SEVERE SNOWSTORMS.
[PER PP.KSS ASSOCIATION ]
New \ork, March 16.
The damage sustained through the recent snow storms is estimated at twenty millions dols. Twelve New York Pilot boats, and over a hundred coasting vessels have been wrecked, and it is feared that there has been great loss of life, At Brooklyn twenty funerals were proceeding, and were blocked m the streets by the snow. The corpses were removed to houses m the vicinity. A train conveying a number of New York legislators was blocked for two days, and the occupants when rescued were m an almost starving condition. New York, March 17. Accounts of the snowstorms still come m from outlying districts, and fully two hundred fatalities have been reported up to the present. A melancholy instance of the severity of the storm on the coast has been found. One vessel was discovered adrift, with the whole crew frozen to death. London, March 17. Scottish railways have been blocked by severe snowstorms. The snowplough engine, m endeavoring to clear the line came into collision with a passenger train, and several persons were injured.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1794, 20 March 1888, Page 2
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183SEVERE SNOWSTORMS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1794, 20 March 1888, Page 2
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