Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-25
LAKE DISASTERS.
EIGHT VESSELS WRECKED AT
CHICAGO
And Ten Men Known to Have Been
Drowned.-Two schooners Ashore at
Milwaukee With Six Lives Lost
Other Wrecks and Accidents.

The late storm which swept Lake
Michigan was the most disastrous OF
recent years. Eight vessels were
driven ashore within the city limits of
Chicago. Out of their crews ten men
are known TO be drowned, and in
every instance boat and cargo are ut
terly lost. One schooner, the Myrtle,
was wrecked just outside tine govern
ment pier within half mile of Michi-
gan boulevard, and six men of her
crew went down TO death in plain view
of the hundreds of people who lined
the boulevard walks, or watched the
awful storm from the windows Of the
big hotels which overlook the harbor.
The vessels were the schooners Lin
coin Dali; of Manistee, seaman, Anton
Gunderson drowned; Myrtle, every
man of the crew lost, six in all, names
unknown; Jack Thompson, from Gar
den bay, Mich, crew rescued by life
saving crew; Evening Star, OF Milwau-
kee, crew rescued; Mercury, of Grand
Haven, the vessel was grinding to
pieces when three men jumped onto
some floating lumber and reached
shore, line vase then made fast and
the remaining three crawled ashore;
j. Loomis McLarcn, of Chicago, crew
saved excepting the mate who was
killed by the breaking of a tow-post;
Rainbow, of Milwaukee, the crew
was rescued in the most heroic manner,
the life-saving apparatus was aboard a
fat-car on the Illinois Central railroad,
which runs close TO the waters edge,
two lines had been fired at the drift
ing vessel, but both fell short, then
the tug Spencer managed to get along
side for moment and four men were
taken off. the three others cut loose on
a small raft they had made, and VIM
Havill, young electrical engineer,
placed line about his waist and swan
to the raft and called to one man to
jump. Capt. Pew did so, Havill
grabbed him and both were pulled
ashore; then +. j. Willis, a colored
man, performed the same feat, and
Havill again went out and brought the
last poor fellow off; the rescuers and
rescued were then taken TO hospital,
all being thoroughly exhausted; c. c..
Mixer, of Chicago, crew rescued; un-
known schooner, crew saved. Thomas
Kelso, fisherman, was washed off the
government pier and drowned.
At Milwaukee.
The schooners NJ. j. Cummings and
c. c. Barnes tried to'enter the harbor
carly in the day and failed TO make the
piers and were soon drifting toward
the beach on Jones island. An unsuc-
cessful effort was made by the life-sav-
ing crew TO rescue all of the crew of
the Cummings, but they were nearly
drowned in the attempt, the life-boat
being overturned. the crew escaping
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Barnes escaped and the vessel can be
released, as she is light and on sandy
bottom. The life-saving crew managed
TO reach shore safely by clinging TO
the boat, which was washed high and
dry.
Six thousand people were anxiously
watching when the tug Knight Temp
lar, towing n scow' bearing the life
savers, left the pier TO make a second
attempt TO rescue the crew. One hun
dred feet of line separated the tug
from the scoH, and back of the scow
was towed the empty surf boat. With
bow TO the waves, the Knight Templar
permitted the scow 20 drop down to-
ward the wreck. Before the surf boat
was in position three men were seen TO
fall one at n time from the mizzen-
HldSJ, ana Wnen the boat nau swung
alongside two men leaped into it, but
a man and a woman would not try it
and were afterwards lost. 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 al the foot of
Jones island crowd ran TO meet the
rescued men; willing hands were
IL i 4 IL
were dragged from the boat to place
of safety.
The dead are: John Mccullough.
captain, Marine City; Timothy Bosour,
mate, Buffalo, n. Y; Thomas Tuscott,
sailcr, Marine City; unknown sailor
Marine City; Sailor named Jim, -
Marine City; cook (woman), unknown,
Buffalo, y. Y.