The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1852-08-28
Another Terrible Disaster Upon the Lakes. -2Io
liy.a Inst.

longing to the Michigan Centr.l Railroad, su'
the Propeller Ogdens5rrg, ofCleveland occlue'
about 81 o'clock in the morning Of the 2oIh inst
about six miles above Long Point. and about
miles I'd shore an Lake Erie, and some hitee
miles IRON the city Of Erie. The Atlantic va
coming this way, aud the Osdensbury goni
down The propeller struck the steamer On he
Larboard bow, forward of her wheel house, cut
tug her hull TO the waters edge. The engine Q
the propeller had been reversed and She com
she could not stop in time TO prevent the coils
ion. As soon as her head way was stopped, sh,
fell "a, and the steamer passed on her MACHINERY
working all the time dmins the collision. j
was sooL discovered that The steamer was sink
ing, Il G water pouring into the hull 20 fast As Il
! extnsnsh the fires before she had proceeded
b more than mile.
} The forward cabin, below, was filed With en-
/ crarts, nearly all Of whom per,hsd The va.
ter rushed into this cabin in torrents filing Il al
once, and causing almost instant death 10 Tie
hundreds that were sleeping there
At he time ii the disaster, tie cabin passen-
,,rs were aroused By the conclusion and a, once
rushed upon the deck in their night clothes \
large number OF Norwesians were sleeping on The
main deck who could neither understand u utter
a word Of English. As the bow Of The boat sunk
they were washed over the deck amidst hIdeous
,lri,ks and screams and were hurried TO wa
terry grave The Atlantic sunk to the hurricane
deck before The propeller or boats reached her.
Tie females were then taken OF as last a. posi-
be aud after them the m.le- The propeller put
f1r Erie, aud falling in with the steamer Sul,ana
,nos, five miles from Erie, placed such persons
on board SAwished ogo west
The telegraph brings Us full lst Of he cabin
passcng,rs missing AID known 10 be lost, bui a.
there are mona from lhi, region we omit it.
Among those abroad, who were saved We no.
,ce The nAmss Of Mr. 4. Reed, Pennington, ILL.,;
lir \ Cabin: aud Mr J. Lowrie Be!yiaere, III,
Mr j. Hanly and J. A;!eswor,h AMI wiir, La
sale, H.; and Mrs Ellis, Chicago.
Tie number Host Is estimated a, abcu. two
bundled and forty principally e'uisr,u''
lie following incidents connected with this
terrible disaster are taken from the Dui!slO Lo,a-
mc,cici Of tie 20:h inst.
While the life boat was being lowered, Capt.
PIIrr feii from the del striking ID, head ~ u,t
he boat and bugndr into tie w.tcr. lie Han
aged TO rra,h tie Propeller then some distance
Ui. AMI til, Propeller was immedlAIei! headed
towards tie steamer. The -iHGntc had suns ~
the Hurricane deck before Tie !IoPr.!rrUr boats
reached lrr.
The following were the circumstances attend
ing the csc PEE Of. NJ. Aaron d. Sutton, h.s wife
aEI two ,uuny Children. While Ar. ) Va. al
justin, r.- lie pre-,ryer upon h's Us, 'oa,e per.
IN .u4'chrd h. own. aud lett hun 10 h,s p,r-ou.
81 .cxr'ious Tor safety. Bong an expert SWIM.
m,r. he took bis clilI;cn aud jumped INTO ,hc
lake. L.s vile following, Tie life PfeserSer
bl5yed up 5lr. Sutton, and Mr. 5. sept h.s chi.
jrrn Ga5at until all were rescued
George Dana, his brother Eia-. and man
namcI Ha.au-. three hands belonging to the
steamer, tore OF lie buacie. toUs oIG the cuui-
pass aud throwiug the box into the water, went
~ aul clgng around u. They were compelled
iur .e.f preservation 10 kick from them the ip:nls
Ol the drowning mcu and women, many of whom
chung u their leg. They were among the last
taken out Of the lake, and were picked up BY
their own boat in charge of their second mate
They found tic dead body oi little girl about
II year, old, with her arm around plank and
her head resting on It Us though she was asleep
She had nothing save her under garment on and
was quite dead. The body WAS taken to Erie,
and Is tie oGc on which 4 CgrOner's inquest his
been held.
The last persons taken from the wreck we're
ls. G!vln the Clerk. Mr. Buell. the 1t Engineer
aud 4 gentleman from Illinois, whose name Is not
known. These three were IN the water cngins
10 ropes, aud when the shricks Of the atfriglted
Passengers were hu-hed in death, they heard for
lie fret time tue voice OF q child who was also
clii gng ~ the ropes at some distance from them
Tie little fellow who was boy OF about seven
WEARS old. Was saying, as II talking TO himself
Oh. wish my papa was here 10 hold me up
II cannot hold on any longer, my bands are so
tired" The gentleman from Illinois a fine. stout
middle.agcd man, Immediately expressed his de-
termination 10 save the noble little fellow or per
ah hmself He started down the ropes and
reaching tue child, seized lin lust ut the moment
he was .buat to sinS lie hell him FIR some.
time. and Nr. Givan, the Clerk, enleavored to
get tu him to relieve him, as he expressed fsar
that his ,.reusih was flIIiug The noble little
hero told IT,, prc-,ryer to let him 20 II he was
tired ani take care II himself ~ that moment
tie bat passed loaded down n the very waters
el;e with ps,ser ger. and GiTan hailing tie male,
eu,reaied him to cave the boy at least. The
nate succeeded n reaching the iupe ana tlkrg
,E= child from tic arms Il tie true man Sho held
lI1, placed hun in tue boa, and ,e vas saved
Thr u.x, boat took of the Illinois gentleman
aDl tie rest. Tie boy IL Il thought Was w'ih
h. uncle Who va, lost, and bis parents IN Mas
sachgsei,s. lie IS now With his pleseryer prob.
atly in Cleveland.
Mr,. Miller and two other ladies saved from
tue wreck Of the Atlantic, ascribe their safety 10
the pTomp, aud fearless efforts Of Mr.. l. d. Grip
pcu, Of Michigan, ia their behalf Two Of the Ia
di.s he rescued from the wafer. and the thIi
was unable to escape from her State ro'm unul
at the expense uf severe wounds upOu his hands
and feet, he broke in the windows, and aided her
escape,
! One young lady who was saved, jumped from
the wreck into the water. She was drowning
whed powerful man, supposed to BE- mn erui
grant, who was evidently unable TO swim. seized
piece Of plank and plunging overheard, mai"
! towards her a0d catching her by the hair, held
her up above the water. He managed bs IN
mense exeriion to reach tie side OF iho bu.'
having tie young lady in one hand aud Irp'uh
/ in the other A rope was thrown 10 him, but We
could not avail himself Of IT, and continued 10 the
same position until some II the hand. Il lhc boat
succeeded in reaching the female aud ia, ins bvT
On the deck By that time the poor fellow :
strength was entirely exhausted and lac sank Il
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