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Show I IN THE CLUTCHES OF A STORM. A Heavy Wet Snow at N'aw York Deaior-alizea Deaior-alizea tha Telegraph Wire. New Y'ohk, April 3. The heavy storm that swept over this section last night did considerable damage, particularly partic-ularly to the east of New York. The storm was accompanied iu ni.iuy places by a heavy wet snow and this aided hy the high wind demoralized the wires to a great extent. A dispatch from Poughkee psie says a heavy snow storm raged in the Hudson Hud-son river valley all night. Atiout a foot of snow fell, but only six inches laid for any length of time. Tclegraphical and electric liffht wires are crossed and down iu every direction. direc-tion. It will take a week or ten clays to get them in good working order again. The weather is now clearing snd the snow is rapidly disappearing. KosroN, April 3. Thn storm throughout through-out New Kngland was very severe. A stiff northwest gale blew all night with heavy rain on the coast and rain in the interior. There are sixteen six-teen inches of snow throughout western New Kngland. All trains are late. The wind reached a velocity of sixty miles an hour. The harbor tide is the highest for six months. Considerable damage was done to shipping. Many vessels dragged thoir anchors and drifted ou the flats. A few schooners were dismasted: others were badly damaged by being driven against the wharves. The telegraph and telephone wires are down in every direction. Reports from Chatham state that more damage was done inland than by any other gale within the memory of man. The barometer is lower than ever before, and the tide is running very high. Water completely covers the beaches. |