HEAVY SNOWSTORM.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 219, 20 February 1875, Page 3

HEAVY SNOWSTORM.

The metropolis and its suburbs have been visited with an exceedingly heavy fall of snow accompanied by a sharp wind from the east, and in some parts of the suburbs the snowdrifts were two and three feet in depth, and the roads being in some places well nigh impassable, locomotion was very difficult, and omnibusses and tram-cars had three and even four horses, and many cabs two—in some cases driven tandem. On the railways the traffic was also very much delayed. The Kent and Surrey hills are clothed with snow, and in the valleys it has drifted to some depth. Hunting operations have been suspended, and in the royal parks at Richmond and Hampton the herds of deer were driven into the deer-yards and fed with hay. The Midland Counties have also been visited by one of the heaviest snow-storms that has occurred for several seasons, the ground being covered to the depth of five or six inches, and traffic being obstructed. In the lower part of Berkshire a large quantity of snow has fallen, and the appearance of the country is wintry in the extreme. There was a great fall of snow in the Windsor district. It covered the roofs of the towers of the castle, and the town, as well as the adjacent country for miles, to the depth of several inches. A heavy fall of snow took place in the Monmouth district, which caused much inconvenience by delaying the early London and other mails. Owing to the great depth of snow in the Forest of Dean the mails were about five hours beyond the usual time of arrival. Never since January, 1854, has there been such a fall of snow in and near Blackburn, and in the North-East and North-West Ridings of Y orkshire the fall has been so heavy as to render cutting through an imperative necessity. In North and North-East Lancashire the fall has been heavy, and railway trains on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway have been impeded. The continued severity of the weather is causing great anxiety amongst owners of sheep, both in the low and high lands around Dundee. Numbers of small birds have been found frozen to death. Loch Leven is a sheet of ice from side to side, and skaters sport upon its surface. The Highland-road at Inverary is blocked with snow, and the mails are delayed. At Campbeltown there has been a heavy fall of snow, and a man who was upset near the town perished from exposure to the cold.