The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-03
STORM HIS SUBSIDIZED
Traffic Resumed in the East
Under Clear Skies.
SEA SWALLOWS TWENTY
While the Property Loss
Reaches Into Millions.

Boston, Feb. "A score of persons were
drowned and s., 100000 loss inflicted by the
storm that swept over eastern Massachu-
etts and Rhode Island Monday night and
Tuesday morning.
Fourunidentifed bodies lie in the coro-
ner's Office in Gloucester. Five more are
in Lynn, brought over from Little Nahant,
where the schooner Charles H. Briggs was
wrecked.
Twelve unidentified corpses are reported
to be at Bakers Island. in Salem harbor
They, too, must have manned some of
the schooners which were lost in Glouces-
ter harbor That there are others in the
waters of the bay seems almost certain.
Wreckage is strewn UP and down the
coast from Cape Anne TO Cape Cod. Thirty
schooners were wrecked in Massachusetts
Bay. On land the loss by the storm seems
to have been confined entirely TO prop
erty.
Twerty-four hours elapsed before direct
telegraphic communication was restored
between Boston and the rest of the world.
The electric car service in this city was
restored by noon, but in most of the
smaller towns the trolley lines are still
crippled
The cost of the storm in this city is
estimated as follows: Boston Elevated
Railway company, 1921, 900; city of Boston,
5000; Western Union Telegraph COM
pany. $50 900; Postal Telegraph company,
SO, 600; Long istance Telephone company,
s., coo; New England Telephone company,
so, 600: Electric Light companies, $4,000;
fire alarm and police signal service 5000;
fire losses, due to disabled equipment and
defective wires. $4,000; steam railroads,
damage to property and los to income,
1925 OO0 loss to shipping interests about
$3.50 900; loss to Boston's business interests
at least $500. 900; total, 81, 42S,OOO.
NEW YORK'S COOLEST DAY.
New York, Feb. 2-This was the cold
est day of the season. The temperature,
which was gradually falling yesterday
afternoon and last night, registered de-
grees below gro at d. m. today, drop
of % degrees since yesterday at p. M
Since 10 a. M it has risen. The thermom-
eters in the streets showed a considerable
lower record many of them registering
2 degrees below zero. The East and North
rivers were full of ice and the ferryboats
weremuch delayed on this account. HE
| surface and elevated railroads ran be-
hind time and local traffic was consider
| ably congested. The Third avenue cable
! road broke down. Suburban traffic was
also delayed. Trains from the north,
northeast and west were all late in arriv-
| ing. Boston was still shut off from COM
] ~. ooTAf
| by occasional telephone message Rail-
| road communication with Boston had been
restored but trains were running an hour
! behind schedule time. By telegraph, there
/ was communication as far as Newton,
! eight miles from Boston, and it was mo-
mentarily expected that direct connection
| would be had with Boston. Providence
! was also still lunconnected directly by
| wire with the outside world. The wires
! in al lother directions were in good work
/ ing order. The streets in this city were
resuming their normal appearance this
morning. and it was said that all the snow
would be removed from the principal thor
oughfares today. At the hospitals there
were many cases of fozen feet, fingers and
/ limbs and the surgeons were kpt busy
! fixing up tn bones broken by falling on
| the slipperv streets. The weather fore
! caster said that it would be warmer to-
| night but predicted more snow. An ice
gorge was forming in Long Island Sound
/ at Fort Schuyler, threatening to interfere
with navigation. The Hudson river at
! Sing Sing was frozen over, and it was
said that if the cold continued another
twenty-four hours teams and pedestrians
would be able to cross afely from shore
to shore.
Albany. N Y, Feb. Railway traffic
throughout the state returned TO nearly
normal conditions today. Trains on most
lines were on schedule time.
BOsTON'S PROPERTY LOSS.
Bostos. Feb. 2-The financial loss caused
by the great storm which swept down up
on the greater part Of New England Mon
day night and yesterday viii amount TO
more than at first thought. In this city
/ alone IL is estimated that the loss viii
amour to over $1,000 600. Up to lo'cIocl
today the city had not established con-
nection by telegraph with the rest Of the
| country. A single telephone wire TO Wor-
cester was the onlymeans Of communi-
eating with the rest Of the country. West
/ damaged by the storm. An army OF men
! was engaged today in repairing the dam
/ age sustained by the wire and transpor-
tation compa MES. The steam railroads
had succeeded in running most all of their
! trains. although few were on schedule
time this afternoon. The street railway
/ service was stiu badly cripDed. The Bos-
ton Elevated Railway company. success
ors II the West End railroad. lost about
500 90 by the storm. Today the company
had nearly 800 men at work clearing the
tracks.
WRECKS AND FIRES.
Reports OF stranded vessels along the
coast continued to come in. and it was
I thought that at least fifteen lives were
los, by wrecks az various points. The loss
70 the smaller fishing craft Of Gloucester
and vicinity was particularly heavy. 4
feature Of the storm was the large num-
I her OF fires In the city ard surrounding
! towns while Il was ~ its height Th-
( T-phzru-s Corner T-nIversaiist church. an
old landmark IN the Dorchester district.
/ and s. Thomas Episcopal Church q;
Taunton. were buried Serious ares also
occurred In lowell. Peabody. Rockland
Newton and other places. During the
blockade of the railroads many trains
we're daraued and large number were
either stuck fast or lost. owing 20 the
collapse of the wires. The weather was
fue -oda- and BY tonight most q -ths
transportation lines were 81 regular oDer-
alton
worcester Mass. Feb. 2-Thfs city Sc