Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-02
STORM OF HUGE SIZE.
New England Swept by a Ter
rife Blizzard.
MANY DIED ON LAND AND SEA.
Boston Bore the Brunt-A Thousand
Vessels Crashed Ashore About GIouces-
ter-New York State Suffered, as Did
Pennsylvania and Ohio.

NEW IORh, rep. Zine storm Which
began Sunday night has swept over
New York state with great fury, and
became central in the New England
states. Northern New York is snow
bound and the extent of damage in New
England cannot be appropriated. Re
ports from Boston indicate great loss of
life and an immense amount of damage
to property. Business has been at a
standstill in many of the smaller towns,
wires all over the country are down,
roads are blockaded and railway traffic
greatly impeded
The ''up-the-state" residents have
suffered from cold which ranged as low
as 20 degrees and more below zero. At
Albany, Troy, Saratoga and many other
places III the state as much as two
and sthree feet of snow has fallen,
and reports are to the effect that the
blizzard is still raging, the worst storm
since the memorable one of 1888.
Residents of this city have had to bat
tie their way to business against a gale
OF wind that at times swept along at 40
miles an hour and carried sheets of snow
with it.
BOSTON, Feb. 2.-The snowstorm COM
pletely paralyzed all branches of bust
ness, AID street car and steam railroad
traffic, and shut off the city from COM
munlcation by wire with all points out
side the limits of Boston. The storm is
the most severe this city hassexperienced
IN 20 years, and caused the loss of sew
eral lives besides doing d money dam
age OF hundreds of thousands of dollars
The snow stuck to the poles and wires
with remarkable tenacity, and, aided by
wind blowing at the rate of so miles
an hour, Frustrated all telephone and
telegraph lines out of the city. More
than half the electric lights of the city
went out, and i'll suburban towns the
fire alarm service was crippled.
In Newtown broken wires falling
across others started a fire in the cleo
trio room of the elegant residence of
Charles j. Travelli, the wealthy Pitts
burg steel manufacturer, and in two
hours nothing renamed of the house
but ashes.
Mr. Travelli's family escaped in their
nightclothes without saving anything.
The loss amounts to about 100000.
The big three masted schooner Charles
T. Briggs of Bath, Me-, coal laden, was
and it is believed her crew of eight men
persisted The body of one of the crew
has been recovered.
In the business district it was nearly
noon when many employees reached
their places of employment, all subur-
ban trolley lines having been abandoned
at midnight and the steam railroads be-
ing unable to run more than two or
three suburban trains during. the
forenoon. Railroads were almost en-
tirely blocked.
The city and suburbs are covered with
broken poles and tangled wires. Many
horses were killed in the streets by step
ping on wires which had fallen across
the trolley wires. The situation assumed
such serious aspect that Mayor Quincy
ordered that none of the electric lights
be turned on except in districts where
the wires are under ground. Telegraphic
service was entirely stopped for time
At Dedham three Italians, shoveling
snow on the Providence division of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
road, were struck by train and killed.
A number of less serious accidents were
reported.
A number of trains met with acct
dents i'll different parts OF the state, but
so far as known there We're no addi-
tional fatalities.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Feb. 2.-The
storm at Gloucester was one of the
worst i'll many years, and the damage
which lies i'll its wake will foot up
about 100000.
About 900 fishing and other vessels
were wholly or partially wrecked. A
dozen Of these were wholly wrecked.
Eighteen lives are said to have been
lost, and there may be ~ more which
have gone down ON missing vessels.
CIVIL SERVICE IN FORCE.