Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-02-04
cREsco, HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1898

wires which had fallen across the troll
ley wires. AT night the situation as
sumed such dangerous aspect tha
Mayor Quincy ordered that none of tn,
electric lights be turned on except IL
districts where the wires were under
ground. 1t will require weeks to re
store the telephone and telegraph,
service. Not single telegraph wire ou
OF Boston was in operation all day anc
the telephone wires were in almost as
bad condition.
The center of the storm appeared tc
be in the vicinity Of New Bedford an6
the brunt of 1t fell on Boston and ter.
ritory within radius of Is or 20 miles
From meager reports received from the
middle and western parts of the state
the storm there was less severe.
Eight Drowned.
Shipping in the harbor was damaged
greatly, and it is feared that many dis.
asters to coast shipping will be re-
ported when telegraphic communica.
tion is restored. Late Monday night the
big three-masted schooner Charles T.
Briggs, of Bath, Me-, coal-laden, was
dashed to pieces on the Nahant coast
and it is believed her crew of eight men
perished. The body of one of the crew
has been recovered.
A Lawrence (Mass.) dispatch says the
storm paralyzed business and traffic
Street car lines are tied up and COM
munication with other towns is almost
suspended. All the mills are seriously
affected by the storm. Many Of the
operatives are out, and some of the
mills are not running at all. The 40 pas
sengers on the 9:40 train out of Boston
passed the night stuck fast in snow
drift between Ballardville and Lowell
without food and did not reach this city
until late Tuesday afternoon.
In York State.
New York, Feb. 2.-The storm which
began Sunday night swept over New
York state with great fury, and Tues
day was central in the New England
states. Northern New York is snow
bound, and the extent of damage in New
England cannot be approNimated. Busi-
ness has been at stand still 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
20 degrees and more below zero. At
Albany, Troy, Saratoga and many other
places in the state as much as two and
three feet of snow has fallen, and re-
ports are to the effect that the blizzard
is still raging, the worst storm since the
memorable one of 1855. Residents of
this city have had 10 battle their way
to business against gale of wind that
at times swept along at 40 miles an hour
and carried sheets of snow with 1t.
Thousands Shoveling Snow.
Much delay was caused to the railroad
mail service; that from the northern
part OF the state has been practically
cut off and trains running on the New
York Central railroad were from four
to five hours late. From 10000 to ao,-
600 men have been at work with thou
sands OF teams on the streets clearing
away the snow, and yet there has been
no appreciable decrease in the amount
that has piled up in every direction.
Firemen had a hard time Tuesday.
There were dozen or more fires In this
city, smaller number than usual, but
the high wind made some of them most
dangerous and hard to fight. For the
first time In years the chiefs of bat
talions responded to alarms in sleirhs.
Portions of Long Island suffered al
most as much from the storm as the
towns far up the state. The east end
Of the island has been blockaded by the
drifting snow. The Long Island rail-
road was completely closed Tuesday.
Snow plows, driven by five of the most
powerful engines on the road, are now
battling with the drifts on the eastern
section of the road.