Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-12-30
MANY DIE IN STORM
SCHOONER WITH TWELVE MEN
LOST OFF MAssACHU-
SETS COAST.
BOSTON LOSS, FIVE MILLION
East Experiences Worst Blizzard In
Twenty Years-Traffic Tied Up
from Pennsylvania to
Maine.

Boston.-With the news of the prob
able loss of the big fiye-masted schoon-
er Davis Palmer with her crew of IL
men, off Boston harbor and of the
wrecking of nine other vessels along
the Massachusetts coast, the opening
chapter of the toll taken on the sea by
the great storm which swept, Sunday
and Monday, New England was bare
to the world.
Capt Cod is still cut off ana with
the restoration of communication
there it is feared that a tale of marine
disasters and storm damage I'M
equalled in years will be related.
Fifteen lives are known to have
been lost in New England, three in
Chelsea and Everett and IL through
the wrecking of the Davis Palmer
Five million dollars loss is the esti-
mate made of the havoc wrought in
and around Boston by the blizzard
which swept New England and drove
a record tide over the cost.
Thirty-two cities and towns were
plunged in darkness, owing to the cut.
ting off of the electric light 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 curbs
and houses along the shore destroyed.
In Boston the tide swept over the
wharves across Atlantic avenue, and
as far inland as the Chamber of Com
merce. It is estimated that the dam
age in this section win reach at least
100000
The worst damage was in Chelsea
and Everett, where, it is believed, it
will be several weeks before the tide
gate on the Island End river can be
repaired and the flooded district re-
claimed.
Having escaped through the snow,
scantily clad, and many of them bare
footed, the residents of the submerged
section of Chelsea had to stand for
hours in the blizzard waiting for wa
CONS to take them into shelter. Hun
dreds Of the homeless were taken care
OF in relief stations established in
public schools and chgches.
New York-The severest storm ex-
perienced in the east IL 20 years tied
up traffic in cities from Pennsylvania
to Maine and disarranged train SEIZED
ules in half a dozen states, according
to reports received here. Conditions
are improving rapidly however, and
railroads and municipalities are max
ing every effort to move intercity and
local traffic.
A number of persons met death
through exposure or accident-fiye in
Philadelphia and about Is in New
York.
In Philadelphia business is almost
at a stanGstill. Through trains were
late only one street car line was run
ming and the city is suffering from a
shortage Of milk. Reports from Pitts
burg and Harrisburg indicate that
conditions are improving rapidly
Washington dio not suffer severely,
but because Of the traffic tie-up to the
north President Taft decided to post
pone an engagement to speak in New
York. efR
Communication with Boston is main
tanned with difficulty. The storm in
New England seems to have been
worst in the vicinity Of New Bedford,
Providence, Fall River, Newport, Paw
tucket and Woonsocker.
In New York more than 1000 men
are at work cleaning the streets. Sub
urban trains were running with slight
delay The surface lines were blocked,
which caused heavy traffic in subway.