Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-19
A THRILLING STORY.
The MICHIGAN orr sAUeATuck
Part OF the Crew Walk Many Miles TO
Reach Land The Clerks Leg Fro
Thirteen Still Aboard.

Special Dispatch 20 Tux TELEGRAa
GaASD HAYES, Mich, Feb. ls.-The
steamer Miehigl a, Of the Grand Haven and
Milwaukee line, left this port IN search of
- distressed steamer Oneida on Monday
ksorning, the sth inst, with Captain Prindi-
vile and twenty nine men on board When
of LuddingtOn she encountered a gale and
was hemmed in By heavy ice, and drifted
with the ice 10 the southwark. experiencing
many dangers, but al no time be-
ing within twenty miles OF land.
Finally she got ia compact ice
many feet thick toward the head of the lake,
bat on account of drifting and turning they
could not tell their exact whereabouts.
Sunday last it was discovered that owing TO
short provisions half of the crew would have
10 20 ashore, as the food would not last a
week longer. Monday was very stormy;
Tuesday morning. from the cross-trees, a
rim o. land was sighted TO the eastward.
Thirteen men were chosen TO remain, and
seventeen of the most hardy to make the
land.
The mercury was lO9 below zero. At Z
o'clock Joseph Russell, first mate, David
Martin, steward, W. H. Kenny, clerk, and
fourteen of the crew. started with day S
rations. axes, pike poles, blankets, etc, ex-
.pecting they might have tobe out over night,
as the land seemed thirty miles off. When
about twenty miles of the boat clerk, Ken
ney, went through the ice, wetting his right
lsg 70 the knee. They went on about six
Eles, when 1t was found that Kenny's leg
was frozen. All were badly exhausted, as
the ice was very rough and blocked into
nearly impossible ridges many feet high and
miles wide. Each man went for him
self knowing that his life depended
Martin, who helped Kenny. When off the
land four miles Kenny could not stand, anc
dragged himself along on his hands ano
knees for two miles, when he was so com
pIetely exhausted and frozen that he coulc
not move, and urged the others to leave hin
and save themselves. Some had by thi:
time-5 O'elock-reached the shore and founc
few houses at West Casco. They alarmed
the neiglborhood, and farmers wen
out and carried the brave but
insensible Kenny to the beach
The land there rises lGO feet, almost perpen
dicularly. All hands worked like heroes, tC
throw oil the insensibility which was creep
ing on them, and climbed the steep bank
Heavy lines were placed on Kenny, and h'
v~s drawn up by those above and carried tc
dwelling. The men were appOrtione'
around among farmers, who willingly careC
for them. Kenny recovered at 10 o'clock
and everything possible was done for him
This morning all were taken to Bravo, came
on the Chicago & West Michigan Railroad
arriving here at $50 this afternoon. All arr
able To take care of themselves excep
Clerk Kenny. Surgeons dressed his leg
and he Is now doing well and will soon b.
all right. tie goes homo to Milwaukee to
morrow. He reports that the Michigan j
now in no danger, since so many of TIN
crew left that the provisions will last then
thirty days. The crew now here will remain
until the Michigan gets into this harbor
The steamer Michigan is four miles of
Clam Lake, in solid ice. Part of the crey
l. on shore here.