The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-03
EXTENT0F STORM'SDAMAGE
IN BOSTON THE TOTAL ESTIMATE IS
 NOV g., ,42S, ,OOO.

Most Startling Feature of the storm in of Life on the Coast-Twenty-one Bodies Already Cast Up by the Sea-News From
 St. Johns, N. F., Confirms Early Report That Sixteen Men Have Probably Per ished on an Ice-doe and Also Crew of
 Seven Men of a Wrecked Schooner.
 Boston, Feb. 1.-The full realization of the magnitude and severity of the winter hurricane which on Monday night and Tuesday morning made a record for itself in eastern Massachu- setts and in Rhode Island was the feature of to-days revival of business and communication with the outside world after many hours of practically complete isolation. With the resump- tion of traffic and the slow patching up of telegraph wires as well as the arrival of mails from different points came more of the details of this ter rife and now historic storm.
 That so many brave seamen should have found watery grave will un- doubtedly make this the most startling feature of the storm and as the reports came in to-day, meagre to be sure, but nevertheless trustworthy, of bodies. not single but in twos and threes, be- ing picked up along shore. it was seen that while the blowing down of tele- graph poles and the crippling of rail- road traffic, a great hindrance to com munication, it sank into ins;gnificance as compared with the terrible news of brave sailors going to their death while their ships of oak were broken to bits on dangerous reefs.
 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 on 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 schoon- CTS which were lost in Gloucester har- bor. That there are others in the dark waters of the bay seems almost cer- tain, but tonight nineteen can be counted, all victims of the storm s fury. Up and down the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod are strewn the grim vestiges of the storm. Gloucester seems to have been the storm center on wrecks.
 On land the loss by the storm seems to have been confined entirely to prop erty, for while horses almost without number were killed in the main thor oughfares of Boston, electrocuted by falling trolley wires, by some miracu- 1ous chance no human being was struck. although there were many mar row escapes. This wholesale slaughter of dumb animals was perhaps the only ghastly feature Of the storm in this city. The cost of the storm in Boston is estimated as follows: Bos- ton Elevated Railway, $224,0O0; City of Boston, $75000; Western Union Tele- graph company, $2o,0O0; Postal Tele- graph company, $1000O; Long Distance Telephone company, s5,000; New Eng land Telephone company, $10,000: Flee trio Light companies, s4,000; fire alarm and police signal service, s4,O00; fire losses due to disabled equipment and defective wires, $100oO0; steam rail- roads, damage to property and loss to income, S125, ,000: loss to shipping in- terests, about s250, 900; loss to Boston's business interests at least $600,0O0. To- tai, $1. 1.428,000.