The evening world., 1894-10-12
Death ON The LAKES.
Captain, His Family and Grew Of
Schooner Hartford Lost.
Many Vessels Driven Ashore by a
Northwest Gale.
Disasters Also at Sea-Sea Foam's
Men All Missing.
(By Associated Press)

RAT PORTAGE ont. Oct 12.-News
has just reached here that the steamer
Highland Maid has been wrecked at
Long Sault Rapids, Rainey Lake. Mail,
passengers and crew were saved. Will
lam Woods, purser was badly injured
The boat and cargo are total loss,
with no insurance. The cause of the
| accident was low water and dangerous
rapids, full of rocks. which Canada and
the United States Governments have
neglected to remove. This Is the second
boat lost this season.
OSWEGO, N. Y, Oct. 12.-During a
terrific wind storm last night the three
masted schooner Hartford. of Clayton,
with $4,000 bushels Of wheat from De-
troit for Cape Vincent. was driven
| ashore at Woodville. twenty-five miles
| east OF here.
Capt. William G. Toole. wife and
| child, Richard Seymour, mate. and
Michael Purcell, all of Clayton; Daniel
| Mccarthy. a seaman of Oswego, and an
unknown seaman were lost.
CLEVELAND, Oct. l2-The furious
northwest gale that struck Lake Erie
and lower Lake Huron last "Wednesday
night did considerable damage to ship
ping. Several boats are known to be
disabled and helpless on the lakes. but
| their identity will not be known until
the storm abates or they are driven
ashore. A large number of boats are
under Long Point, on the north shore
of Lake Erie. but 1t is impossible to get
their names. Following Is the list of
disasters, so far as is known:
Schooner John Wesley. waterlogged on
Lake Huron; schooner Columbian. ashore
at Fair Port, O.; schooner Tasmania,
ERIE, Pa, Oct, 1.-THE Bay City
Lature. was sighted and the crew
F srSas x sss @;sS and Gs 'f INK
9s OF timber The Ma knf Ha hrs '2 ps 2
and Seaman Mike Golden were struck
and badly injured by boom. The
KINKS tow S%.st the steamer ;s DelSnd, and
not been heard from. big three
masted schooner was sighted off Erie
yesterday, twenty miles towards the
Canadian shore. flying signals of dis
The steamer Oregon had hard work
to get into port owing to the gale, and
] hard. of Chicago, had his leg broken
The schooners Ganges and the AlZera
were rescued yesterday morning off tho
Peninsula by the life-saving crew and
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Oct. r.
The. schooner Title Vanderherchen, of
Bridgeton, n. j.. from Philadelphia for
Gardiner. Me, put In here yesterday in
charge of Mate Garfield, Can't. BatemA'
and Seaman Gibson having been washed
I overheard by huge sea last Tuesday
Capt. Bateman leaves family at Nor
ristown, N. ]. Gibson came from Vir-
LEwEs. Del, Oct. 1.-THE schooner
Seafoam, CAPS: Chandler, from M Hilton
for Millville; N J., laden with box lum-
ware Bay on Thursday morning. The
captain and crew, 1t Is thought. were
| drowned. The schooner is reported drift
| ing three miles of HenlopeD this morn
ing: The crew consisted of the captain
and four or FIVE men. The schooner
ST. JOHNS. n. F., Oct l2.-It has been
learned that all but eight OF the vesse's
| hat went ashore at st. Pierre, Miqu lon
Tuesday night. came Ell on the high
tide. The vessels that remain stranded
are the st. Julien. Mistral, Floride, FL
Pourtant Ali Bahia, p. F-2. Jasmin and
BALTIMORE, Oct 1.-THE schooner
| William NJ. Powell from Onacock, has
arrived at Baltimore with Capt. Smith
| Shaw, John Shaw and Lewis Sockwell.
sank on the shoals known as The ss'ers.
bound from Lamberts Point. for Mill
VILE, N. j., with 1856 tons OF pig iron for
r. d. Wood, Last Monday the vessel
struck on The Sisters, and during the
gale on TUESDAY night she sprang ga, leak AK
the rigging. While doing SO Joseph
| Sheppard colored. was washed over
board and drowned.