Matthew Cobb House after the ice storm, Portland, 1886
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Maine Historical Society
"In Lincoln Park, it is thought, that most of the trees are irretrievably ruined. Twenty were all broken up last night.
"Down in Deering Oaks, and on State street, immense injury has been done to historic trees.
"At night the drivers of teams had to keep a constant watch in many of the streets in order to pick their way in the darkness.
"The condition of the telegraph, telephone and electric light wires was something terrible.
"The great number of wires, loaded with ice, bent the poles over to several degrees out of plumb, so that the poles looked like a line of tipsy men reeling along the street."
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