Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-25
ILL-FATEDCHICORA
Further Evidence That the GAL
liant Ship is Lost.
MORE OF her WRECKAGE FOUND.

Parts Of the Cabin and Drawing Rooms,
with Some Of Her Cargo and Her For
ward Spar Picked Up-0ne Piece Of
Wood with Her Name ON 1t Discovered
MANY stiii Hope That She Is Anoat,
and Hull Ilas Becn Seen North OF south
Haven-T,- Petoskey Out Searching.
CHICAGO Jan. 25-Is the Chicora LOST
That is ACQUISITION that some people are
asking at this writing and refusing to he
lieve that she is. Others are equally pos
tive that those who had friends on her
are bereaved and that the ship lies at the
bottom of the lake. Both Andrew Craw-
ford and his son, X. c. Crawford. the
stock broker, who are largely interested
in the Graham a. Morton transportation
line, refuse to believe that the missing
boat has foundered. There is absolutely
no evidence that she is lost" said the lat.
ter. las for the wreckage found, that
tn me is proof that she is afiOat. The fact
that none of the parts found were indis.
pensable to her safety would indicate that
she is simply crippled. The Chicora was
built for the ice. She is constructed of
heavy timbers and wooden beams. II she
had been made of steel should expect
she had foundercd. As it is, she might
easily be stripped of her upper structure
from stem to stern and she would ride tho
waves until rescued
Her Debris Is Strewn on the Ice.
However that may DC there is no doubt
that there is wreckagc all along the ice at
South Haven. Mich. and that it belongs
to the ChicOra. A telegram from there
announces that the scarchcrs have found
u portion of the Chicoru's passenger gang
way, curtains, and other pieces of her
main deck and bulwarks; also parts of
drawing rooms q and 2S and n large part
of the boats baggage room. This tele-
gram was supplemented by the following
from the delegation of searchers: I'VE
started ut u m. at South Haven, and
found some Of the forward upper bull.
warks, went further north and came upon
lots of wreckage. Have found pieces from
the top to lower deck, most of the baggage
room, an upper shutter. and one life pre-
server.
Fully Identifies the wreckage.
Found one barrel of -four from the car
CO. Some of the doors and cabin bulk.
heads arc found Much wreckage is in
sight farther north" A still later report
stated that the party had found the for
ward spar and "a piece of wood with the
name .'Chicora' on it. This definitely
identifies the wreckace but the barrel Of
flour was rood Identification as -four was
part of her cargo. Still, as claimed by
Crawford, nothing has been found that
waS ipdisnaps,ble IN the flo,tipg of tho
vessol and tho bo,efpI claim az their best
co,pfort that sbe is a b.ln,ess wreck come.
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