New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-15
THE LAKE MICHIGAN DISASTER.

The Milwaukee papers of Monday come to us in
black lites and filed with matters connected with the
sinkicg of TIE Lady Elgin. From THE Sentinel we
take the folio wing:
Yesterday morning the first premonitious OF tho
hcrll e news whispered ab0utthe streets Cheeks
were banched and hearts were hus11d at the udlDgs
that the steamer had gone down with all on board
The rumor grew into dread t,inty the dispatches
began 10 arrive The dreadful nelge nee spread IKE
widfre and soon the city agtated by feelings OF
suspense and apprehension. The newspaper Ounces
We're spged: the telegraQaph Office was throDged;
knots gathered The corners add business for the mo-
mept siood IT II. Then cane the confirmation: Omy
lritR Sared Ont of the four hundred happy pleasure
seekers who had left city, only thirteen were saved
Then the excitement rose and broke through conven-
tiopal bounds Fathers had sons sisters had brothers,
and mothers bad families aboard. There were
Aldermen and other city officials. PersonS
from all portions of the city, aud a'most
every position. The anxiety was dreadful. crowd
of several hundred collected about The Sentinel office,
and required the presence of ell the clerks TO pass out
10 the crowd the slips which was printed the mea-
GER intelligence. Still the extent of The Gala nifty ita
awful magnitude, did not seem TO be fully compre-
hsnded by The public That something appaliOg had
transpired wss felt but tina. many of our citizens
had been hurried into eternity too hard to believe
As soon az the intelligence receSed MIR. Weller,
the Supernt ndent of the Milwaukee Telegraph office,
sent diepaoh to Chicago requesting the Office there
TO send special operator TO Eyston az once, aud to
forward all the particulars. After ttisa number of
DISPATCHES were received, all confirming the news,
aud giving each additional scrap of iute'li-
geuCe. BY ~ O'Clock it known all over
that the Lady Elgn hsd been ran into by the
schooner Augusta, which latter struck her near the
wheehouse and tha. the steamer at er filed and
went down; that also number were carried down in
the vortex, and others who cupg to the decks which
foated were aiteIward swept away. 1t would be
utterly impossible TO convey any idea 70 those who did
not visit the Third Ward OF the there presented
on Saturday afternoon. 1t seemed though sounds OF
mourning proceeded from every third house. Little
crowds Of women copyrighted along the walks
some giving free expression TO their grief others Offer
ing confidence. Never before has city been stricken
with such a calamity. The scene at the Dept
of the Milwaukee and Chicago Railway, AZ noon
battles description. Thousands had c)ngregated there
to await the arrival of the noon tain and
as it approached, the crowd impatient to learn some
tdiUgs of friends could wait for the locomotive Il
stop, hut besieged the train. Then 1t was that ths
heart ending diOgs received by broken.heart
parents and friends with demonstrations of grief that
could lot be repressed Timothy Brien was the irsi
survivor who was recognized, and il was doubtful or
tire whether he could survive tie rude but no J.
es; o'grauaiiors of his many friends. lie was sur
rounded and ques ions as TO this that known 10
be aboard piled Quick and fast and when the nswers
were given, there were fresh walls aud wrnging OF
hands,