A TERRIBLE STORM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1822, 23 April 1888, Page 2

A TERRIBLE STORM.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

rpBR PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Albany, April 21

The Oroya, which arrived from London to-day, brings further details of the severe snow storms experienced m tho United States m the early part of last month. Twenty-eight vessels were wrecked m Delaware Bay. Sixty were smashed up against the Delaware breakwater, and two hundred were wrecked and forty lives lost at Chesapeake Bay. Thirty New York pilot boats, which were out to the assistance of vessels m distress wera lost, and m almost every instance the crews perished. All the railway lines were blocked, and the passengers almost starved to death. A train near Tawagua was wrecked, and fourteen passengers killed. Another left the rails and slipped down an embankment. Thirty passengers were injured. Owing to supplies being cut off New York residents suffered from famine. Milk was soiling at 2s per quart. Three thousand men and a similar number of horses and carts wore engaged m clearing a thoroughfare m Broadway, where the snow was nearly 10ft deep. The storm prevented any funerals being conducted, and 50O>bodies of those who had perished had accumulated before the weather cleared sufficiently to permit of their being buried.