The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-04
In The BILLIARDS. GRASP
THE FEARFUL STORM RAGING IN
THE NOKIHEAST

a Biinding Snow Storm With the Their
mom ter at twenty Degrees Below Zero.
Tn. Coast SWEEP by - 6ale-Electri Wires
Down-Irafic OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Wreck
.d-Many Lives t-VAiuab Property
Destroyed
BOSTON,, February IA northeast
snow storm which set in yesterday and
ragged until this afternoon, completely
paralyzed all branches Of business and
street car and steal railroad traffic,
and shut off the city from communica-
ton by wire with all places outside the
city limits of Boston The storm was
the most severe mis- city a expert
enced in twenty-five years and caaIsed
! the loss of several lives, besides doing
damage of hundreds of thousands OF
dollars. Between 1 and 5 O'Clock thi.
| morning, a foot of heavy wet snow set
tied yer the city and leveled wires in
all quarters. More than half the cleo
trio lights of h city went out. Broken
wires falling across others started a
fire in the elegant residence Of Charles
~. ~AO ~ OSA
remained of the mouse but ashes. Mr..
Travellers family escaped in their
| night clothes without saving anything.
| The loss amounts to aTbou. 500, 600.
Late last night the big three masted
| schooner, Charles T. Briggs, of Bath,
| Me-, coal laden, was dashed to pieces
| on the Nahant coas and it is believed
| her crew of eight men persisted.
All SUBURBAN trolley lines were abar-
doned at midnight.
The city and suberbs are covered
with broken poles and tangled wires.
| Many horses were killed in the streets
by stepping upon the ends of telephone
wires which had fallen across the troll
ley wires.
| Tonight the situation has assumed
such a dangerous aspect that Mayor
Quincy ordered that none of the cleo
! trio lights he turned on, except in dis
tricts where the wires are undar
| ground.
Not a single telegraph wire out of
! Boston was in operation all day.
| Shipping in the harbOr was damaged
| during last night and the early morn
| ing. It is feared that many disasters
| to coast shipping will be reported then
| Geographic communication is restored.
"A number of trains met with acct
dents in different parts OF the state,
| but as far as known, there were no ad-
| dftional fatalities.
st. Johns, N. F.. February IA bliz-
zard is raging here today. "A large
| number OF men have been driven off
| by an ice foe into Trinity bay and it is
e AI~~o -xusJl LA - A.
| disaster of seven e ago, when for
! ty persisted. The thermometer shows
| 20 degrees below zero. An unidentified
| steamer, believed to be the Jamaica,
| Ctptain Peterson, from New York,
| January 25th, for ST. Johns, with a
! general cargo, is visible in an ice foe
| off Ferriland.
Gloucester, Mass, February 1.-The
| storm at Gloucester was one of the
| worst in many years and the damage
| which lies in it's wake will foot up
about 5000, 600. About 1000 fishing and
| other vessels were wholly or partly
wrecked. Eighteen lives are said to
have been lost, Ms there may be
| twelve more which have gone down
on missing vessels.
Philadelphia, February 1.-The snow
| and wind storm of last night and to
| day was one of the most severe ex-
| perienced in this section since the big
| blizzard. All trains are behind time
| and several accidents are reported, but
none of gravity. The storm was severe
ly felt throughout eastern Pennsyl-
| vania.
"A despatch from Roudsburg says
/ that communication between that
| place and other towns nearby has been
cut off. At ~Tobyhanna, the gale was
| so violent that the ice cutting industry
had ito be suspended, throwing 500
hands out OF work. The storm is very
severe up the Delaware valley. Upon
the POcOnO mountain, the wind is blow
ing at a fierce rfate.
New York, February 1.-The storm
which begun Sunday night swept over
New York state with great fury and
today vas central in the New England
states. Northern New York is snow
bound and the extent of damage in
New England cannot be appropriated.
Reports from Boston with (which place
communication was established to-
night under great difficulties indicate
great loss of life and an immense
amount of damage ito property. Wires
all over the country are down; rail-
roa are blockaded, and railroad traffic
greatly impeded.
THE up-the-state'' residents have
suffered from cold ranging as low as
20 degrees and more below zero. AT
Albany, Troy, Saratoga and many 9TH
er places in the state as much as two
and three feet of snow has fallen, and
reports tonight are to the effect that
the blizzard is still raging, the worst
storm since the memorable one in 1888.
Residents of this city have had to
battle their way to business against
a gale of wind that at times swept
along at forty miles an hour and car
ried sheets Of snow with it.