BLIZZARD AND TIDAL WAVE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9136, Issue 9136, 8 February 1910, Page 7

BLIZZARD AND TIDAL WAVE.

MANY LIVES LOST. TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS. (By Mail.) ' BOSTON. Dec. 27. News filtering slowly into Boston today over wrecked (wires apparently makes it certain that at, least a dozen lives have been lost, and property damago amounting to more than dollars has resulted from the heavy snow and winds which prevailed throughout Now England on Christmas Day and yesterday. Over 2000 persons arc homeless to-day at Chelsea as the result of the tidal wave which swept that town and drowned Cornelius Harkins and his wife in their bed. Michael Callahan, an aged man, died of the shock while being taken from the second storey of his flooded home. Half-a-dozen others are missing, and are believed to be drowned. It is impossible as yet to estimate tho loss along the coast. From Portland down to Rhode Island every coast town has a tale of ruin. Many of these places have not yet been heard from at all as yet, on account of the crippled condition of the wires. FOURTEEN PERISH IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.

It was estimated to-day that fourteen persons lost their lives as the result of the blizzard that has swept New York since Christmas Day. The storm swept down upon the city from the north-east. At times the gale' registered a velocity of 60 miles an hour. On the cast side the suffering was intense. Practically all the deaths reported to have occurred in the city were in this district. Charity organisations are finding it impossible to care i for even a small proportion of the destitute. As fast as delayed traffic conditions ! will permit, food, fuel, and clothing are i being taken to the tenement district on the East Side, where the conditions are ] most acute. It is certain that_ many lives have been saved by the ministrations of representatives of various socie- \ U Trains from the south and west have been delayed many hours by the storm, and local traffic is demoralised. River craft suffered severely from the storm, and comparatively few vessels are moving to-day. SUFFERING IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Street-car traffic was partially resumed to-da-v after the complete tie-up due to the blizzard that swept the city for two days, blowing down wires and co\ering the tracks with ice and sleet. I The railroads are still badiy crippled, and it is doubtful if train schedules will be in order for several days. All of the overland mails from the west are from 5 to 25 hours late, many of the trains being snowbound nt points outside of the Suffering among the poor is 6aid to be great, and many charitable organisations are called upon for financial aid. No deaths have been reported. TRAFFIC DELAYED. PITTSBURG, PA., Dec. 27. After being totally paralysed since early yesterday by the worst storm Western Pennsylvania has known in years, the railroad systems resumed operations to-day, but little was done to move trains, and the thousands ot passengers delayed by the storm remained at their hotels without braving the ttorm to get to railroad stations. The predictions of more snow and cold weather blanketed the hopes of the railroad officials, who figured on relieving the local passenger and freight congestion by. to-night. The trolley lines found operation to Pittsburg a:lmost impossible, due to ice on the wires and tracks, and many factories dependent on suburban workmen were running on not more than half force. , ;