No wreckage more substantial than superstructure and masts was ever found. The hull of the Chicora lies, most likely intact, at the bottom of Lake Michigan somewhere east of mid lake, between Saugatuck and St. Joseph. MI The masts from the Chicora were skidded across the ice to shore by Christopher Schultz and sons and the Wark boys of Douglas. The pole remained in Douglas for about 40 years before being discarded in the 1930s due to rot. As spring arrived and the ice thawed, more wreckage was discovered in including a chair from the engine room used by Chief Engineer Mc Clure.
Engine give out, drifting to shore in ice.
Captain and clerk are swept off. We have a hard time of it. A week later a jar washed up in Glencoe, Illinois with a note written on paper from a small pocket notebook. Drifted into trough of sea. We have lost all hope.