Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-11

The surf-washed shores Of Winetka, off
which the disaster occurred, presented heart
rending scenes The Chicago Press and
Tribune says:
The scenes on the shore until two P NJ, |
when the last survivor was drawn out OF the /
surf was q scene which the loOkers-On will |
never forget. OF its nature the best proof Is
the fact that from forty TO fifty persons saved |
were less than 0ne-tird Of the number that
came in from the lake to pass the fearful
gauntlet of the line of breakers, several hun !
dred feet off shore, where under the very |
eyes and almost within hail Of those on /
shore, we saw the majority perish. The rats |
would come into the line Of surf, dip to the |
force of the waves and then turn completely !
over. Again and again would RATS contain
ing from one to five or more persons gradual
ly near the shore and then be lost where a
stones cast would reach them, yet really as
| far from human aid as if in mid-ocean.
| The scenes of these fearful hours would fill
| a volume. The episode of the saving Of the
/ gallant James E. Evison, Of Milwaukee,
| with his wife in his arms, was one that LETT
! few dry eyes among the spectators. He had
/ secured himself and his precious burden to
| the severed roof of the pilOt-house, stout,
octagonal, canvas covered frame. As this
came in, he was seen upon 1t, holding IN one
arm a woman. Again and again the waves
broke over them, and more than once both
! were submerged. Still they came on, passed
| the first breakers, and midway thence to the
| shore their raft grounded, from some projec-
ton beneath There it hung, beaten and
| swept by roller after roller, and for minutes
making no progress, while the breathless
| spectators, not two hundred feet distant,
watched and waited the result.
Edward Spencer, before named, with
rope about his waist, dashed into the waves,
once, twice, and again, but was washed back
by the huge seas. 1t was critical monenti
! he followed q retreating roller, as 1t passed
the two on the frail structure, man with
his burden in his arms leaped into the water
and made laboriOusly towards his rescuer,
not a second too soon; an angry roller was
| at his back if it reached him he was lost
the rescuer toiled nobly, they neared each
other, and lust as the outstretehed hands
met, all was lost in a mighty submerg9ilnItfF g9ilnItF
wave-its refuRneag gttr hands were bearing
Two limb-exhausted burdens-tbe husband
and wife-up the steep bluffs.
Thus amid such scenes of peril and daring,
hours passed, the gale still continuing. The
saved were taken at once to one or the other
Of the scattered Wenetka homes, and never
shOne humanity nobler than that which was
ready and instant and ineessant with every
that could relieve the sufferers.
To mention the names of those VINO were
prominent in such relief would read almost
like a directory of that beautiful suburb. but
Messrs. Carter, Gage, Peck, Davis, Smith and
others need no eulogy at our hands.
The shore was strewn with fragments Of
the wreck. Captain Wilson, during the in
terval offered, caused all available portions
| of the upper works of the steamer to be cut
away, that thus raft material might be
! abundant when the steamer should go down.
| But for the high seas running, and as it was
! could there have been some means of rescue
| outside the line of serf, the wisdom Of Capt
| Wilson's order would doubtless have saved
| his own brave life and those Of many others
now lost.
! Late in the afternoon beautiful female in
/ FAINT of about three months of age, washed
| ashore at Evanston. In sweet unconscious
ness Of peril, in an hour when a mothers
breast was no shelter, the fierce wrath Of the |
elements could not drive the smile from the !
tiny cheeks that in death, hours after, wore
the semblance of quiet and placid sleep.
Hon. Herbert Ingraham, one of the lost, |
was a Member of the British Parliament, /
and publisher of the London illustrated I
News. He was travelling in this country 1
with his son, aged sixteen years. Both /
crossed a wide ocean, to meet a fearful fate. /
Col. J. F. Lumsden, one of the editors and /
proprietors Of the New Orleans Picayune, 1
with his wife, son sixteen years old, two
young daughters, and two colored servants;
W. Garth, Esq, Of Paris, Kentucky, with his
wife and two daughter, all the above named
constituting q portion, Of the late party of
Southern excursionists, are all among the
lost
No accurate list or number of persons on
board can be given, but it is nearly as follows
Excursion party about 900
Regular Passengers ESTIMATED