Terrible Storm in America

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 113, 24 April 1888, Page 2

Terrible Storm in America

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. j By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PEB UMTKD PBEBB ASSOCIATION."! Albany. April 21. The Oroya, which arrived from J London to-day, brings further details ! of the severe snowstorms experienced J in the United States m the early part of last month. Twenty-eight vessels were wrecked in Delaware Bay; 60 were smashed up against the Delaware breakwater, and 200 were wrecked and 40 lives lost, at Chesapeake Bay Thirty New York pilot boats, which went out to the assistance of vessels in distress ware lost, and in almost every instance the crews perished. All the railway lines were blocked, and the passengers almost starved to death. A train near Tamagua was wrecked and fourteen passengers killed. Another left the rails and slipped down an embankment, 30 passengers being injured. Owing to supplies being cut off, New York re% sidents suffered from famine. Milk was selling at 2s per quart. Three thousand men and a similar number of horses and carts were engaged in clearing a way through Broadway, where the suow was nearly 10 feet deep. The storm prevented any funeral being conducted, and 500 bodies of those who had perished had accumulated before the weather cleared sufficiently to permit of their being buried.