The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-09-13

collected. Capt. Wilson kept encour,
aging, them by cheerful words and by
assurances that the deck would carry
us all ashore. At length-surely not
more than fifteen minutes from he first
aldrns-the Elgin began to settle and
reel as if tor the final plunge. A few
loud screams, arose, and few frantic
passengers jumped overheard in hurry
to meet their fate. just at the moment
when the boat went down, a sea struck
her upper works, and they parted from
the hull and floated off in several pieces
This was trying moment. The shock
and the force of the waves swept off
several of our number; but the night
was dark, and as all the lights were
now gone, we could not see who was
yet safe and who was gone. I found
myself on a piece fthe wreck, perhaps
15X3O-a portion Of the upper deck,
the boards and ribs or darlins to which
they were nailed. In company with me
were from 25 to % persons, and we had
nothing to do but suffer ourselves to be
foated toward shore. Among thepieces
of wreck we found few cabin doors
These we secured, and setting them and
our pieces of plank upon one end broad
side to the wind, made them serve as
sails. Soon after setting out onioour
perilous Journey, we discovered another
piece of the deck, more deeply loaded
down than ours. Capt. Wilson was on
it, with two or three others, he came to
our float, and continued with us, keep
ing us in heart by his words, of good
cheer. After daylight, he busted him
self in providing for the general safety
by fastening loops to the carlies, by
which we might hang on when we came
to the surf. There were with us tour
or five women. One of these had a
child about six months old, for the safe
ty of which the Captain was exceeding
~ solicitous. He held it, when not
otherwise employed. He had given it
up but a moment, to attend to some
matter, when % wave swept it out of the
arms of him to whom he handed it, and
it was gone. This child and a man and
woman were all we lost. We spent
the night in comparative comfort. The
storm was severe but we did not suffer
greatly from the cold. The water was
warm. asatr aa ~.
About halt past nine o'clock we near
ed the shore at Winnetka. About20O
feet from the shore, our frail craft was
lifted by the surf which was running in
strong, and completely capsized. The
raft was broken by the force of the
waves. Capt. Wilson, Mr.. " aldo,
of the National Mine. Ontonagon, Mr.
George Newton of Superior City and
myself chung to one piece of the deck:
but again striking the surf were again
capsized, and all thrown into the surg
ing waves. [ managed to strike the
wreck again, and Mr.. Waldo got on an
onther piece, but Mr.. Newton and Capt
Wilson were seen no more. After
much exertions and appalling danger,
| gained the land. OF the twenty
eight on the raft, only eight-seven
men and one woman-were saved. The
rest went, down within sight and sound
of safety.
l want to say that Capt Wilson be,
haved nobly from beginning to the fatal
close. That any are saved except those
who came off in the boats is due to
him. ese
The Lake Shore at W5nmetka.
The Reporter of the Press d Irj-
bat1ee says:
When our reporters reached Winnet-
ka, at 10 A. NJ, the surf was rolling in
heavily, and breaking IN thunder along
the beach, the gale having risen to a
fearful fury, from the northeast, and
thus nearly on shore. The shore there
is an uneaven bluff, ranging fram thirty
to sixty feet in height, with narrow
with a narrow stripof beach at its base
AT some points the heavy surf made
directly against the bold bluff, At
most points, however, q narrow tract
tervened unwashed by the waves, and
so affording a place and foot hold for
the operations ofrescuc.
The whole beach for three miles we
found strewed with fragments of the
light upper portions of the Inflated
steamer, land out..at sea, where the waves
were rolling more heavily than is usual
seen even III our September gales, the
surface of the angry water for miles in
extent, as far as the eye could reach
sea ward, was dotted with fragments
of the wreck, and RATS and spars, with
what were clearly made out to be hu-
man beings clinginG to them. At this
time 10 A. NJ. various authorities make
out that from eighty to one hundred
persons could have been counted driv-
ing at the mercy of the maddened ele>
menus, towards the high, rolling break
ers and surf washed beach and bluff,
when thousands with straining eyes
watched their progress, and with pale
cheeks noted, as alas, too many, met
their fate in the waves.
THE LOST.
Of the lost, the Milwaukee Wisconsin,
says, nearly all of them were from a
single ward OF that city (Third) and a
majority of them, by blood, of that ma
ton honored by the memory of Emmett
and o Cornell. A correspondent of the
| Press oE Tribune describes the feeling
at Milw aukee, on the receipt of the
news, as follows:
'ETHE SCENE IN MILWAUKEE, WHEN THE
| NEWS Arrived.
An eye witness informs us that the
scene at Milwaukee on Saturday morn
ing when the news of the catastrophe
was first received, can never be effaced
from his memory. The stores in the
principal streets were Immediately de-
serted, many of them beng left open
and unattended, and all rushed to the
lteleUranh office 10 learn the extnnt of