The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-02
A VESSEL BREAKS In TWO
SHE GOES TO THE BOTTOM FOL-
LOWED BY 81 LIVES.

a Wheelsman Finally Reaches Shore
and ia the Only Man Left to Tell the
Story OF the Steamers Fate-one OF
the Small Boats Only Ten Miles From
Safety When she Went Down.
SAULT STE, MARIE, MICH, Sept. L.
The fishiDg tug Em B arrived down to-
night having as a passenger Harry Stewart
of Algonac, wheelsman, the only survivor
from the mammoh steel steamer Western
Reserve, which foundered Tuesday morn.
ing about o'clock sixty miles above White.
fish point on her course to Keewee-
nav. The Western Reserve, up-bound
aud light, left the 500 canal Tuesday after
noon. having on board as passengers Capt.
Peter Minch, her owner, his wife and three
children and his wife's sister, besides the
regular Grew OF twenty-five hands. The
rest of her short history is best told In the
words Of Stewart: Everything went well
until about sixty miles above
Whitefish, when the first warning
any one ON board had OF the impending dan
ger was q terrible crash about 8 O'Clock
q. m, caused by the huge craft breaking In
two and breaking her mainmast about half
way up the rigging. She took in water fast
from the start and the yawl boats were low.
cred.
THE BOATS oAPsIzE.
Capt Minoh, his family and the officers
and Grew, to the number Of seventeen, Rot
into a wooden yawl aud the others took TO
the metallic one. The Reserve sank in ten
minutes. and before she had hardly gone
out Of sight the metallic yawl capsized.
The other yRwl went to her assistance, but
only succeeded In rescuiug two OF her oocu-
pants, Capt Myers son and the steward.
The nineteen survivors started for White
fish, sixty miles away. The wind was about
west when they started, but veered to north
west, making considerable sea. The yawl
weathered the breakers all night until Z
O'Clock next morning, when about ten miles
from life saving station No. 10 and about a
mile from shore 10 oapsized.n
ALL THE OTHERS LOST.
Stewart says he saw none Of the occu-
pants after that. He struck out for shore
and was in the water two hours. He struck
shore aboub ten miles above the station and
had TO walk there before reaching any one
to render him assistance A search failed
to find trace OF any other survivor OF the
wreck.
NAMES or THOSE ON BOARD.
CLEVELAND, o., Sept. The Western
Reserve left Cleveland last Sunday after
noon Tor Two HarborB, Mich, for iron ore.
On board, In addition to her crew, we're her
principal owner. z. G. Minch, a wealthy
vessel man Of this city; his wife. his son,
Charlie, aged 10 years, his daughter aged
years, bis sister-in-law, Mrs. Engleby OF
Vermillion, o., and the latter's daughter
Bertha, years old. The list of the crew
as nearly, as oan be obtained, Is as follows:
Albert Myers Of Vermillion, o., captain:
Fred EoRalls. first mate; William H. Sea-
man, Cleveland. chief engineer; Charles
Wiies, second engineer; George Davis, as
sistant steward; Daniel Forbes, lookout;
Carl Myers. wheelsman; Harry Stewart,
wheelsmAn; Robert Simpson, oiler.
THE OTHER UNFoRTUNATEs.
The following are supposed to be the re-
mainder OF the Grew, the names being
taken from the last registered list: Charles
Lebeau, second mate; Bert Smith, steward;
3. I. Hatten, fireman; John Latohan, fire.
man; Horace Barough, fireman; Martin
Klausen, oiler; Daniel Stiokney K. Long
field, Albert Davenport, Daniel O'ConnelI.
Nd. Coffee and John Wilson, deck hands.
The Western Reserve was one of the larg-
est and finest of the new steel steamers on
the lakes. She was built by the Cleveland
Ship Building Company, and launched Oct.
20, 1890. She was valued at S22U, 900. She
was 300 feet long and 4I-foot beam. She
was considered thoroughly stanch and sea-
worthy boat.