BLIZZARDS IN BRITAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 97, 30 March 1916, Page 5

BLIZZARDS IN BRITAIN.

THE MIDLANDS ISOLATED. London, March 28. Reports from bbme -towns describe the blkznrd that is raging as the worst in living memory. The snowdrifts are twenty feet deep, and trams and trains are snowed up. Many damages are reported, and the Midland Counties are isolated. EFFECTS OF THE STORM. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ON LAND AND SEA. (Rceived 10.15 a.m.) London, March 29. After redoubling its intensity in the night, the blizzard exhausted* self this morning, after severe dam-, age being done in all parts of Britain. Nine men and boys were found dead in the snow in the mountains of South Wales. There is widespread railway disorganisation in England, and some 'parts of the north were cut off from London for fourteen hours. The services are improving but it is slow 'owing to .the widespread damage to (the signalling wires. I It is believed that five sailers were lost in Bristol Channel. Serious floods threatened the 'Thames Valley, and there was much damage in London, where it was the worst storm experienced since 1881.