Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-03
ARRIVAL or THE STEAMERS PLANET
AND CLEVELAND AT DETROIT.


Their PerIIOus YOyaGe---Ths severe Cold
and Deep Snow.
From tho Detroit Advertiser Of Saturday
morning, we learn that the steamers Planet,
Capt Nicholson, and the Cleveland, Capt
Miller, which left Detroit on she morning Of
the 19sh ult, for Lake Superior, arrived
home Friday evening. Their appearance was
the occasion of much joy, for serious fears
for their safety had, very naturally, been en-
tertained. Both steamers encountered the
gale of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, on
Lake Superior, and both nobly withstood its
fury.
From Capt. Nicholson, Of the Planet, the
Advertiser learns that he arrived at the saut
on the Thursday morning after leaving De-
troit, and kept directly on his way, passing
White Fish point Thursday evening, the
weather being mild, and the wind from the
South. Off the Pictured Rocks, he encount-
cred heavy sea from the North, the wind
being still from the South. Snow had com
meneed falling at IL o'clock in the evening,
and at o'clock on Friday morning the wind
hauled into the North Northeast, and blew
gale, Unable to find Marquette, he passed
by, and at 10 o'clock that morning, when off
the Huron Islands, and going all right, the
larboard smoke stack broke of at the deck
and fell over tie working beam. The steam
er was then put about and headed for Mar
quette. Scarcely had this been done before
she other chimney broke of, and went into
the lake. The situation Of the steamer was
then perilous indeed, for the gale was at its
height, the snow driving with binding
force, and the mercury below zero. She
shipped so much water that it became ne
eessary to throw over some Of the freight,
and over hundred bales of hay and a lot
oflime were consigned TO the waves.
The coal made too slow fire for the emer
gency, and whole kegs Of lard and butter
were freely thrown into the furnaces to hast
en- the fires. When she arrived at Marquette
the shores were lined with people painfully
anxious for her fate, for she presented the
appearance, with volumes Of smoke pouring
forth from her decks, of being on fire. The
sea rolled into the bay too heavily to permit
her laying at the dock, and her anchors were
let go. The cable to the big enc snapped,
and the anchor was lost, but fortunately the
little one held.
She lay thus till the sea ran down, so as to
permit her to get to the dock, and then the
chimney that had not fallen overheard was
divided, and with little additions, was made
into two, and though but "stubbs" answered
very well.
On Monday morning she was enabled to
leave, and made straight run for Copper
Harbor, where she arrived safely the same
evening, and diseharging her freight, which
was for Eagle HarbOr, and which, on sc-
count of the gale still prevailing, could not
be landed there, left on her hOmeward Voy-
age on Tuesday.
The snow was two and half feet deep at
Copper Harbor and Marquette.
While at Copper Harbor, a man arrived
from Portage. Lake, who reported that the
propeller Burlington was in the "Cut,
dumping at the ice" and trying to force
passage through; and that Portage Lake
was frozen over.
The Cleveland landed her Portage Lake
freight at Marquette, there being no possi-
bility OF her being able to get through the
entry" She also was obliged to throw
over some of her hay during the gale.
The propeller Globe, bound to Portage
Lake, was seen lying under White Fish Point
on Wednesday night. Before she arrived at
the canal it had frozen over, and she effected
passage through it with some difficulty
on Monday.
No ice was encountered by the steamers
after leaving the Saul, until they reached Mud
Lake, and this they found frozen over from
shore to shore to the depth of three inches.
The Planet broke her way through with much
effort. 1t is almost needless to say, therefore,
that no hopes may be entertained that the
Burlington or the Globe can get back before
| spring.
Both Captains report the gale as the Sc
verest they have ever known.