Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-20
Raging With Great Sever
it in New England.
Promised Last Night TO Be
FierCest Of the Winter.
Wind 60 Miles an Hour OFF Cape Cod-.'
Anxiety for Many Vessels.

Boston, March 19.-With the vernal
equinox less than two days hence.
northeast SnoWstorm, which gave
every indication of being the severest
of the winter was raging in New Eng
land at 10 o'clock tonight.
At that hour, with the center of the
disturbance still to the southwark and
headed in New England's direction,
wet sticky snow was being driven
through the streets of Boston by Il so
knot gale, while on the coast still
wilder conditions prevailed.
AS the storm center, which early in
the evening was over Pennsylvania
worked north, the snow in southeastern
New England changed to a cold rain,
but the snow continued in the rest of
the district.
The storm set in here with a fine,
| light snow about the middle of the af-
ternoon. but it increased rapidly to-
ward night and at the time of the regu-
lar evening observation Of the weather
bureau it was showing throughout New
England with wind velocities of SO
miles an hour at Nantucket and so
miles at Flock Island, two exposed
points on the coast.
Highland Light reported ut 1880
o'clock tonight 4 60-mile an hour gale
with thick snow, the hardest blow of
the season.
No wrecks had been reported up to
hat time along Cape Cod but in ship
ping circles there was considerable
nXicty regarding large fleet of
sclIooners and tugs With barges. which
were off the Cape when the storm be-
IAN this afternoon.
At dark tonight there was somewhere
| in the vicinity of cape Cod. the scho0n-
ers Frank Barnet. Brunswick for Bos-
| ton: the Horace W. Macombcr. Phila-
| delphia for Portland; the Alice p. Tu:-
ner. Charleston for Boston; the Well
| fleet, ApalachicOla for Boston; Marsa-
ret Haskell Norfolk for Portsmouth.
and one four-master and two three
masters. The tugs Concord and Under
writer with barges We're also Off tnc
cape. while the Paoli with tow
passed in by the end Of the cape about
1 o'clock, but had not arrived in Bos-
ton harbor before the storm became
severe.
There were only a few SailingS from
| this mort today and they went early.
The Portland steamer Bay State re-
| manned at her berth tonight.
On land the early part of the storm
| resulted in but little damage. but lat
| Ell in the evening, as the temperature
rose. the snow became very wet and
sticky and then trouble began. At Mel
rose the electric lighting service was
badly crippled as was also the fire
alarm telegraph. Other nearby cities
also reported wire trouble.
Shortly before 10 o'clock large
| number of wires to New York went out
| of business. the break being in the vi
entity of Springfield, but connections
with New York were re-eStabliShed
| over another route. About II o'clock
the weather had moderated sufficient
ly in Boston To change the snow to
rain and ut that time there We're indi-
cations that the disturbance would
pass to the westward of the city and
| that a southeast rain storm would pre-
vail during the early morning hours
| tomorrow.
The wet snow which fell in this city
| to the depth of six inches before the
| rain began clogged the switches at the
| two Union stations until the train SER
vice. especially at the South station,
was badly deranged. The storm also
delayed many of the trains from the
west. several of them being from three
| to five hours late.
The local street car service was ma
terially hampered by the storm and in
the suburbs the wet snow was packed
in so thoroughly. especially in the deep
| cuts that the service was almost sus-
pended.