The death toll from the worst blizzard the Eastern Seaboard has suffered in years rose to 62 today and is mounting hourly.
Unsuccessful attempts were made to refloat the freighter Falmouth, which went aground on Long Island yesterday during the peak of the storm which at times caused the seas to reach mountainous heights.
The United States Weather Bureau ordered storm warnings posted from Cape Hatteras to Eastport, Maine.
The Norfolk, Ya. Coast Guard reported that the five-mast schooner, Marsala, from New York, carrying 25. members of the American Nautical Academy, was "almost helpless" 50
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