The Saint Paul globe., 1899-06-30

CLEVELAND, o., June 29-In the
heavy northeast gale last night the
| steamer Margaret O1wilI, laden with
stone, from Kelly's island to Cleveland,
fcundered in Lake Erie, off Lorain. Nine
persons were drowned. Four members Of
the crew have been picked up by passing
steamers and brought into port. The
dead are:
Cleveland "a
LIZZIE BRAUN, wife of master, CIeve-
land.
BLANCHARD BRAUN, their nine
MRS. CORA A HITCHCOCK, a pas
Senger OF Cleveland
WILLIAM DOYLE, fireman. of CIeye-
land.
GEORGE HEFFRoN, seaman, of
FRANK HIPP. watchman, of Cleve-
land.
TWO sEAMEN. names and residence
unknown.
The rescued are: John Smith, first
mate, of Cleveland; Alex McRea, chief
engineer, Of Cleveland; Luke Schinski
second engineer, of Cleveland. and Dun
can Coyle, seaman, of Cleveland.
Smith, McRea and Schinski were res
cued by members of the crew of the
steamer Sacramento and taken into Lo-
ed up by the passenger steamer State
of Ohio and landed at Toledo today
From the reports of the survivors the
O4wilrs cargo of stone shifted while the
vessel was laboring in the trough of the
| sea Shortly before she went down the
rucder chains parted, allowing her to
fall off into the trough. AS the helpless
craft rose on top of heavy sea the stone
| slid 70 rd he Sfo
| lily and sank to the bottom.
| The rescued members of the crew were
found floating on the surface of Lake
Erie, clinging to bits of wreckage. Their
rescue was attended by exhibitions Of
extreme heroism, for heavy sea was
! still running wnen they were picked. up.
The barge Margaret OlwiI left KelIys
island at 6 o'clock Wednesday night,
bound for Cleveland, with a cargo of
stone There was little or no wind blow
ing, and everything was favorable for a
pleasant run. At 10 o'clock the gale COM
menced, and the wind blew at the rate
of so miles an hour. Suddenly the gale
turned to the northeast, and Capt.
Browns boat was making little headway,
and concluded the only thing to do was
to turn back and go with the storm. The
NCSSSt tldO luInSO HALL way TOOnQ Wnen
the rudder chain parted, and in an in
slant the boat was at the mercy of the
storm. The cabins came loose from the
hull of the barge, and 1oated on the wa
ter, while the rest of the ship went to the
bottom.
RESCUE OF COYLE.
Capt. Willoughby, of the steamer State
Of Ohio, sighted the wreckage about
5:15 in the morning, directly in the course
from Cleveland to Toledo. The big
steamer Immediately put into service her
life saving crew, and after sailing
around the wreck for an hour and a half
Coyle was rescued. He was thrown a
line, but he was too weak to take hold
of it, and went down in the presence of
large crowd on board the steamer.
Several attempts were made to get the
yawl boat in the water, but the sea was
still running high, and the work was
extremely perilous. Heffrons death was
pathetic one, for he grabbed the rope
and, being encouraged by the crowd
made superhuman effort to put the
rope around himself, but he was too
weak and had to give up the desperate
struggle with the waves.
The rescue of Coyle was effected with
difficulty. Expert linemen walked up and
down the steamer. and every time the
big boat could be worked near him, a
line would be thrown. Finally he reach
ed one of them and quickly got 1t around
his body. He was more dead than alive
when taken in. Capt Willoughby said
he did not leave the spot until he was
sure every one alive had been rescued
The Margaret Olwill was the property
of L. P. Smith & Co, of Cleveland.
Last nights storm on Lake Erie, ac-
cording to marine men. was one of the
worst in years. Many boats found diff
Guilty in getting through, and the big De-
nd "a ta
of Ohio from Cleveland, which was due
here at o'clock this morning, did not
reach port until afternoon. The heavy
wind raised the water in the Maumee
river from four to six feet and lot of
material on the Ohio centennial ground
was washed away.