The Yale expositor., 1909-12-31
TIDAL WAVE
SWEEPS COAST
LOSS IN BOSTON DISTRICT BY
BLIZZARD REACHES S5,ooo,ooo
WORST GALE SINCE 1851.
80 DEAD;2,5OO LOSE HOMES
New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburg
Are Also Hard Hit by Storm-MiIk
Famine Prevails in Philadelphia.

Thirty-nine lives lost in hurri-
cane, which sweeps New England
coast and interior. Gripping street
car and railroad lines.
New York dead, IS; Boston, 16;
Philadelphia, 5.
Damage in Boston district esti-
mated at $5,000,0O0.
Two ships wrecked. one with
loss OF IL lives.
Tidal wave in Massachusetts,
carries away many homes, making
$500 persons homeless.
Milk famine prevails in Philadel-
phia. dealers being unable to bring
produce into city.
Villages in New York state are
showed up and isolated.
Twelve trains are stalled In
drifts near Wilmington, Del.
Effect of storm is felt as far
west as Pittsburg and Cleveland.
where train schedules are demor-
allied and coal shipments seriously
delayed.
Washington virtually isolated
from rest of country ana Presldehst
Taft is forced to cancel an out-ol-
town engagement His summer
home at Beverly, Mass. is dam
aged.
Five million dollars loss is the estl-
mate made of the havoc wrought in
and around Boston by the blizzard
which swept New England and drove
a record tide over the coast.
Masses of wreckage apparently from
the flve-masted schooner Davis PAL
mer of Boston were found on the
beach at Hull and it is believed the
vessel struck on one of the outer
lodges of the harbor during the storm
and went to pieces with the loss OF
all on board, a total OF IL men.
The three-masted schooner Nantas-
ket, Capt John w. Small, lumber-la-
den. from Georgetown. n. c., for Bos-
ton went ashore on Sandy Hill Beach,
off Scituate, and the crew Of nine and
the captain were rescued. 1t is thought
probable the vessel will be total
wreck.
Four persons lost their lives in Chel-
sea, where q tidal wave, bursting
through the dyke along Island End
river, flooded 80 acres Of homes and
forced $500 persons to fee, scantily
clad, into the raging storm.
Thirty-two cities and towns were
plunged into darkness owing to the
cutting off of electric service.
The storm was easily the greatest
that New England has experienced
in II years. All along the coast phe-
nomenal tides were reported. In many
places sea walls were battered to
pieces, boulevards ruined and clubs
and houses along the shore destroyed
In Boston the tidal wave swept over
the wharves, across Atlantic avenue
and as far inland as the Chamber
Of Commerce. 1t is estimated that the
damage will reach at least 100000.
The worst damage wrought by the
storm was in Chelsea and Everett
where, it is believed, it will be several
weeks before the tide-gate on the ISL
and End river can be repaired and
the flooded district reclaimed.
Fifty families in the vicinity OF
Saugus river were driven from their
homes by the tide and many were TAX
en- ont of their houses in boats.
Beverly, the summer home of Presi
dent Taft. was cut off from commu
nication with the outside world by
telephone and telegraph.
Eighteen persons in and near New
York persisted in the Christmas bliz-
card or died from accidents caused by
it. Six of the number died from ex-
posture after being caught In snow
drifts which they were unable to pene-
trate. Others were drowned and sew
eral wore killed by trains.
The storms effects were severely
felt by the poorer classes of the popu-
fation.