The Grit-advocate., 1902-02-07
SHIPPING SUFFERS.
Bad Effects Of the Terrific Gale on
Atlantic Coast

mas been sweeping the coasts Of Long
Island and New jersey for more than
twenty-four hours. 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
cotnes news that several bodies have
been washed ashore.
II was not known no to 10 o'clock
last night what vessels the men who
lost their lives came from. They may
have been either in barges towed by
the tug Richmond reported as passing
Block Island without tow. bound from
New York 10 Newport. Rhode Island.
Or the tug Cuba. which passed Block
Island two hours later and which left
New London. Connecticut, Sunday for
Newport News. and was returning
without tow. When leaving port the
Richmond had three barges and the
Cuba had two.
Wreckage strews the shore in the
vicinity Of the Bellport. Rhode Island
life-saying station, and one body came
ashore east of this station. One barge
WAS thrashing about yesterday after
noon near Forge River station. The
finding Of two other bodies was report
ed later from the same point.
The captain and crew OF twenty-four
men Of the American merchantmen
Schepp, a full-rigsed ship which went
ashore on Long Beach, Long Island,
shoals early yesterday, were in peril
all day. Late reports last night say
they are still on the stranded vessel.
though the danger OF death has been
lessened, owing to the slight abate-
ment Of the storm.
A westerly gale was blowing at the
rate of seventy miles an hour when
the Schepp struck at 3:3O o'clock in the
morning. The men from Captain An
drew Rhoades' life-saving station, a
mile to the east dragged their mortar
to the scene Of the wreck reaching tine
Schepp about daybreak, and found the
seas breaking over her bow and stern.
and tossing heavily with every thrust
OF the powerful breakers. Nearly every
spar In her was twisted or broken. Sew
eral OF the crew could be seen on daek,
running to and fro In apparent efforts
to keep from freezing to death.
The life savers of Captain Rhoades'
station and those Of the Long Beach
station under Captain Van Wycklen
made several attempts to shoot the life
lines over the Schepp, but the after
Moons Efforts were not successful. They
then tried to launch the lifeboat, but
this, too proved impossible.
Many other ships were reported in
distress.
The weather bureau at Washington
yesterday gave out the following re-
garding the weather conditions and in.
dicatiOns:
1.-The severe storm Of Sunday in the
middle Atlantic and New England
states has moved northeastward to the
Canadian maritime provinces. High
northwesterly winds and gales contin-
ued last night off the New England
cOast and along the lower lakes. as well
as throughout the interior of the middle
Atlantic states.
'Sn0w or rain fell Sunday from Vir-
glnia northward to the lower lake reg
ion and thence eastward to New Eng
land. Snow continued this morning in
western New York.
"rhe temperature has fallen from
twenty to thirty degrees In the Ohio
valley, in the easts gulf. south Atlantic
and middle states. In the Ohio val
ley zero temperatures prevail, while
in the east gulf states they range from
freezing at Jacksonville and New Or
leans to ten above in Tennessee and
about eighteen above in the eastern
| portion OF the middle Atlantic states.
West of the Mississippi there has been
| a marked rise in temperature in the
last twcntyfOur hours, although II is
| still somewhat below the scasonable
| average"
|