The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-16
LOST ON THE LAKES
Eighteen Men Went Down with the
Steamer Dean Richmond.
MANY OTHER WRECKS REPORTED.

a Long Lat of Vessels That Have Been
Cast on tho Beach or sunk, the Fate of
whose Crews Is at Present Unknown,
Though They Have Doubtless Perished.
BUFFALO. Oct. 18.-Eiahteen persons, the
sntire crew Of the propeller Dean Rich
nond, are given up for lost in Saturday
nights storm on Lake Erie. The corpses of
Eve have been washed ashore at Van Buren,
Point. forty miles from this city, near
Dunkirk. The shore of the lakeis strewn
with wreckage and merchandise, and the
waves are hourly yielding up further evil
dences of the Richmond's fate. Another
boat, the schooner Typo, is thought to
have gone down with her crew just off
Gravelly bay, on the Canadian side, few
miles from this city. She is owned by the
Hargrove company, of Detroit.
Wreckage is still being cast ashore, and
1t is believed the INShmond foundered not
more than three miles ont on the lake. 1t
seems impossible that any of the seven
teen souls on board her could have es-
eaped alive. The Richmond was a "clover
leaf boat, and her crew were all from
Toledo. She was the first OF the larger
steamers which mark the coming of the
present style of marine construction on
The lake. She was Of ! 1,257 tonnage, and
was built In Cleveland in 1884, but was re-
built in 1878. She was owned by Bolts
ford and others OF Port Huron, and was
valued at s46,0 900.
- The crew of the Dean Richmond was
composed of the following: G. w. Stod-
aard. captain; George Boysen, second
mate; Samuel Meadows, wheelman; II.
Wheeler, lookout; Frank Earnest, lookout;
A. b. Dodge, second cook; = Eaven,
ali af frin To. a.
William link, deck hand; George NJ.
6chilling, porter; Walter Goodyear, frs
mate; j. E. Bradie, wheelman; Mrs Retta
Ellsworth, stewardess; Frank Hilton, sec
ond engineer; Therman Be"'hnn, fireman;
William Sargenfrei, fireman. Frank Pat
ton, deck hand; unknown deck hand.
During the storm passenger train No. 3
on the Nickel Plate ran into some coal
cars near Hamburg. Fireman Lane, OF
Cunneaut, o.. was almost instantly killed
and Engineer George Henry. of Conneaut,
and Alexander Shaw of Elmira, were in
3uEed seriously. None Of the passengers
were injured.
The roof of the Western New York and
Pennsylvania freight house was lifted off
and the south walls fell with a crash
burying seven men and three boys in the
ruins. All of the men were taken out un-
injured except Fred Nassman, who had a
scalp wound and bruised legs.
The dead bodies OF three boys were taken
from the ruius. Their names are Willie
Flannery, Fritz Heimlich and John Dwyer
Although it is supposed that there are no
other bodies in the wreck, it will not be
known for certain until the ruins have
been removed.
CHICAGO, Oct. Ie-The severity of the
northwest gale that has swept the great
lat fnr D bn act F,r a, I
bten exceeded during the season of navi-
CATION for the past ten years. The list Of
wrecks in proportion to the number of
vessels which were out in the gale is
Mrger, perhaps, than any in the history of
she latter day marines. That there has
been large loss of life now seems certain,
but 1t may be several days before it is
known just how many sailors perished
Following is the list Of wrecks thus far re-
ported:
Yacht Enterprise, steamers G. f. Curtis,
Maritanta, Schuylkill and Ironton, bar4es
Sweepstakes and Knight Templar, tug
Acme, schooners Isabel Reid, Nelson Hol-
'and, Volunteer, Falconer, John 4. Mott,
fboy, Mont Blanc and Ironton, and un-
bwD schooner ashore near Mhnstee
She greater portion of these vessels were
81 upon the beach, and are being rapidly
z eashed to pieces. Two or three Of them,
Lake, and as tfsrs has bsgH 10 Mera or tse ne
eriyed from their crews i. is believed that
all have undoubtedly persisted.
Dispatches from all points along the
WI shore of Lake Huron and the eastern
1e-s2Tof Lake Superior indicate that the
PORN increased greatly in violence as
might came, and at midnight the storm
was at its height, but most of the lake
Meet had succeeded in reaching shelter.
SAuLr STE MARIE, Mich, Oct. l6.--The
gale was feb severely on Lake Superior.
Three boats are missing and one ashore.
Several had their cabins stove in by the
the heavy seas, which mnde clean sweep
orer the decks The Canadian steamer D.
ID Calvin, with the bRrges Ceylon and Au-
Eusta, laden with 10, 900 bushels of wheat,
ieft Fort William before the storm, bound
Tor Kingston. The steamer Alberta left
suenty-four hours after them and arrived
last night. Her captain says that he saw
nothing Of the missing boats The Alberta
had a tough experience in the blow, which
her captain declares was the worst he was
sTer out in
MANlsTEE, Mich, Oct. I6-The identity
ei the four masted schooner reported
ashore near here has been established
The vessel is the Minnehaha, OF Clsve-
land, Captain Packer, with a cargo of
eorn. or the seven souls on board the
sehooner but one, Captain Packer, es-
capped. Those drowned were: John RAT.
ferry, John Rafferty,, Jr, Mary Keefe,
cox; Seaman William Ahlstrom and two
etner sailors, names unknown.