The herald., 1898-11-28
In Massachusetts,

BOSTON, Nov. PA record breaking
November blizzard swept over the greater
portion of New England last night and to-
day, completely demoralizing traffic of every
description and well nigh paralyzing tele-
graphic and telephone communication.
while the northeast gale, coming on high
course of tides, drove the sea far beyond its
usual limits and made a mark along the
shore exceeded only by the memorable hun.
| ricane of 1851.
| While the storm was heaviest in tha
southwestern part of New England, tha
whole district was affected, and experienced
a snowfall of from eight to tweenty-four
inches, and as the center of the disturbances
moved down the Maine coast that section
and the provinces will probably receive a
similar taste Of winter weather tonight.
Fortunately the storm was heralded SUI
ficiently in advance by the weather bureau
to detain most of the coast shipping in safe
harbors, but the warning was entirely uu-
needed by those on shore, with the resuA
that nearly every one, especially the rait
roads and electric companies, were caught
mapping and suffered accordingly. Thera
was not railroad in New England that was
not more or less tied up by the heavy fall
of snow, and the great drifts on the roads
| running along the coast, like the New York.
New Haven and Hartford and the Boston
and Maine, had the added difficulty of fre,
quent washouts in places exposed to the
high seas.
|. Trains north, south, east and west were
nearly all stalled early in the night, al
though one train from Bangor reached
Lynn this noon; no Chicago trains cams
into the city this evening.
In cities and towns depndent upon cleo.
trio cars, service was even worse, for the
damp snow packed hard ON the rails and
held up even the heavy snowplows.
The service in this city was probably the
best of any of the surrounding community.
yet even here there was no attempt made
to run more than dozen cars on Washing
ton street and one or two others Of the
main thoroughfares.
The storm, while not so severe and far.
reaching in its effects as the fearful biz
zard of last February, was nevertheless the
heaviest experienced in November in this
part of the country for a long series Of
years. Coming on Sunday, it did not cause
the annoyance or inconvenience it would
have done on a week day, and most of the
transportation companies made heroic eN
fort at least partially to recover from the
effects of the blockade.
All points south of this city and east of
Providence were isolated last evening, New
Bedford being lost to the outside world
before o'clock and Newport and Fall
River disappearing into the night not long
after.
Farther to the west, at Providence and
in other parts of Rhode Island, communica-
tion was intermittent and subject to great
delay. Night trains over the Shore line
to New York reached Providence with
only few minutes delay. but beyond that
point they met terrific drifts and it was
morning before either of the regular trains
reached New London. Here they were
stalled nearly all day by freight wrecks on
the road between that point and New
Haven. The trains from New York met
similar experience west of Saybrook, and
after some hours Of telegraphing they man.