The San Francisco call., 1898-11-28
NEW ENGLAND COAST
 SWEPT BY A BLIZZARD

| BOSTON. Nov. 27.-A record break l ing November blizzard swept over the | greater portion of New England last night and to-day completely demoral- l izing traffic of every description, and | well nigh paralyzing telegraphic and l telephonic communication, while the northeast gale, coming on a high course ] of tides, drove the sea far beyond it's usual limits and made mark along l the shore exceeded only by the mem orable hurricane of 1851.
 While the storm was heaviest in the i southeastern part of New England, the whole district was affected, and eX- perienced a snowfall of from eight to twenty-four inches, and as the center of the disturbance moved down the Maine coast that section and the ~rov- inces will probably receive similar 1 taste of winter weather tonight.
 Fortunately the storm was heralded sufficiently in advance by the Weather Bureau to detai- most of the coast shipping in safe harbors, but the warn ing was entirely unheeded and ignored by those on shore, with the result that nearly every one, especially the rail- roads and electric comranies were
 
 ly There was not railroad in New England that was not more O less tied u- by the heavy fall of snow and the great drifts, and the roads running along the coast, like the New York. New Haven and Hartford and the Bos- ton and Maine, had the added difficulty of frequent washouts in places eX- posed to the heavy seas.
 Trains, north, east, south and west were rOarly all stalled early in the night, aIthough one train from Bangor reached Lynn this noon, and no Chi cago trains came into the city this evening.
 In cities and towns dependent upon electric cars, service was even worse for the damp snow packed hard on the rails and held up even the heavy snow blows.
 The service in this citv was probably the best of any of the surrounding community vet even here there was no attempt made to run more than a dozen cars on Washington street and one or two others of the main thor OughfareS.
 The storm, while not so severe and far-reaching in it's effects as the fear full blizzard of last February, was nevertheless the heaviest experienced in November in this part of the coun- try for long series of years. Coming on Sunday it did not cause the annoy ance or inconvenience it would have done on a week day, and most of the transportation companies made a heroic effort to at least partially re- cover from the effects of the blockade.
 Only the barest reports were received up to o'clock tonight of the effect of the storm on the coast, but even those few lines gave rise to the gravest fears as to the safety of what little shipping that may have been off Cape Cod last night or to-day. It will probably be two or three days before a complete list of the disasters can be made
 All points south of this city and east of Providence were isolated early last evening, New Bedford being lost to the outside world before 8 o'clock and New port and Fall River disappearing into the night not long after.
 Farther to the west, at Providence and in other parts of Rhode Island, communication was intermittent and subject to great delay. Night trains over the Shore Line to New York reached Providence with only a few minutes delay, but beyond that point they met terrific drifts and it was morning before either of the two regu- lar trains reached New London. Here they were stalled nearly all day by freight Wrecks on the road between that point and New Haven. The trains from New York met a similar experi- ence west of Saybrook, and after some hours of telegraphing they managed to reach New London and started late in the afternoon for Providence
 At noon to-day the regular New York express from Chicago left Springfield for this city, followed short time later by the morning express from the west. and, barring a slight delay from a wreck at East Brookfield, came through tO this city all right