Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-30

TOLEDO, June 29-Eleven lives were lost
by the laundering of the. steam barge Mar
garet Olwill in Lake Erie this morning
about o'clock. The following are those
who went down:
John Brown, captain, Cleveland.
Mrs. Brown, wife of Captain Brown, OF
Cleveland.
Blanchard Brown, son of Captain Brown.
Miss Hunt, guest of Captain and Mrs
Brown, of Cleveland
Alexander McLain, chief engineer, Cleve.
land.
Rudolph schinski. second engineer, Cleve-
land.
John Smith. mate, Cleveland
w. Doyle, fireman, Cleveland.
George Heffron, wheelman, Cleveland.
Frank Hipp, watchman, Kelly's island.
- James, Cleveland.
Duncan Coyle. a deckhand, whose resi-
dence is Port Huron, is the only survivor
so far as known. He was rescued from the
wreckage at $3.50 this morning after being
in the water for over four hours.
The barge Margaret Olwill left Kelly's
island at o'clock Wednesday night, bound
for Cleveland with a cargo of stone. There
was little or no wind blowing and every
thing was favorable for pleasant run. AT
10 O'Clock the gale commenced and the
wind blew at the rate of fifty miles an
hour. Suddenly the gale turned to the
northeast and Captain Brown found that
the boat was making little headway and
concluded the only thing TO do was to turn
back and go with the storm.
The vessel was turned half way around
when the rudder chain parted and in an
instant the boat was at the mercy of the
storm.
The cabins came loose from the hull of
the barge and foated on the water, while
the rest of the ship went to the bottom.
Coyle and Heffron clung to the aftercabin.
Captain Willoughby, of the steamer State
of Ohio, sighted the wreckage about Sis in
the morning directly in the course from
| Cleveland to Toledo The big steamer i'm
mediately put into service her life saving
crew, and, after sailing around the wreck
age for an hour and half, Coyle was res
cued.
A line was thrown to Heffron, 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 ex-
| tremely perilous. Heffron's death was a
pathetic one, for he grabbed the rope, and
being encouraged by the crowd made a
superhuman effort to put the rope around
himself, but 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 reached one
of them and quickly got 1t around his
body. He was more dead than alive when
! taken in.
| Captain Willoughby said he did not leave
| the spot till he was sure every person
alive had been rescued.
Last nights storm on Lake Erie, accord
| ing to marine men, was one of the worst
in years. Many boats found difficulty In
getting through, and the big Detroit and
Cleveland passenger boat State of Ohio,
| from Cleveland, which was due here at
8 o'clock this morning, did not reach port
| till after noon. The heavy wind raised
| the water in the Maumee river from four
| to six feet, and a lot of material on the
Ohio Centennial grounds was washed
| away.