The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-04
WIND AND WAVE
WRECK SHIPS
Storm Plays Havoc With Vessels
on Atlantic Coast.
NARROW ESCAPE OF CREWS
SAILORS SHOW COURAGE AND
STICK TO SCHOONER.

New York. Feb. 3.-The gale which
has been sweeping the coasts of Long
Island and New Jersey for more than
twenty-fOur hours and is continuing
tonight. though with abating force, has
brought death and disaster to sailors
and their craft.
Reports of loss of life are confined
to the eastern end of Long Island,
whence comes news that several bodies
have been washed ashore. 1t was not
known up to 10 o'clock tonight what
vessels the men who lost their lives
came from. They may have been
either on barges towed by the tug
Richmond, reported as passing Block
island without tow bound for New
York to Newport, r. l., or the tug
Cuba, which passed Block island two
| hours later, and which left New Lon
don, Conn, yesterday for Newport
News and was returning without tow.
When leaving port the Richmond had
three barges and the Cuba two.
Wreckage strews the shore in the vi
entity of the Bellport q. - life-saving
station, and one body came ashore
east of this station. One barge was
threshing about the ship near Forge
River station. The finding of two other
bodies was reported later from the
same point.
The life savers of Captain Rhoades'
station and those of the Long Beach
station under Captain Van Winklen
made attempts to shoot the life lines
over the Schepp, but the afternoons
efforts were not successful. They then
tried to launch the Iifeboat, but this
proved impossible.
The crews of the seagoing tugs John
L. Berwind and Z. S. Atwood had a
70,
bottom Sunday afternoon. Nothing was
known of their plight until the arrival
Of the German steamer Barcelona, the
crew of which rescued the tugmen.
The tugs had been delivering provi-
sions to the stranded steamer Cavour
ashore at Long Beach, L. l.. and were
proceeding back to this port when the
gale struck them. The waves not only
swept off everything movable. but
Hooded their holds and got into the
nreboxes. The seven men on each tug
were in imminent danger of death for
over two hours.
Philadelphia, Feb. 3.-The windstorm
which began yesterday afternoon, and
which reached a velocity of fifty miles
along the southern New Jersey coast
and In the vicinity of the Delaware
DreakWater, has greatly diminished
and tonight is blowing at a rate of
about twenty miles an hour.
Reports from the south Jersey coast
and Delaware river points indicate that
the vessels that were exposed to the
gale weathered the storm fairly well.
Two vessels are ashore on Brigantine
shoal, short distance north of At
lantie City, and two steamers are re-
ported aground in Delaware bay. about
fifty miles below this city. The Brit
lsh steamer Cloverdale, from Asiatic
ports for New York, which grounded
on Brigantine shoals yesterday. is still
last. The wind and sea are unfayor-
able, and during the last twenty-four
hours she has been swung around bv
the elements, until she now lies broad
side on, deep in the sand. Wrecking
! tugs are with her.
London, Feb. 3.-Reports of damage
caused by the wind and snowstorns. on
the continent and in Great Britain con-
tinue to be received. Carriage and
street car traffic in Madrid has been
stopped and railroad trains are de-
layed. Some of the towns in northern
Spain are isolated and fruit trees have
been destroyed. In Switzerland many
villages are cut off from communion
ton.
Telegraphic communication with
Italy is interrupted. There is now
more snow in Venice than at any time
| during the past twenty-fiv years. The
/ river Tiber rose thirty-five feet. The
| lower portion of Rome is flooded, as
we'll as the Forum, the Pantheon and
/ the Temple of Vesta. The water Of the
| Tiber is now receding. Several more
wrecks off the British and French
/ coasts are reported and the crews OF
! some of these vessels have been lost.
| Montreal, Quebec, Feb. 3.-The snow
storm which started yesterday contin-
ues. Railroad traffic is from four tC