The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-14
LAKE ERIE'S
GREAT STORM.
Thousands of Dollars Worth of
Shipping and Several Lives
WERE LOST TUESDAY NIGHT.
Great Tidal Wave Early Wednesday Morn
Ing Left q Trail OF Ruin Behind
It-Reports Are still
Coming In.

Cleveland, Sept. 13.-Sixteen lives are
lost, three vessels were lost and eight
were damaged, as a result of the storm
of Tuesday night and Wednesday, on
Lake Erie.
The steamer John b. Lyons, owned by
Captain j. c. Gilchirst, of this city,
went down off Girard, Pa, and fifteen
members of her crew are reported lost.
Schooner Dundee, owed by the Minch
Transportation Co., was lost twelve
miles off Cleveland, near the scene of
the Idler disaster. The cook was
drowned. Captain and crew were res
cued.
On the steamer City of Erie the bull
warks were crushed in. The steamer
arrived in port ten hours late. No one
| was injured.
The tug Phil Gerst foundered at her
dock at the foot of Erie street. No one
| was on board.
The steamer North Land, of the Nor
thern Steamship Co., was delayed on
Lake Erie by the storm, and not being
able to effect landing in this city, ran
to Detroit, reaching that city last night
at o'clock.
SOME BADLY DAMAGED.
The steamer Spokane, trying to get
shelter at Fairport, ran into the east
pier and almost foundered. Her wood
work was damaged and she broke down
| twelve feet Of the pier.
| Steamer Cornell tried to pick her
tow, which was dragging anchor off
Fairport, and rolled so badly that her
stack was lost and her boilers were dis
placed.
Steamer Nimick was in distress off
this harbor with her deck house washed
away. Deckhand Frank Sloan was
caught in the wreckage and the arter-
les in his wrist were cut.
Steamer Iroquois was rescued while
going on the beach and was turned UP
the lake.
Steamer Robert r. Rhodes lost one
hundred feet Of her bulwarks, which
washed away, and was compelled to run
for shelter behind Pelee Island.
GREAT TIDAL WAVE.
That in brief is the story Of the dam
age wrought by one of the greatest tidal
waves that ever struck Lake Erie. The
wind increased in fury all Tuesday
night, and Wednesday morning about
o'clock a great wave many feet high
swept over the lake from the west. Ii
seemed that it must carry everything
before it. After that the wind contin-
ued to blow a fearful gale, but it was
the great wave that did the most dam
age. The Cleveland Buffalo steamer,
City of Erie, left Buffalo the evening be-
fore and for "a hours fought the awful
storm, the great wave, when it came,
swept over the decks and dashed into
the pilot house. But the steamer finally
reached harbor safely. The schooner
Dundee went down early in the night,
one woman, the cook, being lost, while
the crew was picked up. The Dundee
was headed for Ashtabula with a car
60 Of ore. The steamer Cornell had one
of the most exciting fights Of the night
tn the gale, making the trip from
Fairport to Cleveland, with the seas
constantly washing over her. Her
stack was swept away and almost all
her works were gone by the time she
reached Cleveland. The j. c. Gilchrist
went down off Girard, and IL Of her
crew were drowned, only four having
escaped The steamer Spokane sus-
tanned her damage at Fairport, where
she collided with the pier, and almost
| foundered.
| WORST IN YEARS.
| It was the hardest night that has been
seen on Lake Erie for years and sur
passes in it's fury the fearful night OF
July last, when the Minch went ashore
off Ashtabula and seven boats In all
were beached between Lorain and Fair
port. Old sailors who have been out in
all sorts of nights and in the fiercest of
weather looked haggard and wan as
they stepped down from their boats and
said they had never passed through a
more severe storm. Those who COM
ment upon it speak of the great tidal
wave which passed over the lake about
O'Clock yesterday morning and say no.
thing more powerful or more disastrous
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