The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-27
Heavy Damage Through New England

Continued rom rage l.)
 Portland, Me, down the whole coast to Rhode Island, each and every vil- lage and town has its tale of ruin. homes and the damage is so wide spread that any attempt to particu- larize it would be insane.
 Huge waves broke the Chelsea dyke swept into the streets. practically flooding the whole town In its vicinity, families were taken from upper story windows to safety. The total damage in Chelsea VIII reacn more than $25o,000.
 In Houston proper there was less suffering but the damage will be not far from that in Chelsea The streets are a litter of broken trees ana tne cellars of many business buildings In the lower part of the city are masses of solid ice. All along the water front the damage is great
 Springfield, Mass, Dec 27.-West- ern Massachusetts is today digging it. self out of the worst blizzard since 1sSs The principal damage was Tn the delay of railway trains ana 10 telephone and telegraph wires. sfils devoting their energies to getting the passenger trains through.
 Tine Boston 6 Albany Railroad ex- perienced great difficulty in nauling Ierksbires. The only thing that saved this section from complete blockade was the fact that the snow was light and dry. The wind piieo the snow in drifts, in some places on the country roads 20 feet deep. Some of the street railway lines were com pIeteiy abandoned. Church-g going was practically suspended. In Pitts- field the storm greatly hampereo 1ne fire department in quenching nre that destroyed the Riley Block, Sun day, with loss of $1Oo,ooo- Salem Mass, Dec. 27.-Salem was without electric light last night on account of the tangle of broken poles | and wires in the streets Electric ana steam traffic was uncertain through : out the day and absolutely at stand still for several hours At high tioe the water on the tunnel on the B. 6 M. was four feet deep and not train could pass through.
 The damage along the waterfront was severe, many wharves peihe
 swept clean of small boats. Iwe canoe clubs at The Willows were
 swept away, with about 100 canoes ir each.
 The water main was so strained
 that the emergency main tnrougi
 Danvers was put into use or the cit,
 would have been without water. Int high tide entered the limehouse or the Langmaid Wharf, causing dan' | gerous fire for which general aiarn
 was sounded and help summonee | from Peabody The joss VIII not ps over $2,OOO there
 | Two vessels alongside were warped
 to places of safety before catcnlns fire. Wires of all kinds, trees avn
 ings and signs were leveileo Tn al
 directions.
 | Lynn. Mass, Dec 27.-The storm
 of yesterday did about $1oo, ooo dam-
 age in Lynn, Swampscott ana NananI - At Swampscott, the waves swep over the breakwater and hooded tnt
 cellars of many costly residences. large section of a settlement near tnf lseawall was swept away ana odtn' houses were lifted from their founoa'
 tions and left high and dry on the streets of the town.
 The waves swept into the cellar ot the storehouse of Lamper & Com
 pony on Sea street ana Somtns s;,, .l set the building on fire, causing : | damage Of SS,000.
 | The town of Nahant was an 1slanc
 during the storm, the road ieadins from Lynn being entirely submerged
 The ti6e along the Lynn shore wa the highest for 99 years and man,
 cellars were flooded Residents fl West Lynn went back and forth iron their houses in boats- Hundreds O,
 poles and wires went down and th' l streets this morning are covered Wltf limbs of trees
 Holyoke. Mass, Dec. 27.-The snow | storm that swept New England yes
 terday hit Holyoke quite hard. Ac | companied by a stiff northeaster tn l snew fell here for, 2S hours and tn | streets were blocked street anT ~tHH' '' cars were tied up and the telephon' company suffered greatly from broker
 wires. It was the severest storm il
 many years. but fortunately no live | were lost.
 The storm set in about o'clock Sat | urday afternoon and came to an en' at 9 o'clock Sunday. It cost the cit. about $1,OoO and the street railwa! company suffered severely.
 Philadelphia. Dec. 27.-With railroa' and trolley traffic still badly cripple' by Saturdays blizzard. half a million commuters today suffered all kinds O inconveniences in trying to get | work from their homes Train ser vice on both the Pennsylvania am Reading roads was delayed.
 Four lives have been exacted by tn blizzard here