New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-26
THE STORM IN NEW-ENGLAND.
DAMAGE ALONG THE COAST BY WIND AND TIDE
SNOW IL THE INTERIOR.

DAMAGE ALONG THE COAST BY WIND AND TIDE
SNOW IL THE INTERIOR.
BosroN Nov. % (SpeciaD The storm which began
here on Sunday morning still continues. The rainfall
mp to Z o'clock this evening was 2 10 inches. The
storm yesterday and to-day has been severe, reaching
velocity yesterday of iorty-fve miles hour and
forty-two miles an hour to-day. On the beaches in
the vicinity of Boston the damage has been consider
able The surf at Revere Beach, the old inhabitants
say, was tic hea Arrest in thirty years Two hundred
feet of the Revere Beach Railroad between Oaksland
and the Pines was washed away. The breakers
dashed against the bulkhead of the Vue &c PEau,
Crescent Beach, shaking the foundation OF the hotel
One wave dashed through the fortified door of the
billiard room and covered the floor to the depth of two
feet, luring young man who in the apartment
across it like piece of drittwood barn belonging
to Mr. Emmons was lOosened from its foundation and
twisted several feet by the wind. The 81. Charles
Hotel was undermined, the bulkhead and he guards
OF the piazza being carried away. Almost all the
cottages from the yue de rEau Hotel to Ocean Pier
suffered severely the Crest Wave the Vienna and the
Rockaway beng undermined. Many planks OF the
Ocean Per were ripped up, and the timbers were
thoroughly shaken.
The tide at Lynn was high enough to submerge sew
ernl wharyes At Cohasset it was higher II Is SAID
than at any time since April 16 1851 the day OF the
destruction of Mnots Ledge light ouse The streets
aud meadows in the vicinity OF the harbOr we're over
flowed and the wharyes were covered to depth OF
eighteen inhes.
At Edgeworth and in the marshes in Chares-st.,
Maiden. the tide the highest ever known. large
number OF cellars flooded anC lot Of lumber was
Heated oil. The water covered the Saugus Branch
track of the Boston and Maine Railroad causing some
Inconvenience to trains. Charlcs-st was impossible.
The storm severe in Salem, the wind blowing
gale from the northeast The entire section known "a
" The Point under water. there being from six
inches to a foot OF water in the streets. The harbor IL
filled with coasters, nearly 100 sail being wDdbOund.
There has been considerable damage to small craft.
John Hancock's sloop-riggcd boat which was moored
OF PcDnsylyania Pier has gone to pieces, one entire
side being torn out. On NantaSkct Beach the prnci-
pal damage at the Crockett House. amounting to
about 500 The cambake building at the Ecckland
Cafe submerged
Tue tide Salem on Tuesday, the highest since
1-j6, aud to-day It eight inches higher than ON
Tuesday. Fire, exungui,hed In the locomotives on
the Eastern Railway they passed through the tuhuel
where the water two feet above the rails Inc emu
of Derby wharf covered with water knee deep ana
the waves dashed It with fury. The lighthouse on
Tho end OF the wharf bore miniature resemblance 10
Minurs lght, standing solitary IN an angry sea. The
SIDE OF the wharf below the coal shed 0f smith
Iarker collapsed having been undermined by the tue
and go tons Of soft coal, 100 tons al stove coal ana
quantity OF furnace cCa slid into tho The damage
l. estimated at 900 The sunken granite Hloop, Bell,
OF Cape Ann broke up and deck timber and ships knees
came floating ~ the harDor.
Reports from Northern Ncw-Iamp,hirc and YER
mont state that heavy snow storm "a prevailing IN
that region. Montpelier reports twelve inches and
Laconia. y. H. eight already fallen.