The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-11
HEAVY STORMS ON THE LAKES
A NUMBER OF SCHOONERS AND
BARGEs ARE LOST.
Others Are Adrift In the Gale and
Life-Savink Crews Have started
Out In the Attempt to Rescue the
Men-Beach Strewn With Wrecks

CHICAGO. Nov. 1o.-Heavy storms pre-
vail over Lakes Michigan and Erie. On
the lake front near Lincoln park today
the schooner Iron Cliff sunk and the crew
was saved after a hard battle with the
wind and waves On Lake Erie. near
Point Peiee lighthouse. the steamer J. J..
Donaldson lost two Of her consorts during
the night Each had a crew OF about six
men 1t IL feared the missing boats foun-
dered Reports from Detroit. Cleveland
and other points show the storm Is general
and anxiety for shipping is felt
The schooner Lena NJ. Nelson grounded
on the beach near ST. Joseph. Mich. Four
Of the crew of ten were rescued. when the
schooner fioated off. disabled. and the life
saving crew is following her in an eeffort
to save the remainder OF the crew.
Tonight it is reported from Michigan
City, Ind, that the schooner is stranded
five miles north OF New Buffalo. Mich.
At dark heavy seas were breaking over
the craft and four men we're hanging in
the rigging. The life-saving crew from
this point was still endeavor.ng 10 rescue
the imperled men.
Wa;erlogged ard unfit TO weather
storm upon the lakes, the S. Thai, tramp
two-mastsd schooner. foundered off Glen
coe in the gale OF Wednesday night and
went 10 pieces in the surf This morn
ing the wreckage was cast UP on the beach.
but no trace OF the crew mas been found,
and it IS thought all went down after cut
ting loose from the wreck in the ship
dory. The schooner is a total wreck.
There are scarcely two timhers left to-
Eether to indicate her dimensions. That
she foundered and went TO pieces on the
sand bars some distance out in the lake
is evidenced by the wreckage, which COW
ers the shore from Ravinia 10 Wilmette.
a distance Of nearly seven miles. The hull
has disappeared. and is supposed TO be
resting on the bars just inshore from
where the schooner WAS seen 10 drop an
Choir shortly before the storm broke Wed
nesday. On board the schooner We're Capt
Schuttman and crew OF three men. whose
names are not known at Milwaukee, where
the crew was shipped.
Crew Probably Drowned.
GLENCOE. ILL.,, Nov l0-The Dali, a
two-masted schooner loaded with Christ
mas trees was wrecked on the beach here
today She carried a crew OF abou, five,
all of whom are supposed to have per-
shed
Three Vessels In Peril.
SAND BEACH, Mich. Nov. l0--A steam
er. supposed to be the Schoolcraft. with two
schooners in tow. parted company with her
consorts off this port today during heavy
storm One barge is going ashore five miles
from here. and the other Is running down
the lake before the gale with sails set. The
.ife-saving crew has gone 10 the rescue in
the surfboat.
Two Barges Probably Lost.
PORT HURON, Mich. Nov. lo.-The
steamer c. F. Curtis and three consorts,
hound down, were struck by the gale on
Lake Huron near Sand Beach this morn
ing. The Fasset finally went ashore near
Sand Beach and the life-savng crew from
that point succeeded in getting all the men
off without loss of life. The Fasset Is in
good condition and will weather the gale.
The Holland and Reed have not reached
here at a late hour tonight, and fears are