DISASTERS IN AMERICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1728, 24 April 1888, Page 1

DISASTERS IN AMERICA.

A lb Ay 7, April 21.

The- Oroya, which arrived from London to-day brings farther details of the severe snowstorm ex[ jrienct d in the United States in the early p« j of last month. Twentyeight vessels were wrecked in Delaware Bay. Sixty were smashed against the Delaware breakwater. Two hundred were wrecked and f r.rcs lort at Chesapeake Bay. Thirty New York pilot boats which wont out to the assistance of vesseli 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 Tamagua was wrecked and fourteen passengers killed. Another loft the rails, and slipped down an embankment. Thirty passengers were injured. Owing to supplies being out off, New York residents suffered from famine, Mlk was selling at 2s per quart. Three thousand horses and carts wore engaged in clearing a thoroughfare through Broadway where the snow was nearly 10 feet deep. The storm prevent'd 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.