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Show STORM SWEEPS EASTERN COAST High Wind and Heavy Rain Does Considerable Damage Textile Mills Close. SHIPPING IN DISTRESS Long Island Sound Swept by Heavy Northeaster Vessels Ves-sels Fleeing to Nearby Near-by Ports. Philadelphia! Pa.. Jan. 13. Reports today from the storm-swept sections of Pennsylvania and New Jersey show that considerable minor damage was done by high wind, while in many places the heavy rain caused rivers and creeks to overflow The weather today was clearing and the high water wa-ter was rapidlv receding The Schuylkill river in many places was out of Its banks and causing damage. dam-age. Textile mills along the Schuylkill Schuyl-kill In this city were closed because of water In their basements In the northorn parts of Pennsylvania railroad rail-road traffic was impeded by deep snow. Exposed places at Atlantic City were again damaged by high water wa-ter and the severe gale The music hall on tho ocean end of the steel pier, which was weakened during the storm last month, was further damaged dam-aged today by high seas crashing against It, The derailment of the Washington-New Washington-New York express at Perry ville, Md . last night, resulting In' the death of the engineer and the injuring of tho fireman, was due to the locomotive hitting the roof of a boxcar which had been ripped off by the wind ten minutes before the passenger train came along Shipping In Distress. New York, Jan 13 The four-mast ed schooner Florence M Belling from Brunswick Ga.. for New York went ashore today. 14 miles north of Bar-negat. Bar-negat. She has abonrd a crew of nine men and 45u.n0u feet of yellow plno. She is owned by the Helrlrlt ter Lumber company of Elizabethport. N. J The Southern Pacific 10) Cid Inbound from Galveston, offered to take off the schooner's captain, but the captain replied that ho and his men were In no Immediate danger and for the present would remain on the vessel. The American Hawaiian liner Keu tuckian, outbound for San Francisco, reported by wireless today that the four-masted schooner Henry S Lit tie, was at anchor and in distress off Sandy Hook. A heavy northeaster which set in yesterday with rain and snow, swept Long island sound today compelling shipping, large and smali to seek convenolent ports Some damage along Uie Connecticut shore was reported. W'res Are Crippled. Boston. Mass , Jan. 13. The storm which swept over New England yesterday, yes-terday, attained its maximum strength off the southeast coast at dawn today causing much damage in Rhode Island, Is-land, Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts Many telephone and telegraph wires were crippled, transportation trans-portation by land and sea was ham pered. Summer residences on Massachusetts Massachu-setts bav from Sandwich to Cape Ann were badly damaged. Damage was reported at Nantucket. Cohasset and other points on the south shore. |