Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-02
The Story Of the Loss OF the Steel
Steamer the "wcstern
Resorye.v
ONLY ONE SURVIVOR LEFT TO
TELL THE TALE.
A Terrible Disaster.-List Of Names
OF the Crew. Bodies
Washed Ashore.
ny TELEGRAPH to ,be NEWS.
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
Tho "wosiern ncscrvo- sinks and the
Grew IN Lost.

Grew In Lost.
SAuLT HTE. MARIE, Mich, Sent, 1,
The fish tug az. NJ. II. Az arrived
down tonight, having ~ q passenger
nary Stewart OF Algonac, Mich,
whecltmau nnd only survivor of the
mammoth steel steamer "wes.ern Re.
serve" which ioundored Tuesday
morning about o O'Clock, sixty miles
above Whitefsh Point, Gu route 10
Necweonaw. The ",vce,ern ReservoD
left the Soo Tuesday, having ON bonrd
as passengers Captain Peter Mihch,t the
owner, his wife, children and sister-in.
law, besides the regular crew OF twenty.
two hands. The rest of the steamers
history ie short, and tho fatality 10 best
told In tho words OF Stewart, tho
only survivor Of tho terrible disaster.
Everything went well until about
sixty miles above whitefsh Point,
when the iirst warning OF impending
danger was u terrible crash caused by
the hugo craft breaking In two. She
took water fast, and the yawl boats
were lowered. Captain Minch, his
family and the officers and CROW 10 tho
number OF seventeen got into the
wooden yawl and the others took the
metallic one. The "Reserven sank In
ten minutes, and before che was out of
sight the metallic yawi capsized. The
other boat succeeded In resculng two
occupants, and the nineteen survivors
started for Whitefish Point, sixty miles
away. Considerable Of a sea blew up,
but the yawl woa,hered the breakers
NIL right and until O'Clock the next
morning. When about ten miles from
Life Saving Station No. 10 aud about
mile from ehore, II capsized.
Stewart says he saw none OF the occu-
pants afterwards. The crles Of the
children, screams OF women and tho
moaning OF men were terrible for .
few moments. He struck for shore,
anu after two hours In the water,
Landed about ten miles above the sta
ton aud had TO walk there before
reaching any one who could render
him any assistance. A search failed
to flnd trace OF any other survivor Of
the wreck and there seems 10 be- no
question that all were drow ned,
A dispatch from Deer Park sSys that
three bodies from tbe wrecked steam
er "western Reserve" were cast up by
the waves near there today. One Of
the bodies IN that Of Captain Minch
the owner OF the lost steamer. He WINS
identified by ID watch FOUND on his per-
son. The two other bodies are uniden-
tilted, one being that Of pretty dark
eyed lady.
A LIST OF THE LOST GREW.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1.-The
"Westefn Reserve" leit Cleveland last
Sunday afternoon for Two HarboTs,
Michigan, for iron ore. On board, In
addition to the crew, were PC. Minch,
u wealthy vesselmhn OF this city, his
wife and Charlie, aged ten yearn, n
daughter aged six years, his sisler.in-
law, Mrs. Engleby Of Vermilllop,
Ohio, and the later's daughter, Bertha,
nine years old. They we're out for
recreation.
The list OF the crow, rs nearly as
eau be obtained, II M follows
Albert Myef, captain; Fred Engels,
first mate; VIM. II. Seaman. chief
engineer; Chas. Wells, Geo. Davi-,
Daniel Forbes, &. Myers, Harry
Stewart, Robert Simpson, Chss. Levan,
Bert Smith. IL. NJ. Haten, John
Latham, Horace Borough, Martin
KIawsen, Daniel Strickney, II. Long
field, Albert Davenport, Daniel
O'Connell, McCoffee and John viii
eon.