Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-11-02
TEELGSS OF THE CoBURy.
fmtercgrIuo Particulars % the Disaster
statement OF One ofEEe survivor
Upwards o. sixty Live Lost,

> 45H.tfN IL Ga sixty s'IEtn 1Nrss
From the Detroit Post.
( The C05ura lett Sault Ste Narir on
her way down from Duluth to ButalC,
on the morning of Saturday. tie l4th
inst Her officers were;
Commander-G Gilbert Demunt, Of
Detroit
First Mate-Wm- Simmons IS De
troit.
/ second Mate w. L. Hau2.
First Eugineer-A. $. Robinson, Of
Marine City.
Second Engineer-Wm. Hutchinson,
Of Detroit.
Clerk~E Major, of FromfeId, Ont.
9teT0rd--GeoIge Westcott, 81 Marine
City,
Besides the above officers she had on
board q crew of about 30 persons, and,
as nearly as can be ascertained- about
40 passengers. seven of whom We're wo-
men and three children. Her cargo
consisted of about $1,000 bushels Of
wheat, and $500 barrels OF -four,
taken on at Duluth for BuifalO
and 80 barrels Of silver ore from Silver
Islet Mine, taken on at the Sault Tor
the Wyandotte Silver Smelling Works.
She proceeded on her voyage not far
in rear OF the propeller Empire until
Presque Isle was reached, Saturday
evening. The latter put into harbor
and repeatedly heard the whistle Of the
CobuIn SO she passed outside, evident
ly SCUM ling fogsignals. The night was
thick and the wind was blowing fresh
from the west. The Empire, therefore,
lay in the harbor over night, but wheth-
or the Cobun sought to get into har-
Dor ana Was not able to do so viii prob
ably never be known. At all events she
proceeded on her journey, the wind
meantime increasing IN force. BY 10
o'clock Saturday night 1t was blowing q
FIERCE CALEB
There was no staying on deck, and
those on board began TO feel appre-
hensive % safety The gale which
swept over the city Saturday night was
a terrific one, as any person can testify
who was abroad IN it, So ticrcely dad
II shake dwellings, that many slecpers
were aroused from their beds and pre-
pared themselves for flight Bat
strong as il twas here, ii swept with vast
ly greater force over Lake Huron, and
particularly OFF Saginaw Bay, which
has always been dreaded by navigators
as one of the toughest passages on the
chain al lakes.
The Cobnn struggled calamity
against the winds and waves until about
4 O'Clock Sunday morning, when she
UHsHIpPED HER RUDDER
and was henceiorth entirely unman-
ageable. She soon drifted into the
trough Of the sea, and though her en- |
giues were kept going, she was unable
to make any Roadway against the wind !
or to hold her course across the waves
soon her smoke-stack blew down and |
came crashing through the roof of the
cabin, whether any persons were Sc
riously wounded by this accident is no.
/ known. Already the women were par
aly2Ja with fear, and remained IN their
statc-r2oms, praying in the agony of
despair The Wliings and lamenta-
tiuns that went up from the cabin ON
That awful ligh viii ring IN Inc ears
Of the survivors g. their dying day.
The barrels @, s.lltv clg ON the main
deck rolled from side so sid, u.s. the
vessel rolled IN the trough. and being
OF great weight, knocked holes in her
/ bUiWarks She was loaded down very
deep, and the water rushed ia at the
holes IN her sides and poured Down the
hrcnen's gungway filling toe hold.
Her laundering ishelevea to bc largely
attributable to the shifting Of TINS part
of her cargo
About 7 o'clock Sunday morning,
when about 20 TO - miles oi Point AJAX
Barques, il became evident 70 Capt.
Demont that the steamer mast be
wrecked, and the o,dag was given to
STAND uY Tt,g EoAIs.