Terrible Snowstorms
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
SEVEEE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
EAILWAYS BLOCKED BY SNOW.
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [per tjkiteb press association. I New Yobx. March 16. The damage Sustained during the recent snowstorms is estimated at 25,000,000 dollars. Twelve New York pilot boats, and over 100 coasting vessels have been wrecked, and it is feared there has been great loss of life. At Brooklyn 20 funerals were proceeding, and were blocked ia the street by the snow. The corpses were -^ removed to houses in the; vicinity. A train conveying a number of New York; legislating v as blocked for two days, and the occupants when rescued were m almost a starving condition.
March 17.
Harrowing accounts of the snowstorms continue to come in from the outlyingdistricts, and fully 200 fatalities have been chronicled up to the present. A melancholy instance of the severity of the storm on the coast Has been found, in a vessel wtuoh was discovered adrift with the whole orew frozen to death.
London, March IT.
The Scottish railways have been blocked by, severe snowstorms. A snow-plough engine endeavoring to clear the lines came into collision with a passenger train, and several persons were injured.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 98, 20 March 1888, Page 2
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