The record-union., 1894-05-19


waalxee- Lighthouse, and Six of He1
Crew. Including a Woman Cook.
Lost. Only One Sailor Being Res.
cued.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
CHICAGO, May 1S.-The storm which
to-day swept Lake Michigan was the
most disastrous of recent years. Elgh
vessels were driven ashore within tht
city limits OF Chicago, and out of theil
crews ten men are known to be drowned
and in every instance the boat and cargo
are utterly lost. One schooner, the Myr'
tie, was wrecked just outside the GOV
ernment pier, within half mile of Mich
igan boulevard, and six men of her ere"
went down to death in plain view O.
hundreds of people who lined the boule
ward walks or watched the awful storm
from the windows of the hotels which
overlook the harbors. The wrecks eX-
tend from Glencoe on the north, where
the Lincolndale went 10 pieces, to Soutt
Chicago, an air distance of forty miles.
Following is the list of wrecks as far as
known up to 10 o'clock Tonight:
Schooner Lincolndale, driven ashore a
Glencoe, eighteen miles north OF Chicago
Schooner Myrtle, wrecked at the foot o.
Harrison street.
Schooner Jack Thompson of Chicago
wrecked off Twenty street.
Schooner Evening Star, wrecked of
Twenty-seventh street, crew rescued.
Schooner Mercury of Grand Haven,
wrecked off Twenty seventh street, crew
rescued.
Schooner J. Loomis McLaren, wrecked
Oft Twenty-seventh street.
Schooner Rainbow of Milwauk ee
wrecked off Twenty-second street; crew
rescued.
wrecked off One Hundredth street, crew
rescued
Unknown schooner ashore near South
Chicago.
The fatalities are: Anton Guncers O
Moniston, seaman on schooner Lincoln
dale, drowned while attempting to reach
shore.
Charles Gautiers, cook on schooner
Jack Thompson, resided in Chicago
washed away from rope while attempt
ing TO reach shore.
Joseph Spollan of Sturgeon Bay, mate
OF the }. Loomis McLaren, struck and
killed by the tow post torn out when the
vessel broke away from tug.
Entire crew Of the schooner Myrtle. six
men.
The first vessel to go ashore was the
tWo-masted schooner Jack Thompson.
The boat came from Garden Bay, Mich,
and arrived off the break water early in
the afternoon without pump working.
a tug madeits way TO her side and offered
her line, but the Captain refused it, in
tending to sail into the harbor. The task
was too much for him, however. and be-
fore he was fairly into the harbor he lost
control of his vessel, which crashed into
the Rainbow, carrying away the bow OF
that boat and smashinga great hole under
her bowspIit, and with her foremast gone
she drifted rapidly south, a pitiable
wreck. The anchor was thrown out, and
for time held fast, but broke out of the
soft bottom. and again the Thompson
swept toward the shore, broadside on.
She struck bottom fifty feet from shore.
The men were rescued by line thrown
by the life-saving station.
The schooner Mercury of Ludington,
Mich, was wrecked OF Twenty-seventn
street. An effort was made TO tow her
into the harbor when she neared the
breakwater, but she wind and waves
were too strong, and the Evening Star and
Jack Thompson were already grinding
to pieces on the breallwater and thou
sands of people stood on the beach watch
ing them. AS the Mercury came nearer
her crew could be seen huddled together
in the bow, and they were trantically
waving their arms to the people OH shore
When the schooner finally struck an at
tempt was made, but in vain, to get line
to the crew, and then one of the seameI
on board, Tom ThurSton, jumped from
the vessel to some floating lumber, ano
after several times going under the
heavy breakers, was finally taken ashore
Two others took the same chance, and
got safely ashore. 4 line was finally
thrown from the shore to the vessel and
made fast. The crowd ashore held il
taut, and one by one the four men, al
most exhausted, climbed on and slid te
safety. until the last man, Ed Sterling
was about half way down the line, wher
the rope broke and he dropped into the
water among the lumber floating about
Several persons rushed to his rescue, anG
he was carried ashore amid the wild
cheers of the crowd.
The schooner Lincolndale was driver
ashore at Glencoe, and Anton Guncers,
one of the sailors, was swept overheard
and drowned. After several hours o.
waiting. the rest OF the crew were rescued
by members of the Evanston life-saving
crew. When the life-saving crew arrived
the wrecked sailors were well nigh ex-
hausIed. The lite boat was finally dragged
down the steep bluffs. which line the lake
at Glencoe and the men brought off.
The wreck of the Rainbow, lumber
laden schooner from Racine, occurred
late in the afternoon, and was marked by
the heroic rescue of her crew when abou
all hope of saving them had been aban
doned. She had thrown out her anchor:
and tried TO ride out the storm from 4
position just south OF the Government
piers. The gale was too strong tor her
however, and at o'clock she began K
drift rapidly southwark, dragging hel
anchors as though they were but fish
hooks. Seeing her destruction was IN
evitable. the life-saving crew loaded theil
lifeline apparatus upon flat car close u
the waters edge and kept pace with the
doomed veSsed as the wind drove hel
southwark. OFF the foot of Harrison
street the car was stopped, the cannon
fired, and the life missed the boat by
thirty ieet. At Twenty-eighth street an
other shot was fired, with the same re-
suit. AT this point the tug Spencer
which had plowed it's way through the
gigantic waves. managed to run up Close
to the RAINBOW and threw her line Il
snapped like tow, but a second held, and
four OF her crew of seven men were
hauled aboard the tug The schooner was
now SO close to the breakers that the tho
dared follow her no longer, and steamed
away.
The life-saving crew on their fiat ca,
kept even with the boat as She rolled
around and tried again and again tc
throw line across her, but failed every
time. AT Twenty-1lith street the sailors
cut loose small raft that they had made
and VIII Havill, a young electrical enqi.
neer, was held by a line and swan out tc
it. When about eighty feet from the
shore the lumber from the Rainbow
deck was tossing on the waves. and th,
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