Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-10-26
THE GALE.

4 Hurricane on tie Sea and LdLes-Fed1'-
FIJI Sacrifice Of Life : Thrilling Tales Of
Suffering and Hloe-FJfy VesselS Stfund-
ed etc.
The old saying-one disaster is always
succeeded by another-never was more
clearly demonstrated than at the present
time. Scarcely had the telegraph opera
tors and members of the press succeeded
in heralding to the world more than a
bare outline of the unparalleled destruc
ton of life and property in Chicago, and
of the vast desolating effects of the Fire
Fiend in Michigan and Wisconsin-events
which have called forth the most tender
sympathies from the whole world-until
we are compelled to chronicle another
event but little less shocking in its ma
ture. Indeed, were we living in the Ho
meric Age, when Troy was in her glory,
we would be compelled TO write that
Vulcan and Eolus had assembled their
mythical hosts and were now engaged in
mighty contest in which, at the time of
writing, we could scarce determine which
would gain the victory, and each striving
to produce the most dread havock among
the property and children of earth
The late storm on the lakes, which &C
CURED on the night of the 17th inst.
found all the vessels at sea, and caused
the greatest destruction of any one gale
since the opening of lake navigation.
The news is borne to us, not of the de-
struction of one vessel with its freight
and crew, but of the total loss of more
than fifty brigs, schooners and ships.
| The Chicago Republican, of the 10Th inst,
gives the following brief mention of the
| terrible disaster:
The Brig Mechanic, bound up for Chi
cago with coal, foundered with all hands
The captains name was Henry Mckee
The names Of othereight unfortunates are
unknown. She was valued at $4,000,
and was owned by Bliss, Burch and
Bruce, of Racine
The schooner Dolphin was run down
off Sheboygan by an unknown vessel
In her waterlogged condition she was
picked up and towed into port. The suf-
ferings of the crew were terrible. The
vessel is lumber laden for Chicago.
] Further details of the loss of the Excel
sior are received. She went down leaving
but one survivor to tell the tale.
The schooner II. c. Winslow capsized
off point Becsies. Paul Kinley, his wife
and two daughters were on board The
ladies were drowned The spars broke
off and the vessel lighted, but by this
time she was waterlogged. After the
crew had remained exposed to the fury Of
the tempest forty eight hours, the propel-
) Ter Annie L. Craig fell in with the wreck
, and took them off. They lost everything
The Winslow is owned by Captain Pay
, ment and E. w. Hudson, of Detroit The
case of Mr.. Kinley, as related to US is 6
| sad one. He moved to Canada from
7 Portland, Me-, settling near Collins Inlet
, While residing there, his eldest daughter
| a young lady of seventeen, became ac
quainted with young man who accom-
J plished her ruin, and she was afterward
S drowned under circumstances which let
: to the belief that she had been murdered
4 The young man was arrested on suspicion
t. but discharged for want of evidence t.
: convict him. This sad affair SO preye,
Y upon Mr.. Kinsley's mind that he deter
y mined to move farther west, and accord
n ingly took passage upon the Winslow
g only to meet with still greater bereave
d ment. All the money he possessed, som
l sixty dollars, was in his wife's keeping
t, and is of course lost. He is now here
7, homeless, friendless and penniless.
o The wreck Of the propeller Free Stat
e has entirely disappeared from view
! The schooner Melvina is totol loss.
X a black three and after is ashore nea
d Sheboygan.
'f A four-and- after is ashore at Sultan
E. Bay.
le A small scow, painted black, with nel
y bulwarks, the scow Ella Doak, topsa
<. schooner, black bark, and three othe
n vessels were at anchor off Milwaukee,
E yesterday, in a crippled condition.
re Two vessels are ashore on Presque Islt
g A small vessel is ashore at Sheboygal
b Three vessels are on Beaver Island.
G, The bark Elizabeth Jones is dismaste
e. of Milwaukee.