Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-04-02
STORM SWEEPS
ATLANTIC COAST
Much Damage Done 10 Shipping and
Many SOam0l Lose Their Lives.
WAS SEVERE OFF VIRGINIA
And North Carolina Sunday Night. Not
Yet Known How Many PeriShed-hlgh
Seas Reported All Along.

Newport News, Va, March 3O.-Heavy
damage ashore and sfloat was wrought by
wind and wave during the storm which
has ragged in the past twenty-four hours.
The storm eliminated today in violent
gale. The tide reached a danger point
within two feet of the level of the floors
Of the piers and threatened to bring great
disaster to property along the water front.
To venture out into the raging seas was
equivalent to attempting suicide and many
seafaring men stayed on shore last night
rather than risk their lives on the waves.
The two-maeted schooner William b.
Hall, bound up the James river to Norfolk
with 50 600 brick, sank at her anchorage
and will probably be total loss. The
captain and crew of two men put off from
the boat in an open skif as she was going
down and attempted to reach shore. The
men, who we're all negroes, fought frantl'
cally against the elements. They were
finally compelled to give up the fight and
sank exhausted into the bottom OF the
boat. The men were exposed to the
storm until O'Clock this morning, when
they we're rescued by the Chesapeake d
Ohio tug Alice. They were almost frozen
when picked up.
The dead body Of William Collier OF the
oyster pungy w. Il. Smith, which capslzed
in Chesapeake bay January 80 was cast up
by the sea at Ocean View today.
The body of a negro, probably from
shipwreck in last nights storm, was found
in a fsherman's net at the mouth OF
Hampton creek this afternoon. Thecorpse
has not been ideutifep.
Wilmington, n. c., March 9O.-Ihe
schooner w. NJ. Hubrick, Wilmington to
New York, laden with lumber, went
ashore during Sunday nights gale, and is
total loss. The mate was washed over
board during the night and drowned. The
captain and crew of seven, including the
captains wife, were taken off by the tug
Alexander Jones, and brought to Will
mlngton.
Wilmington, March 3O.-The United
States revenue cutter Tuscarara, arrived at
Southport late this afternoon with Stan
dard Oil barge Conemaugh, which broke
loose during the gale Sunday night, from
the schooner Winifred which it is believed
has gone ashore on FRYING Pan shoals.
The steamer was bound from Philadelphia
to Port Arthur, Tex.
Newport News, Va, March 3O.-The
four.masted schooner Chas. L. Davenport
bound from this port for Bangor, Me-,
with coal went ashore head on at Old
Point Comfort in the gale. 'She is high
and dry on the rocks and is breaking to
pieces. The captain says he mistOok the
old port light for Thimble light. The
schooner will be a total loss, but part OF
her cargo may be saved. The crew land
ed safely.
Cape Henry, Va, March 3O.-The
three-masted schooner Benjamin Russell,
Captain Cranmock, with lumber from
Bogue Inlet, N. c., for New Haven,
Conn.,, went ashore today, one mile south
of Creed's Hill life saving station, N. G.
Her crew of five men were taken oil In
breeches buoys. Her deck load will be
taken off tomorrow. Aside from a bad
leak the vessel is apparently in good con-
ditlon.