Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
MARINE NEWS.
The Exciting Experience Ofthe Steam
ahIp Hale and Barge BradIey.

The following interesting account Of
the Hale and Bradley is from The Chicago
Inter-Ocean. The boats belong to Captain
Bradley.
ga terrible spectacle, and one well
worth looking upon, is the monster steam
ship T. b. Hale, which put back TO Chi
eago IN the gale. The great steamer is
literally covered with ice. Her sides, bow,
decks, and even pilot-hOuse-thirty feet
above the surface Of the water-are thick
ly coated with ice, and her spars are iced
up twenty-five feet. The Hale, having in
tow the monster barge A. Bradley, both
grain loaded, left here for Buffalo, and
had got to within fifteen miles Of the Sleep
ing Bear Island, at the foot of the lake,
when the norUbWester in all its fury struck
them. 1t also showed so heavily Captain
Stone, of the Hale says, that at times he
could not see the Bradley, though in tow.
The Hale is considered one of the best sea
boats on the lakes, and yet so fearfully
high and violent were the seas Monday
night that the captain feared she would go
down. Sometimes she was standing
straight on end and the captain feared she
would break in two. The seas washed en-
tirely over her pIlOt-house, the spray flying
fully eighty feet in the air. Her boats
were crushed and several gangways stove
in. The Bradley was cut adrift only when
the danger to the Hale became so serious
that many Of he crew were praying and
weeping. And that she escaped at all,
Captain Stone says, is due to his excellent
engineer, and The excellent machinery of
the steamer. On getting into port, Cap
tain Stones trst inquiry was as to whether
anything had been heard from the Brad
ley, and when informed that there we're no
tidings his throat filed up and there were
tears in his eyes. The captain had seen
the Bradley's canvass almost all blown
away after she was cut adrift, and be fear
ed that Captain Lampho and his crew had
perished. Late in the evening, however.
Capt. Maglll, agent, received dispatch
from Milwaukee announcing that the
Bradley had been towed in there. Cap
tain Stone who has sailed for thirty-tWO
years, says that never before in his ca
reer, on salt water or fresh, did he expe-
Renee such weather as that of Wednesday
night on Lake Michigan. 1t being feared
that large portion of the Hale's cargo Of
wheat is damaged. The cargo of the Hale
is 46, 664 bushels Of wheat, and that of the
Bradley AZ, ,676 bushels of corn. how the
Bradley reached Milwaukee from the
Sleeping Bear with her main, mizzen and
stay-sail gone in such terrific nor'wester,
Is one OF the wonders, and speaks well for
Captain LampbO's management, energy
and pluck. The Hale left here for Milwau-
kee Friday evening to join the Bradley,
and set out once more for Buffalo.
Sailors wages are now $4OO per day.
The recent storms have not effected
the depth of water at this harbor
-Soundings were made in the river
channel last Monday and and an average
depth of fifteen feet found.
The steam barge Jarvis Lord arrived
here last Thursday morning, and takes a
cargo Of coal to Chicago, at $1.5O ton.
The barge Star of Hope has gone into
Winter quarters at Toledo, the schooner
Edwin Harmon, and steam barge Fletch-
er at Cleveland, the schooner Cape Horn
at Ashtabula, the schooner Mary E. Perew
at Chicago, upon her arrival there.
The barge Sumatra, consOrt of the
Sparta, that went ashore at Cleveland |
during the storm of last week Wednesday |
night is still on, and has not sustained |
any severe damages. She is being strip
ped and lightened of her cargo, and it is
expected she will soon be released.
in coming into the harbor last Satur-
day the large propeller Potomac got out
of the channel and struck bottom. She
got off without any trouble, and when she
went out last Monday found plenty of
water. The tug men say vessels should |
steer well to the eastward in entering the
harbor.
The craft that put into this harbor on
Of the storms, all got out last Mon
day. Among them were the large propen-
er Potomac from Buffalo to Chicago with
a miscellaneous cargo of merchandise,
the revenue cutter Perry and the U. s.
supply steamer Haze. There were about
a dozen vessels in all.
"A large part of the cargo of lumber
brought in by the sch'r Cape Horn, from
Saginaw, for the Culley Manufacturing
Co., took slide into the river last Satur-
day noon, caused by the dock giving
way. The slide of the lumber pushed
the Cape Horn across the river which pre-
vented the lumber from being carried out
into the lake by the strong current and
south wind. By dilligent work the lum-
Der was safely docked again by Monday
last Loss about $40. The dock was un-
1ermined by the freshet of September,