Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-24
WINDS AND WAVES

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Play Havoc with Shipping In Lake
Mfchigan-Herolc Work by Lffe-Savin4
Crews-Several Vessels Driven Ashore n
Chicago In Sight Of Tens of Thousands
of Mortified SpectatOr-Fears Enter
tanned for Other Craft.
CHICAGO, Nav 18.-Lale Michigan
has not been dashed and churned for
months as she was to-day by the fierce
wind that has been sweeping down
from the north for the past thirty six
hours. Late tonight it is believed
that twelve or fifteen lives have been
lost along the shore off this city and
its suburbs. The only other point re-
porting loss of life is Milwaukee, where
six of the schooner Cummings crew
were drowned this afternoon before
they could be rescued by the life-saving
crew. Half dozen schooners and
smaller craft have foundered off this
city during the day; score or more
are dismantled and stove in, making
an almost hopeless fight against the
gale and the huge waves that every
few minutes sweep over them, endan-
gering the lives of those who are still
on board. 1t has been a day of heroic
effort and great suffering for the life
saving crews scattered along the shore.
At least thirty vessels are anchored
outside the harbor waiting for the
storm to snbside. All are more or less
damaged and the signals of distress
that have appeared among them from
time to time during the day have kept
the life-savers busy.
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brought in, all exhausted and suffer
ing intensely from exposure and cold.
In several cases help arrived too late,
and a corpse was found among the
half-conscious sailors who, benumbe
by the cold and unable to protect them
selves, were almost beaten to death by
the furious waves. At midnight the
storm has not abated, and every hour
increases the peril of those on board
the numerous vessels outside the har-
Dor, pulling at their anchors and in
imminent danger of being brought into
collision with each other or of being
pounded to pieces on the beach.
Scenes of horror that chilled the
blood of thousands, of spectators were
enacted in the harbor for two miles be-
low the Illinois Central depot in the
early evening. AS the storm increased
in violence during the afternoon the
waves grew mountain high, dashing
over the breakwater, deluging the
tracks and enveloping the passing
trains with torrents of spray. Out in
the harbor dozen three-masted
schooners. heavily laden with lumber
from Michigan, were riding at anchor.
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the number hoisted signals of dis
| phoned to the police and fire
departments as well as to the
| life-saving station at jackson
park. A few minutes later the three
masted Evening Star, of this city,
parted her chains and came for the
shore like a rocket. She struck the
heavy piling of the breakwater and
her timbers crushed in as though they
were egg shells. AS the vessel struck
the six sailors aboard jumped
for their lives. Five landed on a
pile of scrap iron, going down on all
tours, but sixth, Norwegian named
Olson, missed land by a couple CT feet
and went down into the waves. The
cheers that had broken from thousands
of spectators turned into groan as
the man disappeared from view.
Hardly had the Star struck when
there was shout from the throng OF
excited on-lookers, and it was seen
that another three-masted schooner
had parted her ropes and was coming
ashore. This was the Jack Thomp-
son, also undertaken. She followed
the path of the Star, and came helm
on on the previous unfortunate.
The shock precipitated into the
water the timber on the star
board side, and upon which the five
members of the crew were standing.
Four of the them chung to a big plank,
to which they held on like grim death
meanwhile yelling at the top of their
voices for help. The fifth man could
not be seen for a moment, but was
finally discovered hanging by one
hand to spar couple Of
hundred yards north. By this
time the lifeboat had arrived
from jackson park. but it was evident
that any attempt to launch it would
only result in its being crushed to
pieces, and the crew turned their at
tention to the rescue of the men in the
water. Several unsuccessful efforts to-
cast lines were made, but finally a
rocket was thrown across the raft and
caught by one of the sailors.
The throng held it's breath as the
rope was slowly drawn in, for it
seemed as though every wave would
wash the unfortunates back into the
waters; but when the land was reached
and the benumbed men were helped
ashore the rescuers were rewarded by
q roar like reverberation of artillery.
In the meantime the other member
of the crew had been washed into a
pier AUDITING Twenty-second street.
where he managed to cling to the pill
ing and was pulled up by some of the
spectators.
Shortly after o'clock the two
masted Murphy, lumber-laden, came
ashore within fifty yards Of the
Thompson. She was driven so close
to land her crew had little difficulty in
Jumping ashore. The waves swept
the decks of all three vessels clean
and within an hour the beach for
couple of miles was strewn with Ium-
Der.
The Evening Star and the Thompson
were breaking up tonight.
intimidation without Violence.
CANNoNsBURs, Pa, May tx-Four
hundred striking coal miners from the
Mcdonald district, with brass band,
arrived at the coke mine here at $3.50
o'clock this morning Several shots