The morning call., 1893-10-16
Ii THE CREW PERISHED.
Three of the Bodies Were Washed
Ashore.
FISHING sMAcKs IN THE sToRn.
MANY of the Boats Probably Foun-
dered-Wreck of a Schooner
and a Bark.

BUFFALO, n. Y. Oct. 15.-The saddest
feature OF the lake storm which ragged yes
terfay and last night is the reported loss
of the steamer Dean Richmond on the
shore near Dunkirk. The first heard OF
thedisaster was at 9 o'clock this morning.
when the captain of the Helen T. reported
having sighted the Dean Richmond of
Long Point where she was laboring under
difficulties.
Later Captain Tierney of the ". II.
Stevens reported he had sighted the Rich
ihond in the Middle lake, about four
miles this side of Erie. One of her stacks
was missing, and while he was looking
the other stack and spar went by the
board.
She was laboring heavily in the trough,
as the steering-gear became disabled.
Since then nothing has been seen or heard
of the vessel, and it is thought she must
have gone down with all on board.
The Richmond had cargo of merchan-
disc from Toledo to Buffalo. She be-
Ionged to the Toledo. St. Louis and Kansas
City line.
A dispatch from DuDkirk this evening
states three bodies were washed ashore a
tely identified as that Of John Hogan, the
first engineer, of Port Huron, Mich. A
signboard of boat, bearing her name,
and some barrels of -four which formed a
part of her cargo, also drifted TO land.
She must have gone down off Lighthouse
= Point.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct 15-The steamer
Ricbmond's crew when she left Toledo
last Friday morning was composed as fol
lows: c. ". StOddard. CAPTAIN. Toledo,
married; George BoyseD, second mate,
Toledo. married; Samuel Meadows, wheel
man. Toledo; Wheeler, lookout, Toledo
: F.. Earnest, lookout, North Toledo a. b.
Dodge, second cook, Toledo; Evans, chief
engineer. shipped at Toledo; J. Earnest,
;deckhand, Toledo. married; William Sink.
deckhand. Toledo; George N. Shilling.
porter: Walter Goodyear, first mate, OF
"towa Lake. Mich; j. E. Brady, wheel
man { Mrs. Retta Ellsworth, stewardess.
.Aylmer. Ont; Frank Hilton. second en-
gineer, Port Huron; Therman BehaB, fire.
man; William Sargenfrel, fireman; Frank
Patten. deckhand; an unknown man, deck
hand, shipped at Buffalo.
MANIsTEE. Mich, Oct. 15 - The
schooner Mnnehaha has been wrecked
and six lives lost Captain William
Packer was saved.
The schooner was beached at Starke
yesterday noon in order to save her from
laundering in deep water. The seas soon
drove the crew into the rigging. Before
the arrival Of the life-saving crews the
schooner went to pieces and only Captain
Packer was saved. The dead are: John
Rafferty,. mate; John Rafferty, Jr. sailor
Mary Keefe. cook; and three sailors,
names unknown.
RACINE, Wis, Oct. 15.-The steam bark
j.. W. Masten. with 1000 tons of coal,
sprung leak and sank off the harbor to-
day.
NEW YORK. Oct. 15.-NIneteen fishing
smacks, the crews of which number 100
men, have been at sea since Thursday
last, and it is feared that a number of
them foundered during the gale.
: CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-Up to l As this morn
ing IL was impossible to snbstantiate the
rum0rs current earlier in the evening that
Rvessel with several people on board had
foundered off South Chicago.
; DETROIT. Oct. ia Free Press special
from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, says: The
captain of the steamer Jay Gould, which
passed down tonight. reports passing
through a quantity Of wreckage above
Whitefish Point. This would indicate that
some vessel had foundered with all on
board