THE AMERICAN SNOWSTORM. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Albany, April 21.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 25 April 1888, Page 5

THE AMERICAN SNOWSTORM. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Albany, April 21.

The Oro)<i, uhich arrived fioni London to-day, blinds furtlior details of these 1 * ere tjiiowstonns experienced in the United States in the early part of last month. Twenty-eight vessels wore wrecked in Delaware liny ; sixty were smashed up against the Delaware breakwater, and two hundred were wrecked and forty lives lost at Chesapeake Bay. fhiity New York pilot boats, which went out to the assistance ot vessels in distress, were 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 Tamaqua was wrecked, and fourteen passengers killed ; another left the rail 6 and slipped down an embankment, thirty passengers being injured. Owing to supplies having been cut oil', New York residents suffer from famine. Milk was selling at 2s per quart. Three thousand men and a similar number of homes and carts were engaged in clearing a thoroughfare through Broadway, where the snow was neaiij'- ten feet deep. The storm prevented any funerals being conducted, and 500 bodies of those who had perished had accumulated before the weather cleared sufficiently to permit of their being buried.