The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-12-03
FURY OF THE STORM.
New England and New York Swept
by Blizzard.
Many Lives Are Lost on Sen and on
Lnnd-SDow HIockndcs Trains
The Loss of Property LIS
Enormous.

! 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
1 the northeast gale, coming on high
/ course of tides, drove the sea far be-
! yond its usual limits and made Il mark
/ along shore exceeded only by the mem
| orable hurricane of 1851. While the
( storm was heaviest in the southeastern
/ part of New England, the whole dis
/ trict was affected. and experienced
snowfall of from eight to twcnty-four
/ inches.
Fortunately, the storm was hcra'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
1 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 a 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 &c Hartford and the Boston
| d 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 ilIthe night. In cities and towns
: dependent upon electric ears service
was ever worse, for the damp snow
packed hard on the rails and held up
even the heavy snow plows.
The loss to the Boston Elevated Rail-
road company will reach 500 600 while
the different steam railroads terminal
( ing here suffer an aggregate loss Of
100000, and the loss to shipping will
exceed $l.500, 600. computing the value
of the steamship Ohio and her cargo at
( $500. 200.
+ Hartford, Conn, Nov. 2s.--Thc storm
in this city is the heaviest known since
the blizzard of 1855. The snow is about
two feet on a level and is driftcd badly.
John Ahren. an electrician, was killed
on the Glastonbury trolley line while
working n; clearing the tracks He was
ahifting the trolley bar when he was
struck by the blade of snow pow fol
lowing and instantly killed.
Lynn, Mass. Nov. 2s.-Thc damage TO
the sea wall on the ocean front is be-
| tween $4,000 and $4,000. Policenau
Benjamin =. Boynton. while on duty,
died in the snow from heart failure.
Ia sew York.
New York. Nov. 2S.--When the people
of New York awokc Sunday morning
they found the blizzard that ragged when
they retired was still in progress. The
storm, which began with soft, sleety
srow on Saturday at noon, increased
greatly as the day wore on, with heavier
snow fall, the wind Blowing gale at
midnight. There was n 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. III. there was n breaking
away in the west, and finally the storm
ceased altogether and the severest biz
card since the memorable one of March,
1855, came to an end. The wind blew at
the rate of 80 to GO 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 n 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.
| n nrIar from nnlina
headquarters to the various precinct
commanders to have arrested all per-
sons found alone in condition that
would raise even the suspicion of in
toXication. AS result the police
| courts were crowded with eminently
ectable-looking persons who were
let go with small fine and an admon-
ton to get in out of the snow. Notwith-
standing this precaution on the part of
! the police there were 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 $4,000; to tele-
graph and telephone lines. $1,000.
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, ii wrought great havoc not only
here but throughout the entire state.
in those IA hours the snow fall reached
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
the storm in general was the worst
since the memorable blizzard of 1883.