THE RECENT STORMS IN AMERICA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2463, 24 April 1888, Page 2

THE RECENT STORMS IN AMERICA.

# [By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. 1 Albany, April 21. The Oroya, wliicli arrived from London to-day, brings further details of the severe snowstorms experienced in the United States in the early part of last month. Twenty-eight vessels were wrecked in Delaware Bay; sixty were smashed up against the Delaware breakwater, and two hundred were wrecked and forty lives lost at Chesapeake Bay. Thirty New York pilot boats, which went out to the assistance of vessels in distress, were lost, and in almost «very 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 rails and slipped down an embankment, thirty passengers being injured. Owing to supplies having been cut off, New York residents 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 thoroughfare through Broadway, where the snow was nearly 10 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.