Enormous Damage Done on the American Coast New York, Feb, 21, Over a score of persons are dead and $3,000,000 damage has. been done ae the result of a terrific storm fon the Atlantic coast to-day.
wind blew at the rate of 80 miles an hour and the sea was lash-4 into tory. Mountainous waves and an extraordinary high tide wrought havoc on the seaboard, Hundreds of persons on. board small craft in the bays and harbours near here were reseed at the great est peril to the rescuers.
Many low-lying suburbs, such. os Staten Island, were - flooded and trafic on Long Island - Sound was completely disorganized.—Reuter,
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