THE SNOWSTORM IN THE STATES.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) [Per Press Association.]
GREAT LOSS OP LIFE,
SEVERAL VESSELS WRECKED,
New York, March IG, (Received March 19,1888, at 2 p.m.)
The damage sustained through the recent snowstorms is estimated at 20,000,000d01. Twelve New York pilot-boats and over 100 coasting vessels have been wrecked. It is feared there has been great loss of life. At Brooklyn twenty funerals were proceeding, and were blocked in the streets by the snow. The corpses were removed to houses in the vicinity. A train convejinga number of New York legislators was blocked for two days. The occupants, when rescued, were in an almost starving condition.
[Special to Press Association.]
New York, March 17.
Terrible accounts of the snowstorms continue to come in from the outlying districts, and fully two hundred fatalities have been chronicled up to the present. A melancholy Instance of the severity of the storm on the coast has been found on a vessel which was discovered adrift with her whole crew frozen to depth.
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Evening Star, Issue 7474, 19 March 1888, Page 2
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