Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-03

IN STORMS WAKE.
News of Disasters Along the
Coast Coming In.
MORE BODIES FOUND.
Loss Of Life on the Sea May
Prove Large.
Boston Slowly Getting into Touch With
the Rest of the Word-The Damage
Very Heavy.


Boston, Feb. 2.-Reports of the havoc
wrought by the storm are slowly coming
In With clearing weather the fleet of
storm-bound vessels made preparations
to leave port, and several got under
way today.
The pilot boat Varuna reached here
I today after an awful experience in the
storm, during which Capt William H.
Fairfield was seriously injured At 10
o'clock Monday night the Varuna placed
Pilot Mcmillan aboard the Cunard
steamer Catalonia, and the pilot boat
was then headed out into the bay, The
southeasterly hurricane soon after SWEPT
over the bay and the pilot boat was
forced about in a fearful manner.
Capt Fairfield was the only pilot left
on the boat and he was standing in the
cockpit aft, keeping her head up to the
wind and. sea. Suddenly, and without
warming, a fearful wave swept over the
Varunas stern throwing Capt Fairfield
fSver the pinnacle. He was nearly uncon-
sclous when picked up. 1t was FOUND
that three of, his ribs were fractured and
ne had sustained injuries to his should
Rer.
= The same wave which injured the pilot
stove in the starboard canoe, rendering
1t useless, and flooded the pilot boat
Among the arrivals to reach port this
morning was the steamer Saturn, Capt.
Wiley, from Newport News with the
barge Lone Star in tow. After passing
Highland light on Monday forenoon, the
vessel made a lee under Race Point,
where she remained during the biz
zard, and was uninjured,
The Warren line steamship Cambro-
man, which came into port last evening
. from Liverpool, and anchored in tbs
stream, was warped into her berth at
Charlestown today. Capt. Evans stated
that at 10 o'clock Monday night he was
40 miles to the eastward of Boston light
when the storm broke, and for safety of
ship and crew he put to sea again.
Up and down the coast from Cape Ann
TO Cape Cod are strewn the grim yes
tiges of the storm. Gloucester harbor
was the storm centre of wrecks, but the
beaches near this city were not exempt
from similar spectacle, while the ship
ping within half mile of tha wharVes
broke from their cables during that fear
full night and worked destruction to
themselves and their neighbors.
Information from Vineyard Haven
says that violent easterly gale, with a
velocity of 55 miles per hour, swept over
that section Monday night, and caused
an extremely high tide Telegraph and
telephone lines were Frustrated and
considerable damage done along the
water front
Four more bodies and part of another
were found on the beach at Little Ma
hant today There is little doubt that
the bodies are from the Inflated schoon-
er that run ashore on the ledge off the
Howe estate, at Little Nahant, yester-
day morning.
A marine report from Plymouth today
states that three vessels are ashore near
there One fishing schooner, the George
A. Upton, hailing from Gloucester. lies
high and dry on the shore at Stephens
point The names of the other two could
not be learned.
The financial loss in this city caused
v the storm will amount to more than
was urst thought. In this city alone,
81 b estimated that the loss win amount
yer 81, 100000. Up to II o'clock to-
asy the city had not established a con-
4 ction by telegraph with the rest Of
tile country. This afternoon the Postal
telegraph Company succeeded in OPEN
'pg a line through to New York, and
tonight other wires are in operation
though the service still is very much
crippled
An army OF men was engaged today
in repairing the damage sustained by
the Wire anu lIdHSpOIldliOit coliipdIlVa9.
Street cars are running tonight over
almost all the routes in the city and
far out into the suburbs; trains for the
neighborhoed Of Boston are keeping
commercially close to their schedules,
although many of the early morning
ones were tardy; a few trains from New
York arrived, and others have been dis
patched for that city and other far
away points.
Careful measurements show that
about Is inches Of snow fell during the
storm.
A feature of the storm was the large
number of fires in the city and sur
rounding towns. The Upham's Corner
Universahst Church and ST. Thomas
Episcopal Church at Taunton were
burned. Serious fires also occurred in
Lowell, Peabody, Rockland, Newton and
other places.