Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-30
ALL HANDS LOST.
The Steamer Chicora Foundered in
Mid-lake-Pieces of Cabin
Come Ashore.

Benton Harbor, Mich, Jan. 25.-All
doubt about the fate of the steamer Chi
cora has been dispelled. She foundered
during the terrible storm Monday after
noon, and in all probability every man
on board persisted. Mr.. Graham thinks
the boat went to pieces in mld-lake.
Many waited around Graham q Nor
tons transportation office during the fore
noon with some hope and strong desire
that good news would come from South
Haven showing that the Wreckage found
there was that of some other boat than
the steamer ChicOra At II O'Clock this
hope was shattered when q dispatch from
South Haven signed by J. Stanley Nor
ton was received by j. H. Graham, say
ing:
We have found, out about a mile from
the pier, in the ice, part Of the side forward
upper bulwarks, five feet wide by twelve
feet long, and the inside shutter of the
passenger gangway. All belonged to the
Chcora.
This was nervously read to the anx-
ious bystanders by Mr.. Graham, who
broke down and hurried over from the
telegraph office to the cOmpanyS office,
where a still larger crowd, composed
mostly of sailors and business men, was
waiting for reports. After an hours
conversation and theorizing how wreck
age from the upper bulWarks could come
ashore before anything OF the cabin II
she were in serious trouble. Mr.. Graham
went to dinner at / o'clock, feeling that
perhaps the boat might have weathered
the storm after all. Hardly had he fin
ished the meal when messages from
South Haven arrived, saying that cur
tains, pieces of mahogany furniture, cab
in decorations, pantry fixtures, barrels of
-four, trunks. satchels and various parts
of the vessels interior works and other
articles belonging to the Chicora had
been f0und.
Up to a late hour no bodies have been
recovered, and the boat is still out of
sight showing it possible, if not prob
able, that the crew had gone down inn
prisoned in the boat or dashed fast to
the spars.
Names of the Lost.
Following are the names of those who
went down with the Chicora as far as as
certained:
EDWARD SHINES, captain, St Joseph,
9. b. sINIoNs, first mate, Benton Harbor,
BENJAMIN SHINES, second mate, cap
ROBERT MCCLURE, chief engineer, De-
A. WRIT, second engineer. Detroit.
JAMES r. CLARK. clerk st. Joseph.
GRANT A. DOWNEY, oiler, Detroit.
JOSEPH PEARL. passenger, st. Joseph.
JOSEPH MARKS, wheelman, Benton
JOHN HODGES, watchman.
NATE LYNCH, cook, st. Joseph.
LANES MALONE, pantry man, Chicago.
WILLIAM MORGAN, head waiter, Benton
Harbor.
JESSE DAVIS, porter, Benton Harbor
Besides the above the steamer carried
one coal passer, two fremen and eight
notwithstanding twentysix people i'll
all who lost their lives.
Benton Harbor Mich, Jan. 26--The
Of h.,
crew, as it was given yesterday, are now
believed to be:
BENTLEY, ARCHIE, deck hand, shipped
GEARING. THOMAS, deck hand. shipped
MILLER, WILLIAM, coal passer, shipped
at St Joseph.
They are unmarried men, and with the
exception of Miller, whose home is in In
diana, their homes are not known. This
completes the list of those who We're on
the Inflated steamer.
a volunteer crew yesterday carried q
yaw a distance of one mile over the
ice fed to open water for the purpose of
and bodies Of victims. They returned in
thoroughly exhausted cc2dHion without
haYing accomplished anything.
A lifeboat supposed to have belonged to
the Chicora was noticed floating in the
lake from point six miles north of South
no one could be seen in her.
Engineer Mcclure, It is said, carried
with him a small, water=tight tin box that
was made for him one year ago by g.
Brammall of st. Joseph, and intended, III
case Of disaster, to be the receptacle for
such memoranda of the occurrence as the
engineer might be able to make. 1t Is
hoped that Engineer Mcclure may have
had his life spared long enough to pre-
pare at least brief account of the inn
pending disaster and commit it to the
waves, and that later it may be cast up
and found
Capt Edward Napier yesterday ex>
manner in which the Chicora was lost:
Il was on the schooner Guide with Capt.
Shines thirty years ago when she was
Wedged in the ice seven miles off st. JO>
seph, where she was stuck three months.
/ have known Shines ever since, and /
know what he would do. When the
storm struck him he turned the steamers
head against it. That is shown by the
loss of the bow. Then the steamer was
thrown broadside to sea, for the pilot
house went with the forward bulWarkS,
and the carrying away of the upper works
amidships and aft would quickly follow.
The steamer would drift into the ice then
in all probability if no longer manageable.
If under control Stir~s would head her
for shore and either run into the ice or
beach her"
Benton Harbor Mich, JAN 26-Mrs
Edward Shines. wife of the captain, and
the wife of Chief Cook Lynch are re-
ported lying in a critical condition, not
being able to bear up any longer. Capt
Shines left a small insurance! Mr. Clark
and Joseph Pearl each left $4,000. Clark
was a thirty -second-degree Mason Mrs
Pearl is said to have lost her reason.