Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-12-01
FIERCE GALE IN THE EAST.
The Atlantic Coast States Swept
by a Severe Blizzard That
Causes Ruin and Death.
THE SEASHORE STREWH WITH WRECKS.
The Gale Was Most Severe In and
Around BOston-ToFnadO on Land
Adds TO the Long List of Marine
Disasters-HavOc Wrought ia New
York and PhiIadelphi-.

Boston, Nov. s.-Thirty-eight lives
lost, 81 sailing vessels and one ocean
steamship, the Ohio, wrecked, all
trains stalled "a hours, no mails and
only irregular telephone and telegraph
communication. That sums up the most
disastrous blizzard New England has
experienced in 40 years.
With the fall of few flakes Of snow
at 1880 o'clock Saturday night came
Sill. breeze. This breeze increased
within two hours to a bowling northeast
gale. Snow fell all night and was drift
ed is feet high and all New Englandwas
in the throes of the storm blockade.
Extent of the storm.
The storm was most severe in and
around Boston and along the southern
parts of Massachusetts,, Rhode Island
and Connecticut, but it extended as far
eastward as St. Johns, N. b., and as far
north as the Canadian line.
All Railroads blocked.
Not railroad in the New England
states escaped the blockade, but the
tracks of several lines were cleared
Sunday night and the stalled trains
brought in hungry horde of passen-
gers who had made the most of their
misfortune in being stalled in snow
banks.
Heavy Losses.
Tho loss TO the Boston Elevated Rail
road company will reach $1oo, 900, while
the different steam railroads terminal
nag here suffer an aggregate loss of
$500 900, and the loss to shipping will
exceed $1,000 900, computing the value
a ths steamship Ohio and her cargo at
$500, 900.
Snow Twenty IRches Deep.
New Haven, Conn, Nov. 3S.-The
snowfall in this section of Connecticut
il about % inches, and the wind most
Of the tirns has been at the rate of nsar-
b 90 miles an hour. All the electric
railroad lines have been blocked by the
snew. ana the ears of the New York.
New Haven Il Hartford railroad are
stalled all over the stas.
Hav~o In New York.
New York, Nov. 2s.-Hght deaths
and IS persons injured are directly
traceable TO thu bliAmard that has ragged
ia New York since Saturday night.
Railroad trains is tied mp, telephone
and telegraph lines ara down. street
railway systems are paralyssA, tha poor
are suffering frem all tbs riSor of win
ter, for on top Of snowfall of foot
comes freexing weather and a 6O-nile
10y gale from the state. On Long Is
Land not train is moving.
Wrecks en- tho Il AGaSon.
Tarrytown, n. Y. Nov. 2S.-A heavy
snowstorm, accompanied by q very
high wind, struck this section of West
Chester county. doing thousands of
dollars worth of damage, delaying
traffic ON tho railroads, and wreoking
many ships In the Hudson. From Hast
ings to Tarrytown tho shores of the
river are strswn with wreckage. Ca
nalboats and slooPs and schooners suf-
farsd the worst.
Havoc About Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Nov 2s.-The blizzard
which came out of tho west reached
this city at IL o'clock Saturday morn
ing and ragged fuFionsly until one
o'clock Sunday morning. As unex-
peoted az it was violent, it wrought
great havoc, not only here, but through
out the entire stats. In those IS hours
tho snowfall reached a depth of over
nine inches and the wind velocity of
Ak InilaS an houY