Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-27
A WATERY CRAVE.
Appalling Results Of the Storm on Lake
Michigan.
A Large List of Vessels Wrecked and
Many Lives Lost.
THE MoURNFUL DETAILS.

A special to the Detroit Free Press from
Frankfort says: A terrible lake disaster oc-
Cured Thursday night and there Is left not a
soul to tell the story. During the height Of
the storm Thursday afternoon, at intervals
during The binding sGow STERN = three mast
ed schooner could be seen six miles south.
west OF Frankfort. Her poles were almost
bare and the deck seemed clear Of cargo. An
attempt was made TO anchor her and she held
for a time, but soon broke loose and drifted
helplessly before the gale. The wind gradu-
ally increased In violence and the seas were
growing every moment larger when darkness
set over the face OF the lake.
The vessel was totally broken up and with
the cargo piled upon the beach, everything be-
ing completely destroyed. Broken masts.
shrcuds, lumber and debris we're all mixel and
piled up together.
one body was found, that Of a man thirty
years old, with black hair aud sandy mus
tache. In the pocket of his coat was a letter
bearing the address: William Lowrev. 13l
Madison street, Chicago" His face was bad.
lv damned and his hands lacerated. The YES.
sells yawl with the name Menekaunec WAS
near by uninjured. 1t is thought she had a
INV VI hlllt XVII NV liii II DTOht as soon
as she struck. No other bodies have yet been
iscoyered.
Another wreck was discovered two miles
south, where the same chaotic wreckage was
seef 10y a Free Press correspondent. The en-
tire stern of the schooner Marinette. Of RAJ
cine, Wis, was discovered. At "A neighbor.
inc farm house was a bruised and battered
sailor with lacerated hands, from which the
flesh was stripped. and his feet were badly
swollen. He is W. &. Aunis, of Port Huron.
a sailor on his first trip, and Is the emily sur.
yivor Of this vessel.
The Chicago Inter Oceans M~uskegon.
Mich, special OF Friday, saws. The hull of a
schooner fupposed 10 be the Helen. OF Chica-
90, is floating about a half mile out In Lake
Michigan abreast OF this harbor. Wreckagc
has been coming ashore since Yesterday.
Among other things is a yawl boat with the
name Helen, Of Chicago, upon ii. The crew
are supposed to be lost.
The Chicago Times Duluth special says
The schooner L4erne was lost during the
storm. She was dfven into Port Chequame
gon. The vessel was loaded with iron ore
and went down in five fathoms. AL hands
were lost. There were not less than ten men
on board.
The Chicago Inter Oceans Frankfort.
Mich, special SAYS: The barges, Minekaunee
and Marinette, In tow Of the steam barge Man
istique, laden with lumber at OsCcola for Chi
cBgo, broke loose Thursday morning about
twenty-miles off Manitou island. They water
logged and went ashore four miles south OF
this place. The two crews, numbering fifteen
In all, were lost except one named c.. w.
Ennis. One body came ashore and was idcn-
titled, that OF VIM. Lowery.
The record at Chicago up till a late hour OF
Friday night shows that five vessels had
foundered, with a loss of at least eight lives.
and that twenty-siX vessels and bargcs had
been driven ashore, many becoming total
wrecks.