Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-23
SIX VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE
Storm at Norfolk, Va, is Worst for
Thirty Years.
RAIL TRAFFIC Is DELAYED
storm Extends Inland as Far as
Kansas CIty-HaIf Million Dol
lars Damage In Western
Pennsylvania.

NORFOLK. Va, Feb. 22-Six steamers
have been driven ashore in the outer
harboF here by the worst storm that has
swept the Virginia coast in many years.
The blow which began last night, con-
tinued undated today. No loss Of life
has been reported.
The Norwegian steamer Cecil also was
thrown on the beach. The vessel lies
near the railway terminals at Lamberts
Point.
The storm was the worst since the
famous August gale Of 1873.
Other vessels driven ashore were the
old Dominion liner Madison. the Nor
welgan steamer Hermes from Baltimore;
the British steamer StrathalIan, loading
for San Francisco: the Danish steamer
Nordstjernen, from Boston, and the
British steamer Elswick Manor, from
Philadelphia.
Rail Traffic f. Delayed.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 2-Traffic con-
dition in southern Missouri and Kansas
was in a bad way yesterday, because
Of drifted snow, but were all improved
today according to reports here. The
local United States forecaster reported
clear weather over most OF the south
west.
One passenger train on the Missouri
Pacific Coffeyville branch still was stuck
In a R-foot drift near Dexter, Kan. but
the fifteen passengers abandoned 1t and
we're drawn to town in lumber wagons
and sieds by farmers Workmen eN-
pected to release the train today. Two
Missouri Pacific trains showed in near
Reece Kan. yesterday were dug out dur
ing the night
After being snowbound near Dexter for
two days Missouri Pacific train reached
Coffeyyille. Kan, today. All lines Of the
railroad had been cleared and traffic
resumed at noon.
DETROIT, Feb. 22.-Although the ter
rifle snow and windstorm that swept the
lower half Of the state yesterday and
last night had abated somewhat today.
traffic in all directions is practically at
. a standstill
blizzard In Nortaern Ohio,
CLEVELAND, o.. Feb. "A bowling
blizzard gripped Cleveland and northern
Ohio today. Traffic is badly disarranged,
telephone and telegraph wires are down
and there Is much suffering. The Big
-Four passenger train from the west was
sixteen hours late this morning
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. es-Damage
estimated at 10000 was done by the
seventy-mile an hour gale that swept
western Pennsylvania last night and to-
day. Hundreds of oil derricks were blown
down. At Washington. Pa, the roof was
torn from tho main building of Washing
ton and jefferson college.
Trains stalled In Illinois.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 22-Hundreds Of pas
sengers on passenger trains on the BAL
timore q Southwestern have been held
for almost twenty-four hours between
Trenton and o'Fallon, ILL.,. and on the
Southern Railway between shiloh and
Germantown, H.. by snow-fllled cuts.
! According to reports received here pas-
sengers suffered last night from cold and
hunger. The blockade became serious
Wednesday night. when freight trains
became stalled by the heavy snowfall.
Passengers from some OF the trains OBJ
tanned accommodations for the night at
farm houses and private homes near
where the trains were stalled.
The Baltimore & Southwestern char
tered a hotel at Trenton for the passen-
gers who were held on trains near there.
The snow in many places is fifteen feet
deep.
wind Record Broken In New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2,.-The gale from
the southwest which swept the east last
night and today attained in New York
and vicinity a maximum velocity OF
ninety-slx miles an hour. This breaks all
weather bureau records here. the highest
previous wind velocity having been
eighty-three miles, in April. 1905
Frank s. Coffyn's hydro-aeroplane was