Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-20
WHEN THE STORMS RAGE.
A Gale Sweeps Lake Michigan Causing
Death and Destruction.
Tho wave. Hurled with Irresistible
Force against th. shore
Vessel Wrecked.

MILWAUKEE, April 20.-Lako Mich
igan Is being swept by one OF tn
worst easterly gales experienced II
years. This sea IL running very higl
and IL Is impossible 10 venture out o
the harbor. A small vessel IL ashore a
tho head Of Juneau. The worst featur,
OF the gale 10 the probable loss o
twenty lives by the washing away o.
house over the cribs at the terminu,
of the now vaterworks tunnel. NJ
men are In sight and II 10 believed
they were swept away, but they may
be In the air lock below.
IL Ia now known that twenty-five
men went out to the waterworks crit
last night and unless rescued soon, MI
that may be alive ut this hour must
perish az the crib Ia submerged by
every wave. IL IL reported that five OF
the life.saving crew refused TO obey
the orders TO 40 GU. In the life boat.
The tug Starko left the harbor at $3.50
but was forced TO return. The sea
broke In the pilot house windows aud
cut Captain Chris Miller quite severe.
ly. There In talk Of manning the
revenue cutter johnson and going To
the scene. Captain Davis signifies
his willingness to make the attempt, II
men can DO secured to man the life
boat.
The small vessel ashore at the head
OF Juneau avenue IL the Larena. A
tug IL now on Its way 10 the scene
with life boat and men on board.
She IL making slow headway and Ia
fairly buried by tho sea at times.
Tho tug Welcome has returned from
the crib. The life savers found one
man whom they rescued He will
probably die from exposure and ex.
haustion. As there are no signs OF
any Of tho rest II IN believed that
twen.y.one men were either swept
away or dead In the crib chamber.
The man rescued from the wrecked
water works by this tug Welcome, and
life saving crew, was no exhausted
when taken ON board the tug, that no
was unable to speak. He recovered
sufficiently just before being taken
10 the hospital, to DO able TO tell
those about him, that the companions
were oil In the air chamber below the
crib. 1t Is believed they are all sufio.
Gated. Two bodies were seen floating
around In tho well OF the crib, by life
savers who reached tho crib.
His name Is Olson, and he was
badly handled by the sen, while
performing his noble work, and Cant.
Peterson OF the life.saving crew was
badly hurt about the head. II was an
anxious crowd that stood on the shore
anu looked at the crib this morning.
Some Of the spectators were relatives
OF the men which were In peril. In
the air chamber they could live for
quite a while.
The sea was the most awful one
anybody In the vicinity had ever seen.
The waves were fully fifteen feet high
and dashed over the crib with terrific
force. All that IL left OF tho crib IL a
couple OF posts that had supported tn
house, and one Of the pumps. The
two large boilers, the engine, one or
two pumps, the air compressor and
the twonty thousand brick that were
ON the crib had been washed oil.
Twenty minutes after the house WINS
washed out OF existence the entire
machinery ami whatever lse that had
been left was lifted directly into the
air apparently by the combined
force Of the wave and wind. Every.
thing was hurled Into the raging
sea several feet below tho level OF
the crib. One OF the most pitiful In
cidents in connection with tho disas-
ier was the spectacle ofan aged father,
engineer Dryer, pacing TO and fro on
the beach vainly trying to sec through
the mist and catch glimpse OF his
poor boys clinging to the crib. "Jos
ies home, sick; good for him."
he said. "But Mickey ~ out
there and wish no was home, sick
too" The shore from the waterworks