Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-09-11
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FURTHER PARTICULARS
OFTHE LOSS OF TIE
STEAMER LADY ELGIN.
NEARLY 800 LIVES LOST.
OS Persons saved.
Particular Of the Disaster
Scenes on the Sinking Steamer.
FEARFUL SCENES ON THE BEACH.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IN THE SURF.
THE SCENE At MILWAUKEE.
List If Passengers Saved.
List IL Pas.emsers Saved.
LIST OF THOSE KNoWY TO BE LOST

LfS1 OF IdOSE n NOHA ~ DE LOo1. :.
We lay before our readers this morning the
following further particulars Of the loss OF the
steamer Lady Elgin and passengers. which we
condense from the Press and Iribunes report: +:
The schooner Augusta, Capt. d. n. Mslott.
came into port early Saturday morning and
reported that on the night p, ,evous, about mid
night, che had collided with large steamer
on this lake, few miles out of tits city. The
Augusta mad rufiered seriously il the encounter
IRON the loss OF her hea1gear, and wa leak
| ing badly She had full cargo Of lumber,
which had shifted 10 the collision, In which she
struck head on. The captain knew nothing OF
the extent Of the disaster to the other vessel !.
| The steamer Lady Elgin on Friday morning
last left Milwaukee, on regular ch srter from
the Independent Uuon Guards from that city,
and brought about three hundred excursion
! is,s gentlemen aud la.ies. into Chicago. where
the party passed the day in interchange OF hos
/ pitahtss and eocialites usual to such occasions.
On her return she left as stated on her reg n ar
trip to Lake Superior, taking about fifty ca bin
passengers for Macknac and pleasnr. points
North added to the excursion party.
Tie early Waukegan train on the Chicago
and Milwaukee road having on bo.rd pass.p
gers from the North, among them the clerk aud
| nate Of the Elgn. brought the first detailed
| intelligence Of the painful disaster Inc ter
ribe news ran from mouth to mouth, and not
mere than an ur elapsed before II was heard
! 70 the out-rmos, streets Of the city. rush
10 the Off e Of Messrs. Hubbard 4 Hunt. on
south Wster street, snd that Of A. I Spencer
& Co. the owners of the boat. began as soon
az the intelligence got abroad, and s!! Day
long they were heseiged by anxious crowds OF
those who had friends or latives abroad, and
by the ,toa-ands of sympsthers " ho made the
cause Of tie -uff-rers their own.
Groups Of men at every street corner. anx-
iously d,scussing the cause nnd consequences 0!
the awful calamity. were a constant feature of
,he dav The b.slness of the town wss forgot
ten. On Change. in shops, hotels, offices and
stores the disaster wac the theme. The saved.
they were sent down on the trains run On
,he occasion, were scon surrounded by inqui''
ing crowds, and III many cases before they
| we're permit ed to get off their vet c.o' hing,
were compelled to halt and repeat the fearful
tale over again. Every new item. every CLEAN
of hope, every subtraction from the number OF
the lost. was joyfuly receivef
At spencer d Co. s. the Agents. the inquiries
Tor friends were most frequent ard pressing.
Many hope was dashed. many hear' was
snitten With despair. ard many vail went up
I
iu and went weeping out
The e. euing of Friday set in with wind
moderately high, though not eueh as would
have dete. red the Elgin from leaving; yet II Is
s,ill likely she would have lain by, but for the
re,urn excursion party, who Tad made DO cal
GU ,ations on remaining over. Soon afer she
i,,ft. however. and scarcely could she have got
an, side. a heavy thunder storm came up, about
mido 'ght. accompanied by an increase OF wind
vLieh ,vrew 20 perfect gale. In srch com
motion o. the elements the co lisi' n took place
the sea r., ubng high aud the gale in"reas q
,hroug ghout The night. and ainio the enlir>
Saturday.
SO full are the details our reportere have
bsen able to procure from '.'e statement o.
passengers app ended, that We rre.-r to ie-v-
the ii ain nsrr. tive Of the collision ant e ns'
ing Of In. stea ner to be gained from such
sources. VT lie we PASS 10 later scenes scarc-iy
| l.ss fearful and hsrrosing, on he suii-washe I'd
shore Of Winetka, and at Milwaukee wheIe
otviouely the fearful calamity Visits hundreds
! of homes.
THE SHORE AT wINETKA.
When our re ,or.ers reached Wype.ka. at 10
N, the surf was rolling in heavily, and
breaking in tbuoder along the beach, the "a 9
| having ri.en TO ie rful fury, from the North
East, and thus ne arly en- shore. 1he shore
there is an uneven bluff, ranging frou thirty 10
sixty feet in heig h. with narrow strip oi
b+a ch at its tas. At some points the heavy
surf made directly against the bod bluff ~
most points. however, a narrow tract inter
vened unw ashed by the waves, and SO aiiord
ing q place and foothoid for tie Operations io'
| rescue.
| The whole hes.ch for three miles We found
strewed with frat I'M ents OF ,ha light upper Vor
| bo |. .faf ted
| where the waves were rolling more heaviiS
than is usual seen even in our September gales
the surfsce Of the augr, waters for ni!esIn ex
tent, ss far as the eye could reach sea ~sr :
was dotted with fragments OF the wreck, ane
rafts and spars with what were clearly made
out to be human beings cl. n9ing TO them. A
this time 10 A.. various authorities maxi
ont that from eighty to one hundred persons
could have been counted driving at the 'nercl
of tine ma dened elements, 'o~sr'is the hish
rolling breakers aud eur washed beach an
bluff whence thousands with straibiLR eye
watched their progress, Q d with pale cheek
noted. ss, alas, too many, met their late 10 IN
waves.
The work Of rescue began about five AN,
little North # Wineka. near the country ses
OF Mr. Gage. where the earliest lntelligenc
was received bv the survivors who catDe ashor
in the cleaners yaw., anong whom wss IN
Steward, Mr. Rice. 10 Whose appended Darrs
tive We r-ier Thi boat vas followed bv On
o her, he last resc ming the shore little later
The neigh Tor! coel was aroused. Word va
sent to the dwel, ,es at the station below. an
party of men y ere preparing to go up to th
vi unity where ne boats had landed, whe
their attention s:a- drawn to their own shor
as s,il more rai afu,y to be the scene OF IN
peri,s and luss oi | fe and noble dsri, 6 of th
day. The viud not being directly CO sho's
carried each I.t r arrival a little further Soutt
aud now RATS caring human eiugs we're see
u.aring Nit.ets :. where TIE country resld-nc
Of Ex Alder man Car ter Of THE city oceupie
the high | j. lf.
Parties men were on t e alert and read
for the weak Of Ie.cue Word was sent A,
Evanston, I'd c,,ixens aud its entire stud-r
eoDmunity came up force. Attention va
first d,'ect ID to a large raft coming in stesdil
but bravely ossr the .sves. upon which wei
standing large group Of humsn beings. sine
lkpo~n TO have been some .f;y in numbs
Arounj I'd bsyon it on al piuee ~ere sing
survivors and gro ups Of two or three. or NOR
but rair IL inter e. c~ntered about the fate I
ths. Isl ger craft 1t neared the seeh ny lin
Of surf With 6 l.ss, those on shore eouI se
that u - company on board seemed to Oh. y II
Iordar = of ona tn AZ ladiea and ahildenn val