Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-02-04

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Our Bristol correspondent writes:
1.-THE worst storm that has visited this
town since 1888 commenced Monday
night about eleven O'Clock and ragged all
day Tuesday. About eighteen inches of
snow fell and the wind blowing a gale
drifted it so badly that the roads were
almost impossible. The Lincoln stage
was the only one that got through, the
Starksboro and Monkton not being able
to get here. The train on the Bristol
railroad got to New Haven Junction in
the morning, but was stalled at the
Rowley cut in the afternoon. There
was no mail received on the Rutland
railroad on Tuesday, the first to arrive
being the mail from the south Wednesday
morning"
THE STORM ON THE COAST.
Boston and New York suffered Sc
verely from the storm, the former place
catching the brunt of it. The results of
the storm IN and near Boston are set
forth in despatch as follows, dated
Feb. 2:
The full realization of the magnitude
and severity of the winter hurricane
which on Monday night and Tuesday
morning made record for itself in east
ern Massachusetts and Rhode Island was
the feature of today's revival of business
and communication with the outside
world after 20 hours of practically COM
plete isolation. With the resumption of
traffic and the slow patching up of tele-
graph wires, as we'll as the arrival of
mails from different points, came more
details of this terrific and now historic
storm. People here were in a measure
able to count the loss, not only to
property, but to life of those on ships.
The former already foots up into mil
lions, and the loss of life on the rocky
New England cost and in Massachusetts
bay will probably not be equalled for
many years to come.
Four unidentified bodies lie in the
coroner's office in Gloucester. Five more
are in Lynn, brought over from Little
Nahant, on the rocky beach of which
was wrecked the schooner Charles H.
Briggs. Twelve unknown corpses are
reported to be at Bakers island in Salem
harbor, They, too, must have manned
some of the schoOne:s which were lost
in Gloucester harbor. That there are
others in the dark waters of the bay
seems almost certain, but tonight 10 dead
can be counted, all victims of the storms
fury.
Up and down the cost from Cape Ann
to Cape Cod are seen the grim results of
the storm. Boston harbor was bestrewn
with wreckage and the beaches near this
city were not exempt from similar
spectacle, while almost all of the ships
within half a mile broke from their
moorings during that fearful night and
worked destruction to themselves and
their neighbors. On land the loss by the
storm seems to have been confined en-
; tirely to property, for while horses al
most without number were killed In the
main thoroughfaTes of Boston, electro
cuted by falling trolley wires, by some
miraculous chance no human being was
struck, although there were many mar
row escapes. This wholesale slaughter
of dumb animals was perhaps the only
CHASTITY feature of the storm in this city.
After "a hours of unremitting labor the
two big telegraph companies were ena-
bled to obtain few messages over their
own lines from the outside world. Bos-
ton seemed, however, TO be harder to
reach than other cities affected by the
storm, for while communities only few
miles from here managed to obtain good
communications during the day, ii
seemed as though clear wires would
never reach this city.
The railroads, however, helped out
wonderfully in bringing in news from
more fortunate localities and the officials
of the different companies worked as
hard as the telegraph men to get theiI
service once more near its normal condi
ton.
A summing up of the storms work i;
as yet difficult, but today it appears al
most certain that the great hurricane
claimed more than a dozen human lives
wrecked over 30 schooners IN Massachu
setts bay, completely prosuratng all tel
egraph lines and caused total property
loss of nearly 81 100000, chiefly to wires
shipping and transportation interests.
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