Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11
NORTHERN STORMS.

Terrible Storms Ravage tho Lake Regions
Many Wrecks With Loss of Life.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.-The ssverest storm
that the lake has known this year pat in
last night with all sails flying and Jack
Frost in command. Dispatches from all
points announce fearful gale was blow
ing and that vessels unsheltered were hav-
ing hard time last night At Holland,
Mich, the Australia went ashore and the
crew deserted the Cedric, few miles be-
low that point.
A dispatch. from Sanilac, Mich, says:
There has been a terrible storm raging
here since early last evening. At seven
O'Clock last evening the life-saving crew
from Sand Beach started out and eleven
p. m. they rescued a crew of six men and
one woman from the barge st. Clair. Four
men and one woman were drowned near
the shore. The names of the lost are Cap
Jain c. 81. Jones, Of Bay City; Henry An
derson, Of Australia; George McFarlan.
of Cleveland, and Lorus Fertaw, of Bay
City, sailors; Julia Grewrath, Of Sea-
buong, cook.
across the lake have been noted since Sun
day morning. The passenger steamer
Cuba from Montreal, due Sunday morn
ing, has not yet arrived, but it is thought
she is in shelter somewhere this side of the
Manitous. There were fewer arrivals last
night than on any night since the opening
of the season.
The gale set in here at about two O'Clock
in the afternoon, and all vessels leaving
port were compelled to put back on ac-
count of the heavy sea that was running
The officer at the signal office said that the
storm was central over Lake Erie. The
severest part OF the storm was felt in Chi
cagO this morning after six O'Clock when
the rain began to fall, driving in heavy
sheets before the scurrying gale, and be-
ing rendered doubly disagreeable by the
low temperature. There were traces of
snow about seven O'Clock, but the clouds
began to break away about about eleven
O'Clock.
Specials from Duluth report that news
had been received there that the schooner
Branden had been lost and that the
schooner Jennie was adrift, the Regina
waterlogged and the lake tug Walker
badly battered in last nights storm.
A special from Alpena, Mich, says:
''The life saving crew have gone out to re-
ieve the crews of the barges Jones, Mani
towoc, Gardner and Dan Rogers, in tow
of the steam barge Benton. The steamer
Garden City has gone to help the life
savers. The Benton is not in sight and it
is feared she has foundered with all on
board.
The schooner Forester, of Port Huron,
parted her lines at Grindstone City, Mich,
last night and went to pieces. She was
loaded with brick and stone. No lives
were lost.
Wind began to blow very hard from the
northwest yesterday afternoon at Sand
Beach and continued with increasing vio-
1ence during the night. 1t was one of the
widest nights ever seen at this season of
the year. The sea was mountains high.
The steam barge Lowell, with six barges
In tow, attempted to make the harbor here
shortly before nine O'Clock last night, but
her lines parted and while she came safely
inside, the six barges went adrift in the
lake. The ST. Clair, loaded with coal,
went to pieces and drifted ashore near
Rock Falls, two miles down the
shore. The schooner Racine is on
the reef below the harbor. Her crew
were taken of by the life-saving
crew. The barge Seagull, one of the tow
of the propeller Lowell, has gone ashore
between Sandbeach and Forestville and is
fast breaking up. What the fate of the
crew may be has not yet been learned, but
the worst is feared. The Cromwell is hard
ashore near Sand Beach, but will be saved
if the wind goes down. The Magnet has
not been heard from yet, but it is thought
she has rode out the gale. The two other
barges-the Lily May and the William
Young-rode out the gale at anchor OUT
side the harbor.,
No tidings have come of the schooner
Flying Cloud, owned by Captain Thomas
Scott and others of this city, which left
Port Huron for Chicago Sunday night.
She has not been reported in harbor any
where and it is thought that she probably
went down in Lake Huron
A dispatch from Duluth says: The Can-
adam tug James R Walker, arrived at
noon from Kingston with the scboonar
Regina in tow, reports great hardship in
the storm of yesterday and last night; The
schooner Brandon, one Of her tow, parted
her cable and becoming water-logged
probably went down. Her crew escaped
to the Walker. The Brandon carried a
cargo of iron worth $4,000 and was her
self worth SIS, 900.