CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2852, 20 March 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Terrible Snowstorms. New York, March 17. Harrowing accounts of the snowstorms continue to come in from the outlying districts, 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 which was discovered adrift with the whole crew frozen to death. London, March 17. 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. New York, March 16. The damage sustained through the recent snowstorms is estimated at 20,000,000d015. Twelve New York pilot boats and over 100 coasting vessels have been wrecked, and it is feared that tlure has been great loss of life. At Brooklyn 20 funerals were proceeding, and were blocked in the streets by the snow, The corpses were removed to houses in the vicinity. A train conveying a number of New York legislators was blocked for two days, and the occupants when rescued wore in almost a starving condition. During the recent heavy gales communication with Boston has only been maintpined through London,