The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-12-01
OF THE Z [ STORM.
New England and New York Swept
by a Blizzard.
Many Lives Are Lost ON Sea and on:
Land-SnOv BlOckades Trains
The Loss of Property IL
Enormous. .-,.

Enormous. ~.
Boston, Nov. ga record breaking
November blizzard swept over the
greater portion of New England Satur-
day night and Sunday, completely de-
moralizing traffic of every description
and well-nigh paralyzing telegraphic
and telephone communication, while
the northeast gale, coming on high
course of tides, drove the sea far be-
yond it's usual limits and made u mark
along shore exceeded only by the men,
orable hurricane of 1851. While the
storm was heaviest in the southeastern
part of New England, the whole dis
trict was affected, and experienced a
snowfall of from eight to twenty-four
inches.
Fortunately. the storm was hera!ded
sufficiently in advance by the weather
bureau to detain most of the coastwise
shipping in safe harbors, but the warn
ing was entirely unheeded and ignored
by those on shore, with the result that
nearly everyone, especially the rail-
roads and electric companies, were
caught mapping and suffered accord
ingly. There was not railroad in
New England that was not more or less
tied up by the heavy fall of snow and
the great drifts, and the roads running
along the coast, like the New York,
New Haven & Hartford and the Boston
& Maine. had the added difficulty of
frequent washouts in places exposed
to the heavy seas. Trains north, east.
south and west were nearly all stalled
early in the night. In cities and towns
dependent upon electric cars service
was even worse, for the damp snow
packed hard on the rails and held W
even the heavy snow plows.
The loss to the Boston Elevated Rail-
road company will reach 500, 900, while
the different steam railroads terminat-
ing here suffer an aggregate loss of
100000, and the loss to shipping will
exceed $1,5oo,ooo, computing the value
of the steamship Ohio and her cargo at
100000.
Hartford, Conn.,, Nov. 2S.-The storm
in this city is the heaviest known since
the blizzard of 1883. The snow is bout
two feet on level and is drifted badly
John Ahren, an electrician. was killed
on the Glastonbury trolley line while
working at clearing the tracks. He was
shifting the trolley bar when he was
struck by the blade of snow pillow fol-.
lowing and instantly killed.
Lynn, Mass, Nov. 28.-The damage to
the sea wall on the ocean front is be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Policeman
Benjamin P. Boynton, while on duty.
died in the snow from heart failure.
In Kew York.
New York. Nov. 2s.-When the people
of New York awoke Sunday morning
they found the blizzard that ragged when
they retired was still in progress. The
storm, which began with soft, sleety
snow on Saturday at noon, increased
greatly as the day wore on, with heavier
snow fall, the wind blowing a gale at
midnight. There was a slight abate-
ment of the wind Sunday morning but
the snow still fell and drifted high and
the temperature dropped rapidly. At
ten o'clock a. m. there was breaking
away in the west, and finally the storm
ceased altogether and the severest biz
zard since the memorable one of March,
1883, came to an end. The wind blew at
the rate of SO to 60 miles an hour during
the height of the storm.
Many Wrecks.
The terrific blow of Saturday night
did much damage to the small ship
ping in New York harbor. 1t is re-
ported that several tugboats belong
ing to the Kingston Towing company,
together with large number of canal
boats, were sunk up the river by the
force of the gale. The shores of the
Hudson are Uttered with wreckage.
Several Deaths.
An order was sent out from police
headquarters to the various precinct
commanders to have arrested all per-
sons found alone in a condition that
would raise even the suspicion of in
toxication. AS a result the police
courts were crowded with eminentIy
1espectable-looking persons who were
let go with a small fine and an admoni-
ton to get in out of the snow. Notwith-
standing this precaution on the part of
the police there were a number of
casualties, including several deaths
from exposure.
1t is known that total of eight lives
were lost Saturday night and Sunday
and that 16 persons were injured
through exposure and freezing. The
aggregate loss to street railroads in
New York city is put at 1000; to tele-
graph and telephone lines, $4,000.
In Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Nov. 2S.-The blizzard
which came out of the west reached this
city at II o'clock Saturday morning and
ragged furiously until one o'clock Sun
day morning. AS unexpected as it was
violent, it wrought great havoc not only
here but throughout the entire state.
in those IA hours the snow fall reached
a depth of over nine inches and the
wind velocity of As miles an hour.
These figures are unprecedented in the
November record of the local weather
bureau, and the officials there say that