Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 6 | Atlantic Coast is Swept by Storm

ATLANTIC COAST IS IS SWEPT BY STORM By fly United Press W WASHINGTON March 4 One 4 One life was lost and antI and two steamers one oye carrying carrying carrying car car- 00 passengers are in distress off Norfolk Va Vs two barges wei were e I driven ashore another was wrecked and several steamers suffered fl from m a aleavy ht leavy avy l torm which has hall raged for twenty-four twenty hours along the Atlantic coast The Clyde line steamer Apache with about oo passengers aboard is drifting h helpless off Norfolk tonight With her propeller Shaft broken The revenue cutter Onandaga and the wrecking tug Rescue were sent to her assistance The Rescue will tow the steamer to New York r rOn rOn On her way to the Apache the Onandaga ga picked up thel the barge barge Upton in Iii distress of off Dam Rock Mills Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia and towed her her to Hampton RO Roads ds The Norwegian n steamer Caloric aloric Is also in distress off the Virginia capes She narrowly escaped being beached last night but rockets from from the coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard station warned her off otto One man rescued from her two barges which went ashore of oft off North Mass a s. s died from exposure