The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-04-21
in THE STORMS PATH
TFGnty-OnG Lives Lost in Full View Of
Thousands.
IMPOSSIBLE TO RESCUE THEM
A Fierce Gale Sweeps Over Chicago
Lake Front--Names of the
Drowned.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 20.-Lake
Michigan is being swept by one of the
worst easterly gales experienced in years.
The sea is running very thigh and all
craft are unable to venture out fof tthe
harbor. A small vessel is ashore at the
head of Juneau avenue. The worst
feature of the gale is the probable loss of
20 lives by the washing away of house
over the crib at the terminus of the new
water works tunnel. No men are in
sight, and it is believed that they were
swept away, but they may be in the air
lock below. Five or six men can be
seen clinging to the machinery and tim
bers of the water works crib. The water
is sweeping over them. It is thought
that the others may be dead in the
chamber below from the lack of
air. The life-saying crew has been
1t is now known that twenty-five men
went out to the water works crib last
night. Unless rescued soon, all that
may be alive at this hour must perish,
as the crib is submerged by every wave.
1t is reported that five of the life-savlng
crew refused to obey orders to go out in
the life-boat. The tug Stark left the
harbor at $50 M, but was forced to
return. The sea broke in the pilot-house
windows. and cut Captain Chris Miller
quite severely. There is talk of man
ming the revenue cutter Johnson and
going to the scene. Captain Davis sig
nifies his willingness to make the at
lifeboat. The small vessel ashore at the
head of Juneau avenue is the Lorena.
A tug is now on the way to the scene
with life-boat and men on board. She
is making slow headway, and is fairly
buried by the sea at times.
. The tug Welcome has returned from
the crib. The life-savers found one man
whom they rescued. He will probably
die from exposure and exhaustion. AS
there are no signs OF any of the rest, it
is believed the twenty-one men are
either swept away or dead in the crib
chamber
The man rescued from the wrecked
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the life-saving crew was so exhausted
when taken aboard the tug that he was
unable to speak. He recovered suffi-
GENTLY just before being taken to the
hospital to be able to tell those about
him that his companions were all in the
air chamber below the crib. 1t is
believed they are all suffocated. Two
bodies were seen floating around in the
well of the crib by the life-saver who
reached the crib. His name is Oleson,
and he was badly handled by the sea
while performing his noble work. Cap
tain Peterson of the lifesaving crew, was
badly hurt about the head. It was an
anxious crowd that stood on the shore
and looked at the crib this morning.
The sight was the most awful one
nybody in the vicinity had ever seen-
Waves fully Is feet high dashed over the
crib with terrific force. All that was
left of the crib was a couple of posts
that supported the house and one of the
pumps. The two large boilers, the en-
gine, one or two pumps, the air COM
pressor plant and the 10000 brick that
were on the crib had been washed off.
Twenty minutes after the house was
washed out of existence, the entire
machinery, and whatever else the house
contained that had been left, was lifted
directly into the air, apparently by the
combined force OF the wind and waves,
and everything was hurled into the
raging sea, many feet below the level of
the crib. One of the most pitiful in
cidents in connection with the disaster
was the spectacle of the aged father of
Engineer Dwyer pacing to and fro on
the beach, vainly trying to see through
the mist and catch glimpse of the poor
boys clinging to the crib. "Joe is home
sick, good for him." he said, ''but
Mikey is out there, and I wish he was
home sick too"
The following are known to have been
in the wrecked crib: George Gregg,
lockman; Michael Dwyer, engineer; !;
John Mcbride. engineer; Eben All,
cook; James Miller, William Priestly,
Joseph McCarty, George W. Holly,
William Presser, Joseph Pretznold,
Gustave Lacomitz and Fred Spanner,
miners. James Miller is the man who
was rescued. The doctors say he will
recover.