Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-30
TIDAL WAVE
SWEEPS COAST
LOSS IN BOSTON DISTRICT az
BLIZZARD REACHES 5000, 900
WORST GALE SINCE 1851.
80 DEAD; $500 LOSE HOMES
New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburo
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. l6;
Philadelphia, 5.
Damage in Boston district esti-
mated at s5,000,000.
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 demon
allied and coal shipments seriously
delayed
Washington virtually isolated
from rest OF country and President
Taft is forced to cancel an out-of-
town engagement. His summer
home at Beverly, Mass. is dam
aged.
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
record tide over the coast.
Masses of wreckage apparently from
the five-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. total of II 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. It is thought
probable the vessel will be a total
wreck.
Four persons lost their lives in Chel-
sea, where 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
into darkness owing to the
cutting off of electric service.
The storm was easily the greatest
hat New England has experienced
n IL years. All along the coast phe-
lomenal tides were reported In many
'laces sea walls were battered to
pieces, boulevards ruined and clubs
md houses along the shore destroyed.
In Boston the tidal wave swept over
he wharves, across Atlantic avenue
md as far inland as the Chamber
I Commerce. 1t is estimated that the
amage will reach at least $500 900.
The worst damage wrought by the
torn was in Chelsea and Everett.
1here, 1T is believed. it will be several
1eeks before the tide-gate on the ISL
nd End river can be repaired and
he flooded district reclaimed.
Fifty families in the vicinity of
angus river were driven from their
ONES by the tide and many were TAX
n ont of their houses in boats.
Beverly. the summer home of Presi- |
ent Taft. was cut off from commu- |
ication with the outside world by |
telephone and telegraph
Eighteen persons in and near New |
ork persisted in the Christmas biz
lrd or died from accidents caused by
y Six of the number died from ex-
osure after being caught in snow.
lifts which they were unable to pene-
ate. Others were drowned and sew.
al were killed by trains.
The storms effects were severely
II by the poorer classes of the popu.
ton.
Blockades on railroads created a
ortage of food supplies and a con-
ouent increase in prices, which con.