Show STORM IN THE EAST WORST GALE IN YEARS SWEEPS OVER NEW ENGLAND LEAVING TOLL OF DEATH AND DAMAGE f r Tidal Wave Drives Hundreds From f Their Homes In Boston and Other Cities Are Blocked With Snow and Left In Darkness I BostonA northeast storm on Sunday f Sun-day swept into New England with ter rifle energy The gale drove a tide into Massachusetts bay which nearly equaled that of the famous storm of 1861 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 i by the sudden sud-den rise of the tide I t 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 mark In this city the tide went across Atlantic avenue on tho water front and caused an estimated damage of more than 1000000 i In Everett Cornelius Harkin and his wife were caught in their beds and overwhelmed by the flood An infant was drowned in Chelsea under similar conditions Persons living some distance from the coast found themselves looking over the open ocean + t Hundreds of persons were 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 Somervllle Lynn Brocton Providence Provi-dence Fall River and New Bedford were in darkness except for light afforded af-forded by the full moon Fropi New York Philadelphia and New Haven come reports of Jthe worst storm in years Three deathVin New York were due to the stdfm In Philadelphia Phila-delphia the street railways abandoned traffic r ± > |