Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-19
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE NORTHWESTERN STORM. Great Havoc of the Raging
 Elements. A PASSENGER STEAMER MISSING. Fears That She Has Gone
 Down. TRAINS STALLED IN THE SNOW An Unusually Severe and Destruc-
 tive Storm.
 THE WEST.
STALLED IN THE SNOW
THE WEST.
Illinois.

The Lake storm-HIissing VesseIs-Fears | For the Alpene's safety-seventy Souls 1 Believed to Have Perished-Evidences l of Shipzvreck-HavOc of the Storm. CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-The steamer Depere l which it was feared had been lost on Lake Michigan, is reported lying safe at Manistee l There are no tidings of the Alpene, but it is | believed she has either made an anchorage on
 the west side or been driven along before the | wind. few vessels are arriving today in a ! more or less disabled condition and report the l severest storm ever experienced on the lakes The Fountain City, Captain Gibson of the Western Transportation line, arrived this l morning. She left Buffalo last Tuesday and
 met the storm Saturday morning when about | ten miles southwest of Point Sable. The story told by Captain Gibson is one of the ! most interesting yet heard. He says the l wind shifted in an instant from east to south ! west and the barometer went down to the l lowest he had seen in eleven years of life on the lake. He immediately made for the west shore and struck in a little lee at Two Creeks I just north of Two Rivers. There were twen- ty-six crafts lying there and the water was washing them all over. The wind seemed to tear the water right up from the bottom it. self and threw it in sheets through the air The big anchor of the Fountain City was let go, but the minute it took hold the terrible strain pulled the iron lining of the hawser hole clean out and they did not dare to try again, so kept going and coming all night. There was about thirty feet of water and as long as the engines worked there was no dan ger.
 There appears to be little doubt this even ing that the fine side wheel steamer Alpene was lost in Saturdays gale on Lake Michi- gan, and that sixty or seventy souls on board all perished. She was owned by the Good
 rich Line of this city, and up to late hour this afternoon nothing had been received by
 the company confirming the loss except
 brief dispatch from Montague Mich, say ing that the Alpene had been found on the beach at Honey Creek, and another stating
 that pail and stepladder marked Alpene had been picked up near Muskingum, Mich. Up to this time Captain Goodrich was confident that so staunch craft as the A1pene with so good 8 captain as N. w. Napier had rode through, but these dispatches caused grave fears to enter his mind He telegraphed to every possible point where information could be had, ,and sent his superintendent with men to make thorough search of the east
 shore. Another dispatch received by Cap tain Goodrich said that the propeller Buffalo
 saw the Alpene at anchor at Manitou, and
 this gave a ray of hope. Captain Webber
 of the schooner O. Irish, says that he sight
 ed the Alpene about o'clock on Saturday
 morning. The Irish was ''out'' from Grand
 Haven as well as the Alpene Captain Web
 Der says that at the time he saw the Alpene
 man could not stand on the deck for mo-
 ment He left her about Il o'clock some ten
 miles off Kenosha, heading for the shore,
 but she afterward laid her course for Chica-
 go. The Alpene left Grand Haven at o.
 clock Friday night for Chicago. From the
 fact that she started in the night, Captain
 Goodrich thinks there were not many pas-
 sengers, but from other sources it is said
 there were about forty and a crew of about thirty. Only the names of
 few of the passengers are known.
 The only complete list of passengers was on board the steamer. Her officers were as fol-
 lows Captain Nelson Napier first officer, J. H. Kelly first engineer, Robert Poulton clerk; Arthur E. Hays; stewart, William
 Shepherd. Captain Napier had been sailing
 on the lakes for over fifty years and was re- garded as most gallant and careful officer His family resides in St. Joseph, Mich When he was here last Tuesday he had not seen his family since last March, but expected to be with them this week.
 mail carrier reports the hull of the AL
 pene floating in the water off Clay Banks, 8 postofice in Oceana county, Mich, about forty miles from Grand Haven. The cur rent of the lake sets strongly from the south east, in shore and much debris is caught up- on the beach at that point. Dispatches re- ceived tonight by the Goodrich Line bring considerable hope that the Alpene is still aoat. It appears that the wreck discovered at Stony Creek is that of the steam barge Trader The officers here say that the fact that a pail and ladder marked AL pene were picked up at Musking- um is small evidence of the loss of the vessel, as such articles would be very easily blown from her decks. It is thought that the Alpene may be disabled and will be picked up and lowed to Chicago Nothing further than the above is known of the wrecking of the trader and it is probable she is total wreck and her crew lost The barge Mary Gray, which sailed light from Chicago for cargo of lumber at St. Joseph was sunk and the crew lost. The number of men is not known.
 The large and handsome propeller Boston, of the Western Transportation Line, arrived from Buffalo at 10 o'clock tonight. She is the first vessel to come in that passed through the great storm unscathed. The captain and mate say they nev- CT experienced so severe storm on the lake. The waves swept clear over the after deck. The Boston passed the Manitou Island about o'clock Sunday night. Two propel- lers lay there, but they saw nothing of the Alpene, neither did they see any wreckage at i any point.