The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-19

Milwaukee. May 18.-The schooner
M. j. Cummings. laden with grain,
from Chicago, foundered just south of
the harbor piers this morning. The
Hfeboat which went to rescue the
crew was driven past the wreck and
capsized by the breakers at Bayview.
A fierce gale from the northward is
raging and a tremendous sea sweeping
into the bay. In the city trees are
blown down, light structures unroofed
and signs torn from their fastenings
The life-saving crew reached shore
safely by clinging to the boat, which
was washed high and dry. They will
take other measures to rescue the i'm
periled crew of the Cummings, one of
which is woman, the stewardess.
Six Victims Claimed.
Five men and a woman persisted on
the wreck of the schooner NJ. B. Cum
mings before the life-saving crew
reached the wreck. One of the crew
and life-saver were rescued.
The men who persisted 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
dashed to the rigging, to which she
escaped when the vessel began to sink
Six thousand people lined the piers
and the shores of Jones island and the
mainland this afternoon, when the tug
Knight Templar, towing a scow bear
ing the life-savers, left the piers 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
Templar permitted the scow to drop
down toward the wreck. When the
surf boat was within fifty yards of the
wreck, a human figure that had been
clinging to the rigging of the mizzen
mast was seen to throw up his hands
and fall backwards into the boiling
A short time before, another of those
clinging to the ropes had also let go
every hold and persisted.
Alternate Groans and Cheers.
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
l..
Two figures slowly descended the
shrouds of the mizzenment and clung
to lines but a few feet above the waves.
Five minutes passed. as an attempt
was made by the life-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 to
leap from the rigging and land in the
boat. A minute later, second man
ont nd he
cended wave it was seen there were
five figures in the boat Then a cheer
that drowned the roaring of the
breakers went up from the threats on
shore.
Slowly the long line that held the
surf-boat was paid out, and the two
rescued men were permitted to drift
sight in the foaming breakers, and
again alive and sure of rescue as the
boat rose on the top of some mighty
billow
Along the beach, at the foot 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 surf to place CT safety.
The Dead and the Living.
The dead.
Captain John Mccullough, Marine
| City.
Mate Timothy Bosour, Buffalo, N. Y
Thomas Tuscott, sailor, Marine City
| Unknown sailor, Marine City.
Sailor named Jim, Marine City.
| Cook, (woman, unknown).
| Saved:
| Robert Patterson, Kingston, Ont.
! Frank Gordes, surfman, number
| Milwaukee life saving station.
| Surfman Gordes, as soon as he
boarded the schooner. proceeded to lasr
! 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
they could not make new fastening:
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 were
trained on the scene from shore.
Tuscott fell first and the others soor
after the captain.
There are no other wrecks, so far a!
known, south of this city, although
several boats are reported in distres!
| in the vicinity of Racine reef.
Two little schooners were running
along under bare poles south of Racine
North Point at dark, and big tire,
and aft coaler came to anchor off Ra
cine lighthouse.