Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-12-30
Over hIill1or Dollars Damage
Done in Boston and Several
Lives Lost.
new YORK CITY STORM BOUND
Streets Stocked with Suow--16
Inches Fell in Philadelphia
Drifts There over 10
Feet High.

Boston, Mass, Dec. 2S-Grhi winter
swept into New England to-day on the
Wigs - q or,loast storm with such
er,ible energy as to cause great dam
4re. much Inconvenience not a little suf-
fering and q few deaths.
The yale drove tide into Massachu-
sets bay which nearly eQual!ed that Of
the famous storm Of 1G1 A heavy, wet
snow FRUSTRATED all wires throughout the
southeastern section, railroad trains were
stalled and three persons lost their lives
In Everett and Chelsea by the sudden rise
of the tide.
The big tide was the feature OF the
storm. Coming on full moon, the gale
rolled wave along the coast which. In
some places, reached a height of over IA
feet above low water mark, only being ex-
reeded by that which swept the coast at
the time Nnnot's light house was des-
troyed In April, 1861.
In this city, the tide went across At
lantio avenue on the water front. filling
hundreds Of cellars and causing an esu-
mated damage Of over s.. 90, o0O.
In Everett Cornelius narkin and his
wife were caught in their beds and over
whelmed by the flood while an infant
lost his life in Chelsea under similar con-
ditions In many places along the coast,
persons were taken from thelr homes in
boats, hundreds of summer cottages were
undermined. bulkheads were destroyed md
persons living some distance from the
shore found themselves looking over the
open ocean.
The proetration Of the wire service es-
pecially in southeaste New ENGLAND was
more extensive than for many years.
II is years since the railroads and street
railways companies have been so badly
blocked The wet snow proved less OF
handicap than the fallen wires and tele-
graph poles for the steam railroads. but
the street railways could make but lit
tie progress.
Fallen wires around Boston and
throughout southeastern Massachusetts
and Rhode Island made 4. necessary 70
cut out completely electric lighting
plants in those communities that were
served by the overhead system. Large
cities such as Cambridge Somervile,
Lynn Brocktor. Providence. Fall River
and New Bedford were In darkness.
HUNDREDS DRIVEN FROM HOUSES
In Everett and Chelsea hundreds of
persons were driven from their homes
BY food resulting from the breaking of
dam gate at a place known as The
Dyke" in Chelsea. just over the Ever
EFT line. Tonight the homeless. we're
housed by crionds or cared by NUM-
cipai authorities in the city buildings
ard churches.
In Everett. boats from tho Chelsea
naval hospital were used to rescue 50
antilles from the upper stories of their
louses.
A wireless message from Highland
tight says an s4-nnile gale swept Cape
Cod for two hours this afternoon, a vel
,city which has not been exceeded since
SOS. The tide went completely over
Main street In Provincetown. flooded the
cellars OF all the houses on the water
front and undermined many summer
residences.
At Lynn, the tide made d clean sweep
scross the narrow .sthmus which con-
meets Nahant with Ihe mainland and
Tor several hours that rocky peninsula
vas an island The State highway vas
covered to & depth of four feet with
,eaweed.
Fifty families in the vicinity OF Saugus
river were driven from their homes by
the tide and many Were aiken out Of their
houses in boats
Or Nantasket Beach IN Hull, all the
bulkheads from Peuberton 10 the Atlantic
House were either washed away or badly
damaged, while every summer residence
between Point Alerton and the Nantaske ct
Hcuse lost Its piazza and many Of the
structures were undermined 1t 10 esti-
mated that the damage to property In
that town alone will reach 10000.
Beverly. the summer homo Of President
Taft Wa cut of from communication
with the outside world by telephone and
telegraph. This Taft cottage at Wood
berry point. however, 10 believed to be
sufficiently elevated above high water to
have escaped damage.
Details Of militiamen from Maiden
Lynn, Everett and Marblehead were cent
~ Chelsea tonight with blankets and
mattresses ny order Of Gov. Fben s.
Draper. II Is estinl ated that the num-
bsr OF people driven by the flood from
their homes In the city, which was fire.
swept three years ago, will roach 900