GREAT SNOWSTORM.
SWEEPING OVER GREAT BRITAIN, WORST FOR TWENTY YEARS. Received 29, 10.15 p.m. London, December 29. The heaviest snow for twenty years has been experenced in the north-east of Scotland. Railways and telegraphs are interrupted. A train was snowed up at Porthlethen. The greatest snowstorm for 14 years swept over the Isle of Man. A train was snowed up near Douglas, and tho passengers suffered terribly. Heavy snow has fallen in the northeast of England and the Thames Valley. A laborer was. frozen to death on Pluinstead Marshes.
Much snow has fallen in Northern and Central Europe.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 311, 30 December 1908, Page 2
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98GREAT SNOWSTORM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 311, 30 December 1908, Page 2
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