The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-27

Brockton, Mass, Dec. ,27.-wreclx.
 age of tangled wires. shattered pole.
 and crippled telegraph and telephone
 systems constitutes the damage by the
 storm in this city. The property los. will exceed $1O,OOO and it will take
 at least three days to have anything
 like order out of the chaos Therf
 were over 1000 telephones out of or der today or one-third of the entire
 system Not wire was operating al
 either of the two local telegraph of
 fees, all having been dead since Sunday morning. Seventy fire alarm
 boxes are out of commission but there
 wasn't a single fire reported in the
 city. | The police signal service system is | crippled as we'll as the automatic fire
 alarm system, the entire district mes- senger system and private telephone
 prices were paid for linemen today, every company seeking them. | No deaths were reported in the storm In an effort to locate a dan gerous gas leak Charles H. Buch en- tered a manhole in she business dis trict and was nearly dead when res cued. Experts declare the storm has been more disastrous one to wires than was the blizzard of '9S. The storm did a vast amount of damage at Rrant Rock Several cottages were taken away and breakwaters were ruined The tide rose 16 feet, making a num- Der Of roads impossible. Two-thirds or the long, heavy breakwater built by the town and government in 1899 was destroyed The Brant Rock House piazza and promenade were torn to pieces The Dyke road is undermined and 1t IS impossible to get from Cut river to Brant Rock without a boat.
 The North river bridge at Scituate was swept away.
 
 men aiding the regular force of 2.7O0 White Wings" in cleaning its streets end sidewalks. New York is today rapidly recovering from the blizzard and snow storm of Xmas Day and Sunday.
 Commissioner "BiII, Edwards as every man, woman and child in New York knows Princeton's giant right guard, in charge of the street clean ing department, declared that he could not get within 10000 of the number of men he needed to "clean Up" the city. It will cost S1OO,OOO to clean house.
 As a result of the blizzard. it is announced by, the police today that fourteen lives were lost in New York alone while great suffering was en- tailed, occasioned by the tying up of traffic and the impossibility of carry- ing food and clothing to the needy poor.
 No trains are arriving in New York on time today except the short haul commuter ones. Passengers in the east. west and south are from one to five hours late.
 Ocean liners and reight steamers which ~ putting into port. are cov- cred with ice.
 Elevated and train service on Long Island is today beginning to assume its normal condition.
 It was decided today that Jacob | Voglin, cabin passenger on the French liner Ia Touraine, who crazed | by the sight of the gale. when the self, must be deported. Before shoot | ing himself the man threw draft for 1000 francs overheard, declaring dead 1 men did not need money. He was brought to New York under guard and must go back to France on the | same vessel.
 The battleship fleet in the North River for the Christmas holidays. was uninJured by the blizzard. though |
 Jig vessels dragged their anchors in the SO mile wind and if | required smart seamanship to prevent their being driven ashore.
 Photographic communication with the outside world, so seriously crip- pied by Saturday nights gale, is be- Ing resumed today. though many New England districts are cut off from the outside world.
 Boston, Dec 27.-with wires down rom many towns of New England Ind the damage they suffered from he great Christmas snowstorm still irifting into Boston today makes it l certain that at least a dozen lives were lost and a million in property damage occasioned by the huge fall 'f snow and terrific winds which pre- -ailed.
 In Chelsea, where a tidal wave Twspt the town. making 2,OOO home ess and drowning 20 horses and 100 'ows. Mir and Mrs. Cornelius liar Iins were drowned in their beds and Michael Callahan. an aged man. died f shock while being brought from he second story. of his flood-swept lome- Altogether a dozen people are till missing and it is feared that nly other known death in Chelsea Tas that of an unidentified baby ound drowned in a house where it had been abandoned by it's ,arents when the rush for safety from he wave was begun.
 Frozen to death in the street at . Worcester. Lyman Thurston. an aged ,: A R. man. was found lying near he storm had brought on heart fail re.
 What the tale of death at Plymouth 'lll be-, is still unknown, that port ate last night. however. portions of essels living in that harbor were { rifting ashore and it is believed cer- ain some of them sank.
 Never in the history of New Eng md has more severe storm swept he coast. In Boston the wind was \ nly about A miles an hour but long Cape Cod it ragged at an S4 peed and the huge waves which ~ Nept the shore wrecked havoc ;nong vessels at anchor. What the total loss along the coast ill be. none can estimate. From
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