A WEDDING PARTY DEVOURED.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 1

A WEDDING PARTY DEVOURED.

The snowfall and storms on tho ’outinont have abated (writes a ilome journal to hand by the last mail), but the severe cold still continues, and reports of the enable fatalities resulting from i lie cold and the snowdrifts continue to come to hand from many points, and from South tiussia and Austria. The snowhifts in South Russia were successfully cleared, and a single line of Communication was established to the north of Odessia. The last of the snowed-up trains arrived at that city safely with passengers and 2,500 bags of mails. The snowdrift had in places frozen so hard that iri one place a tunnel had to be cut 400 yards long. The poorer community in the neighbourhood are starving, and the poorer passengers who were snowed up in the trains and had to leave on foot are being found by the roadside, frozen to death.

The reports of the suffering in Ron anuria are still more terrible. Trains are running into snowdrifts, and many of the travellers are falling into a state of coma. S iveial villages are completely ouried. Accounts are coming to hand of the terrible depredations caused by packs of starving wolves. Two Turkish workmen were devfturejd near Machim. Two brotlierg |in the Marmaros Comitate (says It he Daily Mail’s Buda had married two sisters, and had started in a sleigh on a visiting trip to relations living in the neighbouring villages before again joining their guests at the wedding breakfast. On approaching the forest of Boigo-twei the sledge was attacked by two wolves. The driver, relying on the speed of his horses, wanted to get away, but one of the bridegrooms drew Iris revolver and shot one of the brutes. Instantly a pack of wolves, which, exasperated by the cold weather, had advanced to the border of the forest, attack'd the party. The driver escaped .0 the top of a tree, but the two couples became the prey of tl e infuriated beasts. A search par-y of the wedding guests, who h d tired of waiting, found the driv r almost frozen to death on the tree, and discovered part of the remains of the four victims.