The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-03
STORM ON TWO CONTINENTS
ScOr.S Killed and killiOnS Of Dollars
Worth Of Property Lost.
G-EERAL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
Thirty schooners Wrecked in Massachu-
sets Bay-An English Light Blown
Down and the House Destroyed by
fire-Three Occupants Perish.

LONDON, Feb. 2.-Storms are prevail
ing throughout Great Britain and railroad
trains nave been greatly delayed. Sc
we're gales have. swept the coast ana
worse weather is predicted for tonight,
with severe cold.
Lloyds report. at . A. NJ, says:
Terrific squalls are reported at Prawle
Point and the Lizard"
Atmospheric disturbances are reported
on the continent from Berlin to Buda
Pesth. resulting in a general interruption
OF traffic and considerable damage to
property. especially al Lepliz, Bohemia,
and Buda Pesth. a gale has prevailed at
vienna SINCE Sunday. reaching hurricane
force on SUNDAY night. IL is now subsld-
ing.
LIGHT DESTROY ED.
The vino LEV down The lantern OF the
Little Crosby Lighthouse and set fire to
the building, which was destroyed.
It's three occupants. the lighthouse
Keeper his wife, and a man who was
visiting them, perished.
4 dispatch from Bergamo. Lomtardy
says that six WORK girls were killed and
many others seriously injured at Razoni-
co yesterday when the roof OF the spin
ming mill there collapsed in the storm.
4 hurricane, accompanied by drenchlng
rain. has been sweeping over the clyde
district since last evening. A number OF
yachts have been sunk In Gurouck Bay,
much damage has been done TO shipping
off the coasts, and considerable destruc-
tion has been caused inland.
\ terrible storm has swept the coast
OF Norway during the last few days.
There have been several shipping disas-
ters, and It is feared many lives have
been lost.
SCORES DROWNED.
BOSTON, MASS. February "A score
of persons were drowned and s2OOO.OOO
loss inflicted by the storm that swet over
Eastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Four unidentified bodies lie In the coro-
ner's office in Gloucester. Five more are
in Lynn brought over from Little Ma
hant. where the schooner Charles n.
briggs was wrecked. Twelve unidenti-
fed corpses are reported 10 be at Bakus
Island. in Salem harbor. They, too. must
have manned some of thd schooncrs
which were lost in Gloucester harbor.
That there are others in the waters OF
the bay seems almost certain.
Wreckage Is strewn up and down the
coast from Cape Ann 10 Cape Cod. Thirty
schooners were wrecked in Massachu-
setts Bay.
on land the loss by the storm seems "a
have been confined entirely to property,
for while many horses were killed IN the
streets Of Boston. electrocuted by falling
trolley wires. no human being was struck.
BOSTON ISOLATED.
Tv-apfx.- fosts bourcgfo pcad bafora dfranf
telegraphlc communication was restored
between Boston and the rest OF tie world.
The electric car service in this city was
restored by noon, but in most OF the
smaller towns the trolley lines are stlli
CRIPPLED. The total cost OF the storm In
this city IS estimated at 81. $500
Among the arrivals this morning was
the steamer Saturn, Captain Wiley, from
Newport News, with the barge Lone
Star In tow. After passing Highland
Light on Monday forenoon the vessel
made a lee under Race Point where she
remained during the blizzard and was
uriniured. Both the steamer and the
barge were heavily ice-clad on their ar
rival here.
SIXTEEN MISSING.
Sr. JOHNS. y. F.. Feb. e-Sxteen men,
belonging In Trinity Bay. were driven
on III the ice yesterday WliIt NtAl NkNA-
ing II Is feared they have perished. The
boats that were out seeking them to-day
returned at uightiail without having got
sight OF them. The steamer Vanguard
went in search also; but the day has been
so hazy II has been impossible TO do
much.
The British brieantine Lady Bertha.
Captain Pattcy. from Alicante. Novem-
Der 2Sth, drove ashore last night az Re-
news Harbor. forty miles south OF here.
She was lmbedded in an ice foe and
became n total wreck Her seven men. IL
IS feared, are lost, although they may
be drifting about in boat amid the ice.
a barkentne. supposed to be the Au-
reola. Cantain Wakeman. from ST. Johns.
for Pernambuco fish laden was driven
ashore by a foe eight miles south. Her
crew is probably safe
SHEEP PERISH BY THOUSANDS.
CHEY t;NNE, WYO.. Feb. 2.-Thous-
ands OF sheep are reported 10 have per-
ished from cold and starvation I'm West
ern Wyoming The cold has been in
tense for sixty days and old-timers say
that 1t is the hardest winter they have
seen for the past nineteen years
Carbon county has 10000 sheep and
lock masters there fear the loss will
amount 20 25 per cent. Losses among cat
tie Will not be so heavy, as owners had
been preraring for several years 10 feed
their stock during the severe weather.