Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-13
A WHITE SQUALL.
A Sudden Blow Overturns Yacht
at Chicago.
FOUR PLEiSURE-SEEKERS DROWNED.
Two Boys in a Boat Also Supposed to BE
Lost-The Captive Balloon Blown
to Pieccs-A Tugs Gal
LIANT Work.

CHICAGO. July 10.-Chicago was Wis
tied at $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
by the most terrific storm it has expert
enced for several years The wind
blew almost a hurricane and the rain
fell in torrents The storm gathered
in the north and west with marvellous
| quickness- Nobody was looking for it.
All at once it was here and the next
minute it was swooping over the city,
leveling trees and spreading death and
destruction among many pleasure boats
which were out upon Lake Michigan.
Owing to the beautiful weather dur
ing the morning and afternoon these
were more numerous than usual. Many
narrow escapes from death We're ex-
perienced, but so far as known the loss
of life is limited to four, all of them lost
by the capsizing of the sailing yacht
Chesapeake, which was overturned
about two miles from shore. The party
on the boat consisted of nine people
and of these four were drowned. The
dead are: Ethel Chase, is years old, of
Boston, Mass; Harry NARROW. Ii. nj.
Cornice and Themistocles Timbalis.
Those who were rescued are: George
Gray, Edith Champion, William Avery,
Fred Avery and William Elliott.
The Chesapeake was a well-built
yacht and was owned by the Avery
brothers. The party had been out dur
ing the afternoon enjoying the sailing.
The sudden fury of the storm, however,
gave them no chance, and they were in
the water before the men of the party,
several of whom were skillful sailors,
could do anything to prevent it. Fred
Avery and Elliott chung to the side of
the boat and managed to keep
their heads out of water. Will
Avery was hurled nearly fifteen
feet from the boat and went
down head foremost. Near him was
Edith Champion, and as Avery rose he
seized her and swan to the boat. There,
with his three companions, ne made u
gallant fight for life. Capt. McRae, of
the steam tug Robert Torrent, which
was in the harbor, saw the Chesapeake
capsiZe and went to its assistance. He
reached it in time to rescue the Avery
brothers, Gray, Elliott and Miss Cramp-
ton. The bodies of the others were
not recovered.
The rescue of the Chesa peake party
was the second achievement OF the tug
Torrent during the storm. Only a few
minutes before it started on that errand
it had picked up four young men who
had tried to cross the harbor from the
government pier, where they had been
fishing. The wind turned their row
boat upside down in less than a sec
ond, but they were all rescued after
being one-third drowned and one
third frightened to death. Other
tugs in the harbor were busy for
time in picking up row-boats
and not less than six people were saved
in the harbor alone, but no lives were
lost. Charles Saunders, of ST. Louis,
started out for boat ride and hung to
the bottom of his boat for fifty minutes
before he was rescued, more dead than
alive. The yacht Flora, with large
party on board, lost her Easts Off
Evanston. but her passengers were all
taken off.
At the worlds fair grounds little
damage was done to the buildings, but
the passengers who were up in the cap
tive balloon had close call, and the
balloon itself, after being brought to
earth. was blown into pieces and the
pieces were carried out of the grounds.
The gale struck the Ferris wheel with
all its force. The cars were all filed.
1t blew so hard that the engineer
could hardly keep at his post. But
hard as it did blow, it did not
move the gigantic structure a hairs
breadth. Some excitement was shown
by timid people as the wind howled
around the cars that hung in the very
heart of the storm, but the wheel kept
moving as steadily as if the sun had
been shining. just before the storm
Andrew Cummings, who rents boats at
the foot of Barry avenue, gave two
boys, each about IS years, one of his
boats. At midnight nothing had been
heard of boys or boat