The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-02
DYNAMITE BARGE ADRIFT.
.PERILING COAST SHIPS AS
WINTER HITS FAR WEST
Coast Guard Fires Warning
to All Craft in Frisco
Area.
CROPS ARE DAMAGED
Havre, Mont, Shivers When
Temperature Drops to
20 Below Zero.

By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.
Floating dynamite and a
derelict barge loaded with 100
tons of steel imperiled San
Francisco's marine commerce
today as a raging wind and
rainstorm dashed north and
central California.
While coast guard and harbor off,
hcials mininized the danger of the
dynamite. the steel barge, buffeted
wildly by the storm, constituted a
menace to shipping
The San Francisco Coast Guard
broadcast warning to all ships and
land stations that the steel barge.
torn from its mooring at the Har-
Dor Tug and Barge Co. terminal.
was abroad. unnamed and with
out lights, in the bay.
Earlier. the master of the Graz.
Line freighter Concord had radio
a similar warning that approx
mately 500 cases of dynamite W,
adrift in the harbor. The explosa
presumably were washed overbot
from the freighter's lighter viii
broke away after it had been loade,
with explosives from the Concord
Thirteen men aboard were res
cued by the Coast Guard cutters
Shoshone and Gabiote. Coast
guardsmen then got line aboard
the derelict magazine and towed it
to its moorings, headquarters re-
ported
Winter Lashes Whole Coast
Evidences that a portion of the
craft had broken away were seen
IN reports that a section of a barge
with so cases of dynamite aboard
had been washed ashore near Fish
erman's Wharf.
Coast Guard officers said they be-
leve ma iority of the dynamite
cases would become waterlogged and
sink. They expressed doubt that
ANYTHING short of terrific impact
could explode the dynamite.
Meanwhile winter dashed the coast
from Mexico to Canada.
On land whipping windstorm. \
accompanied by heavy rain squalls,
assailed the peninsula and alley
areas. Telephone poles and trees
were toppled. power communications
lines were blown down and fires
broke out. The wind velocity at
some points was estimated at so to
30 miles an hour.
Light Service Interrupted
Light and telephone service was
disrupted for half an hour as the
storm RACED over Santa Cruz. Lights
were eXtinguisbed completely in
Dalv City and slight descriptions Of
service were reported in San Fran
cisco areas.
The Weather Bureau said the
storm centered in the vicinity Of
Stockton.
Although the wind and rains
brought some relief from subnormal
temperatures which have prevailed
Tor four days, icy temperatures were
expected to set in again as the dis
turbance relaxed.
Truck crops of the Santa Clara
and San Joaquin valleys we're re-
ported damaged. Stanislaus County
estimated damage at $4,000. while
the alinas-Watsonville lettuce re-
gion anticipated extensive losses.
Northwest Hard Hit
The Pacific Northwest continued to
suffer from cold for the fourth con-
secutive day.
While sunshine supplanted snow
storms and billiards. in many re-
gions. freezing temperatures con-
tinued with the weather bureau I'M
able to forecast immediate relief.
Revised estimates sent expected
damage to late fruit and vegetable
crops into millions.
Many football games were cam
celed as snow mantled a number
Of towns and cities. Snow In the
Cascades and Oregon Coast range
interferred with logging operations.
The thermometer descended to 20
degrees below zero in Havre, Mont.
and zero temperatures at earth
quake-stricken Helena caused suf-
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