Bismarck weekly tribune., 1885-11-13
THE " ALGOMA !"
Sworn Statement Of the Captain of tho
Wrecked Vessel. 81!

-s- Wrecked Vessel. s.
WINNIPEG, MAN, November 1O.-The
followingis is statement made, by the cap
tain Of the ill fated Algoma, before no
tary public, in relation to the trip and the
incidents connected with her loss: The
steel steamer Algoma cleared from the
port of Owen Sound at o'clock and 20
minutes in the afternoon on Thursday, the
fifth day of November, A. D. 1886, bound for
the port of Port Arthur, having ON board a
general cargo of merchandise-about 400
tons. We had good run to Sault Ste.
Marie, which port we cleared at O'Clock
On the afternoon, Of Friday, the sixth day Of
8 o'clock and 5Osminutes of the same day.
The wind was blowing astrong bleeze from
the east and northeast. Made sail at
White Fish point at O'clock p. m. The
weather was the same, but the wind was
slightly increased, with occasional
squalls attended with rain; at
moderate gale, with frequent squalls, ac-
companied with rain and sleet At a. m.
November 7th, the wind shifted to north
east with a violent snow squall and a
heavy sea running; at five minutes after
a. m. we checked down and commenced
taking in sail; at 4:S0 a. m. all sail was in
cA1opC Ciic 1oIe IlySaiA, WAllcii was partly
IN, we put her wheel hard a-starboard and
the ship was coming around to head
out on the lake again, on account Of the
snow. After leaving White Fish point,
our proper course was northwest by west,
but the wind being from the northWard, we
steered northwest by west quarter west,
until 10 p. m. to allow for leeway, when the
4 a. m.; we then steered west by south, for
the purpose Of taking the sails in. While
the ship was coming around she struck
aft, about 4:20 a. m., and continued to forge
ahead, driven by the heavy sea. About
4 40 a. m. she settled, the seas making a
clean breach over her all the time, and
sonm 3 ee eennppea shp up on eco bndng o S
seas that were running and the surf, it was
impossible to make any effort to save the
ship or cargo. At about i a. m. she parted
at the fore side of the boiler, and freight
got washed out, and some of it was driven
ashore. The survivors clung to the after
part Of the wreck until Sunday morning,
when, the gale having abated and the sea
gone down, we made a raft and went
ashore, and found we were on Greensboro
island, at the northeast end of Isle ROyale.
On Monday morning at 9 o'clock we
sighted the Athabaska, on which ship the
surviving passengers and crew embarked
for Port Arthur, at which port we arrived
stt o.fo r. LII. ou nlouudy, Gllc JILL VI NOfoul-
Der.
The following are the names of those
lost, so far as known here: William Hig-
gins, Winnipeg; Mrs. Dudgeon and two
children, Owen Sound; Edwin Frost, wife
and child, Owen Sound; Douglass and
Charles Buchanan, Hileier, Prince Albert
county, Ontario; Louis Zimmerman, Port
Arthur; G. Emerson, Ramsgate, England;
Purser Mckenzie, nephew of Hon. Alex.
McKenZie; William Mulligan, MeafOrd:
Thomas Smelling. waiter; John Scott, L.
Bates and Balantyne, deck hands; Mrs.
Shannon, ladies' maid; Gill, Markdale; Mrs
Taylor Stewart, Ferdinand Knight, Thorn
as Mckinney, Henderson and H. McClin-
ton, walters.