THE SNOW STORMS IN AMERICA

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 8034, 23 April 1888, Page 3

THE SNOW STORMS IN AMERICA

[By Cable from: Western Australia.]

(Received April 21, 1.45 p.m.)

ALBANY, Saturday. The Oroya, which arrived from London to-day, brings further details of the severe snow storms experienced in the United States in the early part of last month. Twenty-eight vpssels were wrecked in Delaware Bay : sixty were smashed against the Delaware breakwater, and 200 were wrecked and 40 lives lost at Chesapeke bay ; 30 New York pilot boats which went out to the assistance of 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 a train near Tamaqua was wrecked and fourteen passengers killed. Another train left the rails and slipped down an embankment, thirty passengers being injured. Owing to supplies being 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 way through Broadway, where the snow wo a nearly 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.