Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-12-27 | Page 1 | East Coast Swept by Terrific Storm

EAST EAST COAST BY TERRIFIC I STORM TORM NEW V YORK Dec Dee 27 Northern and eastern New York and New England are are slowly recovering todal from the damage damage dam dam- ag age inflicted by yesterdays yesterday's storm A succession of rain snow lightning sleet and thunder winding wind wind- ing log up with a gale that tore down wires and trees unroofed houses and drove droe shipping ashore caused widespread widespread widespread wide wide- spread damage and many deaths and accidents Telegraphic c communication in some se sections was still Interrupted toda today owing t othe leveling of ot telegraph telegraph telegraph tele- tele graph pol poles s by by bythe the high wind In a similar manner the signal systems of ot railroads railroads' running north and northeast from New York were crippled crippled crippled crip crip- pled and and trains trains' were not able to maintain their schedules schedulE's New England suffered more se sever severely se- se ver verely verly ly than New York York City and re reports reports reports re- re ports from there told damage damage dam dam- age to buildings and Sand vesse vessels s caught In the path nth of ot the gale The sn snowfall snowfall snow snow- wf w- w fall f ll except in northern north rn New England Eng Eng- land and northern New Ew York was comparatively light but was u sufficient dent to interrupt suburban street streetcar streetcar car al service Eight deaths in this city were dIrectly di directly dl- dl or Indirectly attributed to the storm The wind here at one time attained a 3 velocity of ninety miles an hour