Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-02
Friday, September 2, 1892.
:TwENTY-sIx DROWNED.
A Steamer on the Great Lakes Rrea
in Two.

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MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept 1.-The steam
er Western Reserve. bound for Cleveland
broke In two off An Sable bank, near Deel
Park, on Tuesday night. Twenry-six Per.
sons were drowned. Harry Stewart OF
Algonac was saved. Two of the bodies
were washed ashore this morning.
/ SUALr SIZE. MARIE, Mich, Sept. 1.-The
fish tug <. II. B. A. arrived tonight,
bringing Harry Stewart of Algonsc, q
wheelsmAn, the only survivor from the
mammoth steel steamer Western Reserve,
which foundered Tuesday morning sbout
O'Clock, sixty Iailes above White Fish
Point, on the course to Keeweenaw. The
Western Reserve left the 500 Canal Tues
day afternoon, having on board as passen-
wife and two children and his wife's sister
and her child, besides the regular crew of
twenty-five hands.
Stewart, the survivor, says: Every
thing went well until about sixty miles
above White Fish, when the first warning
anyone on board he'd of impending danger
was terrible crash about q. m, caused
by the huge craft breaking In two and
breaking the mainmast about half way up
the rigging. She took In water fast from
the start, and the yawl boats were lowered.
Captain Minch. his family and the officers
and crew of the boat to the number of
seventeen got into the wooden yawl and
the others took to the metallic one. The
reserve sank in ten minutes, and abe had
hardly gone out of sight when the metallic
yawl capsizsd. The other went to her as
sistance, but only succeeded in rescuing
two of her occupants. The nineteen sur
vivors started for White Fish, sixty miles
"a -. Nd ~
they started but veered to the NORTH, max
ing considerable sea. But the yawl wealth
cred the breakers all night and until the
next morning. Then, when about ten
miles from life saving station No. 10, and
about q mile from the shore 1t capsized.n
Stewart says that he raw none of the
occupants after that. He struck out for
tho shore, but the cries of the children,
screams of the women and moaning of the
men were terrible for few minutes. Then
all became silent. Stewart was In the
water two hours. He struck shsre about
ten miles above the station and had to walk
there before reaching anyone to render him
assistance. A search failed to find trace of
any other survivor of the wreck, and there
is no question that they were all drowned.
The following is list of the Lost:
Psssengers-Csptain P. g. Mineh, q
fcseoi OwacE VI SlcSolhQus Qlh
wife, his son Charles, aged ten, his daugh-
ter, aged six, his sister-in-law, Mrs. En-
gleby of Vermillion, o.. and the latter's
daughter Bertha, aged nine.
Crew-Albert Meyers, Vermillion, O.,
captain and his con; Fred Engslls, first
mate; w. Fl. Seaman, chief engineer:
Charles Wiles, second engineer; George
Davis, assistant steward; Daniel Forbes,
lookout; Carl Meyers, wheelman; Robert
Simpson, oiler; Charles Lebeen, second
mate; Bert Smith, steward; s. T. Hsttep,
fireman; John Lstchsm, fireman; Horace
Borough, fireman; Martin Klsusen, oiler;
Daniel Stickney, R. Long6eld, Albert
Davenport, Daniel O'Connell, N. Coffey
and John Wilson, deckhands.
The Reserve was one of the largest and
finest steel steamers on the lake. She was
owned by the P. q. Minch estate and 9TH
ers of Cleveland and was valued at $780,
900. She WAS 800 feet long and Il feet
beam. She was considered a thoroughly
staunch and seaworthy boat,