The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-12-03
LOSS OF THE FORD.
No Light at Port Maitland---A Night
Of Horror and Distress Bodies
CT the Lost found Frozen to the
Cabin Deok---Full Partiou-
lars Of the Disaster.
From the Oswego Palladium of Friday

From the OSWego Palladium OF FrldSiy
Captain ". ". Williams, Of this city,
| who left here Tuesday evening for Port
| Maitland. TO bring home the bodies Of
Captain Pease, Charles e. Hurd and
| Lizzie Sullivan, Of the schooner Angus
| tus Ford, reached Dunnville, Ontario,
Wednesday morning, and taking % tug
proceeded 20 Port Maitland, and arrived
about 8 a. II. Ee prepared to forward
the bodies by the first train, and conse-
quently had little time to learn the par
tictllars Of the disaster. Bigelow, the
mate, was at the vessel, but Captain
Williams saw John Mack, Of Oswego,
seaman, who told him the thrilling story.
The Ford left Detroit Saturday, and
when she encountered the gale, Capt.
Pease made up his run for Long Point
and put the vessel on that course, but
ran below the Point too far to get up
and FUN IN He then ran for Port Matt
land and arrived off that harbor about 6
O'Clock Monday evening, driving down
before a terrible sea, one Of the worst
ever known or the lakes. The captain
could not maze out Port Maitland light,
but after straining his eyes IN that di-
rection, discovered a faint glimmer, the
only light to I0e seen, which he conclu-
ded must be the Maitland light. I'M
mediately he discovered lie was about
400 yards east Of the piers, and then he
knew he must go ashore. He let go his
anchors, which caught and dragged and
caught again, when the schooner swung
| round and went broadsida ca about 100
rods from the main land. The crew
| made out cries 30 attract attention. and
| after while people came down to the
shore, but there being no life-boat, no
one dared 80 breast the terrible sea, and
! all hope Of rescue W8s given up.
Every sea that struck the vessel as she
| lay broadside to it, swept clean over her,
and soon her cabin filed with water.
Capt. Pease, Rurd, Lizzie Sullivan, the
cook, and Thomas Brown, seaman, got
upon the cabin deck; Daniel Bigelow,
mate, sheltered himself behind the main
mast, and John Mack, who narrates this
account, went aloft, and wrapped the
fore-topsail about him. he found that
this afforded good protection from the
wind, and begged the others to come up,
bun, he says ''they didn't seem to care.
After while he saw Capt. Pease fall off
from the cabin deck the captain crawled
feebly back on the trunk of the cabin,
put his hand up to the side of his head
and fell dead H1lrd died a few minutes
after; Lizzie Sullivan died next, and
Brown last. It was about quarter past
! 6 when she struck, and the captain died
about ten o'clock.
The sight that met the eyes of surviv-
ors when daylight broke upon the vora-
cious sea and the stranded vessel, can
never be forgotten. From the cabin
deck a big Jagged heap of ice glared upon
them, which they knew covered the bod
les of Capt Pease, Hurd, Lizzie Sullivan
and Brown.
At daylight a rescuing party prepared
to save the living and remove the dead,
which they accomplished, though they
had great difficulty in saving the mate
who was almost fatally chilled and ex
halisted. The rescuing party found 1t
necessary to chop away the ice before
they could release the bodies, which
were frozen in and covered to the depth
of three or four inches.
Capt Williams arrived here with
the remains at 9 o'clock Wednesday
night Capt Pease's body was taken to
Nicholson's undertaking rooms, Hurd 70
Perham's rooms, and Lizzie Sullivan to
Mrs. Moor's on Water street. Browns
| body was buried at Port Maitland, his
| place of residence being unknown, Capt.
| Williams furnished money to afford a de-
cent burial.
| When the bodies reached here they
were still frozen stark and encased in ice
so no feature could be seen. Capt. Pease
lay stretched out, with his hands to the
side of his head, as described by Mack,
when he says he (the captain fell. Hurd
! lay with one arm under his head, pillow
like, and neither the positions or express
sions, indicate pain, except in the case
| of the cook, who seems to have suffered
agony. We shall not soon be able to
etface from recollection the woeful tale
| of danger, disaster, and death suggested
by the appearance of these bodies.
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THE King of Sandwich Islands is now
on his way TO the United States, intend