addition so terribly was the storm raging thev were unable to persuade others to form a rescue party. During; this time the half frozen passengers. who included a number of ladies among them were half perished. They built fires near the cars aml''o4ted the water tank footwarmers. the only means ol heating English railroad cars, and thus did their best to keep themselves warm, but with little success. When, after forty-eight hours of this distressing experience, the passengers were reached they were in a pitable con dition, the ladies especially. So terribly did the ladies suffer that a number of them are now at Dousland confined to their beds under medical treatment, West Cornwall has been in a state of complete isolation since Monday last. The first communications with that district dis-trict were opened up to-dav. When the storm of the latter part of December 1890, tied up traffic in England and on the continent the weather prophets pronounced pro-nounced that it was the most severe weather within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but now these same prophets announce the present storm is the most severe experienced in fifly years. As an ofifcet to the thousands w ho have been thrown out of employment by the storm hundreds have been employed in clearing clear-ing away the railway west of Taunton. As another instance of the work to be done and the sufferings experienced, it many be noted that on the railroad wt-st of Taunton, between Tenenas and Plymouth, alone there are five trains snowed up. SNOWBOUND. London March 13-While throughout, jthe London district a thaw has Ket in, here are no signs of a modeiation in the moderation of the severity ol the weather in the southwest of England. A heavy snow storm prevailed last night in Devonshire and Cornwall, considerably consider-ably adding to the tufk-rings of the lar-jmers lar-jmers cf those counties. In the majority of villages and the smaller snowed up towns, all the shops and schools are closed. One of the curious incidents of the storrrj was th; snowing up ntar Exeter Ex-eter of those old fashioned four-horse coaches which still did duty in many parts of England, in default of more modern rnethods of transit. The untor-tunate untor-tunate passengers of thisparticular coach were compelled to camp by the roadside near the snowbound co ch Thev 'tried to maketaemselves as comfortable as possible, built a large fire, improvised a rude hut made of branches torn from trees boarding on the highway.and kept up their spirits as best they could. In land, in Devonshire. When it became evident that there were no means ot movmg the tram on to Dousland, or of t returning the way it had come, the rail road porters and conductors, alter a con ferepce with ths imprisioned passengers, passen-gers, decided to try to push on to Dousland Dous-land on'fof't in order to at least obtain supplies of provisions for the passengeis and il possible to bring them some kind of sleighs or other conveyances which would enable them to teach places of shelter. Thereupon they started on their long and cold journey, and alter tprrib'e sufferings managed to reach |