Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-21
A SEVERE GALE.
Terrible Loss of Life and a Largo
Amount Of Property.

SAuoATucK, Mich, November 14.-Of
eighteen meu on the tug Protection and
disabled schooner Arab, sixteen are
safe. William Kelly, of Chicago, en-
gineer OF one of the steam pumps, went
do wn With the vessel. A fireman, name un.
kno vn, was lost overheard IF this port,
The Protection weathered the gale until
ea,ly Sunday morning and was ap-
proachipg the west shore of Racine
when the Arab rolled over aud partially
small boat made two trips to the
vessel before she sank. IL cutting the
line the same became entapeled in the
tugs WHEEL, whisb disabled h+r, and
heavy gale epripeipg up the boat vas IT
the mercy of the waves and drlfted with
the wind. Shortly afterward the steam
barge Akeley was hsiled and the tug was
taktn iu tow. but was dropped ou Mon.
day night. as the barge herself became dis
ab,ed by losing her smokestack ard
shifting her cargo. Ab.'ut s O'Clock in
the morning the tugs eteari"g gear be-
came useless by tho breaking of the
tiller, which com p]etely disabled her. At
10 O'Clock last night it began showing
and blowing hard from~tbe northwest
and the tug began dragging her al cbor.
and she drifted ashore about miles nth
of the pier. The life saving apparatus
was brought across to the south side of
the river and line was shot to her and
all the men saved.
Following are the names of the
re,cued:
Tugs C,ew-wrecking master, Martin Black
bul q: captain, john Fitzpatr ok; pilot. VIM.
D'iton; engineer, AL ert Powers; fireman,
caa'le: Clark; steward: sullivan.
Arabs Cre"-C.pt. G las. Starke; Thomas
Nelson, mate; Jonn R,hae, HARMON Barnes
and Ol!o Bv6 se4men; 1hAr'es Anderson.
steward.
Steam Pump Men-Fonr; names not given.
August W6ite,' one of The steam pump
crew, bad one of hls hands badly butt.
The Arabs crew and the steam pump
men LETT for Chicago this morning At
10 o'clock.
K:lly, one of the lost leaves . wife
and family. The rescued seamen are
loud in their praise of Capt. 6trtck of
the steambarge Ackley who sto I'd by
| them so bravely on that terrible night.
THE CLARA PARKER.
GRAND HAveN, Mich. November Il
- The SCHOONER Clara Parker, loaded
with gram, went ashore south Of he'e
yesterday in q heavy gale. The Grand
aaven life savers rescued nine men,
using q mor'ar to throw the line. The
men we're nearly exhausted, having been
cltnginR to the rigging for several hours.
The sup-rinten teut of this life savIDg
district repcr's come Of toe dnest wors
done yester.iay by our crew that he ever
witnessed. Inc schooner is owned BY
John Lindgren, of CticaRo, and left
Chicago for Col'inewo' d Saturday after
noon. She sp'u' 6 leak on Sunday
forenoon of Sbehoygap, aud With great
difficulty kept at1oat uutll Mondav night.
when. se-ing she was sinking, Capt.
Lewis ran her on the beach.
PARTICULARS OF THE CLARK DISASTER
PsTosKeY. Mich November Ii The
names uf che men drowned near ca oss
Village, of the schooner Lucy J. Clerk,
were Eugene Ordway, Mike Rodden and
James Moody, tho ensineer Of the
steam-pump on hoard of the schooner.
When the CLARK filed and rolled over,
the captain orde' ed q signal Of distress
put up, which was done BY the first
mate, but no one could do anything for
them. Soon after the fag was put
up, the captain ordered the small
boat lowered. Five men got into it.
The men were in several minutes before
the mate got in, aud then the captain.
The last man to leave her was an engi-
neer-James Moody, of Milwaukee,
who came here on the tug to take cnarge
of the steam pump. Mr.. Moody, in get
ting into the boat, fell overheard. He
was caught by ono of tue sailors, who
held him by the collar, bat lost his hold.
Moody sank, aud on coming to the sur
face was again caught by the sailor, and,
assisted by the captain, he was
hoisted into the boat. At this
moment the vessel capsized, and,
the line beiug cut, the small
~sa Of eSs' sSs sU IN %hen a. stoas
twenty. five rods from shore, however,
the yawl rolled over, throwing all into
the water. The boat rolled over three
times. The mate, Mike Rodden, OF
Chicago, never reached the boat again.
Captain johnson got on the bottom of
the boat with the engineer and two men.
Three of the men could not reach the
boat, and started to swim for the shore.
Two Of them reached it. Engineer
Moody was = good swimmer, but could
not get to the boat again, and went
down. The other two men let 60 the
bost, and were washed ashore. The
captain clung to the boat and reached
the shore more dead than alive.
The vessel is still at anchor, and
| niecaa ara waahinD aah0ro She had 23(
cords of wood on, bound ior Chicago.
She was large vessel, 20 years old, and
insured for So, 900.
THE WAETRTOWN ASHORE.
! Elk RAPIDS, Mich., November a.
The canal schooner Waterfowl with 8