The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-19

crew went down to death WITHIN plain
view of the hundreds OF people who
lined tho boulevard walks or watched
the awful stcrm from the windows Of
the hotels which overlook the harbor.
The wrecks extend from Glencoe on the
north. where the Lincolndale went to
pieces. to South Chicago. an air line
distance of 40 miles.
Following is the list OF the wrecks as
far as known up to 10 O'Clock tonight;
Schooner, Lincolndale, driven ashore
at Glencoe, is miles north OF Chicago.
Schooner Myrtle, wrecked at 1901 oil
Harrison street.
Schooner Jack Thompson OF Chicago,
wrecked off Twenty-6fth street.
Schooner Evening Star. wrecked Oh
Twenty-seyenth street, crew rescued.
Schooner Mercury of Grand Haven,
wrecked off Twenty-seyenth street; crew
rescued. =,
off Twenty-seventh street.
Schooner Rainbow of Milwaukee,
wrecked off Twenty-second street; crew
rescued.
Schooner G. ], Miner of Chicago,
wrecked of One Hundredth street, crew
rescued.
Unknown schooner ashore near South
Chicago.
Anton Guncers of Manistee, seaman,
schooner Dale. drowned while attempt
ing to reach shore.
Charles Gautiers of Chicago, cook on
schooner Jack Thompson, washed from
q rope while attempting to reach shore.
Joseph Spollan of Sturgeon bay, mate
OF the j. Loomis McClsrin, struck and
killed by the tew-post, torn out when
the vessel broke away from tug.
Entire crew of six men OF the schooner
Myrtle.
The fret vessel to 60 ashore was the
two-niested schooner Jack Thompson.
The boat came from Garden Bay, Mich,
and arrived off the breakwater early In
the afternoon without pump working.
A tug on it's way to the other side offered
q line, but the captain refused it, intend
ing to sail into the harbor. The task
was too much for him, however, and be-
fore he was fairly into the harbor be lost
control of his vessel, which crashed into
the Rainbow, carrying away the DOW OF
that boat and smashing great hole an
der her bowsprit, and with her foremast
gone she driited rapidly south, pitis-
Bile wreck. The anchor was thrown out
and for q time held fast, but breaking
out of the soft bottom OF the harpor,
this only hope proved Intellectual and
again the Thompson swept toward the
shore broadside on. She struck bottom
so feet from shore. The men were res-
cued by line thrown by the life-saving
crew.
The schooner Mercury of Ludington,
Mich, was wrecked off Twenty-seventh
street. An effort was made to tow her
into the harbor when she neared the
breakwater, but the wind and waves
were too strong, and the Evening Star
and Jack Thompson were already grind
ing to pieces on the breakwater and
thousands OF people were standing 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 sea-
men on board - Tom Thurston-
Jumped from the vessel to come
floating lumber and after 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
ehore to the vessel and made fast. The
crowd ashore held it taut. and one by
one the four men, almost exhausted,
climbed ON and slid to safety, and the
last man, Ed Sterling, was about half
way down the line when the rope broke
and be dropped into the water among
the lumber floating about. Several per-
sons rushed to his rescue, and he was
carried ashore amid the wild cheers of
the crowd.
The schooner Lincondale was driven
ashore at Glencoe, and Anton Guncers,
one 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
life-saving crew. When the ife-ssving
crew finally arrived the wrecked sailors
we're wellnigh exhausted. The liiebost
was finally dragged down the steep
bluffs which line the lake at Glencoe,
ami the men brought off.
The wreck of the Rainbow, lumber
laden schooner from Racine, occurred
late in the afternoon and was marked
by the heroic rescue of her crew, when
about ali hope of saving them had been
abandoned. She had thrown out her
anchors, and tried to ride out the storm
from position just south of the govern
ment piers. The gale was too strong for
her, however, and at O'Clock she began
to drift rapidly southwark, dragging her
anchors as though they were nothing
but fish hooks. Seeing her destruction
was inevitable, the life saving crew
loaded their life line apparatus upon a
fat car close to the waters edge and
kept pace with the doomed vessel as the
winds drove her southwark. OFF the
foo. OF Harrison court lstreet) the car
was stopped, the cannon fired and
the life line missed the boat by
30 feet. At Twenty eighth street another
was fred with the same result. At
this point the tug Spencer, which had
plowed its way through the gigantic
waves, managed to run up close to the
Rainbow and threw her g line. 1t
mapped like tow, but second held,
and four Of her crew of seven men were
haulted aboard the tug. The schooner
WAS now so close TO the breakers that
the tug did not follow her and steamed
away. The life saving crew on the flat
car kept even with the boat as size
rolled around and tried again and again
10 throw line across her but failed
avery time. AT Twenty fifth street the
Iailors cut loose on a small raft they haC
made, and Will Havilie. a young cleo
brical engineer, was held by line anC
IVAN out to it. When about so fee
rom the shore the lumber from the
Rainbow's deck load was tossing
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