The herald., 1896-11-09
TRUE TO OLD TRADITIONS
The Canaler Waukesha Goes Down With
Her Crew
One Man Washed Ashore Unconscious,
and the Rest Are Dead-Disasters
on the Atlantic Shore.

MUSHROOM. Mich. Nov S.-The
ing to ride out the gale at anchor here
last night, and only one survivor of her
crew of seven has been rescued. He is
still too weak to talk. The vessel had
a load of salt and apples, which was
taken on at Manistee Saturday morning.
At o'clock yesterday afternoon she was
sighted running with the gale under
torn mainsail An attempt was made
to enter Muskegon harbor but the
schooner drifted a mile south of the
piers, and then anchor was dropped
She was riding three-quarters of mile
from shore at dark. The engineer ana
fireman of the city pumping station
watched the lights until o'clock last
night, when they disappeared. Shortly
afterward wreckage began coming in.
and today nothing can be seen of the post
boat above the water where she an
chored. All night long the wreckage
continued to come up on the beach, ana
five bodies have been recovered The
names of the dead cannot be learned,
as nothing about their clothing will
identify them. The surviving sailor
was washed ashore unconscious, and
nothing can be learned from him.
The Waukesha was one of the old fee.
of "canalers," and, true to all tradi-
ton, she has taken almost her entire
crew down with her in her last disaster.
She was owned by F. H. Head of Chi
cago, and was formerly known as The
Nabob. She was built in Manitowoc in
1864 and rated at 295 tons.
This evening Frank Delach, the only
survivor of the wreck, made affidavit to
the effect that there were seven men on
board the Waukesha, Capt. Duncan Cor
bett, the mate, four seamen and colored
cook. When they arrived off Muskegon
he says, the captain, mate and some of
the others were very drunk. They sig
nailed for a tugboat, but showed no
distress signals and no tug under the
circumstances started out in the heavy
sea. The captain anchored mile south
of Muskegon harbor. The craft began
leaking badly, but the captain refused to
light the torch to make known their con-
dition to the life-saving crew. The crew
grasped life-preservers, their yawl boat
having been washed away. They let go
drifted towards the shore somewhat,
with the smaller anchor dragging grad
ually, all hands taking to the forward
rigging The craft, however, began sink
ing rapidly, and a sudden lurch threw
some of the men from the foremost AS
a part of them chung to the rigging, the
maintopmast broke off and fell upon
them, striking some of them and sweep
ing all into the lake. Delach said he
contrived to get together a raft from
the wreckage, to which five of the men
hung for time. They dragged the cap
tain with them but he was too helplessly
drunk to hold on and they had to drop
him. Delach and one other sailor stood
it until o'clock in the morning, but
finally the other man gave up and sank,
and Delach was shortly afterward taken
off by the life-saving crew.
A CREW RESCUED.
QUEBEC, Nov. S.-A private cable
announces the loss at sea of the Ger
man bark George Linck Capt. Varselo,
from Quebec October ., for Grimbsy
with a cargo of timber. The crew wos
rescued and are on the ship General Cor
don, bound for London.
The George Linck hailed from Dan,-
zic, Germany, and was owned by Scho-
man G. Domansky. Her register was
about $40 tons.
AN ATLANTIC GALE.
LONDON, Nov. S.-A severe gale pre-
vailed on the English coasts on Satur-
day night, and there We're many wrecks
accompanied by exciting lifeboat res.
cues.