Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-19


to-day swept Lake Michigan was the
ne most disastrous OF recent years.
Eight vessels were driven ashore within
the city limits of Chicago. Out OF their
crews ten men are known to be drowned,
and in every instance boat and cargo
are utterly lest.
One schooner, the Myrtle, was wreck
ed Just outside of the government pier,
within a half mile of Michigan boule-
ward, and six men Of her crew went
down to death in plain view OF the hun
dreds Of people who lined the boulevard
walk, or watched the awful storm from
the windows Of the big hotels which
overlook the harbor. The wrecks eX-
tended from Glencoe, on the north,
where the Lincoln Dali went to pieces,
to South Chicago, a distance Of forty
miles Following is the list OF wrecks
as far as known at 10 o'clock tonight:
Schooner Lincoln Dali, 1876 tons, driven
ashore at Glencoe, IS miles north OF
Chicago.
Schooner Myrtle, l97 tons, wrecked
at the foot of Harrison street.
Schooner Jack Thompson, Of Chicago,
100 tons, wrecked off Twenty-hfth
street.
Schooner Evening Star, Of Milwaukee,
2O3 tons, wrecked off Twenty seventh
street; crew rescued.
Schooner Mercury, OF Grand Haven,
21S tons, wrecked Oft Twenty-seventh
street; crew rescued.
Schooner j. Loomis McLaren, OF
Chicago, 272 tons, wrecked of Twenty
seventh street.
Schooner Rainbow. OF Milwaukee, 243
tens, wrecked of Twenty-second, street;
crew rescued. .
Schooner c. J.Mixer, of Chicago, 979
tons, wrecked of One Hundredth street;
crew rescued.
Unknown schooner ashore near South
Chicago.
The fatalities are:
Anton Gundersou, of Manistee, sea
mau, schooner Lincoln Dali, drowned
while attempting to reach shore.
Charles Cautlers, cook on steamer
Jack Thompson, resided in Chicago,
washed from a rope while attempting
10 reach shore.
Joseph Spolan, Sturgeon Bay, mate
Of J. LOOMS McLaren, struck and
killed bY a tow post, torn out wnen the
vessel broke away from tug.
Eutire crew of the schooner Myrtle,
six men, none of them known.
Thomas kelso, fisherman, was washed
of the government pier and drowned.
THE FIRST VESSEL TO GO
ashore was the two-masted schooner
Jack Thompson. The boat came from
Garden Bay, Mich, and arrived of the
breakwater early in the afternoon. A
tug made its way TO her side and Of
fered line, but the captain re-
fused it. intending to sail into the
harbor. The task was too much for
him, however, and before be was fairly
into the harbOr he lost control OF his
vessel, which crashed into the Rainbow,
carrying away the bow of that boat and
smashing a great hole under her own
bowsprit, and With her foremast gone
she drifted rapidly south, pitiaole
wreck The men were rescued oy life
line thrown 10 them.
The sooner Mercury, Of LudingtoR,
Mich, was wrecked off Twenty seventh
street An effort was made TO tow her
into harbor when she neared the break
water, but the wind and waves were too
strong. The crew were also rescded by
life lines.
The schooner Lincoln Dali, OF Manis-
tee, was driven ashore at Glencoe, and
Anton GunderSon, one OF the sailors,
was swept overheard and drowned. Al
ter several hours of waiting, the rest Of
the crew were rescued by members OF
the Evanston life-Saying crew. When
the life-saving crew finally arrived the
wrecked sailors were we'll nigh exhaust
ed.
THE WRECK OF THE RAINBOW,
lumber-laden schooner from Racine,
occurred late n the afternoon and was
marked Oy the heroic rescue OF her
crew when all hope OF saving her had
been abandoned. She had thrown out
her anchors and tried TO ride out the
storm. The gale was too strong for
/ her, however. ana at o'clock she began
| 10 drift rapidly southwark, dragging
| her anchors. Seeing that her destruc-
tion was inevitable, the life-saving
crew loaded their life line sp-
paratus upon fat car OF
/ the Illinois Central Railroad, which
! runs close 70 the waters edge aud kept
pace with the doomed vessel as the
wind drove her southwark. Of the
| foot OF Harmon Court the car was
stopped, the cannon fired, and the life
line missed the boat by thirty feet AT
I Twelfth street another shot was fired.
with the same result. At Twenty-ffth
street the sailors cut loose on a small
raft they had made, and Wm. Fl. Haylll,
a young electrical engineer, held line
and swan out TO the raft, then eighty
/ feet from the shore. He was some time
| in reaching the raft. he finally
made his way TO the side aud called to
/ Captain John Pew 10 jump overheard.
Pew obeyed, Havill caught him, and
the two men were hauled ashore. a
negro named E ]. Willis swan out in
like manner and saved another man.
This left but one man on the raft, and
rIa7ill returned and brought him of
safely. The vessel drifted ashore and
WAS GROUND TO PIECES.
One OF the most exciting features Of
the storm Was the imprisonment Of