Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-05
FIRST FALL OF SNOW
ACCOMPANIES STORM
Brief Appearance Of THE sesut!fuP
IL Followed by intermittent Rain
Larger Craft Have Rather Hard
Time Of Il In Terrific Biow-6ritish
Freioh.er Breaks Her moorinss.

front yestefday by the bowling NORTH
west gale which swept this city and
section throughout the day. small
heats anchored near the beach be-
tween the Chesapeake & Ohio termi'
nails and the shipyard suffered great
~. about a dozen of them being blown
ashore and there battered to pieces
nv the heavy breakers which were
swept in by the wind. Three lauhches'
four or five sailing craft and hait
dozen fat bottom unrigged boats were
wrecked. entailing loss Of more tnah
$1,000.
Yesterdays storm was one OF the
aercest that has visited this city III
several years The wind WAS oio"ihs
ATTY miles an hour at times and the
river was filed with white caps Smai
and power boats did not dare
venture out from the breakwater ana
even the larger craft in the harbor
had a hard time of it. The river pre-
sented a wild scene thronehou. .ne
day. The heavy seas struck the preah.
water along the river front and spray
was dashed twenty feet IN the ar:
The wind blew at a terrinc CLIP anu
seafaring men found life along the
river anything but pleasant
Bio Freighter In Danger.
So far as has been reported put
Reels damage was done to the larger
craft In the harbor. though all OF them
had TO nut out extra anchors 10 Keep
from dragging in the storm. The VINO
carly in the morning broke most OF
the moorings of the British steamer
Irisbrook at Chesapeake ONO plsr
No 70 and 1t was only with great dini-
Guilty that the~ship was held at the
dock The seas and winds beating
against the big freighter caused her
to snap two wire hawsers IKE lhes
were mere cords and Captain uiistrom
had to get out a dozen big na"sers
10 safely moor his craft me masee.
of the ship was kept up all ngnt
guarding the safety OF the snip
The Old Dominion steamer Ocra-
coka had her guard rail DAMAGED
while irving to effect landing at Oid
Domjnion pier A yesterday morning.
and after several futile attempts 10
land at the dock the steamer proceed
cd TO Old Dominion pier No. 0. wnere
she discharged her freight. inc Ohes-
aneake & Ohio ferry steamer virginia
also had trouble in making landihs
At her dock after her arrival from
Norfolk and IL was almost impossioie
tn handle the larger craft at the coai
piers during the day.
launches Broken Up.
Two launches moored at Pier A, one
owned by DIR. J. W. c. Jones ana uhe
other by James Murden, were swept
against the buikhead and badly dam.
AGED DIR. Jones' launch had her nun
etove l., while Murden's boat was al
most totally wrecked A small san
hoat owned by Edgar Coffee was swep,
ashore near the pleasure pier anu
mound ed to pieces by the neaVy seas,
Three launches. whose owners couia
not be learned. were swept INTO ,ne
breakwater between the pleasure pier
. and the C. & o. breakwater ana TWO
turned turtle. while the other was
swamped. All three were battered
against the wreck of an old sco~
within the breskwater ana prooapi,
will be total losses. Another iAunc"
washed ashore just north OF the war
wick Machine Company's pier ana was
ha6Iv damaged. Besides the Launches
number OF batesux we're wasneo
4 ashore and broken up
otner Small Boats Damaged
O,bc~ small boats anchored a'onE
N. shore north of the shipyard also
w.r. beaehe6 and some OF them
ur~cked The oyster feet In james
river beyond this city suffered IN tns
torn, ana some OF the smaller craft
{ cane 20 grief on the beach so Tar
ss cosld he learned last night there
wss mo loss of life in James river our
ing the storm. but u Is estimated nc
the total damage TO small ooe's ~'''
reach 5000
pesides the damage along tie wa
,erfront. the high wind did much Gam
age in the city and surroGnoin
county. Awnings in all parts OF the
civ were split and torn by the hisn
u,inds and shade trees and telegraph
and electric Eight wires suffered 70
sorne extent. The telephone wires BE
tween th1s city and Morrison and oh
/ az poiu,s in the county were broken
and communication with those places
bv wire during the day vas IMPOSE
be.
First Fail Of Snow
AocomranyinE the wind storm came
ne arsf fall Of snow ~ the presen,
scason. The Call of the bcautiiui
I boxsn before dsybreak and lasted TOT
l possibly an hour. The roofs 81 houses
we're covered. but driving rain whlee
I followed shortly Afterwards quicklf
/ washed the snow away. However. tie
snow vas much IN evidence Sher the
city began 70 stir IN the early morn
lug The suo~ vas followed by 10
trrnitfeus fails ~ rain throughout The
ensirc- day nEf tse coid driving fain
Win IRE hizh uird rs-a n exceed.