The San Francisco call., 1898-02-02
Vessels Wrecked by Wind and
 #= Ice and Business Paralyzed= :: 5 in Cities and Towns.
TRAFFIC BY RAIL BLOCKED
In. Maine Small Houses Are Buried by Drifts and. From. Other. Sections :. Come Stories of Disaster.
:. Special Dispatch to The Gail.

GLOUCESTER: Mass, Feb i.
 4 The storm at Gloucester was one <
 < of the worst In many years, and ~ <
 < the. damage which lies in it's <
 < wake willfo6t up: s200, 900. About,<
 %5 1000: fishing " and other vessels
 4, were wholly. or partly wrecked, <
 Y A dozen of these we're wholly. <
 %> wrecked Eighteen lives are said $.
 <. to. have been lost, and there may 4 4 be twelve more which have gone Y f 4 down on: missing vessels. There ! 4 was no. railroad connection with 4 ! < Boston or outside towns until G. < ; Y o'clock tonight The carshed of *s | Y the street railway company was < 1 < blown down afid damaged to the < l extent of s12,0O0. ..l: :. E .=..s..> r.
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 NEW. YORK. Feb. 1.-The storm which began Sunday night swept over.
 New York State with great fury, and I to-day was central in the New: Eng Hand States Northern New York is l snowboiind, and the extent of the dam l age in New England cannot be approx frnated. Reports ssprn, Boston with f which place communication was re-. 1 esta bfished. tonight under great diffi- culties,. after that city had been shut ! off from New York. for many hours, | Indicate some loss of life and an inn | Inense amount of damage to property, Business has been at standstill ir | many of the. smaller towns: wires are | blockaded and railway traffic greatly | impeded.. r. : @:.: "..=...=: ::'.:;. The up the State residents l: have suffered with cold which ranged l as low as twenty degrees below zero. At Albany, Troy, Saratoga and many | other places in. the State as much as. l. two and three feet of snow has fallen. l and reports tonight are that the bliz- | gard is still. raging, the worst storm since the memorable. one In 1SSS.
 l Residents of this city. have had to l battle their way to business against
 gale of wind that at times swept along at forty miles an hour and carried I sheets of snow with it. Much delay l was caused to the railfoad mail serv- l ice. That from the northern part of I the State has been practically cut off. I and trains running on the New: York l Central Railroad were from four to | five hours late From 10000 to 10000 l men have been at work with thousands of teams on the streets clearing away the snow. and yet there has been no appreciable decrease in the amount that has piled up in every direction. l. Portions of Long Island suffered al most as much from the storm as the l towns far llp the State The east end l - ! L T. ,lyo 1o1 1~xy% f,o 1 drifting snow. The Long Island Rail- road was completely closed to-day. Snow blows, driven by five of the most | powerful engines, on the road, are now battling with the drifts on the eastern 1 section of the road, which may be clear | by tomorrow.
 | BOSTON. Feb. LA northeast snow | storm. which set in yesterday and ra red until this afternoon, completely paralyzed all branches of business and street car and steam railroad. traffic, | and for a time shut off the city from l communication by wire with all places l:o,1tside the: limits of Boston. The [ storm was the most severe this city | has exnerienced in:twentyf1ve years 1 and caused the loss of several lives, r besides doing money damage of hun T. V
 I<dreds of thousands of dollars.
 l Between i and 5 o'clock this morning l a foot of heavy, wet snow settled over | the city and leveled wires in all di- l Erections. .T The snow ,::ung to the poles and wires. and, aided by a wind blow | ing at the rate of fifty miles an hour l prostrated all telephone and telegraph | lines: out of.the city More than half i the electric lights of the city went out I and in suburban. towns the f1re- alarm service was crippled. =. l Tn Newton broken wires falling l across others started a fire in the cleo
 tric room Of the elegant residence of
 Charles J. .Travellf, the wealthy Pitts I burg steel manufacturer, and in two l hours nothing remained of the. house
 but a pile of ruins. MT. Travelli,s fam I ily escaped in their night clothes with i out saving anything. The loss amounts
 Ito about s1Ooooo, the house being val
 ued at s55,0oo and furniture and art
 treasures at s45, 000.
 ;. A three -masted schooner, believed to l be the Charles S. Briggs of Bath, Me, l laden with coal, was wrecked off Little I Nahant last night It Is believed there i were eight men on board and all are I thought to have been drowned. The vessel. is total wreck.
 The vessel is believed to have been wrecked about 8 o'clock last night She struck upon the ledge north of l rr-- y1rL< orJ