Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20
LATER GTORM NEWS.
A Captain Dies From Exhaustion aud a
Sailor KiIied-Other Mishaps.

Captain Dies From Exhaustion aud "a
Sailor KtIied-other Mishaps.
The steamer White & Friant, with
the schooners Fanny Neil and Annie
Sherwood in tow, bound from Wash
burn TO Chicago with lumber, was out
in the great gale on Lake Superior two
days. The survivors of the Sherwood
| which went TO pieces were picked up
by the steamer Sitka. The dead are:
Louis Guthrie, captain, Chicago; James
Cousins, sailor The injured are:
Thomas Randall, mate, Chicago; Thos.
Roundtree, stewart, Chicago The lat
ter two are in dangerous condition
at Sault Ste. Marie.
The schooner was completely
wrecked in short time after encoun-
tering the storm. Capt Guthrie died
from exhaustion, while Cousins was
dashed against the lumber and killed.
His body was so penned up that it
could not be cXtricated. Finally the
crew abandoned the wreck and were
picked up seven miles southwest of
Caribou island. The sailors were too
weak TO help themselves from their
yawl TO the Sitl1a. A boat had to be
lowered from the steamer, and the men
passed up one by one.
Near,y Starved to Death.
The schooner james ID. Sawyer broke
loose from the steambarge b. w.
Arnold near Skillagalee light and af
ter carrying away all her canvas in
vain attempt TO make the Manitou or
Grand Traverse Bay she went ashore
five miles south of Charlevoix. She
carried a crew of seven and one pas
senger and all were without food for
over two days. The could not have
stood it much longer. The schooner is
"A Total loss Owned in Port Huron and
had a cargo of 40, 900 bushels of corn
from Chicago.
Sault Ste. Marie: The captain of
the Avery reports seeing the topmast
heads of "A schooner sticking above the
water four miles above Partisan Island.
1t is thought TO be the schooner
Georger. The tug Bowling went to
pick her up.
Port Colborne, Ont: The spars of a
three-masted vessel are reported stick
! ing out of the water eight miles out
abreast of here. The mastS are painted
black and the boat has n square sail.
! 1t is supposed TO be the +. c. Leighton,
of Port Huron, Capt. b. Calhoun. All
! hands are undoubtedly lost
! Detour: The John Il. Merrill is Il
| total loss on Drummond'S Island, 10
miles out. The crew were rescued by
| fishermen.
13 More Lives Lost in Lake Eri1.
The steamer WocolSen foundered in
! ten fathoms of water outside the cut
/ above Long Point, Ont, in the storm
4 and lost Is of her crew. The WOcolen
was bound for Ashtab ula to Duluth
: with a cargo of coal. She left there
and went TO Erie, where she picked up
4 her consort, the barge Joseph Paige,
and started up the lake. She was
struck by the storm in the middle of
| Lake Erie and started to run to Long
( Point The sea was too much for her
and she dropped her consort and
headed for the west end of Long Point
for shelter She was unable TO make
IT and foundered The Paige ran he
fore the gale and found shelter under
the point, with all her canvas gone
The matches of the Wocolen became
pounded loose by the seas sweeping
over her decks, and she filed.
OF the crew of Is only survived; the
dead are: Albert Meswald, captain,
Marine City; Sarah Meswald, his
only sister: Captain John Mitchell,
| CltNcldnl' captain lJdNlu JOHtS' hioI
mate. Cleveland; Michael Hinkelman,
chief engineer, Cleveland; Mathew
Hastler, second engineer, Marine City;
George Smith, fireman, Marine City;
John Hinkelman, fireman, Marine City;
Charles Minard steward, Marine City;
Edmund Eldridge, watchman, Marine
City; Henry Cranch, watchman, Marine
City; William Eachl, wheelman, Marine
City; Michael Kenney, deck hand, Ma
rine City.
Buffalo: A $4,000 cargo of dry
goods and merchandise on the Cones
toga was ruined.
Scores of other vessels were dam
aged in many different ways and had
not the storm came on so gradually
scores more would have been caught
outside of shelter and the death list
might have been longer.