Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-05
ATLANT|C0c0AST
STORM SWEPT
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Terrible Stories of Disaster
and Loss of Life
Saturday
SEVENTY DROWN
Wind Blows 10 Miles an Hour
Wires Kill Three Men in Richmond
and One in Portsmouth.

New York, April 5.-Seventy-fivc
more lives and property worth mil
lions of dollars was the toll of Sc
we're storm which swept the Atlantic
coast Saturday and Sunday, according
to belated reports today.
A score Of vessels are known to
have sunk, and reports of many more
missing were anxiousiy awaited to-
day.
Norfolk Va. April ,5-The wind
LEV at velocity of seventy five
miles an hour at Virginia Beach
Saturday, and it played havoc with
things. All blinds on the houses al
The Beach tina; were not closed
and window lights were smashed.
At one house the wind not only
blew the blinds eff their hinges, but
smashed in the front windows and
sent the sand and rain in the front
part Of the house tearing the paper
off the walls like it had been torn
otf by the hand. Pictures were blown
down, carpets we're ruined and the
floors badly drenched.
The sea was very heavy, and the
surf yesterday morning. was about
twenty five feet high.
With the telephone communication
between Norfolk and Cape Henry re.
stored it is learned from the Cape
Henry weather bureau that the
storm Of Saturday night was one Of
the worst in years. Weather Fore,
caster Newsomc said the wind blew
at seventy five miles an hour and
hat the Sen was as heavy and as
angry as he had ever seen it.
1t was reported that Mrs. Te-
baults cottage at Cape Henry had
been, blown from its foundation.
Norfolk Va, April 5--Fifteen
men lost their lives when the tug
Edward Luckenbach went down of
False Cape Yesterday afternoon.
Thirty five others are believed to
nave gone down with the Royal
Dptch West Indies Company's steam
er Prinz MauritZ, few miles oil
Care Henry. Scores Of other lives
are believed to have been lost all
along the coast. as number Of
s,hooners are ashore and the Allan.
tic virtually is covered with wreck
age from the Virginia Capes to Cape
lIatteras.
'Ehe Luckcnbach, with the barges
West Point and Josephus in tow,
was driven ashore Saturday daring
tho gale which swept this coast for
2.s;hours. The tug went down in 10
minutes. Harry Olsen of New York
first mate, and Cisfero Goodwin, Sc
cond mate, were the only members
r7 the crew of II who were saved.
Olsen was washed ashore along
with the bodies Of six of his ship
n19JeS. ne was VitNOAiN'S'SN''' 'S'N
revived by lifesavers.
E :Lewes, Del. April 5-Saturday'S
,,ast storm claimed 10 victims in the
vicinity of the Delaware Capes.
they were the crews of the, Consol-
cation Coal Company's barges Nos
6 and 9, bound from: Baltim're fol
Boston with coal and were drowned
when their crafts foundered neal
tape Henlopen and went to pieces
in the gale.
The barges, which were in tow o.
,be tug Cumberland, broke adrif
cacly in the aay. Despite heroic ct
forts in the face of binding snow
storm and . 81 mile gale, the Gum
i,crland's crew were unable to ge
another line to- barges, which dri1te'
helplessly For some time fmaiS
.oinc aground. For hours the tus
stood by but because Of the fury o
the sea fourA it impossible to renoe
any assistance. About noon the bar
res broke &c pieces and sank WIZ
nil hands aboard The bodies o
Captain Johnson, Baltimore; kar
larsen, a Swedish subject. and pemp
sey Jarvis, also Of Baltimore, wash
cd ashore late in the day and wer
recovered BIZ coast guards.
\ The wind during the storm ave
= ragged 60 miles an hour at the Break
water. and at one time attained