The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-28
NEW ENGLAND COAST SWEPT nv
A MISUNDERSTANDING NO
VENEER BLIZZARD
TWELVE LIVES LOST
IN BOSTON HARBORl
LIST LIKELY TO BE LARGELY M
CREASED WHEN FULL RE
TURNS ARRIVE
TRAFFIC BY RAILWAY
WAS LARGELY BLOCKEDa

All Down the Atlantic Coast the
Force of the Gale Was Felt. and
Cities Dependent Upon Electric
Power Were Affected Severely
Maine and the Provinces Now
Suffering From the Storm
BOSTON, Nov PA dozen or more
coalsting vessels were driven ashore In
Boston harbor during the blizzard of
last night and this morning, and the
great ocean steamer Ohio, OF the vii
son line, was torn from her moorings
ard driven high and dry on Spectacle
dsland. Scihooners and coal barges.
with two anchors out and every rea-
son to expect a safe weathering of the
gale, were dragged from their moor
ines and hurled against pier heads.
dashed on islands and rocks, or sunk
outright. Fortunately the greater por-
tdon of THE coasttng fleet was securely
tied UP at the wharves. The schoon-
ers and barges anchored in the lower
bay bore the brunt of the storm.
son liner Ohio a great four-masted
cargo boat, just In from Hull, Eng.
She had only small cargo aboard.
and her sides being high out of the
water offered a large surface to the
wind. The swift tide prevented the
vessel from pointing her nose into the
wind, and after fierce battle for
hours the cables gradually gave way
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island, where she now lies high and
dry. AS the tide was very high when
the Ohio went ashore the work of
hauling her off is likely to be difficult.
Ashore not far from the Ohio is the
schooner c. A. White, from Baltimore,
but she will probably float Just above
Spectacle island is Thompson's island,
and on shore are three lumbermen, the
Watchman, Fred Worsen, b. A. Rapi-
sen and vessel believed to be the
Virginia Dt is likely they will be haul I
ed off without serious damage The I
scbooners John 8. An,es and Ld2sial
Dyas are also ashore al Fort Warren. !;
So far as known there were no lives
lest from any of the above schponers,
although 1t Is said two men were wash
ed overheard from the Virginia, No
efforts were made this afternoon to
reach two unknown schoonera on shoga |
OF MoonheadA or another farther tip
Quincy bay.
LIVES LOST,
Farther out in the bay the casualties |
began with the sinking Of at least one,
if not two. coal barges and the loss Of
one man. The loss Is heavy on the
barges, and one of them belonging to
the Consolidated Coal company broke
away from the tug and striking Hud- /
son head ran ashore. Another barge Is Z
reported to have sunk off Long. Island 1
head and her crew of four men lost
The schooner Abbie Abbock, from Phil
adelphfa, which anchored late in the
day outside of Boston light, Is reported
to have foundered with her crew of
four men. Two other coal barges are
ashore on Gallope's island, but 1t Is
likely that the crew of neither will be
lost, as the vessels are reported to be
in a comparatively safe place. All the
captains of the fleet who were lucky
enough to get around the cape and
make the harbor in safety say the
storm was the most terrible they ever
experienced in Massachusetts bay.
While the storm was heaviest In
the southeastern part of New England.
the whole district was affected, and
experienced a snow fall of from eight
to twenty-four inches, and, as the CEN
ter of the disturbance moved down the
Maine coast, that section and the
provinces will probably receive a SINH
lar taste of winter weather tonight
Fortunately the storm was heralded
fiofa AZ,
bureau to detain most of the coastwise
shipping in safe harbors, but the
warning was entirely unheeded and
ignored by those on shore, with the
result that nearly everyone, especially
the railroads and electric companies,
were caught mapping and suffered ac-
cordingly. 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 diff
aculty of frequent washouts in places
exposed to the heavy seas. Trains,
north, east south and west, were near
ly all stalled early in the night, al
though one train from Bangor reached
Lynn early LnlS HHOFIli1S anu Two OuA-
cago trains came into the city this
evening. To the cities and towns which
were dependent on electric service, the
situation was still worse, for the snow
and ice packed on the rails and blocked
the trains.
WORST FOR YEARS.
The storm was the worst in this vi
cipity for eleven years There was no
attempt to run more than dozen cars
OH Washington street and other of the
main thoroughfares. The storm, though
not as far-reaching and terrible in its
effects as the frightful blizzard of last
February, was nevertheless the heav-
lest felt in this city for a series OF
years. The storm happening on Sum
day did not affect the public as 1t
would have done on week day. and
the transportation companies made
heroic efforts to clear their lines for
traffic.
Only the barest facts have been re-
ceived from the coast towns, but even
those reports cause the grayest fears