The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-01-29
LOST IN THE SThAIlo.
SUFFERINGS AND DEATH IN AN Al
CROSS PROM BEAVER ISLAND To
THE MAIN LAND.

A letter from Little Traverse, Mich.
SAYS: One Martin Rouse, resident VI
this place, who with others had peen a'
work getting out railroad ties Oh lne
Beaver islands, arrived home on Satur-
day last with a dreadful tale OF suffering
and loss of life. 1t seems that there was
some dissatisfaction Oh the island, anu On
Tuesday morning he and Charles Odeii
and Mrs. Odell, with their two chlioreh,
boy about s and q little girl ABOUT
years old, left the island IN small san
boat with the intention Of making the
main land at or near Gross village, aooui
twenty miles distant. 1t was loVely
morning, and there was no Ice TO DE seen
until within about mile and hall OF
the main land, when they came In con-
tact with masses of floating ice drifting
southwark from the straits. Seeing an
opening they passed into it for quite q
distance, when the ice grew thicker ahu
at last hemmed them III and crusheu
their boat SO that it leaked badly ana
confined them in that place. linen IL
began to grow colder, and the Ice held
together in larger masses. here they
were compelled to stay without provls-
ions, and in freezing condition. Iney
at last left the boat, on Thursday week,
exhausted, and attempted to get away on
the dangerous ice. They came to an
opening of few feet in the ice, which
they easily jumped over, but it was then
+sssparating, and upon Odell attempting
''|'' = So his boy in his arms, on an
az 1.-The gap, he fell in, and
heal of difficulty sue
marvellous cure : out again. He then
eria, canker mouth, pat to get an ak with
18th each bottle the'iece of ice, with the
IIr,-;oo.o e. .,ng on it and showing
acr ccsseeetor Tor Il piece to the other, but
| this ttof the COMPS could not do, and
they then lae. so cen1se to proceed, if
possible, to the laLd and get help; but
| the ice kept breaking up more and more,
| and drifting away from the land, and
| Rouse. III attempting to cross another
| break, fell in, and only after the greatest
! difficulty succeeded in getting out, the
ice slanting upward. and he only suceed
ed at last in saving himself by catching
hold of a small projection and ,aising
| himself up 10y degrees. Weak aud ex
| hausted from hunger and cold, he again
started on, but he again had another
break of several rods that he had to swim,
and at last neared the lighthouse, en- an
island about five miles from the main
land, and which he mistook for the main
land. He found no one, but there we're
matches and plenty of wood, with which
he made fire, and he stayed there all
night, aud the next day came to the main
land in boat he found at the light house.
He got to the lighthouse about four
o'clock on Thursday, and Immediately
rang the bell, and did everything that
suggested itself to him, but, though he
could see at great distance the woman
walking backward and forward, to and
from the boat, the man and chillren
could not be seen, Odell eithS being
sunk in one of the breaks, or laid down
in the boat to freeze to death with his
two children. Yet he could not aid
them, and the next day nothing of them
was to be seen. Ten Indians, in a sail
boat, started yesterday to find them
They could see the boat about five miles
out, in the thick ice, but could not reach
it. To-day the steam tug lying here
started after them, with what result we
cannot tell until she comes back.