The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-12
AN AWFUL SEA.
Steamer Lawrence With so
People Aboard, Given Up.
Thought to Have Gone Down in
Terrific Gale
Which Swept Over the Great
Lakes Yesterday.
is SIGHTED AT LAST.
Vessels Buffeted About by Wind
and Waves.
Thirty Persons Injured on the
Steamer Flint.
Which Swept Over the Great
Lakes Yesterday.
rs SIGHTED AT LAST.

st. Joseph, Mich, Sept 12.-The pas
senger steamer Lawrence of the Peoples
Transport company which left Milwau-
kee for this port at IL a. m yesterday
with some so persons aboard, has in all
probability foundered in the terrific gale
which swept Lake Michigan yesterday
and last night Telegraphic search has
been made today by the owners at cities
on both shores Of the lake but the steam
er has not been seen since leaving Mil
waukee-
Including her crew of 20 there are be-
heved to have been about so persons on
the Lawrence
Secretary Farmer of the Transit COM
pany stated at noon that all hopes had
been abandoned Intense excitement pre-
walls here where a great amount Of
wreckage has been seen drifting today
ten miles north of this port
It is thought quite possible that it
comes from the missing steamer. The
Lawrence was an old craft but consider
ed seaworthy.
STEAMER LAWRENCE SIGHTED.
st. Joseph, Mich, Sept. 12-The steam
er Lawrence which had been given up
for lost has been sighted laboring toward
this port in an awful sea
Toledo, O., Sept 1.-THE passenger
steamer State of Ohio did not depart for
Cleveland last night on account of heavy
weather, and is safe at her dock here.
A NARROW ESCAPE
Detroit, Mich, Sept. 1.-THE crew and
the wife OF the captain of the little
schooner Magnet of Harbor Beach,
Mich, narrowly escaped destruction on
Lake Erie during last nights storm.
They were rescued by Frank E Kirby
The Magnet was leaking badly and had
almost sunk when the Kirby came in
sight The sea was too high to allow
close approach to the steamer and the
crew tossed about in their yawl. A line
with a life preserver attached was
thrown from the steamer near the yawl
and Mrs. Bennett, the captains wife
sprang overheard, reached the preserver
and was drawn aboard In trying to get
the men aboard. the steamer. the small
boat was several times dashed under the
guards but the rescue was finally accom-
plished-
THIRTY PEOPLE INJURED.
Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 12.-Battered
and damaged by the terrible gale that
swept over Lake Michigan last night the
steamer Flint and Pere Marquette No 4
of the Pere Marquette line arrived in
port this morning. after one of the mar
rowest escapes from disaster ever ex-
per1enced Dy passenger steamer ON the
lake Thirty of her passengers were
more or less injured on the trip while the
following received serious injuries:
w Harker, Detroit; Mrs. W.
Harker. Maggie EgIenton, Detroit;
Mrs Martha Deham. North Lansing:
Conrad Hibbard, Monroe, Mich; Willie
Gustie, Detroit; J. H Feaber, Toledo.
None of the injuries will result fatally.
Prayers OF thanksgiving went up from
the lips of every one when the steamer
was finally sighted. Probably no steam
er ever went through a wilder night on
the lake and survived Almost every
window in the cabin was broken, while
the cabin was one mass of broken tim
bers. broken chairs and general debris
The life RATS were blown to pieces and
hurled through the windows Of the cabin,
where were congregated all the passen-
gers The weather was moderate until
s o'clock when the wind changed from
southwest to northwest, putting the
steamer right in the teeth of the gale
REACHES CHICAGO
Chicago Sept 1.-THE storm of YES
terday was one of the severest that has
visited Chicago in years At one time
the wind reached a velocity of Y miles
an hour, and at no time during the day
was the velocity less than so miles an
hour. Two people lost their lives as a
result of the gale and a number were
injured The damage from broken win
dows. falling trees and signs viii run
into thousands
Buffalo, n. Y. Sept 12-Reports from
Crystal Beach, a summer resort on the
Canadian side of Lake Erie, say that
every dock has been destroyed by the
terrific wind storm of last night, and all
the boats of the Buffalo club and many
sea yachts anchored there were COM
pIetely wrecked The damage there has
been very heavy. The wind here at
tained a velocity of Y miles an hour,
but beyond the blowing down Of a num-
ber of trees, the wrecking Of awnings
tower Of one of the Pan-American
buildings in course OF erection, no Sc
rious damage has been reported
A woman while picking up debris in
her yard caught hold Of an electric light
wire and was killed. Her husband was
badly injured
OTHER STEAMERS MISSING.
Cleveland, o., Sept 12.-As a result of
the furious gale which swept over the
lake region last night telegraph and tel
ephone lines were prostrated in all direc-
tions from this city today During the
height of the storm the wind reached a
storm is subsiding- Up to noon today
the big passenger steamers City of Erie
and the Northwest. which left Buffalo
last evening for this port and State OF
Ohio from Toledo, have not been heard
from They were due here at s o'clock
this morning.
TRYING TO OPEN ENCOMAGUNICATION
Chicago. Sept. 12-The general officers
Of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany have been bending every effort for
the restoration of telegraph facilities
to noon today the company had succeed