Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-09
SEVERE STORM EAST
MANY LIVES LOST ALONG ATTAIN
TIC COAST DURING THE GALE
OF SATURDAY.
SNOWINN EW ENGLA NDSTATES
City Streets Flooded and Ships Driven
Ashore-German Warship Did Not
Dare to Leave, Although It Was
Prepared to Do So.

An Easter snowstorm of unpre-
cedented proportions swept virtually
the whole Atlantic seabord Saturday.
Wet, sticky snow, driven by a north
east gale, which at times blew 20
miles an hour, held up ocean travel,
crippled Geographic and telephone
communication, delayed steam and
electric trains and nearly dashed the
hopes of the Easter paraders in New
York and New England. In New
York nine inches of snow fell, rec
ord for April and the heaviest of the
year. 1t was accompanied by 60
mile an hour blow and early crippled
all surface traffic in the city and
environs.
The only large ocean-going steam
er reported to be in trouble was the
Prins Maurits of the Royal Dutch
West Indian line, which wireless mes
sages said was in distress off Cape
Hatteras.
Three Killed at Richmond.
Richmond, Va.-Three persons per-
ished in the storm that covered
Richmond and the surrounding county
with blanket of snow and practic-
ally cut the city off from communica-
ton with the outside world. C. P.
Monkey, a merchant, ]. r. Chenault
and Charles H. Reedles encountered
live wire borne down by the snow
and were killed.
Norfolk Streets lnunda ted.
Norfolk, Wa northeast gale
which swept up the Virginia coast
caused serious damage here, although
no loss of life has been reported
High tides inundated many of the
principal streets, in which water stood
three feet deep.
Breaks Record in South.
| New Orleans, La-April cold wealth
er records for "a years were broken
here when the mercury touched AZ
degrees.
Mobile, Ala-With a temperature
of 40 degrees, was the coolest April
| 3 on record at the local weather
bureau. The former record was Al
degrees in 1875.
German Cruiser Stayed In.
Washington. Whirling gale and
snowstorm which enveloped the Vir-
giania capes Saturday night and Sun
day did not tempt the German auxil-
larry cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich to
make a dash for the sea through the
Gordon of hostile cruisers outside.
White Easter, N. Y.
| New Workers. enjoyed a white Easter
Sunday for the first time in many
years.
For the first time in more than 25
years sleighing was enjoyed in south
ern New England on Easter day.
Tug Sinks; IS Men Lost.
Norfolk, Va.-Sixteen men are be-
lieved to have lost their lives in the
laundering of the tug Edward Luck
enbach yesterday off False cape, Va.
'Only two of the crew of 10 have been
accounted for.
Big Damage at Colon.
Panama. severe storm visited
Colon Sunday, doing much damage to
the west breakwater, which was COM
pleted last year at a cost of 100000
Hundreds of feet of the east breakwa-
ter, which already had suffered to the
extent of nearly 100000 damage in
a recent storm, were blown out.
i Life Lost, Delaware Coast.
i Lewes, Del.-Saturd US coast storm
claimed 10 victims in the vicinity Of
the Delaware capes. They were the
crews of the Consolidated Coal COM
pany's barges Nos. and 9, bound
from Baltimore for Boston with coal,
and were drowned when their crafts
foundeded near Cape Henlopen. The
wind during the storm averaged so
miles an hour at the breakwater, and
at one time attained a velocity of
more than 70 miles.