The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-11
WITH AN ANGRY ROA r
THE GOOD SHIP ALGOMA GOES 70
tHE BOTTOM,
Carving Down With Her Forty-E tght
Souls-list of the Known
Dead.
A Furious Gale Weathnred to Meet Dis
aster on the Treacherous Rncks--
Terrible Scenes ON the Doomed
yessel-The Struggle
for I.ifo.

marine disaster, resulting III the drowning
of forty-eight persons and the loss of ono OF
tho most valua BILE passenger steamers on the
lakes was reported Monday night, when tho
steamer Athabasca arrived. On board of tho
Athabasca were Capt. James Moore, com
mander of the Canada Pacific Railway
steamer Algoma, two passengers, and
eleven of her crow. They wore all that
were left of the sixty-two persons that
sailed for this port from Owen Sound on
the Algoma last Thursday.
FJllowing is a list of the lost: Mrs
Dudg,on and her son, aged 10, of st Paul;
Mr.. and Mr. Frost Tor Fo,tei), of Owen
Sound; George P5ttgrew. chief engineer;
Alex NJ D,rmott, of Sarnia. second en-
ginper; Mr.. Mackenzie, pur- or, nephew Of
Alexander Mackenzie, of Sarnia; Alex Iay-
lor, chief steward, of either Buffalo or
Cleveland; MIR. Jones, STORAGE steward, of
Scotland.
The other names, consisting of deck
hands, tremen, walters, and others of
the crow, can not te obtained, but
the tollowin, were saved: Fr,t Maze
ii ,slins,, Second Mate Richard Sinp on,
" e,lmnn Henry L:wi4. Waterman john
c. AlrNabb, Fireman +. McCalgar, Decs-
h,ll X. Stevens, Jnme, Bolton, Danisl
l. u,hin, Waiter4 John McLane, George
VI, C1li, John Mckenzie. The captain wa
oily injured. Tho hips papers were
lost and tho pas 5enger list could not bs
optuinal
The story of the disaster. rs related by
the captain, is that the Algoml pas ed
through The st. Marys canal bound for this
port last Friday noon. Soon after reaching
Lake Superior IA storm arose. R,alizing,
however, that tho Algoma was very power
ful and ssaworthy. Capt. Mora kept her on
her course. Eut "a night approached tho
wind increased, and by dark tho storm had
risen to a tempest. The situation was
made all the more terrible by IA binding
ST. Astorm. 1t was impo sble to the
length OF the steamer Great swept
completely over her The passenger, hui
dlei together in tho cabin, where the
scre ,ms OF tie women and children could be
hearl above tho Eaio.
% Saturday morning Capt Moore heaIrt
1 II X ,cL Harbor, lsle Royae, hopin- TO got
shslter. Near the entrance to the harbor is
dangerous roof, and just as the stoniner
was nearing the entrance she struck There
WI; a terrific shoci,. The passenger
rush VI out of the cabin frenzie1 with fear
.4p,. Moora told them tho steamer had
struck a reef AMI heseechol them to keep
calm. 1t was found the steamers bottom
had been stove ill., and she was filling. The
boats wera at once got ready. But just as
tDty WeFS HDJtlI tiit lo"el tloiil ti5 sbobHi'i
slipped OFT the reaf and di appeared.
The water was covered with tho strug
Cling forms of ami women, AMI i'll
minute all wa over. Only fourteen sur.
vtvel. Tho o got into ode of the boat an
succeeded in reaching tho i,lani where the
survivor, wore picked up by the Atha'
blSca.
Arescu passenger, describing tho scsnc,
says that many in their madness threw
Il t,Ny.,
swept fl the deck like feathers by thn
monster waves. A few hang to ropes or t,
mast, but the majority seemed to abandon
thrms,lvo to wild alarm and despair.
Tic lifeboat and its occupants had terri-
hla experience on the open, storm tossed
lake. All who could bound themselves TO
the boaG, while the remainder held on like
grim death to the sides. Expecting every
moment to me,t their death either 10y
drowning or from exposure and cold, which
was intense, the half-dead inmates were Borne
in. Once the boat was turned over with the
waves, and one of the crew washed away,
but the frail craft righted itself, and was
swept on in comparative darkness. After
half an hour tho boat suddenly struck some
rocks. The inmates feared all was over
with them, as the craft capsizsd, but, to
their surprise, when thrown out, the water
was only few feet deep. and they dis
covered that they were on land.
THE Algoma was one of three steel
steamers that were built in Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1888 for the Canadian Pacific
Railway company. They we're brought
across the ocean, taken to pieces at Mon
treal, and carried in sections to Lake Eric,
a, they had too great breadth of beam to
pass through the Wellant cannl They were
then put together and have since formed
n line between this port and
Owen Sound. Ont, which is the Georgian
bay terminus of the Canadian Pacific rail
way. They cost S210, 600 each and
st 4nch AMI tran.: as steel and the very best
material could make them. Their hui!4
were divided into five water tic hit compnrl~
ments, and tho builders guarnnttel tnat if
any two of the five compartments wer. to
be opened in free communication with the
sea the steamer would still float