The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-02

The schooner Mary A. White Of Rock
port, laden with stone, was sun in the
hsrbor The crew escaped. The sooner
Bertha Nickerson. which arrived here yes
terday and anchored off Ten Pound Island
Is missing.
1t is also reported. here that four I'M
known vessels are ashore at Hough's
Neck. One OF them was rapidly going to
pieces late this afternoon. -Four bodies
we're washed ashore at Hough's Neck.
Yesterday afternoon the schooners Al
pert II. Harding, Sarah Jane, James
Holmes and an unknown vessel were at
anchor near the Jewett They were not
seen today, and it is believed they were
2rccked
AT Pigeon Cove five vessels were totally
wrecked. Antoine Enos AlDheus Pierce
and Swede named Nelson. tire of the
crew OF The Daniel Webster, were
drowned.
The schooner Clara 2. Sewau reports the
oss OF Henry Knuth. one Of her crew.
1t is feared that several missing vessels
nave been lost, together with their crews
The storm did an immense amount Of
damage on land as wei las of the coast
The car sheds Of the Gloucester street
railway were blown down this morning,
IemoIishing a number of cars.
Wires are down in every direction. The
5rst train TO leave the city today was one
which managed to get to Boston at 4:40
o'clock this afternoon.
Boston. Feb. IA three-masted schOon-
Pr, believed TO be the Charles s. Briggs Of
Bath Ne. laden with coal was wrecked
2ff Little Nahant last night. 1t is be
deved there We're eight men on board, and
nh are thought TO have been drowned.
Tho vessel is believed to have been wreck
ed about o'clock last night. She struck
upon the ledge north of Egg Rock light
and was smashed 10 pieces. From the mo-
rnent that she struck there was. no posi-
bic chance for the members Of the crew
to save themselves. as the rough sea rem
dered the saving Of life impossible. The
body Of one Of the crew. q man about %
years old. was found this morning among
the wreckage. It was frozen 10 plank,
md was much disfgured.
BLIZZARD AT ST. JOHNS.
St Johns. y F.. Feb. IA blizzard Is
raging here today. a large number Of
men have been driven off by an ice foe
in Trinity Bay and it is feared there win
BE Il repetition of the disaster Of seven
years ago. when forty persisted. The
Thermometer shows 20 degrees below zero,
and the cold is 50 terrible that some los,
Of life must result The government is
iispatching q rescue steamer 10 the en-
dauEered men. An unidentified steamer
believed to be the Jamaica, CAPTAIN Pet
erson from New York. January p, for
st. Johns. with n general cargo. is visible
i'm an ice foe off Ferryland. thirty miles
south of this port. She IS flying distress
signals and it is feared that She has been
seriously injured.
THE STORM IN NEW YORK
New York Feb. The storm which be
gan Sunday night swept over New York
state with great fury, and today was
central I'm the New England states.
Northern New York is snowbound and
the extent Of damage in New England
cannot be approximated. Reports from
Boston, at which place communication
was established tonight under great diff
culties. after that city had been shut off
from New York many hours, indicate
great loss Of life and an immense amount
of damage to property. business has been
at a standstil in many Of The smaller
towns. wires all over the country are
down; roads are blockaded. and railway
traffic greatly impeded.
The up the. state" residents have suf-
fered from cold which ranged as low as
% degrees and more below zero. At
Albany. Troy. Saratoga aHd many other
places in the state as much as two and
three feet Of snow has fallen. and reports
tonight are that the blizzard is still rag
ing. the worst storm since the memora-
bIe one of 1858.
Residents of this city have had TO bat
Tie their way TO business against a gale
of wind that at times swept along at
forty miles an hour and carried sheets
of snow with it.
Much delay was caused to the railway
mail service. That from the northern
part of the state has been practically cut
off and trains running on the New York
Central railroad We're from four to five
hours late From l0ooo to 10000 men have
been at work with thousands of teams on
the streets clearing away he snow. and
yet there is no appreciahle decrease in
the amount that has been piled up in
every direction
Portions of Long Island suffered al
most as much from the storm as the
towns far un the state. The east end
of the island has been blockcdadgd 10y
The drifting snow. The Long Island rail-
road was completely closed TODAY.
Snow plows driven by five of the most
powerful engines ON the road are now
battling with the drifts on the eastern