Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-20
VICTIMS OF THE STORM.
It Ragged with Terrible Effect
 in Canada.
DISASTERS IN VARIOUS PLACES
The storm Extended from Massachusetts to California, but Was Most Severe in Canada-Lives Lott and Much Property Destroyed.

MONTREAL, Dec 3o-Reports of damage done by the blizzard, which began Saturday and only moderated yesterday, are beginning to come in. The eastern portion of Quebec and the maritime provinces suffered most, The traffic on the Intercolonial railway was totally demoralized and traffic along the northern division suspended. Twenty trains were laid up at Moncton.
 The storm did great damage along the Newfoundland coast The ship Golden Gate, from St. Johns, N. F., went ashore at St. Pierre, Miquelon, and became total wreck. The schooner N. Wright was wrecked in the Straits of Canso. The men on both vessels have suffered from cold and hunger, and many of them are badly frozen. Assistance has been sent to them. It is not known whether any lives have been lost.
 At McDonald's Point, N. B., Ernest Wright and Ernest Mcdonald attempted to cross on the ice. They were caught in the drifts and found frozen to death in the morning. At Iroquois, Ont, when the gale had just begun, three men named Qiclkie, Johnson and Oaks came oyer from the American side in an open boat When they attempted to return home a gust of wind capsized the boat and the three men were left struggling in the icy water. Johnson | was an expert swimmer and made heroic efforts to save Dickie, sacrificing his own | life in the attempt. Assistance was sent out | from the shore, but it was too late, all three having sunk. Johnson had a reputation as | life saver, and last summer rescued three l young Mea.
 The destruction of fodder stock and out
 buildings caused by the storm has created almost famine in this section of the | country.
 Quebec is almost entirely cut off from out lctla are nearly all very narrow and the drifts
 have piled pp ii. many cases as high as tbs second story window, rendering ordinary i travel impossible. It Is the severest weather ! ever known in the province at this time of i the year. The cold is intense, the thermo-
 meter being 12 degs below zero. People are
 afraid to leave their houses in Quebec for ! fear of losing their way and being frozen to | death, The liaemen of the telegraph eon,- l paAy arg great sufferers, and many cases are l reported where they have been badly frozen
 in attempting to repair the broken wires About Montreal and botween her and Ot- tiwR farmers have lost much live stock and 1 demolished barns and fences strew the lines of the railroad. Ice covers the tracks in
 many places to the depth of foot and
 half, and reforms almost immediately after
 being chopped out by laborers. All mails are
 delayed, and minor casualties, due to the
 frigid weather, are reported from all points i Reports are being sent from Montreal of 1 losses of life in the St. Lawrence river during
 the blizzard. No lives have been lost, and
 the stories have not the slightest basis of 1 fact
 ST, JOHN, N. B., Dec. 20.-From Sunday { until late Tuesday night furious snow and l sleet storm ragged in the northern part of this
 province bordering on Quebec The snow in i fba TpJa ol ;c ! to seven feet deep, and on Monday the run
 ming of trains was completely suspended. 1 Four trains are stalled beyond Moncton. A 1 snow slide near Metapedia buried a special i freight train, and hours were spent in shovel i ing it but, No freights have been sent from
 Moncton north since Monday, upward of a 1 >iu=en being at that point waiting for a clear.
 track. The Quebec train reached here ten 1 hours late. The experience of the train
 hands has been very severe, In some cases,
 owing to the binding sleet and snow, relays l of men had to be provided, and cuttings i often filled up when nearly open A storm ! of such length has not before been known on ] the road for years, and it will cost the line i thousands of dollars to reopen communica- i tion.
 SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec 20-The W are 1 river is higher than has been known for 1 years. A bad washout has occurred on tho 1 Central Massachusetts railroad near Oakdale
 and travel on the road Is suspended. Several
 manufacturing firms in Orange had to shut ! down owing to high water.
 i HoosKET, N H., Dec. 20-The heavy ! timbers used as stays on the three bridges ! spanning the Merrimac river were carried
 away by the freshet. Eleven men were work.
 ing on the bridge at the time, and three of
 them were drowned,
 SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 20,-Captains of
 vessels plying between Cape Mendocino and
 Cape Flattery report the recent storm as the
 most violent in their experience. Capt. Sal
 mon, of the Costa Rica, was thrown from 1 the bridge and had an arm broken. Several
 coliers from the north, a week overdue, have
 come in. It is feared some of the heavily
 laden vessels did not weather the storm, as