Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-20
COLD WAVE GRIPS
EAST; ICY BLASTS
BRING DEATH To Z


in its path a mounting toll of death
and disaster the great gale which
for AS hours held the Atlantic sea-
board in icy grip, appeared today to
have swept out to sea-
Ten known dead, many missing,
huge property losses to shipping and
Wholesale damage ashore, was the
toll in this section.
Today, while life saving agencies
were modified to search the seas for
craft and missing men, the
wind abated. Weather forecasters
predicted milder temperatures, with
possible rain or snow in adjacent
districts. Ii was 20 degrees above
zero in New. York at noon.
Tragic tales of the storm have be
gun to drift into the news channels.
A barge skipper died of exposure
at the end of q rope which was haul
ing him from the water to safety
aboard a United States revenue cut
ter
A wealthy man dozed in his auto
mobile IN a garage and died there.
A poor han froze to death in an
tenement While his son
was out looking for work.
Scores of fishermen and rum run
ners, caught in the gale, abandoned
small craft and were res
cued by coast guards.
A few arrests for liquor SNUG
Cling were recorded after such res
cues.
Weighed down with ice cloaks,
freight and passenger ships were ar
irving far off of schedule with re-
ports of so to 90-mile gales encoun-
tered as they neared the American
continent Some carry smashed
lifeboats and daVits empty where
boats had been washed away. Only
one of the incoming ships had re
ported the loss of a life
Adding to the casualties of the
storm there have been several wa
terfront fires, eliminating last night
in the destruction of an oil barge, a
tanker and several huge. storage
tanks in Staten Island sound.
The property damage attributed
to the storm, directly or indirectly,
is estimated in the millions
The United States liner America
came in today, hours overdue, at'ef
a hard battle with the seas.
Still at sea, but speeding to port
in calmer waters was the White
Star liner Homeric, whose scheduled
arrival tomorrow has been post
poned until Thursday. Owen ID.
Young, former agent-general of rep
arations under the Dawes plan, is
aboard.
Other transatlantic craft, passen-
efer and freight, whose arrival has
been postponed a day because of the
storm include:
The Cunard liner Assyria, from
Glasgow; the royal mail steam pack
ct liner Orca, from Hamburg; the
Swedish-American liner Kingsholm
from Gothenburg; the Nunard liner
Aurania from Liverpool, and the
American liner Mongolia, from Ham
burg.
UPSTATE CROPS SUFFER
FROM SUDDEN FREEZE
ALBANY, n. Y, Nov. 18.-The
wave of winter weather which sud
denly swept over New York state
Sunday night wrought havoc with
both harvested and unharvesteC
crops, according to reports gradually
coming in from the rural sections
Farmers reported generally that
produce customariIy left in the
fields or stored outdoors unit
Thanksgiving day had been ruined
by the cold.
E''REEzING BLAST SWEEPS
NEW ENGLAND; TWO DEAL
blast with a high wind and a tenn
perature dropping nearly to zero
in parts of New England ha'
brought death to two men, distres:
to ships along the coast from Maine
to Cape Cod, and delay to trains.
Three barges, bound for Rock
land, Me, We're adrift today. Cap
tain Albert Peterson, of Brooklyn
n. Y, died in the freezing waite
when made fast to a line shot t.
his barge from the coast guard cut
ter Ossipee.
One ship was reported ashore an(
two schooners off Cape Cod wer'
riding the heavy seas with theil
sails in tatters and their anchor
out.
Several trains from New Yorl
and Washington We're from an hon
to two hours late in reaching Bos
ton. There was one death in Boston
from exposure
S4NON I'm Ot1IO tALLEl
ONE VICTIM CLAIMED
COLUMBUS, O., Nov 1S.-Ont
death from the unseasonably cole
weather which swert the Ohio val
ley yesterday bringing with it the
first snow of the season was re
ported here today. The body of ar
unidentified man so years of agt
was found buried in the snow or
the bank of the OIentangy river
Apparently he had frozen to death
CREW SAVED AS VESSEL
SPRINGS LEAK AND SINKS
BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 1S.-A yes
sci familiar in the coastal rade fol
seventy years ended her career wher
the schooner Rebecca G. Whilldir
was abandoned five miles south by
east off Pollock Rip liehtship las1
night. Captain Magnus Benjamin
of Boston. and his crew of three men
were brought here today by the
steamer A. J.. Kent, from Baltimore
which saw their distress signals anC
rescued them.
Sunday night the schooner sprane
"a leak, and the crew worked at the
pumps oil night and through yester
day to keep her afloat.
The Whilldin. which registered 1S>
tons net, was built at Milford, Del
in 1858, and her home port was
Calais. Me.
MISSING CREW OF THREE
RAISE STORM TOLL TO FOUT
ROCkLAND Maine. Nov. 18th
death list from the storm that raget
off this port yesterday was brough
to four today when searching YES
sells returned here and reported the,
could find no trace of three meI
forming the crew of the barge He
patcong. which foundered yesterda,
off Monhegan island. Captain Pc
terson, of Brooklyn. \. Y. died las
night as the coast guard cutter
OSsipee sought to rescue him from
his barge, the CaniSteo
Quail Plentiful
NIOULTRIE. Ga, Nov. 1S.-WheI
the bars are let down Thursday