BLIZZARD IN SOUTH RUSSIA.
BIX TKAINS SNOWBOUND. TEHKIBLE SUFFERINGS. GREAT LOSS OF LfIFE. ' (PBB PBESS ASSOOIATaON. I | Received 14, 10.20 p.m." St. Petersburg, J Jnuary 14. I A terrible blizzard ragfe I last wee'c in South Russia. Six trains and five thousand passengers werw snowbound at Razdyelnaia and nearly/ starved. After digging for thfree days, a thous-and soldiers frmjb. Keiff and Odessa succeoded in ]enabli D g two trains with two thousand passengers to proceed. After eightefen hom°s, the siock of the train firdwoood. became exhausted and a perfect", pandemonium ensued. Ihe suit' ring* weri terrible Sixty passengers, hiiaded [by Count Kaprist, started afoot /and rfeached the station, opening up/ communication with Odessa. The G/overrX. a t once despatched sledges with fotd. Many passengers were de i/rious land frostbitten. / / It is feared that/ over U h adrel succumbed. / I The storm is aliatiogi Ei. Jteon thousand soldiers are still li ar d at>ork. of the rfas-, of jfhe tra. 8 at Razdyelnaia is unknown. / '
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 11, 15 January 1901, Page 3
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164BLIZZARD IN SOUTH RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 11, 15 January 1901, Page 3
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