The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-08
GALE BRINGS DEATH
ON LAND AND SEA
Destructive Storm Sweeps Coast
and Lake Regions.
THE THOMAS w. LAWSON LOST
England Also Suffers in Blow That
Sweeps With Damaging Force
Along Her Coast - Estimated
That Forty PeriShed.

New York City.-New York caught
The end of a worldwide storm. There
have been gales all along the English
coasts for the last few days. The
Thames Valley is flooded. Small
craft have suffered severely.
The giant seven-masted schooner
Thomas w. Lawson, named after the
Bostonian, turned turtle off the Scllly
islands. Fifteen sailors lost their
lives in that wreck.
Communication by wire between
England and the Continent was cut
off to a great extent. A great deal
of cabling from London to Paris was
done by way of New York.
The London Daily Mail, for in
stance, which gets out Paris edition
on Sunday, wanted to get English
news over for its Paris edition. Its
direct telegraph and telephone wires
were out of commission. The news
was cabled to it's correspondent In
New York, who relied it by cable to
Paris.
All the other English news de-
signed for the French papers had to
come mostly by way of New York.
New York got her end of the storm
in heavy nor easter, which blew at
the rate of sixty-fve miles. Compll-
cations of snow, hail and heavy rain
continued throughout the day and
part of the night. ~.
The American bark Edmund Phin-
ney went to pieces on the sands OF the
Hook, although her crew were saved.
The Pacific feet in Hampton Roads
suffered severly. :.
The storm swept up the Atlantic
Coast, snow and hail playing havoc
with telegraph lines. Both telegraph
companies had difficulty in establish
ing communication in any direction.
Eastward from New York com-
munication by wire was almost i'm
possible. A single wire 70 Boston
was all that remained of, the scores
of trunk lines through New England.
North, south and west there was trou-
BILE in communicating by rail.
All traffic by rail or water was i'm
peded. ..... 49,, g,
- Six coastwise steamat;ps that set
sail for Southern ports surned back.
The White Star liner Arabic, in from
England, reported heavy storms all
the way across.
A dozen or more Jersey towns were
in darkness because of the blowing
down of the electric light poles.
Chicago, III. - The biggest storm
known in Chicago in years struck the
city, tying up transportation facilities
of every sort. Snow plows were used
by the traction companies an Ell,
fort. to clear their tracks, but the ra-
pidity with which the snow fell and
drifted made it necessary to go over
the lines several times before the
tracks could be used.
Boston-The storm in this vicinity
started in with heavy snow at noon,
which by night had blocked the street
cars and held up traffic OF all sorts
In the evening the snow turned to
rain, which crushed down the slush
laden telephone and telegraph wires
throughout New England. Telegra'
phic communication was almost en-.
tirely cut off. The storm was the
fiercest that has been known on the
Rhode Island coast in years, and the
work of the crews of the Quonchon.
taug and Watch Hill life saving sta.
ton, who battled bravely with the
surf from noon to midnight and res.
cued all the persons on the tug Her
cules and her five barges, is, highly
commended. The Pleasantview Beach
is strewn with wreckage. and 1t is
thought that not one of five craft can
be saved.
London.-The gale along the Brit
ish coast, which was described by
Captain Jameson, Of the steamship
St. Louis, as the worst in his exper.
ience, subsidized. 1t was responsible
for the loss of at least forty lives, so
far as is at present known. the minoi
wrecks including a vessel seen to
founder in the Channel off Swanage.
with a loss probably of her crew OF
seven.
Hughtown. - George Allen, OF
Bradford, England, who was one OF
the three survivors of the schooner
Thomas w. Lawson, which was cap
sized in Broad Sound, Scilly Islands.
died next day. Captain Dow, of the
Lawson, told of his experience after
being washed from the vessel. When
he found that his ship was driving
upon the rocks and nothing more
could be done he distributed life
belts and gave the order to the men
to save themselves, if they could. He
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