The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-11
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s1OOOOOO. A Pennsylvania train Is
reported stalled ten miles south of
Cleveland with 100 passengers aboard.
Relief parties are now on the way.
A food famine is threatened, as the
supply of meat and vegetables in the
city is sufficient for only two days
Should supply trains be stalled be-
yond that time, suffering will be
great.
Still Showing.
Wheeling. w. Va. Nov. 1.-Snow be-
gan falling today over the Panhandle OF
West Virginia and reports from other
sections to the south and east show
the storm is general The state is still
in the grip of Sundays blizzard and 1t
is feared that if the snow continues,
will result
Light Ship Missing.
Buffalo, Nov. 11.-Light ship No.
stationed in Lake Erie off Point
Abino, fifteen miles west of this city
is reported lost. Incoming vesselmen
believe she foundered during the re-
cent storm.
Wreckage of the lightship floated
into Buffalo harbor this morning and
was picked up on the beach at the
of Michigan street. The flOtsam con-
sisted of a boat railing. two or three
doors apparently off a boat. and sew
eral lie preSeTVeTS 1udTkcO OuAIcO
States L. v. 49," The ship carried
crew of six men: Hugh M. Williams,
captain. Manistee. Mich; Charles But
ler, engineer, Buffalo; Cornelius
Leahy, assistant engineer. Elyria. O.;
Andrew Leahy, mate. Elyria. O.; VIM.
Jensen. seaman. Muskegon. Mich: !:
Peter Mackey, cook, Buffalo.
THE, lightship was gone when we
passed her anchorage this morning at
$500 o'clock" said Captain F. A..
Dupuio, master Of the ore carrier
champlain, apparently she was driv-
en- from her anchorage in the gale and
went to the bottom"
Roscoe House, lighthouse inspector.
left aboard the light ship tender Gro
Gus for the light vessels station as
soon as its disappearance was re-
ported. The vessel was a new steel
craft $50 feet long. with 30 foot
beam.
This afternoon a lifeboat from the
lightship was found floating bottom up
off the Buffalo breakwater. broken
oar was cast in its OarlOck. A heavy
overcoat and the cabin door of the ves-
Crocus, and several tugs returned to
port without finding any trace Of the
missing ship.
Storm Has Abated.
Pittsburg, Nov. 11.-Although west
ern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and
northern west virginia still were
blanketed with a foot or more of snow.
conditions were rapidly improving to-
day. Telephone and telegraph COM
panies made progress during the night
in restoring communication and rail-
roads had dug out trains that had been
buried for hours in the largest drifts
known in this region for many years.
| One train arrived here from Cleve-
land early today after being on the
way little more than 80 hours. II
was stalled in a drift % hours not far
from Cleveland and the passengers
suffered severely from cold and hun
ger.
Train schedules were restored to
near normal and wires along the rail-
roads were again in communication
The hope was held out that If the ele-
ments did not interfere during the
day, this entire region would be al
usual tonight. Some fear was ex-
pressed that a sudden thaw woult
transform the vast amount of snow
into water and floods in the Ohio
Monongahela and Allegheny river val
leys would follow. But the loca
weather forecast anticipated nothing
but continued low temperature for thu
next "a hours