Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-10-19
WORST CALEB YEARS
A TERRleLE TEMPEST SWEEPS
OVER THE LAKES.
Disasters Unprecedented.

DlSaeterS unprecedented.
The entire chain Of lakes was swept
Saturday and Saturday night by q north
west gale whose severity has not been
excel d during the season Of naviga-
ton for the past ten years. The same
wind which drove vessels on the beach
ON every lee shore also leveled
telegraph wires, and reports OF
wrecks are somewhat slow in reach
ing the outside world. particularly
from out-of- the-way localities. The
list Of wrecks, In proportion to the
number Ct vessels which we're out
In the gale, Is larger perhaps than
in the history OF the latter-day
marine. That there has been a large
loss Of life new seems certain, but it
may be several days before it Is known
just how many sailors persisted. Eigh-
teen persons, the entire crew of the
propeller Dean Richmond, are given
up TO" lost in the storm on Lake Erie.
The corpses OF three men have been
washed ashore of Van Buren, Point,
near Dunkirk. Tie shore Of the lake
is strewn with wreckage and merchan-
disc, and, according to Buffalo dis.
patches, tie I've are hourly yielding
up further evidences OF the fate
to whish the Richmond has
gene. On ere of the bodies papers
ere found which showed it to be that
of Logan, the engineer. The others
we're d~eek-haAds. The signboard of
the Richmond washed ashore about
the same time and other pieces of
wreckage wore cast upon the beach,
leaving no doubt of the fate Of the
boat. The Richmond was the property
Of the Bottsfords, of Port Huron. She
was built in 1864. She had en- beard
a cargo Of merchandise consigned t,
Buffalo.
The storm was the severest known
to the selmen Of Buffalo in twenty-five
years. The rain fell SO heavily that pi-
lots could not see 100 feet ahead of
their vessel. All incoming vessels
have stories to tell of the violence of
the storm.
Big Schooner Goes Down..
The four-masted schooner Minnchaha
went ashore in the gale at Arcadia,
twenty miles north of Manistee. All
OF board-six persons except the cap
tain, William Packer, were lost. Capt.
Packer swan ashore with the help Of a
plank, a distance exceeding a mile.
The sailors also attempted the rerileu
journey, but became exhausted and
we're drowned. The Frankfort life-
saving crew made three unsuccessful
attempts to reach the Minnehaha, but
the boat filed with water each time.
The fourth effort was suecessfu full. bat
there was no one aboard, all having
then been washed overheard.
The wreck was first sighted by a man
on the bluff at Starkc, who jumped on
his horse and rode ut a furious pace
through the storm to Onekama. in or
der to notify the life-saving crew at
Manistee. A telegram brought the
life-savers on a special train from
that place, and in the after
noon the lifeboat, mortar and other
~life-saving apparatus was loaded on
wagons and started through the woods
to the scene of the wreck. The rain
was binding, and numberless trees
had fallen across the narrow roadway
through the forest. The progress OF
the life-savers was exceedingly slow,
and it was nearly midnight when
they reached the high sand bluff over
locking the lake at Starke. The life
saving crew from Frankfort CARED the
bluff at dark, but even then it was too
late.
Dispatches from all points along the
west shore of Lake Huron and the
eastern erd of Lake Superior indicated
that the storm increased greatly in
violence as night came OF. and at mid
night the storm was at its height. At
umerous places the wind registered
from fifty-two to sixty miles an hour at
the United States signal station. by
that time the lake fleets had generally
succeeded in getting into shelter.
wind and Tide in the SOUTH.
The town of Georgetown. on the
coast of South Carolina. caught the full
fury of the stoi m, which left death
and destruction in its track. Owing to
the wreck of telegraph lines but mea-
ger reports Of the great damage have
been received. At least nineteen per-
sons are now known to have been
drowned at Magnolia Beach. where
every house was swept from its founda-
tion, penning in the inmates until
death relieved thei. fortunes. -
At Pauley's Island. a summer resort
twelve mics from Georgetown. the tide
rose three feet, sweeping away most
of the residences, the inmates saving
nothing but the clothes they had on.
No lives are reported lost on this island
nor on Debordean, but several houses
were washed from their foundations
and drifted to sea