The Portland daily press., 1888-03-14
a City of Refuge.
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The Sight on the coast of Mas
sachusetts.

The sight on the coast of Mas
sachusetts.
Boston, March 13.-Reports received IN
this city show a general suspension of rail-
road traffic caused by the storm yesterday,
and this state Of things continues today.
The storm has been of almost unprecedented
severity in the region west Of line one
hundred miles from Boston, and has com
petely cut off all communication by either
rail or wire. Snow, driven by terrific gale,
fell in enormous quantities. The last wire
to New York went down a about O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon. At hat time not
railroad wheel was moving west Of Spring
field. Mass, and drifts fifteen to twenty
feet deep were piled upon the rails.
The grandest sight seen for many years ON
the water, is the breakwater at Deer Island.
The waves ran % feet high, and fell Dack-
ward with as much splendor as Niagara
Falls. The greatest excitement prevailed at
Vue de rEau Hotel at Crescent Beach. The
water covered the turnpike between Win
throp junction and Beachmont.
At the hotel heavy seas struck the staunch
bulkhead with a noise like the roar OF a can
non. The wind and sleet drove directly in
shore. and gave additional Momentum to the
waves and tide, which were dangerously
strong and high in themselves.
AT every blow upon the Vue de PEau bulk
head the waves were thrown into the air,
and the spray flew even higher than the
towers of the building they struck, causing
the large structure to rock to and fro to an
alarming degree.
The people living near the shore are in
the greatest excitement, as they fear the wa
ter will rise higher and flood them out OF
their homes. The sea runs high all along
the beach, from Great Head to Point OF Pines
In Connecticut the storm was very severe,
SURPRISING anything recolected by the old
| est railroad men. A despatch from. New
| Haven Yesterday, said: "The storm in this
vicinity is very bad indeed. At this hour,
| IL a. M, no train has arrived from New
York, and the mail and newspaper trains
| are stuck at Black Rock, just below Bridge
port, with not very favorable prospects OF
| moving, as the snow packs hard and IS
| drifting badly. At Marion several telegraph
poles are down across the track. On tlle
| Naugatuck division trains are snoWnouhd'
| No train has yet come down the Noithamp-
| ton division, and no trains are starting east
of the Shore Line division. The snow mas
drifted very badly the. railroad yard, and
trains are unable to push through without
| shovelling On the horse car roads cars
pulled by six and eight horses have become
| stuck and abandoned by the passengers:
| The snow is about 10 inches deep, wet and
drifting"
morning, during binding snow storm, an
Atlantic express train, bound south, on the
New York Central 81 Hudson River rail-
road, ran into another Atlantic express at
Dobbs's Ferry, demolishing several cars.
Four persons are known to be badly in
| iured. Both tracks were obstructed. All
| south bound trains were held at TarrytoWn.
| Along the lower Hudson the storm was the
most terrific experienced in years. Travel
| is entirely suspended in some parts OF Rock
| land county. Trains are detained by huge
| drifts, some 10 to 20 feet high. In the west.
ern part of the county the mountain roads
are impossible.