Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

Milwaukee, May 1S.-With only her
masts sticking out of the water, the
three-masted schooner NJ. j. Cummings
is sunk in the bay south of the straight
cut. Six sailors and a woman, consti-
| tuting the crew, as well as a member
! of the life-Saying station, chung TO the
rigging, facing death every moment,
with no prospect of rescue. In an at
tempt TO reach the schooner the life
saving crew several times escaped
drowning by Il miracle, the life boat
was overturned three times and finally
wrecked.
Five men and the woman finally per-
iShed on the wrecked schooner before
the life saving crew reached the wreck.
One of the crew and a surfman were
rescued.
The dead are:
CAPTAIN JOHN MCCULLOUGH, of
Marine City.
NATE TIMOTHY BOSOUR, of Buff
falo.
THOMAS TUSCOTT, sailor. of Ma
rine City.
ONNNON n SA1Loh, A1IS
SAILOR NAMED JIM, Marine
City.
COOK (WOMAN, UNKNOWN.
Buffalo.
Robert Patterson, of Kingston, Ont,
was saved, as was also Frank Goordes,
Surfman No. of the Milwaukee life
saving station.
The men who persisted fell from the
rigging to the water. The body of the
woman was still dashed to the rigging,
! to which she fled when the vessel be-
gan to sink.
Six thousand people lined the piers
and shores of Jones island and the
mainland this afternoon when the
| tug Knight Templar towed the scow
! bearing the life savers to the rescue.
Back of the scow was an empty surf
boat. When the surf boat was with
| in fifty yards of the wreck a man,
clinging to the rigging of the wreck
was seen to throw up his hands and
fall backward into the rolling waves
Soon another of those Clinging to the
ropes lost his hold and persisted
A groan went up from the crowd as
each body was lost to sight, and then
all eyes centered on the surf boat as it
dropped back beside the sunken YES
sell Two figures slowly descended the
shrouds and chung to the lines but
few feet above the waves. Five
minutes passed as attempt after at
tempt was made by the life savers to
swing the life boat near the waiting
men.
A cry went up from the crowd as
one figure was seen to leap from the
rigging and land in the boat Two
minutes later a man sprang far out
and as the boat assembled the wave it
was seen that he was safe. Then
cheer that drowned the roaring break
ers went up from the throats on
shore.
Slowly the long line that held the
surf boat was paid out and the two
rescued men were permitted to drift
toward the shore. Along the beach Of
Jones island the crowd ran to meet
the rescued men; willing hands were
| stretched out to reach them, and
they were dragged from the boat to
place of safety.
NINE WRECKS AT CHICAGO.
Chicago, May 1S.-The storm wlSch
today swept Lake Michigan was the
, most disastrous of recent years. Nine
vessels were driven ashore within the
| city limits of Chicago and Of the crews
! ten men are known to have been
drowned and in every instance the
boat and cargo is complete loss.
One schooner, The Myrtle, was
wrecked just outside the government
pier within half mile of Michigan
| Boulevard, and six of her crew went
down to death in sight Of hundreds of
people who lined the boulevard.
The wrecks as far as known at 10
o'clock tonight are as follows:
Schooner Lincoln Dalla, driven
ashore at Glencoe
Schooner Myrtle, wrecked at the foot
of Harrison street.
Schooner Jack Thompson, wrecked
off Twenty fifth street
Schooner Eevening Star, wrecked off
Twenty seventh street.
Schooner Mercury, same.
Schooner J. LoOmis McLaren, same
Schooner Rainbow, wrecked off
Twenty-second street
Schooner G. j. Mixer, wrecked off
One-hundredth street.
Unknown Schooner, ashore near
South Chicago