The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-28
DISASTERS AT SEA.
Terrible Suffering OF the Crews Of
Wrecked Vessels.
The ship Johanna IIeinrieh sunk Sso
Miles from Frisco.


Lake Huron, had 81 on board including
officers and two passengers had lG, ,000
bushels of corn, and was valued at
$4,000. She was considered stauneh
and may yet turn up bottom side up.
Halifax n. S. Nov. 27.-The bark
Mosell, Of Prince Edwards Island from
Montreal, with cargo OF grain for
Hamburg, dismasted in the Gulf sun
day night last. Nine o. the crew died
OF exposure and four or five others bad
ly frozen. The bark oriono from Que
bee for Montevedio, lumber laden was
totally wrecked in same gale. The
bark Alice, from Quebec for Menteye.
dio, with n cargo of lumber was roughly
handled by the storm, and had four Of
her crew badly injured.
Quebec, Nov. 27.-The captain, mate
and crew OF Bristolian, went ashore at
Anticosti badly frozen, besides four of
the crew who are dead. The survivors
are very destitute and suffering. The
schooner Wasp is ashore in Gellies bay.
The crew and passengers were saved.
San Francisco, Nov. 27.-A Sandal
go dispatch says this evening a boats
crew Of the ship Johanna Heinrich,
from Hamburg for San Francisco, ar
rived in port. The party consisted of
Capt. +. A. +. Classen, second officer
Ferdinand Wage and five seamen. The
captain tells the following story 1.-THE
ship sailed from Hamburg on June 9th
with general cargo consigned
to Henry Balzer & Co., San Francisco.
About the first of September, when in
the vicinity of Cape Horn, heavy
gale was encountered the ship began
leaking; the men were sent to the
pump, swatch and watch, and managed
to keep the ship from making any more
water and she kept on her course with
a fair prospect of reaching port, until
November 10th, when about 2J0 miles
out from San Francisco, there came
heavy gale and the ship labored heavily;
water continued to gain on. the pumps,
and on the afternoon OF the 18th 1t be-
came evident further pumping was
useless, and 1t was decided to abandon
the ship, which was steadily sinking.
Two ships boats were lowered and
Capt. Classen and second officer Wage
with five seamen in one, and first off,
Ger Elfels, cook, carpenter, two sailors
and a boy in the other. On the oven
ing of the 10Th, Capt. Classen lost sight
of the mates boat, and he fears that
both boat and crew are lost. On
Thursday night, Henry Warneke, a
sailor, died. The party are in good
health and will leave for San Francisco
by the next steamer.
Collingwood, Ont. Nov. 27.-It is
now almost certain the steamer Sim
coe has been lost. The steamer Co
lumbia of the Chicago line arrived here
to-day and reports while passing the
docks, on Lake Huron, eDcountering
large portions OF wreckage Of the
steamer. The lake was strewn for miles
and saw life preserver marked Sim
coe. The Columbia searched for hours
but did not find any tidings of the crew.
The general opinion is that the Simcoe
struck on Magic reef off the duck and
went to pieces in d gale in the early
part Of the week.
The Simcoe was due hero from Chi
cago for days ago. The Simcoe was
almost a new steamer, having been re-
built last winter ut Collingwood.
Rome, Nov 27.-The first mate of the
Ortegian, which sank the Oncle JOS
eph. states that lie saw ?. single imast-
head light about n kelemotre ahead and
deemed 1t the light of merchantman,
and ordered the Ortegian's helm port
ed, expecting the merchantmen would
do the same, but the Oncle Joseph
starboarded her helm until she saw the
Ortegian bearing down upon her, when
she parted, describing semi-circle aud
exposing her flank. The mate of the
Ortegian then ordered the engines re-
versed, but the Ortegian's PROV drove
inside OF the Oncle Joseph. But few
of the sleepcrs on board of the Uncle
Joseph had time to reach the deck be-
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