The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-27
Boston Is Damaged a Million Dollars bI Gale and
 Wet Snow
SNOW IS TEN INCHES
 DEEP IN NEW YORK CITY
Philadelphia Has Sixteen Inches of Snow and Traffic of All Kinds Is Tied Up, While One
 Wreck Is Reported.

Boston, December 2e-Grim winter swept into New England today on the winds of northeast storm with terrific energy as to cause great damage, much inconvenience, not littIe suffering and a few deaths. s>
 The gale drove tide into Massachu- setts Bay which nearly equalled that of the famous storm of 1851. the wet snow prostrated wires, telegraph, telephone, electric light and trolley wires and rail- road trains were stalled. Three persons lost their lives in Everett and Chelsea by the sudden rise of the tids.
 From midnight until late today the storms destructive powers were unusu ally extensive and severe. It's center was somewhere off Nantucket, but the gale swept over the greater portion of New England and was accompanied by heavy fall of snow.
 The big tide. however, was the feature of the storm. Coming on a full moon, the gale rolled waves along the coast which, in some places. reached a height of over four feet above low water mark and has only been exceeded, according to local records, by that which swept the coast at the time that Minot's light was destroyed, in April, 1851.
 In this city the tide vent across At lantic avenue on the water front and filling hundreds of cellars, caused an es- timated damage of over s1,o0o,O09.
 In Everett, Cornelius Harkin and his wife were caught in their beds and over whelmed by the food while an infant child lost its life in Chelsea under sim liar conditions. In many places along the coast persons were taken from their homes in boats, hundtess of summer cot tagss wefs -taderlllnl f1lkrJsds were destroyed and persons living some dis tance from the coast found themselves looking over the open ocean.
 The prostration Of the wire service, especially in southeastern New England, was more extensive than for many years. Providence clung to the outside world by only a single wire, while communication toward Fall River, Newport and New Bedford and Cape Cod by ordinary lines ceased dt Brocfloi. 1hS "hcics'' 'Ao" ever, established communication with Cape Cod and there was much relief when word was received from the famous peninsula that it's long sandy beach had not been marked by a wreck.
 It is many years since the railroads and street railway companies have been so badly blocked.
 Cambridge, Somerville, Lynn, Brockton, Fall River, New Bedford and many other cities and towns were in darkness to- night as result of fallen wires.
 In Everett and Chelsea hundreds of persons were driven from their homes by a flood resulting from the breaking of dam gate at a place known as the dyke in Chelsea, just over the Everett line. Tonight the homeless were housed with friends or cared for by the munich pal authorities in the city buildings and churches.
 At Lynn the tide made clean sweep across the narrow isthmus that connects Nahant with the mainland and for sev- eral hours that rocky peninsula was an island. The state highway was covered to a depth of four feet with sea weed.
 Fifty families in the vicinity of Saugas river were driven from their homes by the tide and many were taken out of their homes in boats.
 On Nantaset beach, in Hull, the damage to property is estimated at $io0,OOo
 Details of militamen were sent to Chel sea tonight with blankets and mattresses. by order of Governor Draper. It is esti mated that the number of people driven by the flood from their homes in the city which was fire swept three years ago will reach 2500
 New York. December 2e-New York and it's environs were practically storm bound today for the first time this witner. The west wing of railroad service was almost wholly cut off, wire communca- ton in every direction was crippled, metropolitan streets were blocked with snow and shipping suffered considerable damage.
 The snowfall. which began shortly be- fore noon yesterday, was followed by cold wave which froze the damp snow to wires. switches and roadways. Nearly 10 inches of snow fell in the city, and the poor, who ate their fill of free Christmas dinners yesterday, had opportunity to work LID another appetite today by shoyeling More than 10000 shoyelers and coco trucks were called out.
 The derangement of railroad traffic was one of the most serious experienced in several years Train service from the south and west was practically cut off all day, while the upstate and Cana dian trains were from one to three hours behind their schedules.
 The two 1S-hour Chicago trains were greatly delayed, the Pennsylvania, due here at 9:b4 a. m. having failed to arrive LID to o'clock tonight; and the New York Centrals Chicago flyer, due here at 1O:2o a. m., being over seven hours late. The Pennsylvania railroad report ed tonight that no trains from points west of Philadelphia had arrived since last evening.
 At & o'clock this morning small tidal wave swept into the harbor. and with oc- casional fury dashed over the Battery seawall and flooded many cellars. Two vessels were driven ashore during the night near the quarantine station on Sta ten Isiand-the schooner Lizzie E. Den nison and a scow. They. were pulled off later but suffered considerable damage.
 The coastwise freight steamer Thurman. laden with coal. ran ashore on Toms
 
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