, 1874-02-25
Two Hundred or More Of the Saginaw
FISHERMEN Gain tho
Shore.
SeventY-Five or One Hundred lmprls"
oned on the Ftoe at Last
Accounts.
Incidents Of n Pcrilous Journey
Over Broken Ice.


special Dispatch ko The chtcaao 7rfo'sns.
EAST BAo1xAw aliol., Feb. 23.-lnformnetoii
from tho ice-raft, with it's cargo Of 200 or moro
isllormcn, is still n,eagrc, though, from MI in
formation received up to tho latoat hour, no
lives have yot beon lost. During tho
wiutor largo number Of fishermen, forming
a community Of 100 or 500 shantica. congregate
on tho leo, forming village extending from tho
mouth of tho Saginaw River to. . point twenty
miles out. The shnntios nro generally OIL rum
uors, and aro moved about tile Eamo rs sloighB,
drawn by horses to ouit tho convenience Of tho
occupants, Thoy arc uHually eight foet square,
and scattered l,itl,or and ththor about tho bay,
Ind with tho snloie curling up from tho Btovo-
Pipe climnoys. proaent C oliaurful appearance.
'Ihorc arc tho
USUAL QUOTA OF SALOONS
Incident to nodorn villages. mid IN fact tho
other appurtonanceH, except tho Common Coutl-
Cd aud Aldermen, thcso being considered by the
fiBhor1nau Us ornaments tint Gun very easily bo
dispousel with.
On Sunday night tho leo commenced breaking
up, and. OH Monday morning, under strong
gnlo from tho southwest, tho largo fold OF leo,
several miles in extent,
COMMENCED MOVING OUT
into tho bny, drifting straight toward tie CHAR
1tY 1Slnnu6. lNu LIsb ANtAeHt4o Aeso""1
of tho breaking-np Of tho ico .., by
, TN .oyc-witness, was furnished by. William
t'llarp, who oacaped from, the iee Monday morn
Ing, aild rcnel,ed Buy City MONDAY night. Sharp
ia tho morning, with his hot a,d sleigh, buy
ing fish. Ho hoard some Freucll'ncn noar W
h,long, and, looking up, discovered TINT tho leo
lAD SEPARATED nETwEEN HIMSELF AND THE
sIIuAE.
IIo drove rapidly to tho eastward in tho hopes of
finding pncc w1cro lilo ice Ind nut yet sepas-
;ted, After Eoiu;, tlfeo miles in Ibis way he
camo to his own shanlY,, where no put some Of
l,iH most valuable gonds into his sleigh. and
asnin atartcu eastward. Eoar Fiah Point Sharp
taw rinco wllorc
TIE ICE-FLoE HAD CLOSED INTO THE EilonE.
except that thoro was n gpaco OF so1nc rods
where tho leo Ind crumbled and lay in smaller
cakoa. There wero fourteen mon nenr TINS spot'
.!'hoy got unoo sharp's sleigh, and ho started
toward The shore,
GOING FROM CAKE TO oAKE,
:ct tho fmminour hazard oac!l 1nonloat OF fall
...,g through into tho water. Tho mon remained
on the sleiGA until they were noar tho shore,
When they left IL and Scanporod off without a1
sfrer to aasist Sha1p III getting hia horse ovcr.--
tho worst part Of tho i4:p> Ha Succeeded:
drove OH to Bav city, winch ho reached about
o'clock Ut night, having driven abont u nilcs
after getting nj tho ice.
Reports concerning the number OIL tho ice are
very contradictory. tho nunper bo1uE originally,
as near Us cau bo ascor1ained from conflicting
1eports. about 200, Of which but very 1aw arc
1;nown by namo. They aro mostly Frouch and
lf-brocde.
LARGE NUMBER ESCAPED
% tho main land, but thoro nfe still on the raft
1,etween Is md loo porsonH, men and women.
.rhoy ure temporarily well provided Tor and
taore Is no danger as long as tho ice does not
Lreak up. The leo last evening WAS about
8 or 10 miles out, aud tho shanties could
Ia plainly Been with glass. There
Ind Eeon bnt littlo sea lnrng tile day, and Tho
leo appeared to be moving slowly toward tho
tno,e. Tho probabilities arc that tho leo will
drift in this evening" aud hut little apprehension
l., felt for the aafotY Of the men.
The man Sharp brought of fourteen meu with
lin, md thought tint largo number Of others
escaped at the sanlu timo
Arthur Stevenson arrived this evening from
tao ice. He with party Of Heven others, woro
tn what may be termed tho middle
field. Of leo, Which driftod north
EAST to tho main lco aud stopped.
IheHo men loft tho ico thla morning, jumping
from ono calto to another, roaching laud satcy
l,y crcuitoua route about 10 q. H.. having tray
lied five Or six miles. RoportB from. the wost
thora aro that tho mon can Lo Boen On the ice,
which is badly brokon between tlom and tho
shore.