Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-02-01

NJ w Morgan, head waiter, Benton
Harbor.
Joseph Pearl, passenger, st. Joseph.
Thomas Robertson. Waterman.
G. ID. Simons, first mate, Benton Har-
Dor.
Ell Shines. captain. st. Joseph.
Ben Shines, second mate, st. Joseph,
son of the captain.
A. Writ. second engineer. Detroit.
Eight deck hands. names unknown.
Two fircmcn, names unknown.
One coal passer, name unknown.
Captain Shines. Mate G. 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 DonoglIue, at South Haven,
which have for days been looking to the
west over the ice-bound lake for signs
of the missing propeller Chicora. with
her human freight. were rewarded on
Wednesday afternoon, by discerning sew
eral miles out specks that through the
glass ere soon seen 10 be pieces Of wreck
age. They were only specks, but TO the
mariners quick eye they told of the un
questionable loss Of vessel and all on
DGiTu. Ht NItthdSc WAS uBpui lNO
miles out from shore. most of it directly
opposite the harbor. The ice appeared
10 extend half mile further out into the
lake. Mariners at once organized re-
lief party to go out and investigate the
wreckuge. Captain Matthews. of the
United States life-saving service. led the
party of searchers that braved the wintfy
wind, blowing in their faces at n rate of
upward of thirty miles an hour. The trip
out from land was perilCus one, for the
ice while driven into n compact mass
! hy the gale of the last two days. was still
dangerous and in places uncertain on
account of its roughIess and the liability
of its breaking up.
Wrcckagc Found i'm the Ice.
| After the two miles. which seemed ,
be ten. had been covered Capt. Matthews
and his party came to Il mass of wreck
| age imbedded in the ice, bu. apparently of
boat that had but recently met with
! disaster. There were q 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 cf the wreckaye was under the
Ice or water, which made it difficult to
reach in order to closely describe. The
men hunted around for pieces of the
| pilot-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-
! tilted them as belonging to the Chicora.
Among most of the seamen the opinion
is that the Chic0ra has foundered. The
discovery of the wreckage proves that she
has ut least lost her upper works. and
those who know the vessel say that n
storm severe enough to carry these off
would be more than any vessel could
stand. even though she be so stanch as
the Chicora. They also state that the
twenty-sx men supposed to be or board
nre undoubtedly lost. If they did rot 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 ut South Haven late ut
night. examined the wreckage, which they
think without doubt belongs TO the Chi
cora. Both expressed the belief that the
Chicora is still afoat and perhaps dis
nbled. and has lost q part of her upper
works.