Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-15
At NEWPORT NEWS.
Yesterday Was Pretty Day over
head-ResumptiOn of Traffic.


NEWPORT NEWS, VA, February H.
(Special)-A prettier winter day overhead
has never been seen i'm Newport News.
The sun was an important factor, and the
temperature was as high as 90 degrees
above zero. The snow is melting and
business and traffic have been resumed.
The Chesapeake and Ohio ran It's full
number of trains between this city and
Richmond although they were somewhat
late, and tonight the electric railroad
MANAGED to get its first car from Hamp-
ton To Newport News. The tracks were
cleared for the entire distance OF FIVE
miles by hand. one Chesapeake and
Ohio tug. the Helen, came over from
Norfolk this morning but no boat made
the return trip. The first boat TO arrive
at ola Point in two days was the Wash
ington steamer, which arrived at / o'clock
to-day This is the boat which left
Washington sunday night, and was OBJ
Need % anchor in tnc Potomac river
an day Monday. No boats arrived from
Baltimore, and there is still no commu-
nication by boat with Cape Charles. The
only mails received now are those from
Richmond. and they are local.
The temperature at o'clock was
above zero The railroad tugs managed
TO break the ice around the piers, and the
Old Dominion and Merchants and Miners
steamers effected landing. There
are a number of schOOners and barges in
| the river, all of which are ice-bound. This
afternoon the floating ice rushing down
! from the upper James succeeded in break
/ ing a way in the channel, and there IS
| a continuous flow of ice through this
! opening. SchOoners X. T. PettigIew
/ Bayard. Barnes, and John Twohy had a
I affqpunpu from heinz
| carried out TO sea by the floating ice.
/ The ocean tug Storm King went 10 the
relief of the sChOOners and managed to
/ to a line TO each and make with them
/ for the piers. The Pettigrew was badly
! damaged by coming in collision with Pier
! 3. schooner frozen in the ice Is flying
q black flag AT half mast but there Is
no way of reaching the vessel The Mer-
! chants and Miners steamer, Essex, which
was ice-bound i'm Hampton Roads yes
/ terday, arrived here this morning
The suffering among the poor OF the
! CITY is intense. The Business-Men's AS
ISOLATION to-day took up the matter and
raised upwards of $1,000 before night Tor
relief of the needy.
Five steamships en- route for Newport
News for cargOes are now overdue any
where from six TO twenty-five days. Inc
steamship OsWestra, Captain Wilson,
/ sailed from Manchester, Eng, January
! 9th and is now thirty-six days out on
! massage. which should not take more than
! fourteen days in winter. The steamship
| Salfordia sailed from Manchester Janu-
arv 22d for this port and is now twenty
! four DAYS out. The Palentina sailed jan
uary 23d from West Hartepool for New
mort News. and has not arrived. she IS
| ont twenty-five days. The steamship In
drani. which sailed from Glasgow, scot
land. with cargo January 18th, Is HVe
DAYS overdue, being twenty days on the
passage. The Chesapeake ana ONO
| steamship Graenbrier Captain Trinick'
/ sailed from London January 2bth Tor
| Newport News with cargo. She Is now
/ six days overdue.
A crowd OF negroes. numbering between
400 and 800. made a raid on several coal
cars ON the Chesapeake and ohio railroad
this afternoon and made away with a
! carload of coal. The police prevented
| further pilfering but there were no ar
| rests. The negroes are I'm piuabie con-
! diton.
/ 1hief-of-POlice BoatWrght, OF Blood
! field. had a narrow escape from death by
freezing last night He was returning TO
his home from Hampton Roads. when
overcome by the cold. He was discovered
two hours later In a dangerous condition.
| He will recover.