The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-10-26
Observation-Disclosures
A TERRIBLE TEMPEST SWEEPS
OVER THE LAKES.
Heavy Loss OF Life IL known to Have
Occurred - Enormous Damage Done -
Stanchest Boats Are Driven to Shelter
Worst Not Yet known.


Worst Not Yet Known.
Disasters Unprecedented.
The entire chain of lakes was swept
Saturday and Saturday night by north
west gale whose severity has not been
exce!led during the season OF naviga-
tlon 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 OF 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 now 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 for lost in the storm on Lake Erie.
The corpses of three men have been
washed ashore Off Van Buren, Point.
near Dunkirk. The shore of the lake
is strewn with wreckage and merchan-
disc. and. according to Buffalo dis
patches. the wave, are hourly yielding
up further evidences of the fate
to which the Ricnmcnd has
gone. On one of the bodies papers
were found which showed it to be that
Of Logan. the engineer. The others
were deck-hands. The sisnboard of
the Richmond washed ashore about
the same time and other pieces of
Wreckagc We're cast upon the beach,
leaving no doubt Of the fate of the
boat. The Richmond wa, the property
of the Bottsfords. of Port Huron She
was built in 1864. She had On beard
a cargo Of merchandise consigned to
Buffalo.
The storm was the severest known
to the seamen of Buffalo in twenty-five
years. The rain fell so heavily that pi-
lots could not SEQ 100 feet ahead of
their vessel. All incoming vessels
have stories to tell of the violence of
the storm.
ILL.,. Schooner Goes Down.
Tne fuur-masted schooner Minnehaha
went ashore in the gale at Arcadia.
twenty miles north of Manistee. All
on board persons the cap
tain, William Packer. were lost Capt.
Packer swan ashore with the help of Il
plank. a distance exceeding a mile
The sailors also attempted the perilouS
journey, but became exhausted and
were drowned. The Frankfort life
saving crew made three unsuccessful
attempt, to reach the Minnehaha. but
the boat filed with water each time.
The fourth effort was successful. bat
there was no one aboard, all having
then been washed over board.
~ i.vh al
on the bluff at Starke. who jumped on
his horse and rode at furious pac,
through the storm to Ouckama. III Or
der to notify the life-saviny crew at
Manistce. \ telegram brought the
llfe-savcrs on q special train from
that place. and in the alter
noon the Hfcboat, mortar and otke:.
lIfe-saving apparatus was loaded on
wagons and started through the woods
to the scene Of tho wreck The rain
was binding. and numberless trees
had fallen across the narrow roadway
through the forest. The progress OF
the life-savcrs was exceedingly slow.
and it was nearly midnight when
they reached the high sand bluff over
looking the lake at Sttrke. The life
saving crew from Frankfort gained the
bluff at dark, but even then it was too
late.
Dispatches from all point 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 ON. and Ct mid
night the storm was at t., height At
numerous places the wird rcsi~tere |
from fifty-twO to sixty miles an hour II:
the United States signal station hy
that time the lake !.c1> Lad 1cncrall. :,
succeeded in getting into shelter
Wind and Tide in the South.
The town of Georgetown. on the
coast Of South Carolina. caught Tic full
fury OF the stOim. which lief, death
and destruction in its track. Owing to
the wreck of telegraph lines but nca-
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 it, founda-
ton. penning IN the inmates until
death relieved their fortunes.
At Pauley'S Island. Il 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 e..ral houses