Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-12-31
EAST IN GRIP
OF BLIZZARD
LOSS IS HEAVY
HAVOC COSTS 100000 AND $500
PERSONS FLEE, SCANTILY
CLAD, FROM HOMES.
SCHOONER GOES TO PIECES.
Sailing Vessel Goes on Reef and All on
Board, Total of Twelve Men,
Are Lost.
OVER DOZEN DEAD IN NEW YORK.

The Christmas blizzard, the severest
storm experienced in the east IN twenty
years, tied up Focal traffic this morning
in cities from Pennsylvania to Maine and
disarranged train schedules throughout
half q dozen states. Conditions, however,
are rapidly improving, and railways ana
municipalities are bending every effort to
move intercity and local traffic. There
is reason to believe conditions will be
normal again by Tuesday night, when
another storm is expected from the west.
A number of persons have met their
| death through exposure or accident, five
| in Philadelphia and dozen or more IN
| New York The final reports OF fatal
| ties in New England have not yet come
! to hand.
In Philadelphia general business, this
morning was practically at standstll.
| All through trains were late, only one
| street car line was running and the city
| is suffering from a shortage of milk. Re
ports from Pittsburg and Harrisburg IN
| dictate that conditions are improving rap
| idly.
Washington did not suffer severely,
but ON account of traffic condltlonS TO
the north. President Taft decided to
postpone an engagement to speak IN
| New York.
Communication with Boston is main
tanned only with difficulty. The storm
in New England seems to have been
worse in the vicinity of New Bedford
| Providence. Fall River, Newport Paw
| tucket and Woonsocket. oo
| In New York city more than 'OOO
| men are at work cleaning the streets
| Most of the suburban trains were run
ming this morning with only slight de-
lay. The surface lines were blocked,
| a condition that resulted IN exceptional
heavy traffic in. the subway.
Loss $5,ooo,o0o Near Boston.
BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 27.-tive mil
| lion dollars loss is the estimate made to-
| day of the havoc wrought In and around
| Boston by the blizzard which swept New
| England and drove a record tide over the
| coast.
No fatalities have been reported be-
sides the four known to have occurred
| in Chelsea where a tidal wave, burst
ing through the dyke along Island End
river, flooded eighty acres of homes, and
| forced $500 persons to flee, scantlly clad,
| into the raging storm.
Thirty-two cities and towns which
| were plunged in darkness owing to the
| cutting off of the electric light service
| hope to have their lighting facilities re-
stored by tonight.
The storm was easily the greatest that
New England has experienced in eleven
years. All along the coast, phenomenal
| tides were reported. In many places sea
walls were battered to pieces. boulevards
RACED, and curbs and houses along the
| shore damaged.
Tide Sweeps City
In Boston the tide swept over the
wharves, across Atlantic avenue, and as
far inland as the Chamber of Commerce.
It is estimated that the damage in this
section will reach at least $5OO,OOO
| 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 is
land end river can be repaired, and the
! flooded district reclaimed. Having es-
capped through the snow scantily clad
and many of them barefooted the resi-
dents of the submergedrsection of Chel-
sea had to stand for hours in the biz
to shelter. Hundreds of the homeless
were taken care of in relief stations es-
tablished in public schools and churches
Masses of wreckage apparently from
the five-masted schooner Davis Palmer
of Boston We're found on the beach at
Hull today, and it is believed the vessel
struck on one of the outer lodges of the
harbor during yesterdays storm and
went to pieces with the loss of all on
board a total of twelve men. The
| Palmer was sighted off Cape Cod on Sat
urday bound into Massachusetts, bay.
| Philadelphia LIED up
| PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 81
Philadelphia today was still in the grip
| of the blizzard which descended upon
! this section of the country Christmas
day. General business was tied up
worse than for many years and the pros
| poets were that it would be several days
before conditions became normal. Rail
way traffic and street car service was
still in bad shape.
The snowfall was one of the greatest
| in the history of the weather bureau and
| caught railroads, street car companies
and other public service concerns wholly
unprepared to cope with the situation.
| With the exception of the Market
street subway line, there was practic-
! ally no street car service in the city
| during the morning, and nearly all Phil
adelphia got to work late. The rail-
way situation was little better early
| today than it was Sunday, but there was
no attempt on the part of any railroad
! to stick to schedules.
| Reports received early today showed
! that five persons lost their lives during
| the storm, most of them deaths occur
ring during the height of the storm
! Christmas night and Sunday morning
| And In each case death was due to ex-
| haustion.
Tieup in New York.
| NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Hard work
all night by thousands of men on the
! city's streets broke the tieup caused by
| the greatest December storm in years
| in this vicinity. While incoming trains
were still delayed on some of the rail-