The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-10-16
A GALE ON The LAKES
Tho Vest Indian Cyclone Stfs Up The
Wares Of The Inland Seas.
SEVERAL VESSELS ARE LOST
The Dean Richmond Believed to
Have Conc Down With EiGhtesn
eouls-The Minnshaha and
J. w. Masten Founder.

1VFEALOs OEts ~ o8oOc8t kUSt1tU
OF the lake storm which ragged yesterday
and last night, 10 the reported loss Of the
steamer Dean Richmond on the shore near
Dunkirk. The flrst heard Of the disaster
was at o'clock this morning, when the
captain Of the Helen I. reported having
sighted tho Dean Richmond Oh Long
ficulties. Later Captain Tierney, of the
the Richmond In the middle of the
lake. about four miles this aide
of Erie. One of her stacks vas
other stack and spar went by the board.
She was laboring heavily in the trough. as
her steering gear had become disabled.
Since then nothing has been heard OF the
vessel. II Is thought she must have gone
down with all on board.
TOLEDO, Oct. l5.-Grave fears ere enter.
tained in this city for the safety OF the
packet freight steamer Dean Richmond
of the Clover Leaf Steamship company.
A message was received by the agent here
10 the effect that the Richmond was
spoken of Erie, Pa, with her smoke stack
and inasts down and In an III condition to
weather the gale Of the last 80 hours. The
Richmond's cargo Is i.2oo tons Of miscel-
laneous freight. The crew numbered IL
hands. The Richmond 10 owned by o
Detroit company.
The steamer Dean Rlchmond's crow,
when she left Toledo last Friday morning.
was composed as follows: G. W. Stod-
dard, captain, of Toledo, married; George
Boyson, second mate, OF Toledo, married !;
Samuel Meadows. wheelman, OF Toledo,
z. Wheeler, lookout, OF Toledo; Frank
Earnest, lookout. North Toledo; A. b.
Dodge, second cook, of Toledo; Evans.
chief engineer. shipped at Toledo; Jacob
Earnest, deckhand, Of Toledo, married ;
William Sink. deckhand, of Toledo;
George NJ. Shilling, porter, OF Toledo
Walter Goodyear, frat mate, Of Ottawa
Lake, Mich; J. Z. Brady. wheelman
Mrs. Retta Ellsworth, stevartless, OF
Aylmer, Ont. Frank Hilton. second en-,
Rinecr. of Port Huron; Thermaa Bethan,
fireman; William Sarnenfrei, fireman
Frank Patten, deck hand; unknown man,
deck hand, shipped at Buffalo. The
steamer had cargo of merchandise from,
Toledo to Buffalo. She belonged to the
Toledo, ST. Louis q Kansas City lins. -
| A dispatch from Dunkirk this evening
states that three bodies were washed
ashore few miles from there. One was
definitely identified az John Hogan, first
engineer, Of Port Huron, Mich. A sign OF
| q boat, bearing her name, was later found
and some barrels Of -four. which formed
part OF her cargo, also drifted 10 land
She must have gone down or Lighthouse
Point.
MANIsTEE, Mich, Oct. 15.-The schooner
Minnehaha has been wrecked and 81,
lives lost. Captain William Packer was
saved. The schooner bsached
at Starke yesterday noon in or
der 10 save her from founder,
ing In deep water. The seas soon drov.
the crew into the rigging. Before the ar.
rival OF the life saving crews the schooner
went 20 pieces and only Captain Packer
was saved. The dead are John Rafferty,
mate; John Rafferty,, jr., sailor, Mar,
Keefe, cook, and throe sailors who's,
names are unknown.
RACINE, Wis.,, Oct. l5.-The steam barge
J. w. Masten, with 1000 tons of coal
sprung leak and sank OF the harbor To
day.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-At Buffalo thi
evening the bodies Of three boys were dus
out of the rooms Of the freight hous,
wreck.
NEW YORK, Oct. t5.-Nineteen fshin,
smacks, the crews of which numter 10
men, have been At sea since Thursda,
last, and Il In feared that number o
them have foundered during the gale.
DETROIT. Oct. ia Free Press specia
from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. says: Tn
captain of the steamer Jay Gould, whicl
passed down tonight. reports passin
through o quantity OF wrcckags abov
whitefish Point. This would indicat
that some vessel has foundered with al
on board.
CHICAGO. Oct. l6.-Up TO As o'cloc
this morning Il Is impossible to substan
tiate the ruinor current earlier this even
ing that vessel with several people o
board had foundered of South Chicago.