The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-19
THE CYCLONES RAVAGES.
A Disastrous Wreck on Lake
Michigan.
Six Persons Known to Have
Been Drowned.
Gallant Efforts of the Life-Saving
Crew.
Only Two Members of the Crew Res-
cusd-The Fate OF n Woman who
Was Lashed to tho Rig
ging-storm Notes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, May 18.-Hanging TO the
rigging of the schooner M. B Cummings,
just south OF Milwaukee light house to-
night, are the bodies of woman and
man, the former the stewsrdess and the
latter q sailor. Four others, including
he captain, have been drowned. and
ne, Robert Patterson, a sailor, is saved.
1t was the fiercest storm that has swept
the west shore of Lake Michigan since
the crib disaster two years ago, when IA
lives were lost.
The Cummings and the schooner G. @.
Barnes tried to enter the harbor early in
the day and failed to make the piers and
were soon drifting toward the beach on
Jones island. An unsuccessful effort
was made by the life-savng crew to res
cue all of the crew of the Cummings,
but they were nearly drowned in the
attempt, the life boat being overturned,
the crew escaping almost miraculously.
The crew of the Barnes escaped and
the vessel cannot be released, as she is
light and on a sandy bottom.
Five men and woman perished on
the wreck OF the schooner NJ. B. Cum
mings before the life-saving crew reached
the wreck. One of the crew and a life
saver were rescued.
The men who perished fell from their
perches in the crosstreee to the water
and sank out OF sight like pieces OF lead.
The body OF the woman is still lash 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
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 separated the tug from the ecow,
and back of the ecow was towed the
empty surf boat.
With bow to the waves the Knight
Templar permitted the scow to drop
down toward the wr,ck. When the surf
boat was within 30 yards from 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 backward into the boiling
waves, being instantly lost to sight. A
short time before another of those cling
ing to the ropes had also let 60 every
hold and pershed.
A groan went up from the crowd as
each body was lost to sight, and then
all ewes centered on the surf boat as it
dropped back beside the sunken vessel.
Two figures slowly descended the
shouds of the mizzen mast 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
llieboat 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 a second man sprang out
and as the boat ascended 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
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 the top OF some mighty
billow.
Along the beach at the foot of Jones
island q crowd ran to meet the rescued
men. Willing hands were stretched
out to reach them, and they were
dragged from the surf to place of safety.
The dead are:
Capt. John Mccullough, Marine City.
Mate Timothy Bosowerx, Buffalo.
N. Y.
Thomas Tuscott, sailor, Marine City.
Unknown sailor, Marine City.
Sailor named Jim. Marine City.
Cook (woman), name unknown.
The saved are: Robert Patterson.
Kingston, Ont. Frank Gordes, surf
man, No. 6, Milwaukee Life Saving Sta
ton.
Surfman Gordes, as coon as he board
ed the schooner, proceeded to lash the
mem bers of the crew to the rigging, but
1t is supposed they loosened the ropes to
change their positions, hoping to Escape
the force of the bl Zzard OF pelting snow
and rain, but were so stiff they could not
make new fastenngs and he could do
nothing for them.
Captain Mccullough was the second
man to fall shooting down into the
water as hdndreds of field glasses were
trained on the scene from the shore
Tuscott fell first and the others soon
after the captain.
There are no other wrecks so far as
known south OF this city, although sew
sral biaFs are reported in distress in the
vicinity of Racine reef.
Two little schooners were running
along under bare poles south OF Racine,
North Point, at dark and big three
mast coaler came to anchor of Racine
light house.