Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-03
BROKE IN TWO.
Steamer Western Reserve Lost
i'm Lake Huron.
OF Twenty-Seven on Board but
One Escapes.

All Perished by the Capsizing of the Small
Boats-Passenger Harry Stewart, of Al
gonac, Mich, the Only Survivor, De-
scribes the Disaster and His Subsequent
Experience.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Sept. g.
The mammoth steel steamer Western
Reserve foundered Tuesday morning
about sixty miles above White Fish
Point, on the course of the Keewenaw.
She had on board as passengers Captain
Peter Minch, her owner, his wife, three
children and his wife's sister, besides
the regular crew of twenty-one men.
Harry Stewart, of Algonac. wheel
man, was the only survivor. Following
are the names of the crew who per-
ished:
Albert Myers, of Vermillion, o., cap
tain.
Fred Engalls, first mate.
William Ell. Seaman, of Cleveland,
chief engineer.
Charles Wlles, second engineer.
George Davis, assistant steward.
Daniel Forbes, lookout
Carl Meyers, wheelman.
Robert Simpson, oiler.
Charles LIE Bean, second mate.
Bert Smith, steward.
S. T. Hatten, fireman.
John Latcnam, fireman.
Horace Be 'ough, fireman.
Martin Klausen, oiler. IS
Daniel Stickney, deckhand.
r. Longfe-d, deckhand
Albert Davenport, deckhand.
Daniel OConnell, deckhand.
M. Coffee, deckhand.
John Wilson, deckhand.
The Only Survivors, Story.
Harry Stewart, a passenger, who is
the only one left of the twenty-seven
souls to tell the terrible tale, saws:
Everything went well until sixty miles
above White Fish, when the first warn
ing any one on board had of impending
danger was a terrible crash, about 8 a.
m, caused by the huge craft breaking
in two, anu breaking the mainmast
about half way up the rigging. She
took water fast from the start, and the
yawl boats were lowered. Captain
Minch, his family and the officers
and crew u the boat to the num-
Der of seventeen got into the wood
en- yawl and the others took the metallic
one. The f serve sank in ten minutes
and before she had hardly gone out of
sight the m9tdllic yacht capsized. The
other went to her assistance, but only
succeeded in rescuing two of her occu-
pants, Captain Myers son and the stew
ard. The nineteen survivors started for
White Fish, sixty miles away The
wind was about west when they started.
but veered to the north, making consid-
cradle sea. But the yawl weathered the
breakers all night and until next morn
ing, when about ten miles from life
saving station No. 10, and about mile
from the shore it capsized"
Stewart says that he saw none of the
occupants after that. He struck for the
shore, but the cries of the children,
screams of the women and means of the
men were terrible for few moments.
Stewart was in the water for two hours.
He struck for the shore about ten miles
above the station, and had to walk thert
before reaching any one to render him
assistance. A search failed to find
trace of any other survivors of the
wreck, and there is no question they
We're all drowned.
Peter hlinch, the owner of the
Western Reserve, retired five years
ago and settled down il Cleveland +,
manage his large vessel interests. The
present trip was intended as a pleasure
trip for his wife and family and several
friends.
The Western Reserve was steel
steamer of 1925 tons, and was built in
1890 by the Cleveland Ship Building
company. She was owned by p G.
Minch and others of Cleveland, rated
A |, and was valued at $500, 900. Her
boilers were inspected recently and re-
pairs were ordered, but had not yet been
ada