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Show STORM INTHE EAST I WORST GALE IN YEARS SWEEPS I OVER NEW ENGLAND, LEAVING TOLL OF DEATH AND DAMAGE. Tidal Wave Drives Hundreds From Their Homes in Boston, and Other Cities Are Blocked With Snow and Left in Darkness. Boston. A northeast storm on Sunday Sun-day swept into New England with terrific ter-rific energy. The gale drove a tide into Massachusetts bay which nearly equaled that of the famous storm of 1851. The wet snow postrated wires, the telephone, telegraph, electric light and trolley, and railroad trains were stalled. Three persons lost their lives in Everett and Chelsea by the sud- aen rise ot me tiae. Coming in a full moon, the gale rolled a wave along the coast which, in some places, reached a height of more than fourteen feet above low-water low-water mark. In this city the tide went across Atlantic avenue on the water front, and caused an estimated damage of more than $1,000,000. In Everett, Cornelius Harkin and his wife were caught in their beds and overwhelmed by the flood. An inlant was drowned in Chelsea under similar conditions. Persons living some distance from the coast tound themselves looking over the open ocean. Hundreds of persons vrere driven from their homes by a flood resulting from the breaking of a dam gate at a place known as "The Dykes" in Chelsea, just over the Everett line. Large cities, such as Cambridge, Somerville, Lynn, Brocton. Providence, Provi-dence, Pall River and New Bedford, were in darkness, except for light afforded af-forded by the full moon. From New York, Philadelphia and New Haven come reports of the worst storm in years. Three deaths in New York were due to the storm. In Philadelphia Phila-delphia the street railways abandoned traffic. |