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Show BLIZZARD WRECKS HAVOC IN EAST BOSTON, Dee. 1C The Northwest blizzard of last night and today brought disaster to shipping along the Massachusetts coast and tonight four schooners were known to have been wrecked, another was in tow, disabled, ono barge had floundered and other barges were reported adrift and missing The revenue cutter Gresham, which took aboard the crews of two Finking echooners and assisted other vessels, ppont the cntiro day and part of tho night undoing the havoc of the storm. Up to tonight uo definite reports had been received from her. Hurricane in English Channel. LONDON, Dec. 1C Tonight tho pale Increased to a hurricane In tho English channel. Tho wind reached a velocity of seventy miles an hour. Cross-channel traffic between Franco and Dover was suspended. At Dover, where the full force of the fa'e was felt, widespread damtgo was done to shipping and property a'ong the const. No serious marine dhaMcr or loss of life at sea has been reported. A large force of soldiers is engaged at Dover In protecting several aeroplanes aero-planes awaiting an opportunity to make the cross-channel flight. Two of these were badly damaged. Life Savers Kept Busy. Along the coast there have been, numerous accidents due to the hurricane hur-ricane and many thrilling lifeboat rescues occurred. Among the seaside resorts. Ilfra-combe. Ilfra-combe. on the Devon coast. 10 miles from Barnstable, suffered most A tremendous wave swept over the parade pa-rade flooding the shops along the wa ter-front and the lower portion of the town. Almost every seaport from Bristol channel to the Thames has suffered damage. Off Arklo, nn tho Irish coast, six fi&hermen were drowned and at Leicester a man was blown from the roof of a building and killed. |