The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-02-04
SCHOONER WRECKED.
Eight Men, Alton Board, Thought to
Have Been Drowned.
Business in Boston ParaIyzed by Snow
Storm-Hundredso of Thousands of Dol
lars Damage to PrOperty-FallinS
Electric Wires Start a Costly Fire.

Electric wires start q Costly fIFes
BOSTON, Feb "A northeast snow
storm which set in Monday and ragged
until Tuesday afternoon, completely
paralyzed all branches of business and
street car and steam railroad traffic,
and for time shut off the city. from
communication by wire with all places
outside the limits of Boston. The
storm was the most severe this city has
experienced in % years, and caused
the loss of several lives, besides do
ing money damage of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Between 1 and
o'clock Tuesday morning foot OF
heavy, wet snow settled over the city
and leveled wires in all directions
The snow chung to the poles and wires,
and, aided by wind blowing at the
rate of so miles an hour, Frustrated all
telephone and telegraph lines out of
the city. More than half the electric
lights of the city went out, and in
suburban towns the fire alarm service
was crippled.
In Newton, broken wires falling
across others started fire in the cleo
trio room of the elegant residence of
Chas j. Travelli, the wealthy Pitts.
burgh steel manufacturer and in two
hours nothing remained of the house
but ashes. Mr. Travelli's family es-
capped in their night clothes. Loss
amounts to about 100000.
A three masted schooner believed to
be the Chas. :. Briggs, of Bath, Me-,
laden with coal, was wrecked off Lit
tie Nahant Monday night.
1t is believed there were eight men
on board and all are thought to have
been drowned. The vessel is a total
wreck. The vessel is believed to have
been wrecked about o'clock Monday
night. She struck upon the ledge
north of Egg Rock light. and was
smashed to pieces. From the moment
that she struck there was no posi- BILE
| chance for the members of the crew to
save themselves, as the rough sea rem
| dered the saving of life impOsSi bic.
| The body of one of the crew was found
! Tuesday morning among the wreck
age 1t was frozen to plank and was
much disfgured.
In the business district it was nearly
noon when many employees reached
their places of employment, all subur-
ban trolley lines having been abandon.
ed at midnight and the steam railroads
being unable to run more than
two or three suburban 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 I'M
! til late in the afternoon. The Boston &
Albany road started two express trains
for New York during the forenoon but
it was two o'clock before they were
able to proceed beyond Natick, ten
miles from the city. The tracks were
not only. blocked with snow but masses
of broken poles and wires scattered
over the road were encountered al
many points. Tuesday night the few
trains moving were running without q
| Geographic service. The city and sub
urbs are covered with broken poles and
tangled wires Many horses were
killed by stepping upon the ends Of
telephone wires which had faller
across the trolley wires. Tuesday
|
dangerous aspect that Mayor Quincy
ordered that none of the electric light:
be turned on except in districts where
the wires are under ground. 1t viii
require weeks to restore the telephone
and telegraphic service. Not single
telegraphic wire out of Boston was ii
operation all day, and the telephone
wires were in almost as bad condi
ton. Tuesday afternoon a telephon,
service as far as Worcester was estab
lished.
The wholesale and most of the bust
ness districts of the city were deserte,
all day. The stock exchange wa
lifeless'and transactions were very lin
tied.
Shipping in the harbor was damage
greatly and it is feared that many disas
tiers to coast shipping will be reporte
when telegraphic communication i
: restored.
The center of the storm appeared
be in the vicinity of New Bedford an
the brunt of it fell on Boston and tel
ritory within a radius of Is or 9
miles From meager reports receive
from the middle and western parts {
the state the storm there was les
D severe. About twenty inches of sno,
h fell
e Many Lives Lost in the Storm.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Feb. 2. - TIL
storm at Gloucester was one of tn
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