The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-17
GREAT STORM RAGING
The Atlantic Coast Swept by a
Severe Gale.
BIG OCEAN LINERS ARE DELAYED.

binding Snowstorm and a Forty-Milo
Breeze OF sandy Hook-schooner Drifts
Out to sea-street Car Traffic Interrupt
Coasts of Massachusetts and Connecticut
Also Swept by the Gale and snow.
New York, Dec, 1.-THE storm which
set In Tuesday afternoon and which de-
veloped into a severe storm of snow
and sleet during the evening, still con-
tinues. AT 8 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing Sandy Hook reported the wind
blowing from the north northwest at
the rate of forty miles an hour, and
very thick off shore. The telephone line
connecting Sandy Hook with the life
saving stations on the Jersey coast is
savers. Telegraphic reports from Long
Branch and Asbury Park say that from
those points nothing has been seen of
the schooner Grace K. Green, which
was abandoned Tuesday after the res
cue of her crew by the Old Dominion
steamer Yorktown. .
Drifting on Shore.
The last that was seen of the schooner
she had four sails set and was appar-
entity drifting off shore, heading south.
The thick atmosphere caused by the
snowstorm interferes very materially
with the river and harbor navigation
and ferry traffic is very uncertain, the
boats of the different lines running
with very little attention paid to sched-
ule time. Only two steamers reached
Quarantine Wednesday morning, the
Starlight from Swansea and the AS
loun from China ports. No vessels left
port Wednesday morning. The Ameri-
can line steamer st. Louis, for South
ampton, the Red Star line steamer
Nordland for Antwerp, the White Star
liner Majestic, for Liverpool, beside a
number OF coasters are scheduled to
sail, but it is doubtful that they will
venture out in the teeth of the gale.
street Traffic Interrupted.
In the city considerable interruption
of street traffic resulted from the storm.
Elevated railroad trains ran on time,
but the cable and other surface lines
Of the street railways We're working un-
der diAicultt<s. The wind was fierce
and cutting, the snow striking the face
with singing force The street rail-
way companies had their sweepers out
all night and during the forenoon and
| the full force Of the street cleaning
department., men and teams, were set
| to work early i'm the day TO clear the
streets of snow. The telegraph and tel
| ephone wires were but little disturbed
| by the storm.
Reports from Connecticut and Massa-
| chusetts and from the interior of New
/ York state that the storm is of wide
range, the snowfall being from three
to eight inches, and the temperature
we'll down towards the zero mark.
The Storm mt Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Dec 1.-THE wind and
snow storm, which began early Tues
day evening, continued throughout the
night, and at noon Wednesday Showed
no signs of abating. During the early
morning hours the wind blew a gale,
and railroad and street car traffic suf-
| fered considerably. The suburban
trolley lines with one or two exceptions
are snow-bound. Snow to the depth
Of six inches has fallen. Reports from
| the Delaware breakwater state that no
marine disasters have been reported
and that the wind has fallen to about
twenty-ftve miles an hour.
Frozen to Death While Sleigh Riding.
Middietown, N. Y, Dec. T.-Percy
Middlebrook, Frank Roe and Patrick
Powers sE sons of prominent citizens
of riorida, Orange county, took ride
In q sleigh Tuesday night, returning al
midnight. Roe and Powers attempted
to assist Middiebrook from the sleigh,
but found that he was dead and frozen
stiff.