Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-18
IA PEOPLE DROWNED.
Four Members Of the Cleveland Life
Saving Grew Lost.
STORMS ALONG THE LAKE.
of Dollars Worth OF
Lumber and Building Materials
Carried Out Into Lake Erie.
Severe Weather in Northern
Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Oh rain anu Wlnu WHICH Uobou Nv HNOH
Monday, and has continued almost
without cessation until this evening,
has produced food unprecedented In
the history of Northeastern Ohio and
Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Thus far fourteen lives have been
lost.
Great damage has been done to ship
ping, and the loss to the other property
will amount into the hundreds OF thou
sands OF dollars.
The Cuyahoga river runs through the
manufacturing and lumber district OF
the city by torturous channel about
five miles in length.
Along its banks are the Valley and
the Cleveland, Canton and Southern
railways.
This morning the water was away
over the rivers banks. The torrent
was seeking the nearest way to the lake,
and half a dozen lumber yards in Is
course could not bar the way. Whole
piles Of lumber were carried along on
the stream and swept out into the lake
or lodged against the abutments or
bridges further down. Millions OF feet
of building material from the yards OF
the Cleveland Saw Mill Company, n.
Mills and Co., n. Monroe and Fred
Hempy & Co., is now on its way TO Can
ada and more OF it still coming dowu
| the river.
Owing to shaky bridges. traffic was
suspended on all railroads running east.
This afternoon while great crowds
were watching the flood, the first disas-
ter happened here. Captain Stanley
Flanagan and Michael Leblonde, were
going down the river in a row boat used
TO peddle milk along the docks. When
| near the mouth Of the raging
! stream, one of Leblonde's oars
broke, and the two men were left at the
mercy of the waters, They were quick
ly carried out into the lake by the rush
| ing stream, and as it was evident their
| frail craft could not live In the angry
sea that was coming from the north,
| preparations were quickly begun for
their rescue by the life saving crew.
| Seven men manned the life boat
and pulled away toward the coast
pier Of the breakwater, toward which
point the boat containing Flanagan
| and Leblonde had drifted. When the
| life savers were well out Of the mouth
| OF. the river an oar broke, and In an in
| slant the cork-like vessel swung about
to toss upon the angry waves. The
men in the lifeboat were totally help
| less, and before assistance Of any kind
could, be rendered, their boat was over
| turned and and all the men were thrown
| into the water.
Four of them succeeded in catching
| hold Of the overturned life-boat, where
they hung on until they were rescued
| I'm a terribly exhausted condition. Four
! of their fellow life savers wer1 tossed
| about so merclessly by the wild waves
that they were unable to swim back to
the life. boat and after vainly battling
for few moments with the elements
they were overcome and the battle OF
| life had 20 be given up.
The names OF the heroes who lost
their lives in attempting to save others,
were:
CHESTER SIMONS.
JOHN JOHNSON.
NICHOLAS SERVAS.
ALBERT CURRIER.
The life savers who were rescued
were George Wilson, Lawrence Dris-
| coll and George Loehr. They were
brought ashore by tug.
FLANAGAN and
LEBLONDE
were of course drowned almost before
the lifeboat capsized.
A distressing accident also occurred
at Conneaut, about sixty miles east OF
Cleveland. The tug Walter Richard
son, dredge Continental and scow were
anchored al Conneaut hGrbor Tuesday
night. The creek rose rapidly and at
six o'clock this morning the scow was
carried out into the lake with the tug.
In cutting away from the scow the tug
wheel was disabled and the tug washed
ashore. The crew was saved. The
dredRe was carried into the lake and
Immediately capsiZed.
There were seven persons on board;
two OF them were washed ashore on the
wreckage. The others persisted. A
list os the drowned is as follows:
ALTHUR WILSON, captain, aged 30,
of Philadelphia.
GEORGE OROURKE, 27, OF Detroit.
JOSEPH FIFE, %. of Conneaut.
MAGGIE WHITE, cook, 40, OF
| OicNciduu'
WATCHMAN, name unknown.
The sea was running heavy and no
bodies had been recovered.
At Ashtabula Harbor last evening
the schooner Pelican foundered as 1t
was entering the harbor and sank in
forty feet of water. Three of the crew:
PETER NELSON,
JOHN ERICKSON and
JOHN ECKNIGHT, all OF Cleveland,
were drowned.
AT Willoughby, Ohio, the Chagrin
was out Of its banks. Early this morn
ing the grlst mill of Joseph Boyce was
swept from its foundations. hurled
against the abutment OF bridge and
| crushed into wreckage, which flowed
away TO the lake.
Reports from all sections OF north
eastern Ohio tell Of swollen streams and
overfiowed farm lands, but il Is impos-
sible to make an estimate OF the dam
age.