The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
NINETEEN MEN PERISH
-. of the Steamer Idaho on
Iva Lake Erie.
..,v TWO OF THE CREW SAVED.

,,o,rts of Captain Gillies and His
he''' ,eeu the Doomed Vessel Afioat-
..,hIe Experience In the Rigging oil
r,,o Men Who Escaped-sighteh and
W" NV the steamer Mariposa When
.,,no.t Dead from Exposure.
prnalo N. Y. Nov. civilian Gill.
,.or hand, and Louis La Force Jr'' sec
were the only members OF the
,or Idaho's crew who were saved
,,os.el was wrecked In Lake Erie.
The list of drowned is as follows; cap
| .a,n Alex Glllies, Mate George Gibson.
-,Ooer william Clancy, Assistant En-
'or Nelson Skinner, Waterman Louis
Snu,ore Wheelsman Richard Mclean,
,,,Soolsman Robert williams. Lookout
~ Richard, Lookout Henry Thorn
Fireman Conrad Banker. Fireman
wn,,am Gregory, Deckhand Edward
ten - Bell, from Mumford, Stew
srd John D. Taylor Assistant Steward
robn Leahy, unknown fireman. un-
Known deckhand, unknown porter.
The crew had asked Captain Giilles
A. turn TO shelter under Long Point,
INF he thought it safe to go ahead and
,SS not change his mind until he was
.an miles beyond the point. The vio-
- of the storm and the fact that his
80 was leaking frightened him, and he
ondaavored to bring her around. she
,,oo caught in the trough of the sea ana
Sogan 70 ship water in such quantities
NJ tho whole crew was sent below TO
,he humps. While they were trying to
boon the water from rising one OF the
numps broke and half the crew was
souipped with fire-buckets and line
was formed to bail her out.
The Captains Last Hopr.
put the water rose steadily and soon
attacked the engine fire. Ten minutes
,oter the fires were out and the ship
uoe tossing powerless in the grasp OF
the sea. Captain Gillies' last hope was
that he might catch an anchor, ana III
the dark on the wave-swept decks the
crew nut out the anchors. While they
were giving more line to the port anchor
the stern began to sink. Hail. dozen
saiors who were below dashed for the
deck and trampled one of their number
IN death i'm their mad haste to get on,
of the flooding hold. Most of the crew
ran for the lifeboats. Those who were
NOT washed overheard were drowned
when the small boats were swamped
Gill and La Force got on the end OF the
deckhouse as the stern sank and climbed
into the rigging. They got up to the
crows nest and were there when the
Idaho settled down on bottom. There
they chung, slowly freezing to death.
1T was / o'clock, about" said Gil
when speaking of the rescue, when W.
saw third stack and puff of smoke
I'D the lake. This time said the mate
we must stop her or die With tina
he began to swing his hat. He told m
to wave my arms, but it was impossi
BILE.
An Anxious Fifteen Minutes.
1.-THE best could do was to wiggl
my left hand just the least bit, AM
this took all my strength. He oil
enough for us both and got some eXer
else for It, He waved toward the shor
also. Then the puffs of smoke changes
their course She sees u.s. said tn
mate in a frantic voice.
1.-THE next fifteen mirTtes were tn
most anxious ones l have ever spen'
watched and waited till my eye
ached. | could not believe that the boa
was coming for us, but she was. Slowl
she came on and on, and in little Will
we could make out her hull. The res
was easy. The boat ran up to us an
began to lower a yawl. 1t was wasfe
in a jiffy. Captain Root did might
well. He tried twice to run alongsid
us. but the sea was too heavy. Then h
tried to run head on, but he missed
Four times his boat, the Mariposa, ra
around us, and at last her nose bumpe
almost against me and the second mat
found that l could not unfasten m
hands. One of the men on the rescuin
boat had to pull them off the mast lik
a lever and two others hauled me @
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