Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
MANY VESSELS WRECKED.
Bodies Washed Ashore at Gloucester and Little
Nahant.
Boston in the Center of Dsturbance--City Street
Cars Blocked--TeIegraph and Mail Service
Almost Paralyzed.

cars were tied uD early IN the evening.
and the Neponset cars were, as General
Bancroft expressed it, "loSt' this morn
ing.
Some Of the lines mentioned very late
in the day managed to get cars running
after fashion, but at nightfall the SER
vice was still very much crippled. Even
II no more snow falls, many hours must
elapse before the cars can again be run
on schedule time.
The lines of street railways running to
Charlestown, Maiden, Everett, Medford
and Somerville suffered worse from this
storm than those of any other division
of the Boston Street Railway system.
Here the wires of the telegraph and tel
ephone companies were broken down
and tangled with those of the street
railway in almost inextricable confu-
sion.
The school system was completely up
set. A few teachers put in an appear
ance on time this morning, but In most
instances they had no pupils to teach
The train service was practically par
alyzed. Two inward-bound trains or
short lines came through, and both
were on the south side. Through trains
were not in evidence, and nothing, local
or through, went out during the early
| hours. None or few of the places along
| the lines were open, and only the most
hardy and most faithful showed UP to
await trains. With nothing going in or
| out, the natural consequence was a gen.
eral stagnation, such as has not been
experienced since 1888, and some en-
| phatically have it. since 1878.
| The Old Colony reported one train in.
! This was from Mattapan, and came in
over the Shawmut branch about an hour
| and half behind schedule time, with
! the aid of two engines. Two trains
were lost. They were the ones due from
| Campello and Braintree at 11.30 and
11.42 last night. At $50 o'clock this
morning it was not known where they
were.
Not word had been received this
morning from the through trains from
New York Washington. Fall River.
New London or Providence What
ever trains may have started were at
unknown points along the roads.
put in an appearance last night
was the "Gilt EDGE due at
the Park square station at II p. m.
This train arrived "a minutes late. This
morning none of the through trains
from New York or Providence has come
in.
This morning the first train from Ded-
ham over the West RoXbury branch.
reached Boston at S.40 being due at 620.
Another local train from Dedham got
in an hour later, and a third at 1920
o'clock From that time on, the trains
came in with more regularity. Along to-
wards noon, Dedham trains began run
ming out of the Park square station as
fast as they could be made up and sent
out, and by noon were running on some
thing like half-schedule time. At noon,
the "Trilbys," as the local trains be-
tween Boston and Forest Hills are
called. were sent out on every half-hour,
or half Of the schedule time. No at
tempt was made to run trains over the
Readville branch to Dedham, and it Is
not probable that the road will be bro
ken out on that line at all today. About
noon the officials made up a train for
New London and Washington, consist
ing of five cars. Whether it managed
to get through or not. is unknown
On the Boston and Albany road two
through trains, heavily laden with pas
sengers, were gotten through by IL
O'Clock a. m. Other trains followed,
greatly belated, later in the day. A
train arrived also on the Providence
division of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford, at $40 o'clock a. m. Tt
was due here at 6. 20 o'clock Other
through lines made similar records, the
few trains that managed to plow
through the drifts arriving very late
Trains also were dispatched at irregu-
lar intervals bearing passengers and
malls westward.
Newspapers obtained communication
with New York yesterday afternoon and
last night by having telegraph reports
transcribed at Worcester and sent
thence by train to this city
One of the worst features Of this
storm is the inmeasureable damage to
the telegraph systems. because 1t means
a tremendous obstacle to overcome be-
fore everyday business can be transact
ed as usual 1t is not merely as If a
few wires here and there Were broken;
it is vastly worse than that. Great poles,
with six and seven crossbars loaded with
wires have been snapped i'll two and
tossed upon the ground What tangle
this means may be imagined, though 1t
is unlikely that anybody who has not
actually see the work of destruction
will comprehend the full extent of the
damage.
The city has practically no telegraph
service, and it is impossible to say
when regular communication can be
opened again with the outside world.
The telephone lines, however, on certain
lines remain intact for some distance
from the city, and this has facilitated
the transmission OF news and messages
to the city in slight deg~ee.