The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-21
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GeANpHAyRS, M1cIt., Feb. 9O.-0ne oi
tile crew otthepropeller Michigan, which
went in search of.tidin2s Of the missing
propeller Oneida, gives the following &C.
count OF the search: You know we left
on the morning q the lo;h Int. TO hunt up
the Oneida, whicllwe supposed was north
Of here in thcice, and the Michigan was
headed in that direction. We were,
however, not long outside before a fierce
gale set in from the northeast, and by the
sime weiwere about abreast Point, Sable
the wind blew a hurricane and turned our
vessel completely around twice in success.
cession, and we headed southerly 70,
Grand Haven, but on account Of a shaftoi
windto southwesserly We could not make
this port, and again The herceness Of the
gale compelled Us to run ahead Of The
wind, and We headed for Ludington har.
Dor, with aiterrible sea running at the
time.
About 4 o'clock A. ,M., on'the 11th inst,
We got fast in the vast ice fields, from
which our lightly loaded vessel was IN,
able To extricate herself, aud a change oi
wind carried US southerly, when we came
to stand about twenty-five miles of
about West Sage. The Ice rapidly closed
IN on. the vessel luntil no open water could
be seen anywhere around for days. We
were prisoners, and all attempts to get
free from the surrounding mass would
have been futile, and time, labor and ma
terial spent for nothing, 80 we became re-
conriledto the unavoidable and looked
for high winds 10 break mp the ice and get
sjft6e. , However, { day alter day rolled
by without disturbing our monotony, and
We were at last compelled to look after
our provisions.
S0lri crew. numbered thirty men, re-
Quiring each day between ninety and one
hundred meals. This fact, with'a com.
parison Of the provisions on hand count.
ing each potato, weighing everything
pound for. pounlTshowed that, II the
whole crew Remained board, every thing
would have been consumed BY Tuesday
next and starvation would have stared III
in the face, while aclose, calculation show
ed the fact that the entire provisions or
hand would last thirteen men for thirty
days at the rate Of two meals per day. II
order to save the rest Of The crew We al
concluded that seventeen should ,leayeth
prepeller and try to reach the land II pos
sible, After land was sighted we starteC
out on our trip, little thinking what in
tonse suffering and hardships lay befort
us. rs .f.s.i3. NJ /.
| ing this We managed TO get iahead and al
went well until about II o'clock A. N.
when Kenney broke through the ice Will
bis right foot up to the knee He iwa!
soon rendered almost helpless. He wst
assisted blythe crew as much as possible
but, being themselves more or less frost
bitten, they were compelled by the ap
proachipg night to- summon other assist
ance. Kenny fell asleep again and again
but was as often aroused by the men
whom heat last begged 10 let him alone
and save themselves. "a portion OF The
crew at last reached land and summoned
the neishboring farmers 10 help Kenny
4 who iniliis last struggles ctawled on hii
| hands and knees for nearly two miles be
fore giving completely ont. a
Ho was found stretched on the, ict
asleep By tw, farmers, who aroused hin
and. carried him d distance ;of threo.quar
tars Of a mile, when they gave out nndel
his weight near shore Curtis Dye, I
farmer, living near by, then transportet
Ihim 10 the immediate shore, which d
that point rises almost perpendicularly 4
I height Of 100! feet Two ropes weft
lowered from the top Of the hill and So
curely, fastened around Kenny, when h
1 was pulled up hand over hand by til,
fescuefs. Though apparently dead, HI
was 1t once takon to Dye house, medica
aid was summoned, and he recoyetedco
sciousness. n z n
The entire party leitthe fafmer's housI
lin sleighs for Bravo station, on the soutl
Haven division ot the Michigan Gentra
road. and arrived here all more or less in
Ijufed by the frost. Amputation OF at leas
several toes in Kenny ease willibe neces