Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-09-02
BUT ONE SURVIVOR.
A Lake Steamer Meets
With Disaster.
TWENTY-SEVEN ARE LOST.
Thrilling Story Told by the One Whose
Life Was Spared.

SAuLT SIT MARIE, Mich. Sent e.-The
h.h tue j. a. \. o,-ivod last nia at,
bringing aa.,y Stewart "a wheeman, the
only suryi. nom the mammoth steel
5teamer Wrs e,h Reserve, which founderod
TUESDAY moi ng sixty miles above White
fish Point. on ths course To Hecneenaw
The Western Reserve loft the 500 canal
Tuesday afternoon, having on board as
passengers Capt. Minch, her chief owner;
his wife, two children, and his wife's sis,
ter and her c'ild, besides the regular crew
Il twenty TWO hands. Stewart the sur
vivor, says.
Everything went well until about
sixty miles above Whitefish, when the
first warning anyone on board had of i'm
pending danger was n terrible crash about
, a M, caused by tno huge craft breaking
IN TWO ana breaking the mainmast about
half way mp the rigging. She took I'm
wnter fast from the start, and the yawl-
boats were lowered. Captain Minch, his
family, andt the officers and crew of the
boat, TO the number OF seventeen, got into
the wooden ypVl, and the others took 10
the metallic one The Reserve sank in ten
minutes, aud she had hardly gone cut Of
sight when tha metallic yawl capsized.
The other went to her assistance, but
only succeeded IN rescuing two of her &C.
upauts-Csptain Myers son and the
steward. The nineteen survivors started
for Whitef4h, sixty miles away. The
wind was about west when they started,
but veercd q he north, making consider.
able sea. But The yawl weathered the
bre1kors all night aud until the next
.aornlng Then, when about ten miles
from hfe-saviuJ st ion No. 10 aud about
annie trom tDe shoto, il Japsizei.
StoWar, says that hs saw some OF the oc
cupauts after that. lie struck for the
shore, but the cri-, Of children, screams of
women aud t.c moaning of the men were
terrible for .gw moments lhen all be.
came silent
Stewart wns In the water two hours. he
struck shoTo bout ten niles above the
station, and nad TO walk there before
reaching anyone - render him assistance
A search failed 60 lind trace Of any othel
survivor of ,ho wrSk, and there IL nc
question dat they 10 all drowned. The
following h.
If.t Of the Lost.
Passencc; Cart T.. q. Miuch n wealth,
vessel owner of Cleveland; his wife his SOL
Garlic, az" 10; his daughter, aged o; hi,
sister-inlaW, airs Eugieby Of Vermillior
o., aud the at.er' daughter, Bertha
aged D.
CrcN'--A bert Myers, Vermillion, O.
captain, rud his son; Fred Engalls. hrsi
mate; w. Is. Soaman, chief engineer.
Charles Wilts, second engineer; George
Davis, asssl % steward; Daniel Forbes
lookout; CO. Myers, whc,!man; Robert
simpson, oii J. Charles Lcbean, second
mate; Bort ia, steward; 3. r. Hattsn,
fireman; Jo lalcbman, fireman; Horace
Borough, fr, nan, Martin Klausen, oiler'
Daniel SJichuty, * Lonslcld, Albert
Davenport, Daniel O'Connoll, n. Coffee
and John " ilson. deck hands.
The Western lieserve was one Of the
largest and iue-' Of the new steel steam
ers on tho lax - She was owned by the
T. q. Much "a ate aud others of Clevo
land, aud was Nalued NJ t23O, 90 She was
300 feet long aud 81 feet beam. She was
considered u thoroughly staunch and SEA
worthy boat