The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-02

Eight Men LOst-More Disasters
at Sea Are Feared-Worst storm,
In Many Years
| BOSTON, Mass, Feb. IA northeast
snoWstorm, which set in Yesterday and
RACED until this afternoon. completely
| paralyzed all branches of business and
street car and steam railroad traffic.
| and for time shut off the ci+v froro
communication by wire with all places
| OUTSIDE the limits of Boston The storm
was the most severe this city has ex-
Perlehced in twenty-five years and
caused the loss of several lives. besides
| uoIhs money damage of hundreds of
thousands of dollars
| Between l and ) O'Clock this roor,,;,,o.
loot of heavy wet snow settled over
| the city and leveled wires in all direc-
tlons The snow clung to the poles and
| wires, and, aided by a wind blowing
at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
! prostrated all telephone and teIeeranb
lines out of the city. More than haIf
the electric lights of the city went ont
| ana IN suburban towns the fire alarm
service was crippled
IN Newton, broken wires falling
across others started fire in the elec
| trlc room of the residence of Charles
j. Travelli, the wealthy Pittsburg steel
| manufacturer, and in two hours moth
| ing remained of the house but ashes.
| Mr. iraVelli'S family ESCAPED in their
night clothes without saving ANYTHING
me loss amounts to about S1OOOOO.
| Late last night the big three-rna sta5
schooner Charles T. Briggs of Ratb
Me, coal-laden, was dashed to pieces
on the Nahant coast, and it Is believed
her crew of eight men perished. The
pody OF one Of the crew has been re-
| covered.
In the business district 1t was nearly
|
thelr places of employment all subur-
pan trolley lines having been aban-
doned at midnight, and the steam rail-
! roads being unable to run more than
Two or thre suburban trains during
| the forenoon.
Traffic Tied Up.
Through trains from New York and
Ine west as well as those from the
East, We're from four to six hours late,
ana many did not get in until late in
| the afternoon. The Boston &, Albany
road started two express trains for
New York during the forenoon, but it
was o CLOCK before they were able to
| proceed beyond Natick, ten miles from
the city. The tracks were not only
blocked with snow, but masses Of
broken poles and wires scattered
over the track were encountered at
many points.
Tonight the trains moving are run
The city and suburbs are covered
with broken poles and tangled wires.
Many horses were killed in the streets
by stepping across the ends of tele-
phone wires which had fallen across
the trolley wires.
Tonight the situation assumed sucb
dangerous aspect that Mayor Quin-
cy ordered that none of the electric
lghts be turned on, except in districts
Wnere the wires are underground It
Will require weeks to restore the tele-
phone and telegraphic service. Not a
single telegraph wire out of Boston
was In operation all day, and the
telephone wires were in almost as bad
condition. This afternoon a telephone
service as far as Worcester was estab-
lished.
The wholesale and most of the busi-
ness districts of the city were desert
ed all day. The stock exchange was
lifeless, and transactions were very
limited.
Shipping in the harbor was damaged
greatly and it is feared that many
disasters to coast shipping will be re-
ported when telegraphic communica-
tion is restored.
The center of the storm appeared to
be In the vicinity of New Bedford. and
the brunt Of it fell on Boston and ter
rltory within radius of fifteen to
twenty miles.
AAANNSNi
the middle and western parts of the
state the storm there has been less
severe. Here, about twenty inches of
snow fell.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb. 1.-The
storm has paralyZed business and traf-
nc Street car lines are tied up and
the communication with other towns Is
almost suspended. All the mills are
seriously affected by the storm.
ROCKLAND, Me-, Feb. 1.-The
storm has stopped traffic and no trains
are moving. During the storm the
fishing schooner Lena Young Of Matin-
icus, parted her lines from the Atlantic
wharf and drifted ashore. The crew
was rescued.
WATERVILLE, Me, Feb. 1.-Smau
houses have been buried by twenty
foot drifts of snow. The Lockwood cot
ton mills have been closed, the oper-
atives being unable to reach the fac
tory.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 1.-The
snow and wind storm of last night and
today was one Of the most severe ex-
perienced in this section since the big
blizzard. All trains are behind time
and several casualties are reported, but
none Of any gravity. The storm was
severely felt throughout Eastern Penn
sylvania.
TORONTO, Ont, Feb. 1.-The ther-
mometer here registered 10 degrees be-
low zero today. Reports from most
places in the province show that the
mercury fell from Is to % below
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Feb 1.-The
storm here today was one of the worst
ever known. Telegraph and telephone
wires are all down and the city is over
whemed by three feet of snow which
has blown into immense drifts. Rail-
roads are blockaded in ali directions.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb 1-At mid
night the thermometer was down to
20, with the prospect of a still more
decided fall. Southwest Virginia re-
ports a blizzard blowing and Newport
News a fOrty-mile gale. No damage is
reported from any point.
VALPARAISO, Ind, Feb. IA spe-
cial says: The heaviest snow storm in
years ended here today with nearly
two feet on a level. The country roads
are almost impossible. Drifts in places
are ten feet high. The Chicago & Grand
Trunk railway suffered from the snow
Three Of it's passenger trains are snow
bound east of here.
ST. JOHN, n. B., Feb. 1.-The most
severe snowstorm in at least fifteen
years set in this morning and continued
throughout the day, shutting out COM
munication in all directions No trains
have arrived from Boston or Montreal