Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-31

NJ. w. Morgan, head waiter, Benton
Harbor.
Joseph Pearl, passenger, st. Joseph.
Thomas Robertson, watchman.
&. II. Sinons, first mate, Benton Har-
Dor.
Ed Shines, captain. st. Joseph.
Ben Shines, second mate, st. Joseph,
son of the captain.
A. Wirtz, second engineer, Detroit.
Eight deck hands names unknown.
Two firemen, names unknown.
One coal passer, name unknown.
Captain Stincs, Mate c. ID. Simons,
Engineer Mcclure, Nate Lynch, the
cook. and Clerk James X. Clarke have
families. The rest of the men are single.
The anxious eyes of Lighthouse Keeper
Charles Donoghue, ut South Haven,
which have fGr days been looking to the
west over the iee-bound lake for signs
OF the missing propeller Chicora. with
her human freight. were rewarded on
Wednesday afternoon, by discerning sew
cral miles out specks that through the
glass were soon seen to be pieces of wreck
age. They were only specks, but to the
mariners quick eye they told of the un-
questionable fess of a vessel and all on
board. The wreckage was about two
opposite the harbor. The ice appeared
to extend hah n mile further out into the
lake. Mariners at once organized "A re-
lief party te go out and investigate the
wreckage. Captain Matthews, of the
United States life-saving service, led the
party of searehers that braved the wintry
wind, blowing in their faces at a rate of
upward of thirty miles an hour. The trip
out from land was perilous one, for the
ice while driven into a compact mass
by the gale of the last two days, was still
dangerous, and in places uncertain on
account of it's roughncss and the liability
of its breaking up.
wrcckage Found i'm the Ice.
After the two miles, which seemed i
be ten. had been covered Capt. Matthews
and his party came TO a mass of wreck
age imbedded in the ice. but apparently Of
81 boat that had but recently met with
disaster. There were n number of pieces
that appeared TO belong TO the upper
works of some large vessel. probably a
: propeller or steamer Of some large line.
Much of the wreckage was under the
ice or water, which made il difficult to
reach i'm order to closely describe. The
men hunted around for pieces of the
piiot-house, by which the name of the
vessel could be learned, but they were
unsuccessful Portions of the wreckage
were secured and carried back to the
land, where experienced seamen who
knew the Graham & Morton vessel iden-
tified them as belonging to the Chicora.
Among most of the seamen the opinion
is that the Chicora has foundered. The
discovery Of the wreckage proves that she
has at least lost her upper works. and
those who know the vessel say that a
storm severe enough to carry these off
would be more than any vessel could
stand. even though she be so stanch az
the Chicora. They also state that the
twenty-six men supposed to be on board
are undoubtedly lost. If they did not 20
down with the vessel it would be impossi-
BILE for them To have escaped in the teeth
of the gale with the lake full of ice. Mr..
Morton, of the Graham & Morton Trans
portation Company. and Clerk Hancock,
who arrived at South Haven late Mt
night. examined the wreckage. which they
think without doubt belongs To the Chi
cora. Both expressed the belief that the
chieora is still ahoat and perhaps dis
abied. and has lost a part Of her upper
works.