St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-19
PERISRED IN A WRECK
Five Men Lose Their Lives in
Lake Michigan.
SCHOONER CUMMINGS SINKS
Dead Body Of a Woman Lashed
to the Rigging.
SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE MATCH
SCHOONER CUMMINGS SINKS
SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE HATCH
The Life-Savers Rescue the
Terror-Stricken Crew.
LIST OF THE DEAD SAILORS

MILWAUKEE, May IS. - Hanging to
the rigging of the schooner NJ. j. Cum.
mings, just south of Milwaukee light
house, tonight. are the bodies of
woman and man. the former the stew.
ard and the latter sailor. Four others,
including the captain, have been
drowned, and one, Robert Peterson,
sailor, is saved.
1t was the fercest storm that has
swept the west shore of Lake Michigan
since the crib disaster two years ago,
when fourteen lives were lost
The Cummings and the schooner G.
c. Barnes tried to enter the harbor
early in the day, and failed to make the
piers, and were soon driving towards
the beach on Jones island. An unsuc-
ceSsful attempt was made by the lifs-
saving crew to rescue all of the crew of
the Cummings. but they were nearly
drowned in the attempt, the lifebOat
being overturned, the crew escaping
almost miraculously. The crew of the
Barnes escaped, and the vessel can be
released, as she is light aud OH sandy
bottom.
SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE
lined the piers and the shores OF Jones
island and the mainland this afternoon
when the tug Knight relnplar. towing
scow bearing the lite savers, left the
pier to make the rescue of the crew.
One hundred feet of line separated the
tug from the scOw, and back of the
scow was towed the empty surf boat.
With bow to the waves, the Knight
Tsmplar permitted the scOwi to drop
down toward the wreck. Wien the surf
boat was within fifty yards of the
wreck human figure that had been
clinging to the rigging was seen to
throw up its hands and fall back
ward into the boiling waves. being in
stantly lost to sight. A short time be fore
another OF those clinging to the ropes
had also let go his hold and perished.
A groan went up from the crowd as
each body was lost TO sight,a then all
eyes centered on surf boat as it dropped
back beside the sunken vessel. Two
figures slowly descended the shrouds of
the mizZen mast and clupg to lines
few feet above the waves. Five min
utes passed as attempt after attempt
was made by the life savers to swing
the lifeboat near the waiting men.
A cry went up from the crowd on
shore as one figure was seen to leap
from the rigging and land in the boat.
Two minutes later man sprang far
out, and as the boat
ASCENDED A WAVE
it was seen that there were five figures
in the boat. Then a cheer that
drowned the roaring of the breakers
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-one moment lost to sight in the
foaming breakers, and again alive and
sure of rescue as the boat rose on top Of
some mighty billow.
Along the beach of Jones island a
crowd ran to meet the rescued men;
willing hands were stretched out to
reach them, and they were dragged
from the beat to place of safety.
CAPT. JOHN MCCULLOUGH, Mar.
inc City.
NATE TIMOTHY BoSo UR, Buff
falo, n. Y.
THOMAS TUSCOTT, sailor, Marine
City.
UNKNOWN SAILOR. Marine City.
SAILOR NAMED JIM" Marine
City.
COOK (WOMAN) UNKNOWN, Buf
falo, n. Y.
SAVED:
Robert Patterson, Kingston. Ont.
Frank Goerdes, surfman No. 6, Mill
waukes Life Saving station.
Surfman Geordes, as soon as hs
boarded the schooner, proceed to lash
the members of the crew to the rigging,
but it is supposed they loosened the
ropes to change their positions, hoping
TO escape the force of the blizzard OF
pelting snow and rain. but were so stiff
that they could not make new fastel.
ings and he could do nothing for them.
Captain Mccullough was the second
man to fall. shooting down into the
water as hundreds of field glasses wert
trained OH the scene from shore.
Tuscott fell first and the others soou
after the captain.