The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-19

Though They Were Fish-HoO4s-
sembIed Greet the Rescue of the
Men.
Chicago. Ill, May 1S.-The storm
which today swept Lake Michigan was
the most disastrous of recent years.
Eight vessels were driven ashore
within the city limits of Chicago, and
out OF their crews, ten men are known
to be drowned and in every instance
boat and cargo are utterly lost.
One schooner. the Myrtle, was wreck
ed Just outside the government pier,
within half-mile OF Michigan boule-
ward. and six men of her crew went
down to death in plain view of the
hundreds of people who lined the boule-
ward walks or watched the awful storm
from the windows of the big hotels,
which overlook the harbor.
The wrecks extend from Glencoe on
the north, where the Lincolndale went
TO pieces, to South Chicago, an airline
distance of forty miles.
List of the Wrecks.
Following is the list of wrecks as far
as known up to 10 o'clock tonight:
Schooner Lincolndale, driven ashore
at Glencoe, eighteen miles north of
Chicago.
} Schooner Myrtle, wrecked at foot of
Harrison street.
Schooner Jack Thompson, of Chicago,
wrecked off Twenty-fifth street.
Schooner Evening Star, wrecked off
Twenty-seventh street; crew rescued.
Schooner Mercury, of Grand Haven
wrecked off Twenty-seventh street;
crew rescued.
Schooner J. LOOMS McClarin, wreck
ed off Twenty-seventh street.
Schooner Rainbow, of Milwaukee,
wrecked off Twenty-second street;
crew rescued.
Schooner c. j. Miner. of Chicago.
wrecked off One Hundredth street; crew
rescued.
Unknown schooner ashore near South
Chicago.
The fatalities are:
Anton Guncers, of Manistee, seaman,
schooner Lincolndale, drowned while
attempting TO reach shore.
Charles GauUers, cook, on schooner
Jack Thompson, resided in Chicago;
washed from a rope while attempting
TO reach shore.
Thomas Kelse, fisherman, washed off
Joseph SpoIlan, Of Sturgeon Bay,
mate of the J. Loomis McClarin, struck
and killed by the tow-post, torn out
when the vessel broke away from a
tug.
PitiabIe Object.
The first vessel to go ashore was the
two-masted schooner Jack Thompson.
The boat came from Garden Bay, Mich
and arrived off the breakwater early
he Of nit IL
ing. A tug made its way TO her side,
y and offered her a line but the captain
ffefused it, intending to sail into the
'harbor. The task was too much for him,
however, and before he was fairly into
the harbor he lost control of his vessel
which crashed in the Rainbow, carrying
away the bow of that boat and smash
ing a great hole under her bowsprit,
and with her foremost gone, she drifted
rapidly south. a pitiable wreck. The
anchor was thrown out and for a time
held fast but breaking out of the
soft bottom of the harbor, their only
hope proved Intellectual and again the
Thompson swept toward the shore
broadside on. She struck bottom fifty
feet from shore. The men were rescued
d. by a line thrown by the life-saving
= crew.
miraculous Escapes.
The schooner Mercury, of Ludington,
Mich, was wrecked off Twenty-seventh
street. An effort was made to tow her
j 10 the harbor when she neared the
breakwater, but the wind and waves
were too strong. The Evening Star
and Jack Thompson were already
grinding TO pieces on the breakWa ter,
ahd thousands Of people stood on the
beach watching them. As the Mer-
curry came nearer, her crew could be
seen huddled together in the bow and
they were frantically waving their
arms to the people on shore. When the
schooner finally struck, an attempt was
made, but in vain, to get line to the
crew. and then one of the seamen on
board. Tom Thurston, jumped from the
vessel TO some floating lumber and, af-
Ter several times going under the heavy
breakers, was finally taken ashore.
Two others took the same chance and
got safely ashore. A line was finally
thrown from shore to the vessel and
made fast. The crowd ashore held it
taut, and one by one the four men, al
most exhausted, climbed on and slid to
safety, but the last man, Ed Sterling
was about halfway down the line
when the rope broke and he dropped
into the water, among the lumber float
ing about. Several persons rushed to
his rescue. and ne was carried ashore
saSsmid the wild cheers Of the crowd.
LincOIndaIe's had Luck
The schooner Lincolndale was driven
ashore at Glencoe, and Anton Gun
GERS, enc of the sailors, was swept
overheard and drowned. After several
hours of weary waiting, the rest of the
crew were rescued by members of the
Evanston hfe-saving crew. When the
life-saving crew finally arrived, the
wrecked sailors were well-nigh ex-
hausted The life-boat was finally
dragged down the steep bluffs which
siiSs the lake at Glencoe. and the men
Brought off.
Worked Like Heroes.
Tie wreck of the Rainbow, a lunl-
ber-laden schooner from Racine, oc-
CURED late in the afternoon and was
marked by the heroic rescue of her
crew, when about all hope of saving
them had been abandoned. She had
thrown out her anchors and tried to
ride out the storm from a position just
south Of the government piers The
gale was too strong for her, however.
40 at 3 o'clock, she began to drift
rSpidly southwark. dragging her an
chcrs as though they were nothing but
fshhooks. Seeing her destruction was
Inevitable, the 'ife-saving crew loaded
their lifeline apparatus upon a fat