The morning call., 1892-09-02
Terrible Disaster to a Steamer on
Lake Superior.
SHE SUDDENLY BREAKS IN TWO PIECES.
The Owner and His Family DrCwned-Oaly 0Ee
Nan Of the Entire Ships Company
Saved.
Specisf to THE MORNING CALL

MARQUETTE, Mich., Sept 1.-The steamer
Western Reserve. bound for Cleveland.
Ohio, broke in two off Saube Banks. near
Deer Park, about o'clock Tuesday morning.
Twenty-six persons were drowned, but one
man. Harry Stewart of Algonac. being saved.
Two of the bodies were washed ashore this
morning.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Sept. 1.-The fish
tug Emma arrived down tonight, having as
passenger Harry Stewart of Algonac.
Mich, a wheelsman, the only survivor of
the mammoth steel steamer Western Re-
serve. which fOundered Tuesday morning
about 9 o'clock, sixty miles above White
Fish Point, while en- route 10 Keweenaw.
The Western Reserve left here Tuesday,
having on board as passengers Captain
Peter Minch, the owner. his wife, children
and his sister ln-law. besides the regular
crew of twenty-five hands. The rest OF the
steamers short history and fatality is best
told III the werds of Stewart, the only sur
viyor Of the terrible disaster:
"Eyerything went well until about sixty
miles above White Fish Point, when the
first warning of impending danger was
terrible crash, caused by the huge craft
breaking in. two. She took water fast and
the yawl boats were lowered. Captain
Minch, his family the officers and crew. to
the number Of seventeen, got i1to the
wooden yawl and the Others took the metal
lie one. The Reserve sank In ten minutes
and before size was out of sight the metallic,
yawl capsiZel. The other boat succeeded in
yescuing two Of the occupants aud the nine
teen survivors started for White Fish Point
sixty miles away. A considerable sea blew
up, but the yawl weathered the breakers
all night and until o'clock next morning
When about ten miles from llte-saying sta
ton No. 10 and about mile from shore 1t
al Of
the occupants afterward. The cries of the
children, the screams of the women and the
moaning OF the men were terrible FOR few
moments. He struck ant for the shore, and
after two hours in the water he laGded
about ten miles above the station and had
to walk there before reaching any one able
TO render him assistance. search failed
10 find :race OF any other survivor OF the
wreck aud there seems 10 be no question
that all we're drowned. .
A dispatch from Deer Park says that
three bodies and a yawl from the wreck ed
steamer Western Reserve were asst up by
the waves near there to-day. One Of the
bodies is that Of Captain Minch, the owner
OF the lost steamer. He was identified by
watch found on his persen. The tive ether
bodies are unidentified. one being that of a
pretty. dark haired lady.
CLEVELAND, ObiO, Sept 1.-The steamer
Western Reserve left Cleveland last Sunday
afternoon for Two HarbOrs, Mich. for iron
ore. On board. in addition to the crew,
were the principal owner. p. q. Mlnch. a
wealthy yesselman OF this eity, his wife and
son Charlie, aged 10 years; a Ganehter
aged years; his sister =in-aw, Mrs. Euglr-
by, Of NermilliOD, Ohio, and tie lattei's
daughter, Bertha, 9 years old. They
were out for recreation. The list
of the, crew as nearly as can be
obtained is as follows: Albert Myers.
captain; Fred Ingalls,, first mate; William
81 Seameu, Chief Engineer; Charles Files.
George Davis. Daniel Forbes, Carl Myers.
Harry Stewart, Robert Simpson, Charles
Leba1, Bert Smith. S. I. Hatten. John
Latham. Horace Borough, Martin Klausen,
Daniel SiickneE, r. Longheld. Albert Day
Inhn Wilsnn-