The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
TIE LATE STORM at DULUTH AND

and shipping, and of the fearful apprehen-
sions awakened among the inhabitants of
that place, by the gale of week ago last
Wednesday, could scarcely be told more
graphically than it has been in the accounts
which have appeared in the Duluth papers,
Dowse of Duluth, to the st. Paul Press.
And doubtless it is the privilege of Duluth
to make its own statement of its own disas-
ters, in its own way, through its own expo
nents; but the aohoppers which have gone
to the world through the same media, con-
cerning the effects of the same storm at
Superior, it is incumbent on us, for truth
and decency's sake, to squelch. The Du
luth Tribune of the 18th inst. says:
1--WE learn that the storm over at Superior was
quite as severe IS here"
fright, Mr. Tribune! The storm, i. e.
the gale, was as severe but the refuge and
protection afforded by our harbor were
completely
"And that her boosted barbor suffered quite as
much ours IL proportion to the docks warehouses
&c, in the tive places"
Wrong, Mr.. Tribune! The "boasted
harbor' didn't suffer at all, in any respect
eve are informed that about one-haf of the Supe-
rior dock between the main land and Coburns ware
house torn out;p
Wrong, again No part of the dock
was "torn out;n That dock, as the edi-
tor Of the Tribune we'll knows, between
the main land aud Coburn'S warehouse, is a
mere roadway for the purposes of travel to
and from the warehouse. The top plank
ing, which constituted the road or track,
was nailed to "stringers," extending over
the spaces between some common, untitled,
LOG cribs These s'strnger>" were not
pinned or fastened to the cribs, but were
kept in place simply by their own weight
and that of the plank track on them, and
were but foot or so above the usual water
level The northeaster occaSioned rise
in The bay sufficient to .7oat these stringers
with their superintendent pllnks, and
when the wind changed to the north, a
part of this track, about fifty feet III length,
with its attached s,ringers, was moved just
to the south side of the line of the dock
displacement that could have been easily
cffec ed, with the water at the stage 1t then
was, bv the power alone of one or two men
pushing against the bottom with poles
and it is probable that wooden pin as big
as your thumb, at the end Of each stringer
might have prevented this awful catastro-
u TX
And not only this, but the large dock and ware
house of Messrs. Willard & Mercer, situated in tht
Sup, harbor just the bay from that village
have both been entirely sucep G'cdy, and it. unfortun
aely any vessels had happened be lying there the,
would undoubtedly have been sent ashore and landet
high and dry"
The dock referred TO was not injured il
any wise by the storm, nor was 1t exposed
20 any violent sea, and is now standing In
tact The so-called warehouse by th'
dock, was = small trail structure sided will
rough boards, and was not and could no
be, affected by the sea, but was blown owe
by the wind And had the building stood
in the middle of a Minnesota prairie, an(
been prostrated by like wind, the inciden
would have had just as much to do witt
any question of the merits OF Superior har
Dor, as the actual casualty in question has
Mr. Howenstein who lives on Minnesot
Point, near the dock, informs that pro
baby the building would have stoot
through the gale, as it has through maay
gale before, had it not been that this TIM
some of the siding was off on the windwar'
side, SO that the wind had access to tn
interior If"any vessels had happened t.
be lying there" they would have been il
the lee of Minnesota Point, perfectly shell
tered. The Tribune adds:
''The ADORE we consider to be a couple of rathe
good notes on the security afforded by the Supero
hsrbor."
This sufficiently discloses even to stran
gers, the animus of the Tribune editor
He is in pursuit Of "good notes"-not o
knowled ge-under difficulties He is al
old offender, whose statements concernin!
Superior can scarcely prejudice us will
those who are acquainted with him, an'
who therefore know his malign dispoSi;iol
towards otir town, and his habit Of grossl.
misrepresenting its affairs.
TIE SUPERIOR ENTRY IN THE STORM.
The old adage that misery loves com
r,,,,. xp.S ~ yar so eyemnlifed as II ha