The evening world., 1894-10-12
lEATH ON The LAKES.
japtain, His Family and Grew OF
Schooner Hartford Lost.
Aanv Vessels Driven Ashore by a
I Northwest Gale.
Disasters Also at Sea-Sea Foam's
Men All Missing.
fBv Associated Press. }


a RAT PORTAGE, Ont, Oct. 12.-News
has lust reached here that the steamer
tI,pbland Maid has been wrecked at
I Long sault Rapids, Rainey Lake. Mail,
messengers and crew were saved. Will
lam woods, purser was badly injured.
The boat and cargo are a total loss
with no insurance. The cause OF. the
accident was low water and dangerous
rapids, full Of rocks. which Canada and
1.-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 1900 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. 12.-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 l2 R,n Bay G 9t,y
Lature; was sighted and the crew
terdas wst e sf and nd n''e s Sfi
ing condition. The King has lost 200
feet of lumber, Mate, Harry belong
AND bady Ks G b1 Soa S
: Kings tow. the steamer Deland, and
another consort, the Hiawatha, have
not b, been no, heard from, a big three
yesterday, twenty miles towards the
Canadian shore, flying signals of dis
tress.
to ge, into port owing to the gale, van" and
during her peril Wheelinan Otto Bern
hard. Of Chicago, had his leg broken.
The schooners Ganges and the Alsera
Peninsula by the life-sav!ng crew and
Vineyard HAVEN. Mass, Oct 70.
The schooner Title Vanderherchen, of
Bridgeton, N. J.. from Philadelphia for
Gardiner: Me-. put in here Yesterday in
charge of Mate Garfield, Capt. Bateman
and Seaman Gibson having been washed
overheard by huge sea last Tuesday
Capt. Bateman leaves a family at Nor
ristown. N. j. Gibson came from Nir-
LEwEs.- Del. Oct. -12.-The schooner
seafoam. CAPS. Chandler. from Milton
for Mlllville; 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 off Henlopen this morn
ing. The crew consisted Of the captain
and four or Eye men, The tn; schooner
,, learned that all but eight Of the vessels
hat went ashore at st. Pierre. Miquelon,
Tuesday night. came OFF on the high
tide. The vessels that remain stranded
are the st. Julien, Mistral. Floride. Ell
Pourtant. Ali Bahia. p F-2 Jasmn and
Capelan.
, William NJ. Powell, from, Onaccck; has
Shaw, John Shaw and Lewis ,Sockwell.
4 OF the schooner Henry G. Ely. which
y sank on the shoals known as The SISTERS,
below THONGS Point The Ely was
I bound from LambCrt's Point for Mill
vile. N. j.. with 1856 tons of pig iron for
r. ID. Wood: Last Monday the. vessel
ST .uck on The Sisters and during the
t she r rissing. While tw doing 50 Joseph
Sheppard. colored, was washed over
board and drowned