Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-25
FIERCE GALE RACES
ALONG EAST COAST;
MANY ARE INJURED

northeaster, reported to be raging
along the coast from Newfoundland
to Cape Hatteras, hit this section
hard today, endangering several craft
and leading indirectly to the injury
of more than half a dozen persons.
A three-masted British schooner
called for help thirty miles off Fire
Island, and the coast guard cutter
Seminole was racing to her as
sistance. At the same time the gale,
sweeping across Long Island sound,
caught the 45-foot ketch Harpoon,
owned by William Washburn Nut
/ ting, which was to have raced boat
! of equal size belonging to the Duke
of Leinster across the Atlantic next
spring, and cast it on the rocks off
Fort Totten, near White Stone, l.. L.
Meanwhile, dispatches from Nor
folk reported receipt of an sos call
from the British steamer Westmore-
land, and stated that the Cape
Charles light ship had been blown
from her moorings.
| Ashore, wind and rain were beat
ing down hard on New York ana
surrounding communities, and con
siderable damage to the beach front
was reported along the New Jersey
coast.
Slippery rails led to the injury of
six persons in a rear-end trolley col
lision at Clifton, N. j., while Peter
Kutchuch, of Mineola, L. l., motOt-
man, was badly burned and shocked
when he grasped live wire that had
fallen across the path of his car IN
Garden City. In Mineola d freight
locomotive crashed into a third rail
and cut off current for brief period.
SECOND VA. LIGHTSHIP
BREAKS FROM MOORINGS
NORFOLK, Va, Oct. 23.-Winter
Quarter lightship broke from her
moorings off the Virginia coast dur
ing the gale this afternoon, accord
ing to radio advices received at coast
guard headquarters here. The cut
ter Manning was in touch by wire
less with the lightship this after
noon, and if assistance is required,
will proceed to her.
Winter Quarter lightship was the
second to break her anchor cables to-
day, the first being Cape Charles
lightship. which made port this after
noon under her own power, convoy
ed by the Manning.
Through the storm tonight, two
lights will be absent off the Virginia
coast.
The wind forced the tide into the
Elizabeth river into the city, and the
city and office workers were carried
to work in automobiles, and in some
instances had to wade. Street car
service in the business section was
suspended.
Serious inroads were made in the
beach between Cape Henry and Viii
loughby BIZ the heavy seas, accord
ing to reports received here this
morning During flood tide this
morning the seas dashed almost all
| of the way across Willoughby Spit
narrowly missing the summer cot.
tages on low places on the spit
Considerable damage was reported
The wind at Cape Henry this
morning was reported blowing sc
miles an hour while in Norfolk the
gauge showed forty. The lowest
temperature at Cape Henry was So
| degrees.
Th egale which has been blowing
| for several days has claimed at least
two lives among members of crews
! of the Atlantic fleet. r. K. Warren
a member Of the crew OF the de
| stroyer Vestal was washed overheard
( and drowned last Wednesday anG
! yesterday Paul r. Howard, of the
| OVerton, was washed overheard