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|nv KI.ECI'UIC TKLKOItAI'II.— C'II'VRKiHT. 1 Loxoox, March 10. A DI.IXDIN'O lili/.ziird raging. 'J he temperature lias gone down to zer >. mid many shipping disas: -rs hive occurred in the chante 1.
There has lji'i'ii a IuMW tall of snow in the northern put of ivent, and 11'•' working of the tr-legraph and railway lines lias been seriously iilll-rl <-d-<1 with. At Favi-rsham a train was snowed up all night. A lifeboat at Lydd. in Hi" South ol Kent. ca psi/ed dining the storm, and seven of the ('row were drowned. March j 'J Tim South Eastern CountiessuiTcred severely from the blizzard. The miowfall was general throughout England, and was remarkably lie ivy. In soni" parts snow Iritis v.uv twenty tcct deep. "The "Flying Dutchman' was snow bound at Tiverton, in Devon, and many mail trains in various parts of England were eoinpL.-l oly embedded in the snowdrifts. The blizzm d is still raging. Twenty lives have been hist, and various oasultie.s arc reported. Several people have been frozen to death.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2912, 14 March 1891, Page 2
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172ENGLISH BLIZZARD Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2912, 14 March 1891, Page 2
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