Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-07 | Page 1 | Vessel Sinks; 24-Hour Gale Sweeps Coast

VESSEL SINKS 24 4 GALE SWEEPS SEEPS COAST Fifteen Drown When I Steamer Goes Down in I Rosario Strait Four Bodies Are Recovered TIMEKEEPER KILLED II BY SWINGING GATE GATEI I Telephone and Telegraph i Facilities Crippled FallI Falling Falling Fall- Fall I ing Trees and Rocks Block Railroads I II I SEATTLE Wash Dec 7 SIx SIX 1 Six Sixteen teen persons are believed to have i perished as the result of a twenty- twenty I hour four-hour gale which swept the I northwest coast territory Wednes-i Wednes day night and early yesterday causing hundreds of ot dollars In I property damage Gripping communication communication com corn facilities and Inundating datin dating portions of Hoquiam and Aberdeen Wash and Warrenton Warren- Warren ton Ore Fifteen persons are believed to have been drowned when the steamer T. T W. W Lake sank yesterday yesterday yester yester- yester-I yester day In Rosario strait between Lopez and Fidalgo Islands near Anacortes Four bodies three of ot them unidentified d have been re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered by police ponce authorities of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Juan county One of ot the bodies Is said sal to be that of Captain Captain Cap Cap- tam tain E. E E. E Mason rason of Tacoma The ship was westbound from Friday harbor In the San Juan Island j I group to Anacortes when she sheI I sank MILL DIES The other death was that of ot Thomas E. E Phipps 32 timekeeper at a mill mm In Bellingham He was r repairing pa the ent entrance nc gate Sato to the plant It suddenly opened and I struck him on the head killing him Instantly With the exception of ot the one shipwreck ck coastal navigation wa wag unhampered although the steamship steam stean- ship Empress of ot Canada forced to abandon her c call lt yesterday yesterday yester yester- day dy at Victoria and dock at V Van Vancouver n nc n- n c couver B. B C. C on account r of- of i th through the rough weather In many t towns and cities along the coast telephone and telegraph facilities were put out of comission comis- comis slon sion by the wind and rain an ani In some Instances streetcar traffic tied up by tho the water and lack of power TREES BLOCK TRACKS Falling trees and rocks blocked railroad lines In some Instances Bellingham Everett Aberdeen and felt the brunt of the storm apparently although the storm assumed the proportions of ot ofa ofa ota a blizzard at Vancouver B. B C C. and disrupted telegraph and telephone communication Three feet of ot snow was reported to have fallen In the Cascade mountains and a foot of ot snow fell fen fellIn fellin fenIn In tho and lakes district The rain apparently was genera general general gen gen- era eral along the entire Pacific coast heavy precipitation having be been n recorded far south I Into to California I HEAVY SNOW IS GENERAL OVER SOUTHERN MONTANA BUTTE Mont Dec 7 A A heavy snowstorm which was general over overa a a. large part of ot south central Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana crippled electric power and light service In the vicinity of ot Butte last night Transmission lines between Butte and Great Falls were most seriously affected The lowest barometric pressure in the history of Livingston Mont was reported from that city where a a. reading t registered 11 points be below below be- be elow e- e low normal A high wind yesterday yester pester yesterday day was followed by a snowstorm last night In which five Inches fell feU fellin In an hour and a hal half Bozeman thermometers registered regis regis- a drop of ot 20 degrees during the snowstorm which was general generalI through the Gallatin valley SPOKANE Wash Dec 7 Telephone communication In northeastern northeastern northeastern north north- eastern Washington and northern Idaho Idalio was waa prostrated by a wind and antI snow storm that visited l the section yesterday reports received here said 6 fc Snow In not northern ern I Idaho aho turned to rain ane Inches had fallen and two to four inches of snow was rep reported In northeastern I Washington Ii I ROCK SPRINGS SPRING Wyo YO Dec Dee 7 A blizzard accompanied by heavy snowfall and high northwesterly winds swept down upon Rock RockSprings Springs today The storm the worst experienced hero this year Is continuing Unabated unabated unabated un un- abated and drifts are r rapidly form form- ing I No damage amage has yet been reported