The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-12
Terrible Calamity.
COLLISION ON LAKE HURON.
The Meteor and PeWabIc
Collide. sJsI
The PeWablc Sinks In Three
Minutes.
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Engineer Jackson and Wife
Among the Number. saH 2
And Several CIeVeIsnders.
And Several OleveIanders

Dispatches were received by n. GARRISON
4 Co. yesterday morning, announcing the
loss of the steamer PeWabic in Thunder Bay,
Lake Huron, on Wednesday evening. The
tidings, made all the more terrible by the
~leauness of the kilograms, went through
the city like 8 current of electricity, shock
ing and numbing sll hearts. The first tel
egrsm ran as folio VS.: +
DETROIT, Aug. II.
Propellers Meteor and PeWabic collidedg
in Thunder Bay on Wednesday night. The
Pewabic wenI down in three minutes.
Seventy-fve 70 one hundred lives reported
lost. The Meteor went on up the Lake.
The excitement was from the frst in
tense. It was known hat the Powabic had
on board abouttwo hundred passengers, and
this fact caused scores of anxious people to
gather about The telegraph Office and the
office OF Garretson & Co., the agents here OF
the line of boats to which the above steam
ers belonged-al narrowed with suspense
and impatient for further news. In q short
time this dispstch was received : H.aT
DETROIT, Aug. IL.
The Meteor eollided with Pewabic on
Lake Huron. The Pewsbic sank in fifty
fathoms. SeVenty-fVe lives lost. Mckay
saved. NJ, A. HANNA.
And was followed by this from the owners
of the boat:
DETRO1r, August IL.
H. Garretson & Co.: "a 9 rL
The Pewsbic was sunk in Lake Huron,
Wednesday evening, by collision with the
Meteor. The boat and cargo is total loss.
About seventy. five lives were lost, includ
ing Jackson, the engineer and wife; no
other acquaintance of yours, as We know.
j. T. WHITING & Co.
About this time information came that
| Captain Mckay and father, and the Clerk,
Mr.. Meek, were saved. The intelligence
/ of the loss of the genial and accomplished
engineer, Mr.. jackson, and his excellent
wife, formerly Miss Locke, of this city'
was overwhelming, and filled hundreds of
hearts with gloom. The mother and nu-
merous friends of this couple reside here,
but their place of residence was Detroit
Intense anxiety was felt with regard
to Rev. W. H. Goodrich, of the First Pres
byterian Church of this city, who went up
on the Meteor on her last trip, and stopped
off on her return at the sault, last week
Wednesday. Fears were entertained that
be might have taken passage, with his two
daughters, on the Pewabic, but these sp-
prehensions were in great part quieted by
the statement of Mr.. G.'s plan of journey
ing. He intended to remain at the Sault
until last Monday, for the purpose Of fish
ing, &c, and then take q Canadian steamer
90 to Msckinaw, cross over to Montreal
and return to this city via Niagara Falls
It may be said here that his family did not
share these apprehensions. Mrs. Goodrich
received q letter yesterday from her hus-
band at the Falls, which settled the ques-
ton of his safety.
The general suspense was in considerable
measure abated by the publication of the
following telegram from one of the owners
of the i'll stared PeWabic, who was himself
on board
DETROIT, Aug. IL.
Il. GGrretSoH:
No body from Cleveland lost. Myself
and family safe. l.. L. McKEIGHT.
BUTT turns out that several Clevelsnders
were lost. For the names Of those thus far
known to have been saved and lost, and for
the meagre details of the circumstances of
the catastrophe, all that nave as yet come.
to hand, see the associated press dispatches
on the first page of this paper. We refrain
from making any comment on the terrible
calamity, in the absence Of all data and
means for forming judgment in the matter.
The Pewabic was one Of the st%sunchest
and most powerful screw steamers on tho
lakes. She was built in this city at q cost
of 500, 900, by Messrs. Peck and Masters,
in the fall of 1868, so that this is in reality
her second season. She was owned by
Messrs. ]. T. Whiting & Co., of Detroit, and
belonged to their Lake Superior line of
steamers, her destroyer, the Meteor, being
the other boat of the line. The Pewabic
was differed as follows: 20
Captain-George Mckay Cleveland.
First Mate-George Cleveland, Cleveland.
Second Mste-Frank Dugo, Cleveland.
First Engineer. G. Jackson, Detroit.
Second Engineer-Wm. Kennedy, Cleve-
land
Clerk-Charles A. Mack, Detroit.
~sseward-John Lynch, Detroit.
The Pewabic was used the first season al
most exclusively as q freight boat. But
this year she has been one of the most pop
ular passenger boats plying between this
point and Lake Superior. Ali felt a sense
of security on her, she was so large, power.
full and apparently irresistible if not indie
structible. But a blow from the Meteor
sent her down fifty fsthoms, like q broken
egg-shen filled with lead! u 4a
Thunder Bay, the scene of the dreadful
accident, lies between Saginaw Bay and
Mackinaw Straits, about $50 miles above
Port Huron, and is noted, next to the latter
bay, as being the toughest and, probably,
the deepest part of Lake Huron.
It will be seen by reference to the Asso-
cisted Press dispatches received last night,
that Capt. Mckay has gone back to cruise
about the scene of the appalling calamity,
and that the lists of those saved, given in
the telegraphic report, comprise all who
were rescued.
We learn that iMr. Gates, proprietor of
the New England Hotel in this city, re-
ceived a telegram from Detroit, last night,
from his brother .in-lsw, VIM. Kennedy,
second engineer on the Pewsbic, announc-
ing his safety. Mr.. Kennedy has many
friends.and acquaintance in the city, who
will rejoice in hearing of his escape.
We wait with painful suspense for fur
Their particulars concerning the dread
full catastrophe.
LATE PATENTs-The following patents
lave been officially obtained through the
Office of Messrs. BurridEe & Co, Cleveland,
Ohio: r.t.F.
G. Hay Edgerton, stave machine E.
Inhnna. M..-l.-l 49, - N.