Stevens County tribune., 1878-11-21
LOST ON THE LAKE.
A Sailors Terrible Death.---His Body
Cast UwOn The Beach.
IOswego IN. W Palladium.

Cast Uwon The Beach.
Oswego IN. " Palladium
Capt. John Walters, of the schooner Sea-
bird, arrived here Sunday last from Trenton
with lumber for j. K. Post & Co. The Sea-
bird, with twenty-five other vessels, had been
lying in McDonald's cove, riding out the
storm. Upon reaching this port Capt. Wal
ters learned of the finding of the yawl of the
schooner Julia containing the body of Moses
Dulmage, sailor, ON the beach at Stony
Point, Sunday morning. From the master
of the schooner Olivia he learned that Dull
mage was driven out of South Bay, Ont, be-
fore heavy gale the previous Thursday
night, and being acquainted with Dulmage's
father, he telegraphed the facts to him and
got an answer requesting him to get the body
and bring it home.
Monday afternoon Capt. Walters took a
team and drove to Stony Point, where he
found that the body had been removed to
Henderson harbor and buried. He pushed
on and reached Henderson at noon Tuesday,
took the body up and brought it here, arriv-
ing Wednesday noon. The corpse now lies
aboard of his vessel, which is awiting fair
wind to sail for South Bay.
A THRILLING STORY.
The statement of this cruel fatality as
gathered by Capt. Walters is as follows.
Tuesday night, Oct. 81, ten vessels, among
which were the Julia, Olivia and Ariadne,
lay at South Bay point, the Julia and Olivia
lying near to each other. About Z P. NJ.
Dulmage asked permission of the captain OF
the Julia to take the yawl and go over to the
Olivia to visit some friends. The captain
gave his consent and Dulmage went. He
staid on the Olivia till between 10 and IL P.
NJ, when he proposed to go back. The wind.
which was out of the northwest, had stiff
ened, and was blowing gale with big sea
running. The captain of the Olivia says he
told DuImage he had better stay all night,
but the latter said he was afraid the captain
might want to go out before morning or
| would want the yawl for something, and he
| started back. The crew of the Olivia
watcht him, and seeing that he was going
TO leeward, shouted to him to head her up to
| windward. They heard Dulmage call to the
Julia to throw him line, which was done,
| but he failed to get it, and drifted past the
Julia and came alongside and pretty close to
the Ariadne, which lay astern of the other
| two. AS he came alongside he called to tho
Ariadne's crew to lower the boat and come
after him, for he was going out into the lake.
But it appears Dulmage was rapidly driven
on before the maddened and hungry sea, and
| cried out to another vessel which he passed
to save him, but no further effort was made,
and he drifted out of sight crying for help.
Long after he was lost to view in the dark
ness his distressing cries pierced the gale
with piteous appeals for help. Sunday morn
ing Mr.. Smith, ightkeeper at Stony point,
found the boat ashore inst south of the
lighthouse, with dead and bruised body
in it. Of the awful circumstances un-
der which the poor fellow died, who he
was, or how lost, he had no knowledge.
The body lay on its face, with the head
toward the bow. The legs were lashed to
the seat and thwarts with the painter. The
oar was found on the beach about five rods
farther south, from all of which Mr.. Smith
concluded that the man must have been
alive and was steering the yawl when he
went ashore, and that he died almost i'm
mediately from exhaustion and reaction.
He also thinks that he came ashore Friday
morning, judging from the appearance of
the hoodwood and debris along the shore at
that place. The storm did not abate until
Sunday, and it is not strange that the boat
and its awful freight should
not have been discovered sooner
From South Bay point to Stony
point is forty miles, and this terrible voyage
young Dulmage made in that tempestuous
night in the face of almost certain death.
The horrors of that night cannot be painted
The annals of lake navigation show nothing
more thrilling or pathetic.
1t seems strange that, even on such a
night, man should be allowed to drift away
from feet of ten vessels without further
effort to rescue him than appears to have
been made. Capt. Walters thinks that there
was no Intentional inhumanity, but that each
waited for the other to do something, till the
opportunity to act had passed and the poor