The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-05
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BOSTONS BUSINESS PARALYZED
Several Lives Lost and Money Dam
ages of Hundreds of Thousands
of DoIiars-OnIy Few Trains
Moving-Storm Elsewhere.

alyzed all branches of business and street
car and steam railroad traffic and for u
time shut off the city from communica-
ton by wire with all places outside the
limits of Boston. The storm was the most
severe this city has experienced in %
years and cased the loss of several lives,
besides doing money damage of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
Between and o'clock yesterday
morning a foot of heavy, wet snow set
tied over the city and leveled wires in all
directions The snow chung to the poles
and wires and. aided by wind blowing
at the nate of 80 miles and hour, pros
trated all telephone and telegraph lines
out of the city. More than half the cleo
trio lights of the city went OF and in the
suburban towns the fire alarm service was
crippled.
In Newton. broken wires falling across
others, started fire in the electric room
of the elegant residence of Charles j.
Travelli, the wealthy Pittsburg steel man
ufacturer. and in two hours nothing re-
manned of the house but pile of ruins.
Mr.. Travelli's family escaped i'll their
night clothes without saving anything.
The loss amounts to about 100000. the
house being valued at $4,000 and furni-
ture and art treasures at $4,000.
Late Monday night the big three-mast
ed schooner Charles T. Briggs of Bath.
Me-. coal laden was dashed to pieces on
the Nahant coast and it is believed her
crew of eight men persisted The body of
one of the crew has been recovered.
In the business section it was nearly
noon when many employees reached their
places of employment. all suburban. troll
ley lines having been abandoned at mid
night and the steam railroads being I'M
able to run more than two or three trains
during the forenoon. All through trains
from New York and the west as. well as
those from the east were from four to
six hours late and many did not get in UNI
til late i'm the afternoon. The tracks were
not only blocked with snow. but masses
of broken poles and wires were encOun-
tered at many points Tonight the few
trains moving are running without a tel
egraph service 1t will take weeks to re-
store the telegraph and telephone serv-
ice. Not wire out of Boston was in
operation today and the telephone wires
were in almost as bad condition. This
afternoon a telephone service as far as
Worcester was established.
Most of the stores We're deserted all
day. The stock exchange was lifeless and
transactions were limited
SHINING. RaHIx DunnneH
Shipping in the harbor was greatly
damaged and it is feared that many dis
asters to coast shipping will be reported
when Geographic communication is re
stored.
The center of the storm is said to be
in the vicinity of New Bedford and the
brunt of it fell on Boston and territory
within radius of Is or 20 miles. From
meager reports received from the middl,
and western parts of the state the storm
there was less severe.
Here about 20 inches of snow fell
Violent storm on the Ocean.
Gloucester. Mass. Feb. 2.-The most vi
olent storm known here since 1851 sweep
the shores of Cape Ann Monday nigh
and early this morning, causing havy los
of life and about 100000 damage. Nor
than a dozen vessels are ashore near here
at least four more are lost and many 9th
ers damaged.
swept Over New York state.
New York, Feb. 1.-The storm which
began Sunday night, swept over New
York state in great fury and today wa
III in, ho nd fofo
ern New York is snowbound and the ex
tent of damage in New England can no
be Appropriated Reports from Boston
with which place communication was es
tablished tonight under great difficulties
after that city had been shut off from
New York for many hours, indicate som
loss of life and an immense amount o
damage to property. Business has beef
at a standstill in many of the smalle
towns: wires all over the country ar
down, roads are blockaded and railwa,
traffic greatly impeded.
The "up the state" residents have suffer
ed with cold which ranged as low as 2
degrees and more below zero. AT AL
bany, Troy, Saratoga and many othe
III thC olilt a. a. 'NO oh
three feet of snow has fallen and report
tonight are that the blizzard is still rag
ing, the worst storm since the memora
bic one of 1883. Residents of this cit
have had to battle their way to bushes
against a gale of wind that at times swep
along at 40 miles an hour and carrie
sheets of snow with it,. Much delay wa
caused to railroad mail service; ths. froI
the northern part of the state has bee
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