The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-11-11
LOST IN THE STORM.
Particulars of the Loss of the
Lake Steamer.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
Graphic Description Of the Trials and
Sufferings Of the Few Surviv-
ors of the Wreck.

WINNIPEG, November 1O.-The following
account is given in a special from Port
Arthur to the Free Press: The "Algoma'
cleared from Owen Sound about 4 O'Clock
in the afternoon OF Thursday, the 9th inst,
with freight and passengers Tor Port AT.
thur. Nothing OF any account occurred
during the voyage to Sault Ste Mare,
which point was made on Friday. The
boat passed White Fish Point about l p.
m. on Friday. The wind was at that time
blowing a stiff breeze from the east and
northeast. At White Fish Point sail was
made and the boat proceeded on her
way under a full head OF steam, the wind
increasing in violence, accompanied by
snow and sleet. At 4 o'clock Saturday
morning the wind shifted to the northeast,
and a violent snow storm ragged, the sea
running mountains high, and the boat
TOSSED ABOUT LIKE A CORK,
| At 4:15 o'clock an order was given to take
in all sail and put the wheel hard-a-star-
board to bring the ship about and head out
ON the lake on account OF the snow and
darkness. While the ship was coming
! about she struck a point known as Green
stone point on Isle Royale, about fifty
| miles from Port Arthur and one mile from
the passage lighthouse, which has been
abandoned since the LIST of the month.
After striking the first time the boat forged
ahead, being driven by the wind. A second
shock occurred shortly after the first. The
vessel struck the reef violently at the fore
side OF the boiler, and sheimmediately COM
menced to break up. Most OF the passen-
gers and a number OF the crew were in bed
at the time, but were suddenly awakened
by the shock, and the scene that followed
beggars description. The water poured in
through the broken vessel and over the
bulwarks, putting out the fires in the fur
naces and extinguishing the electric lights.
OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN
were heard above the fury OF the storm.
The crew hurried hither and thither doing
what they could in the darkness to render
assistance, but their efforts were OF little
avail, for in less than twenty minutes after
the vessel struck the entire forward part OF
the boat was carried away, together with
the cargo and human freight. Several chung
to the rigging and the life line the captain
had stretched along the boat, but were
soon swept away by the sea and swallowed
up by the angry waves. The stern OF the
boat was steadily pushed upon the rock,
and those who were not to much exhausted
with fatigue and benumbed by the cold,
crept to the after steeragc and sought it's
welcome shelter. Less thar an hour after
striking all was over, and but
FIFTEEN OUT OF OVER FIFTY
were saved. The survivors remained from
the time OF the disaster "a o'clock OF Sat
urday morning) until Monday morning al
10 o'clock exposed to the weather, will
but little food and clothing, nearly every
thing having been washed away, when they
were sighted by some fishermen, who came
to their rescue. After taking the survivors
from the doomed vessel and placing them
on Isle Royale, where 81 fire was kindled Tor
their comfort, the fishermen went out and
Intercepted the "Athabasca," which was
coming in about ten miles away. Captain
Foote OF hat vessel Immediately put about
and took the sufferers aboard, when they
were subsequently, brought here. The two
dead bodies OF Frost and Emerson were
brought in on the "Athabasca' on Mon
day, the 9th OF November.
LIST OF THE MISSING ONES
Following are the names of the lost &C
far as known here:
WILLIAM HlGGINGs, wholesale merchant
Winnipeg.
Mrs. DuDGEoS, Owen Sound, and two
children.
EDWIN Frost, wife and child, Over
Sound.
DOUGLAS CHARLES BUCHANAN, Hitler
Prince Edward county, Ontario.
LOUIS ZIMMERMAN, late OF Fort Arthur
G. EMERSON RAMsGATE, England.
PURsER MCKENZIE, nephew OF Alex Nc.
Kenzie.
WILLIAM MULLlGAN, Meerford.
THOMAS SMELLING, waiter, JOHN SCOTT
L. BATES and BALLANTYNE, deck hands.
Mrs. SHANNON, lady's maid.
GILL, Markdale.
Mrs. TAYLOR, steward.
MCINTYRE, FRED KNIGHT, THOMAS Nc
KENNY, HENDERSON H. MCCLENToN, walters