The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-11-30
GREAT BLIZZARD.
It Does Much Damage in the
Eastern States.
The Worst storm I'm Many Years
Traffic DemOralized-Many Vessels
Wrecked in Boston HarbOr-
Twelve Lives Lost.

New York, Nov. 2s.-When the peo-
pie of New York awoke Sunday morn
ing they found the blizzard that had
ragged when they retired was still in
progress The storm, which began
with soft, sleety snow on Saturday
at noon, increased greatly as the day
wore on, with heavier snowfall. the
wind blowing gale at midnight.
There was slight abatement of the
wind Sunday morning, but the snow
still fell and drifted high and the tenn
perature dropped rapidly. It looked
as though the blizzard would continue
all day, but at 10 o'clock there was
breaking away in the west and finally
the storm ceased altogether and the
severest storm since the memorable
one of March, 1883, came to an end.
The wind blew at the rate of SO to so
miles an hour during the height of the
storm. Snow fell throughout New
York state. The fall in New York
City was about ten inches.
Boston, Nov. 9s.-A record breaking
November blizzard swept over the
greater portion of New England Sat-
urday night and Sunday, completely
demoralizing traffic of every descrip-
tion and well nigh paralyzing tele-
graphic and telephone communities
tion, while the northeast gale coming
on high course of tides drove the sea
far beyond its usual limits and made
mark along shore exceeded only by the
memorable hurricane of 1851. While
the storm was heaviest in the south
eastern part of New England the
whole district was affected and expert
enced a snowfall of from to "a
inches.
Fortunately the storm was heralded
sufficiently in advance by the weather
bureau to detain most of the coastwise
ships in safe harbors, but the warning
was entirely unheeded and ignored by
those on shore, with the result that
nearly every one, especially the rail
roads and electric companies, were
caught mapping and suffered accord
ingly. There was not railroad in
New England that was not more or
less tied up by the heavy fall of snow
and the great drifts and the roads run
ming along the coast like the New
York, New Haven & Hartford, and the
Boston e. Maine had the added difficult
ty of frequent washouts in places ex-
posed to the heavy sea. Trains north,
east, south and west were nearly all
stalled early in the night.
Only the barest reports were received
up to o'clock Sunday night of the
effects of the storm on the coast, but
even those few lines gave rise to the
gravest fears as to the safety of what
little shipping that may have been off
Cape Cod Saturday night or Sunday.
1t will probably be two or three days
before complete list of the disasters
can be made. During the gale 80
barges and schooners lying in the har-
Dor were wrecked and sunk and at
least IL lives were lost. The Wilson
liner Ohio is ashore on Spectacle ISL
and in the bay. No serious damage is
reported.
Baltimore, Nov. 2S.-On account Of
the blizzard in New York Saturday
night all trains from points north Of
Philadelphia were from one to five
hours late Sunday. The Pennsylvania
train bearing New York morning pa
pers did not arrive until nearly noon,
four hours behind schedule time. High
winds prevailed on the Chesapeake
bay, but so far as known there were no
casualties.
Philadelphia, Nov. 2s.-The blizzard
which came out of the west reached
this city at II o'clock Saturday morn
ing and ragged furiously until o'clock
Sunday morning. AS unexpected as it
was violent it wrought great havoc,
not only here, but throughout the en-
tire state. In those IA hours the snow
fall reached depth of over nine inches
and the wind velocity of 45 miles an
hour. These figures are unprecedented
in the November records of the local
weather bureau, and the officials there
say the storm in general was the worst
since the memorable blizzard of 1888.
With the snow the mercury steadily
dropped until well below the freezing
point In this city traffic of every kind,