The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-05-19

Milwaukee and at Many ether
Points.
MILWAUKEE, May 1s.-The schooner
NJ. j. Cummings, laden with grain from
Chicago, foundered just south of the har-
bor piers this morning. The crew are in
the rigging. 1t is reported that two men
were swept overheard and drowned. A
lifeboat which went to the rescue Of tho
crew was driven past the wreck and cap.
sized by breakers at Bayview.
A fierce gale from the northwest is
raging and a tremendous sea is sweeping
into the bay. An unknown vessel foun-
dered oil Whiteish bay. In the city trees
were blown down, light structures un-
rooted and signs torn from their fasten-
ings.
Several unknown vessels are on the
beach between South Milwaukee and
Racine.
The life-savng crow reached the shore
in safety by climbing to the boat which
was washed high and dry. They will take
another measure TO rescue the imperiled
crew Of the Cummings, one Of whom is q
woman. the stewardess.
Five men and woman perished in the
wreck of the schooner NJ B. Cummings.
before the life saving crew reached the
wreck. One of tho crow and life saver
we're rescued. The men who perished fell
from their perches in the cross trees to the
water and sank out of sight like pieces OF
lead.
The body of the woman is still lashed to
the rigging 10 which she escaped when the
vessel began to sink.
Six thousand people lined the piers and
the shores of Jones island and the main
land this afternoon when the tug Knight
Templar, towing scow bearing the life
savers, left the piers TO make the rescue of
the crew. One hundred feet of line sepa-
rated the tug from the scow. and back of
the scow was towed an empty surf boat.
With its bow to tho waves, tho Knight
Templar permitted the scow to drop down
toward the deck. When tho surf boat
was within 80 yards of the wreck, a hu-
man figure that had been clinging to the
rigging of the mizzen mast was seen to
throw up its hands and fall backwards
into the waves, being instantly lost to
sight. A short time after another of those
clinging TO the ropes let go his hold and
perished.
A groan went up from the crowd as
each body was lost to sight, and then all
eyes centered on the surf boat as it
dropped back beside the sunken vessel.
Two figures slowly descended the shrouds
of the mizzenmasts and clung to the lines
\ but few feet above the waves. Five
minutes passed as an attempt was made
by the lifo savers to swing the life boat
close to the waiting men. A cheer went
up from the crowd on the shore as one
figure was seen 10 leap from the rigging
and land in the boat. A moment later n
second man sprang far out and. as the
boat assembled the wave, it was seen there
were five figures in the boat.
Then n 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 tlfe boat rose
on top of some mighty billow.
| Along the beach at the foot OF Jones
island. the crowd ran to meet the rescued
men. Willing hands were stretched out
to meet them and they were dragged from
the surf TO place of safety.
The dead are: Capt. John Mccullough
of Marine City; Mate Timothy Bosour of
Buffalo, \. "; Thomas Tuscott, sailor
of Marine City; an unknown sailor of Ma.
rine City; a sailor named Jim Of Marine
City: the cook, woman, unknown.
The saved wero Robert Peterson OF
Kingston, Ont; Frank Gordes, surf man
of No. 9 Milwaukee life-savina station.
Surfman Gordes, as soon as he boarded
the schooner. proceeded 10 lash tue mem.
bers Of the crew to the rigging, but il is
supposed they loosened the ropes to
change their position, hoping to escape
the force Of the blizzard OF pelting snow
and rain, but were $50 stiff they could not
make new fastenings and he could do
nothing for them. Captain Mccullough
was tho second man to fall, shooting
down into the water as hundreds OF field
glasses we're trained on the scene from
the shore. Tuscott fell first and the
others soon after the captain.
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