Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-15
CASUALTIES.
SAD Loss OF LIFE AND PROPERz z
BY THE GALE.
Found Dead-Killed by an Explosion-The
Gazing in of Gravel Pit Causes Death
Train Derailed by a Fallen Tree-Colliery
Explosion.
FIRE AT DULUTH.

FIRE AT DULUTH,
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. IA very dis
astrous fire occurred in that portion of
Duluth known as Minnesota Point. The
ire was located ia that portion which con-
slsts wholly OF frame buildings closely
joined, SO that when once any Roadway
had been gained the possibility of saving
property in that vicinity was Slight. The
fire started in saloon kept by A. Pratt
About ten buildings in all were burned. A
Canadian named Robert Kennedy was
found in the ruins, his body burned to
crisp. The re son he did not get out in time
is mystery, as it was shown by the in
quest that he was not drunk, and it was
also shown he had considerable money.
supposed to be $500, in his pockets when
he went to bed, tending to show that the
venture put forth by some was not al
together unfounded. The loss cannot be
ascertained exactly, but will not vary far
from$50,000. A lB. Mclean & Co.'S machine
shop $4,000; insurance $4,000; Jas Loyd.
loss $4,000; insurance about $4,000.
LOSS OF oYsTERMEN,
Especial Telegram TO the GIObe.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 14.-The oyster
schooner Annie Gertrach, Captain Thomas,
from the oyster beds off James, point,
which arrived yesterday brought accounts
of terrible disasters and sufferings ex-
perienced during the gale by the oyster
men. The bay is covered with wreckage,
and the larger portion Of the oyster feet
has been driven ashore. Two large schooners
suddenly went down off Sandy Point, and
their crews, estimated at some twenty
souls. were drowned. The sloop Willie F.
Thomas, Capt. Preston Webster, of Deals
island, with mate and crew of eight men,
went down near James Point, and all
hands were lost. The schooner G. A. Kir-
vim, Capt. j. S. Kirvin, of Baltimore, sunk
in shoal water. The crew, except one
sailor, were saved ON the following morn
ing by the pungy Annie E. Rogers,
Captain William Kim. The shipwrecked
crew were found half frozen clinging
to the rigging. Capt. Thomas reports
also seeing the schooner Seaman's Bride
sunk off Sandy Point. The crew are be-
lieved to have been saved. The news of
the disaster caused great sensation
among the oystermen. Capt. Thomas
sailed again tonight with relief for the
sufferers, and more will be sent them to-
morrow. 1t is believed thata large num-
Der of smaller crafts have foundered, of
which no trace has been discovered. YES
sells under sail weathered the gale far more
| easily.
THE FRANCES SMITH.
CoLLINGwooD, Ont, Nov. 1.-THE cap
tain of the steamer Atlantic, the last
steamer to arrive from Sault Ste. Marie.
thinks the steamer Frances Smith would
make State Island northwest of Michipo-
coten, and is there in safety.
OWEN SOUND, Nov. 14.-The steamer
Frances Smith left Port Arthur Friday.
but as she was to lay over at Michipocoten
for dag or two she is not due here for
some days. Vesselmen have no fear of
her safety.
THE LAKE DISASTERS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.--Early this morning
special from Saugatuck, Mich, states that
all the men on the tug Protection are safe
except two, William Kelley and one of the
fremen, who were lost. Her tow, the
schooner Arab, was sunk off Racine, early
Sunday morning. The Protection was
disabled while taking off the crew of the
Arab by rope catching in her wheel.
The steam barge Akely, towed the Protec-
ton until she herself became disabled
Monday night. The tug then drifted till
she came at anchor near Saugatuck. OF
nineteen men on the two vessels seventeen
are saved. Capt. Kelley went down with
the Arab.
CHICAGO, Nov. II. The schooner Driy-
of ba
barge Akeley on board, was sighted far out
in the lake this morning, making signals
Of distress. 1t was not known what vessel
it was at the time. A tug was sent to her
relief, but owing to the heavy seas it was
impossible to get near enough to give her
any relief and the tug returned, bringing
note of the fact thar the vessel
had survivors on board, which
VS. the first news Of the Akeley
disaster. Finally, late in the day, the tug
managed to get line to her and she was
towed into the outer harbor this evening.
The vessel was completely covered with
ice and the crew and the survivors of the
Akeley suffered much hardship on the trip
across the lake. The story of tho wreck
lows: The Akeley left Chicago for
On Will O,OCO
bushels of wheat. At 10 in the
morning, when off Racine, she fell in with
the tug Protection in distress, and learned
the fate of the schooner Arab. line was
thrown to the tug and the two kept com
pany through the great gale of Sunday
and Monday. In the afternoon of Monday
the cargo of the Akeley was shifted and
she was at the mercy of the waves. Her
smoke stack and part of her upper works
went overheard, and she began to leak.Th
Protection, to relieve her, cut loose and
they parted company. The crew went at
work and righted the cargo, but the smoke
stacks being gone the engines would not
work and she lay in the trough of the sea
and finally filed and sank. The last seen
of her captain he was floating on bucket
rack, but there is little doubt he has gone
down. The schooner Driver hove in sight
in time to pick up the survivors, greatly
exhausted.
The Akely was built by Kirby in 1881,
in Grand Haven and was sixteen hundred
tons burden. Captain Stretch, in com
msnd, was ffty-one years old, one of the
best ravigators on the lake. and leaves a
wife and two children at Grand Haven.
She had $4,000 insurance. The life saving
corps are patrolling the beach at Holland,