Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-11-30
RAVAGES OF THE STORM.
GREAT AMOUNT or DAMAGE AND
MANY LIVES LOST.
The Massachusetts Coast Strewn with
WRECKS ana WreclNage-2S ship
wrecked sailors Saved by = Gallant
Life Saving Crew no Abatement,

1iosToN, Nov g Boston and New Eng
land was visited Sunday by one of the
severest November snow storms known
for years. Here snow began falling at
about . a. IN, aud continued uninterrupt-
eddy until about p. m, when it turned
.ntoa pouring rain. During that time five
inches of snow fell The storm came
from the northeast accompanied by a
strong wind which ran as high as A.
miles IN honr on Sunday. The wind
averaged about 30 miles. To-day the wind
increased IN velocity, and bowled along at
a 5Omlle an hour gait, accompanied by
heavy gusts of rain. The total rainfall up
to noon was LAO inches. This when
mixed with snow formed slush and was
anything but agreeable to pedestrians.
The gale caused much serious damage to
shipping. Sad reports OF disasters at sea
came in to-day. the signal service re-
ports the storm centre not yet passed ana
predicts the gale and food will continue
until Tuesday and possibly until Wednes-
day. The storm in area embraces the
greater part of New ENGLAND and the east
ern part of New York State. In Boston
the seveTest part OF it was between and 3
o'clock Sunday. The snow was damp and
blocked badly, greatly impeding foot and
horse car travel. No serious damage re-
suited, however. Some through trains
were somewhat behind hand. White
caps covered the Charles river
here between the Cambridge bridges
and the tide running very high
brought the water within foot of the
overlooking piers and park embankment.
Occasional sp.ashes of waves even threw
water upon the bridge sidewalk. The de-
tailed story of the storm il as follows
Great damage TO telegraph and tele-
phone wires occurred after dark last night
The city suffered less than the surround
ing country The Western Union had
only one through wire to New York and
Maine and communication with Mas
ssChusetts points was meagre. The New
England Telephone ana Telegraph com
pany and all other companies suffered Sc
verely. The gale continued all night and
to-day. Connection with Portland and
points north and east is entirely cut off to-
day and suburban divisions were badly
GemOralzed. The poles were down and
wires tangled and week will be required
to get them III order again. Up to noon
TO day the Western Union had not q single
wire to New York out of a total of 60. At
! p. NJ, however. a dozen were working.
The Mutual Union lost many poles at
The New York end. At noon only two of
the wires were working. At the United
lines a cross on the electric light wire
about $50 this morning burned out the
cables IN the cupola over the Deyonshire
street Office and for a time stopped all
communication. BY 10 O'Clock the wires
and cables had been sent down out side the
building and the instruments were click
ing away as buslly as ever. The New
York connection is the only one with
which the company had trouble, the
wires are down west of New Haven. At
noon three quadrupleX wires were work
ing to New York and al the leased lines
aud connections to other parts of the
country were all right. The long distance
telephone company suffered heavily. At
noon IL had no connection with New York
and gangs were after the breaks in the
wires at sudbury and beyond New Haven.
The British schooner Avelen with $40,
600 lathes went ashore on Spectacle island,
Boston harbor, last night, and her cargo
ID Two seamen We're washed overheard,
and one seaman was knocked off by the
main boom. OF the the north and south
shores the gale was one OF the fiercest
ever experienced. The beach railroads all
suffered serious WashOuts. The cottages
all along the crest all suffered some dam
age and the whole crest at Ocean Spray
was washed away. The track of the
winthrop and Shore railroad was sub
merged in some places and washed out III
others. The Boston, lteVera Beach and
Lynn roaH also suffered WaSLOut- and
train service on both roads was greatly in
terfered with.
There are nine wrecks between Pember-
ton point, Hull and the flrst cliff at Sctu-
ate, distance of ~ miles. Many small
summer cottages along the lower emu o.
NdhteaEet beach were entirely destroyed
or badly damaged The Nantasket beach
branch of the Old Colony road was washed
out IN several places and train service
was abandoned, The breakers yesterday
aud to-day off the shore never have been
eQu9llel in grandeur 'Nhe beach * StreVVn