The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-06
SHIP DRIVES
AGROUND IN
COAST GALE
Princes Anne, With l04
Aboard, is in Peril Off Long
Island Storm is Subsiding
Along Coast.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-The steamship
Princess Anne, of the old dominion
crew of 72 from Norfolk, Va, to New
York, ran aground one mile of the
coast at Rockaway point on Long Is
land in a heavy storm early today and
sent out 8. o. 8. calls for assistance.
Tugs from army transport headquar-
tiers at Hoboken, wrecking tugs and
police patrol boat went to the aid of
the stranded vessel.
Wireless reports said that Captain
iSeay Of the Princess Anne had been
seriously injured hut no details were
given. The vessels position was con-
sidered serious on account of the gale
that had lashed the coast for the past
two days. A stiff northerly wind and
biting rain added discomfort to the
situation.
Members of the coastguard at Rock
away Beach endeavored to: launch
boat to go to the steamer but gave
up the attempt when giant rollers
nearly battered the craft to pieces.
In response to a wireless inquiry
from police headquarters the Princess
Anne reported that she was in no i'm
minent danger of breaking up. She
requested, however, that her passen-
gers be taken OF by tugs as soon as
possible.
Blizzard 10 subsiding
The gale and unusually high tides
which have lashed the North Atlantic
coast for the past two days, accom-
panied by a blizzard which blanketed
most of the territory with snow and
ice. were gradually subsiding early
today, leaving trail of destruction
and suffering in their wake.
Estimates of the property damage
run well beyond the two million dol
lar mark A number of vessels were
reported in distress and several Long
Island steamers were prisoners in ice
jams. The wireless station at New
York police headquarters early today
had received messages from 80 ships
at sea asking for their location.
Points along the New Jersey coast,
especially Atlantic City and Sea-
bright, were hardest hit. Houses were
washed into the sea and towns partial
ly inundated. Resorts along the Long
Island shore near New York also were
heavily damaged. Railroad traffic i'm
proved during the morning although
trains were still behind in their sche-
dulles. .-.s..
!. New York Slowly Recovering.
y New York was slow to recover from
the blow dealt by the storm king.
Traffic conditions were still chaotic
early today and the streets piled high
with snow drifts. A shortage Of snow
shovelers and the threatened strike of
the few thousand that were working
agitated the street cleaning depart
ment.
The shortage of coal caused con-
siderable apprehension. Traction COM
panies said they had only a few days
;, be forced to suspend operations unless
their bunkers were speedily replenish-
ed. Barges laden with coal are tied
up at Jersey points by ice floes.
One of the novelties of the storm
was the use of an army tank to push
stalled trolley cars.
A score of pedestrians were injured
today when signs collapsed from the
weight of snow upon them. Such ac-
cidents at two theaters and one hotel
in the heart Of the Broadway theatric-
al district necessitated sending q doz.
en- persons to hospitals and calling out
police reserves.
bOSION, req. o.-All energies were
directed in New England today to
recovering from the effects of the Sc.
verest blizzard in a decade. With
transportation demoralized and tele.
phone and telegraph service consid.
erably impaired, industrial and com.
munity life was paralyzed except in
northern Vermont, which alone was
spared the fury of the storm.
The snow averaged from 10 to IL
inches in depth and was drifted badly
a Nearly 80 trains were reported
Installed throughout New England last
night, the majority in the vicinity OF
this city. Among them was the mer
chants limited from New York
stalled seven miles outside of Prov
idence.
WILMINGTON, Del. Feb. al
though Henlopen Light, one of the
famous landmarks of the Atlantic
coast, has been badly undermined by
the battering of the heavy seas anG
cforYp of the last two dayS il waS Saif