| Show WINTER WEATHER IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES thirty six hour snowstorm and mercury at the freezing point ancient trees uprooted at potsdam berlin april 20 the gale of sunday wrought such havoc on the grounds at potsdam that a full report on the subject hag been telegraphed to emperor william many splendid trees dating from the time of frederick the great were uprooted alic imperial wild park was also seriously damaged the 30 hour snowstorm now storm over middle europe ceased today at daylight the snow is two inches deep in berlin increasing to a yard deep in the laartz highlands snow lies deep in cast prussia and poland where vires are down and the trains delayed the temperature in most parts of germany ia barely at freezing point so that the damage to the fruit crops may not he so serious as at first supposed the snow ia melting rapidly and the streams are already flooding the government has issued notices that telegraphic communication with russia is interrupted and that lines silesia and of Berlin arc also down no trains have arrived from fosen in twelve hours tie railroad a amima has no snow plows as such snows as this are extremely rare hence shovel expeditions have been organized to dig out the drive covered trains and carry food to the belated passengers telegrams from many cities read alike street cars are talc phone ani telegraph wires arc down and the trains are cither not venturing to leave the terminals are stalled in tha country or aro arriving at their destinations after great difficulty the turret over tho paradise door of the cathedral was blown down lany largo trees in the parka here were uprooted pint of the roof of tha opera house was blown off and workmen at the risk of their lives sought to repair it 0 a to damage to the richly decorated interior but they wera unable to continue at work thesa snowa however did little damage to tho inferior falling chimneys and tiles made tha berlin thoroughfares perilous twenty one persons were taken to the hospital count von ballestros Ball estrom president of the reichstag who is on his way to at tend the opening of parliament is snow cd in between hero and silesia the fine trees planted by the great chich were uprooted in tha park at potsdam acre the largest of all the fir trees shipping disasters are reported from the ailtie and north bea the german schooner sport was stranded near dantzic and the daaiyah cutter irene was wrecked off the crews ol 01 both vessels were caved |
