Show NINE PERSONS DEAD I AND MANY INJURED ew Y York Visited by On Q 1 rf i e rW J t lt 1 11 History New York JaI lives were lost and six ns injured in one of the worst storms that ever visited New York City Thet The total tal rainfall r at 10 today y when the skies cleared was 14 12 in inches h s second only to the storm of 1899 when 15 12 fell feU and of 1888 in which Senator Roscoe Conkling lost his life when inches fell Eight thousand men have been put to work clearing the streets LOEB HAD HElKE IN MIND Collector Does Not Think the Sugar Trail Leads to Any Others Higher Up New ew York Jan E I I HaIke of the AmerI anRe I g company compan with five other eni em of the company compan the federal grand jury fOr conspiracy to defrAud the United States felie falee weights of f sugar sugar will wUl be ar arraigned on Monday The case of who was In the o of late lafe H 11 O 0 Havemeyer the mas master ter r mind of the sugar sugar trust and Jd the five fhe other es will be moved with all possible and the federal prosecutors think the trail trall they are on may lead le d oven even to others higher up Washington Jan la t the theman I man higher up tip whom an all along llong I have hae und ld In mind as the official who proba probably bly would be Indicted said Collector of the Port Loeb of N New w York tod toddy In t speaking ot of the Indictments ot of charles R It Helke secretary of the I American Sugar Refining company and five other of the alleged flO J trust In New York Mr 11 Loeb there was no one orie else higher tip lip that he had In mind In that con connection I Mayor Gaynor Ganor appeared at city hail today quite as it if he had not fought for his life Ufe In tile the storm last night Said the mayor We e went through hardships that I would not willingly encounter In my lily life again I very much regret I I the injury to my friend Mr Me Shep Sheppard Sheppard pard Mr Sheppard who fell oft a rail railroad railroad road when fighting the storm with Mayor Gaynor Is seriously I tonight Ills His left leg and ankle were broken and he suffered from shock 1 and exposure He Is 68 yeara old Savage Weather 1 at Sea In the afternoon traffic conditions began to approach normal though there was still much congestion Trans TransAtlantic Atlantic liners all reported savage weather at sea The thermometer began to fall to tonight tonight night and a cold wave Is predicted Thus far the storm though heavier than that ot of Christmas less suffering because the weather has been milder 1 T L I is hi h 0 1 T L I is hi h 0 Passengers on the th e St LOUIS ou W c was three days overdue report reported q that Whitelaw Reid American amba ambassador to Great Britain narrowly esCaped In jury jur when a luge Wave weeping by them the vessel last Wednes Wednesday Wednesday day evenIng Mr Reid was In a street chair on the promenade deck with his secre secretary secretary tary Mi Rogers when th the wave struck the ship Carrying a large see sec tl ti n ot of the port por ran rail with It the wave washed back and carried most of the passengers Including Mr Reid and his secretary quite a distance from the I deck They The were dr drenched d I Hit by Big I The also abo arriving toda today reported being struck last Tuesday bY bYa a giant wave which did damage I Some ot of thE crew declare that the wave was sixty feet high It smashed through t te e bridge and broke in a aI part of the wheel The rhe two I I I Quartermasters operating the and room apparatus were re knocked from their poets but were not hurt The wave was of such Immense pro proportions portions that It washed back the entire en entire I tire distance ot of the long ship and se seriously deranged the steering gear of the tho wheel house The ship was corn com compelled Its speed to a minimum for five fhe hours until the storm damage had been repaired L Traffic Suspended N Newport R It I Jan two Iwo days storm left drIfts so high that tonight Newport Is cut of off from the ti world so far as direct railroad servIce concerned Is Tody Taday at various Inter vala sever l train were started d on their way to Fall Fail River b but t all were stalled at Bristol Ferry where the drifts were fifteen te t hIgh |