The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-10-21
A sad Case of Probable Ship
vvreck--Efght Lives Supposed
to be Lost.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin
There is every reason to fear that dis
tressing calamity has befallen small craft
which started from Port Ulao, five miles
south of Port Washington, and twenty
miles north of this city, last Tuesday,
bound for this city. 1t was an inferior
wheel or paddle boat, intended for small
steam boat, and was owned by the parties
who were on board of her, together with
a man named Trip, the father Of some of
| those on board.
The names of those on board are Prior
L. Stevenson, and wife, Jonathan and Sui
Ivan Trip and wives, and two child en-,
one of which is the child, and the other
is brother of Jonathan Trip. They
were Americans, were wel-to-do and re-
spectacle people, who had been following
the occupation Of fishermen, and their loss.
If lost they are, will be deeply lamented
| by their friends and all who knew them.
They had but recently launched their boat,
and were intending to sail in it from their
home at Port Ulao, to Iowa, via by the
Illinois Canal and Mississippi River They
were removing to Iowa, and the father of
the Trips on board was also to remove to
! the same State, but he was not quite ready
as soon as they were, and SO their boat
needing repairs, they were coming to this
city for that purpose where the father of
the Trips was to meet them, and from
here they were all to 60 on together, upon
the same craft. Mr.. Stevenson and wife
were son-in law and daughter-inlaw of the
same old Mr.. Trip, and the latter was also
grandfather Of one Of the children, and ia.
Their Of the other.
When they launched their boat, there
was quite a heavy sea, and some of the
timber work was sprung SO that the vessel
leaked. To remedy this until they reach
ed Milwaukee, they filed up the hold with
empty and water-tight barrels, which they
calculated would buoy up the vessel so
that it would not sink. The cabin and
upper deck were safe above the water, as
they supposed, although the hold was full
of water when they started, and in case an
accident should happen, they took with
them their large fishing boat, SO that they
could land at any time in that They had
on board the vessel quite quantity Of fur
niture, for their new home in Iowa, and
each Of them had more or less money on
their persons. Starting as they did Tues,
day morning, they should have reached
here the same day, and the old gentleman
Nh Trip, together with his wife and
daughter, came here last evening expect
ing to find their friends all here, and their
craft in dry dock undergoing repairs.
But no such vessel has yet arrived here,
nor is there any tidings Of her or any one
on board, and the hearts of those here
awaiting them are almost broken over the
calamity which circumstances forebode
must have happened to the fraii craft
There has been no heavy wind off shore
since Tuesday, and the boat could there
fore have hardly been driven in any man
ner across the Lake. The probabilities,
therefore, are that they have been wrecked,
or perhaps the boat has been consumed by
fire. 1t is possible that some of the party
may have escaped by their fishing boat.