Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-02
FURY Of The STORM
Several Disastrous Ship
!. wrecks Reported.
A NUMBER OF LIVES LOST
Twenty-Five Persons Go Down with tn.
Steamship Channel Queen. Traffic
Tied Up in boston aud
Other Cities
By Telerreph.3

t:G f1ave been Lest.
Later in the day the owners of the
CHANNEL Queen -Cunpunced tthrt out of
siNtyf five persons on board of nai, When
she struck, only Two are known /, have
been drowned. The Channel Queens
engines were reversed when ,L?a rocks
We're seen but IT was then too tstye
The first beat lCad reached lani and
sought help of the fishermen. who made
gallant rescueS. although ttfS. heavy
sea prevented Their boat from reaching
:he wreck. The SURVIVORS h7l to be
dragged by ropes through tha sea to
itRa rasGu.ng ,Sgats. Tae captain wals
tns Ds'st TO leave the wreck.
The lassst report is that twenty-five
We're drowned, the chief engineer.
phree .sitokerts and eighteen passengers,
including fourteen on&Gn sellers, who
We're drowned N Their cabins when the
ssa sWar1ped The Vessel. The rescued
r1Ssen gems lost everything, even their
clothing.
BOSTON, Feb. IA northeast snow
storm which set in yesterday ana ragged
until this afternoon completely pan1a-
lyzed ALL branches of business and the
street car and railway traffic. and shut
off the city from communication by
Wire with all places outside BOSTON.
THE storm was the most severe this
city has experienced in twenty-five
years and caused the loes of several
lives besides doing q money damage of
hundreds of thousands of dollars Be
tween l and ) O'Clock This morning a
foo: of heavy. wet snow had settled
over the city and leveIed wires in all
quarters. More than half the electric
lights of the city went Gus. ana in su-
'burban towns THE fire alarm servite
WAS crippled. In Newton broken wires
falling across others started a fire in
the electric room IF the elegant resi-
dence of Charles J. Travell. the veal
thy Pla:sbure esreel manufacturer. and
in TWO Nouns nothing remained of the
house but ashes. Mr.. Travelli's family
escaped iii ths-ir might Clothes without
saving anything. The loss amounts TO
aout 5000 900 Last night a big three
o...i,s" sci''5iiaf. mares L. i'fGEs' OF
Ico.Ai' NE coal Iadeh was uishSN $50
i'.Stss on tits --a'H'ihN cta.sI' ana IL is
peItehtG mat sI her crew oi c.Ent men
pet.EaAed. Inc BODY or one Gf the crew
l MA, ' ne7n fecDFelFa. Az SUBURBAN trot-
'ntS M&te ana,F'o'tSh al 1h!u'E snt
.n''a s.'t s'ss'.r. L'a'lH'1'7 MeFe u'9upIc
~, o'i iii5,Ae 'lii i: wv" N,l ahree supuF
a IN .raf!.a tuic!'S VIZ forenoon NJ
3H.pusi ''a1 ~; ron New a1fk ana a, IN"
800 ,c,2, 60. V,'' W. i1''-'''
~ 4l 49,, lou 3 w. S.E ho".S laLe.
1.,,n'.5 - ; tsA',t nuo"t p'i tnnt -
WIRES MANY ih,,rey.s we've ,,Ill.a ~ "a
>S.ras4ts nv stennlnr nnrn mo ends nf
live. wires which had h,llen arytrss fho
trolley wires Tonight t,l.p s,S.ltatIinn as
sumed such q, dangerous a,si,art that
Mayor Quincy ordered pNat rene of the
electric lights be burned on nxcept I'm
districts where the WIRES iare under
ground 1T will resJuire weeks to restore.
the te!elsirSne and telegraph service
Not ~ single ,telegIeph wire out ysf Bns-
CON W9fs in 95lYara,tiun all day and the
telephone. wires were in almost as bad
condt,-icn This afternoon "a ,.4.lepfstlT.
service as far as Worcester was estab-
1isiaed.
Shipping in ,Hi[a l1arbor was damaged
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