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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1911
Page
4
A severe nor’easter blankets New England with record cold and hurricane-force winds. The steamer Perry and other ships fight icy seas while the Gresham searches for the missing vessel. Blizzard conditions close ports, topple trees, smash signs, and injure people as St Patrick’s and Evacuation Day celebrations proceed with caution.
The steamer Boston endures a long voyage marked by towering waves and frigid wind as ice coats the vessel, turning it into a floating ice mass. The ship battles prolonged exposure, with crew wrestling through a five hour struggle amid freezing conditions.
The Boston from Yarmouth reached Long Wharf at 4 PM amid a brutal blizzard. Ice coated deck and pilothouse with one window shattered by a wave. Captain Alvin Simms commanded the 88 passengers many of them women as heavy seas reduced speed from 15 to nine knots.
The A. W. Perry went ashore near Port Hastings Cape Breton three years ago and was repaired after a later collision in Boston. A new deckhouse made the vessel less seaworthy, and mariners warn a heavy sea could endanger it in foul weather. The ship’s fate remains uncertain as wireless watches and port alerts go out.
A fierce gale drove ships ashore or drove them to risk disaster as barometers fell and storm signals flashed from Cape Hatteras to Cape Breton. The liner Ivernia waited at quarantine after a heavy collision at Pier 4, 2882 passengers landed late, and ferries struggled to run on schedule amid ice and 30 foot seas.
The steam trawler Ripple, icebound with a foot of ice from mast to hull, reached T wharf at 10 am after an 11 hour blizzard ordeal. Captain Michael Green and 19 crew aboard 70 000 pounds of fish from Georges Bank sped toward Boston when Cape Cod winds crippled progress.
The fishing tug Silver Spray of Erie sank off Cleveland harbor after a gale. Six men and a boy on board drowned after lifeboat escape failed on the breakwater. Four tugs sent to search were later reported safe. Bodies of four Silver Spray crew members were recovered by the Castanety. additional missing include three rumored passengers.
The South Boston Citizens' Association held its Evacuation Day banquet at Bethesda Hall with Governor Foss, Lieutenant-Governor Strothingham, and Mayor Fitzgerald among guests. Speakers linked the event to calls for tax reform, the initiative, referendum, recall, and direct nominations, while a historic banner from 1840 was presented. Street Commissioner Gallivan discussed Boston then and now.
In Hopkinsville Kentucky on March 16 the jury delivered a not guilty verdict for Dr. David A Amoss in the alleged night riding case.
Five masked armed men called at Louis Miller's Jamaica Long Island home tonight and tied him and his wife in a clothes closet. They rifled his clothes taking 11 dollars and a watch with diamond rings valued at 300 dollars, then fled.
A two story wooden house at 66 Harvard Street Everett suffered over 2500 in fire damage last evening. The blaze started when a boarder upset a lamp while dressing. Litwack and the Mitten family fled as neighbors summoned the Chelsea fire department to fight the flames.
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