The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-22
WATER BLOWT OUT OF HARgeRS
AT TOLEDO, SANDUSKY AND FAIR
PORT BOATS WERE GREAT
LY ENDANGERED
GOOD WORK BY LIFE SAVERS
Crew of the Wrecked Schooner st.
Lawrence Was Rescued With
Great DimcuIty at
LOrain, o.

CLEVELAND, o., Nov. N.-During the
last twenty-four hours the telegraph
service between Cleveland, Chicago, Buff
falo and Columbus has been badly
crippled as the result of the fierce wind
storm which swept over the great lakes
and over the northern part of Ohio. Ihe
wind knocked down the telegraph wires
| between Buffalo and Chicago and Cleve-
land and Columbus and an army of line
men have been sent out to repair the
damage.
Lake craft suffered even more severely
than did the wires. The steamer Britton
arrived from Detroit during the day. The
captain of the steamer said he left De-
troit with eleven other steamers. Only
two made the trip to Cleveland and the
others were compelled to turn into Pigeon
Bay for shelter The wind has blown
the water from Limekiln Crossing, near
Amherstburg, leaving a big fleet above
it unable to get out. The water has also
| been blown out of Sandusky Bay and
| the Toledo harbor, leaving only five feet
at Toledo and six feet at Sandusky Day
The government harbor works at Fair
port was damaged to the extent of sew
eral thousand dollars. A couple of I'M
menSe hoists were blown over and ruin
ed The fierce gale which was blowing
over Lake Erie all day prevented boats
from leaving this harbor. One boat with
the crew exhausted from work, succeed
ed in reaching here, with the assistance
Of tugs which were sent to her aid
The storm caused considerable damage
in this city. Dozens of large plate glass
windows were broken, heavy signs were
torn from their fastenings and hurled
along the streets, smokestacks We're
blown from some of the office buildings
and factories and chimneys from resi-
dences. A new steeple on the First Pres
byterian church was rocked to its foun-
dations Fortunately no lives were lost
in the storm in this section Of the state
although there were many narrow es-
capes.
CREW WAS RESCUED.
LoRAIN, O., Nov H.-The Cleveland
T. saN ~ crew vas s'lmmonel here
ai.es loon to rescue four seamen on
board the schooner St Lawrence, which
was driven ashore today in the nerth-
| west gale The boat had on board a
cargo of coal from Cleveland. When
she had got five miles from @Kelly's- ISL
and the gale struck her. She was soon
stripped of her sails and was put about
and made for this harbor. The tug
Chris Grover went to her assistance
and towed her within about 500 feet from
the pier when the line parted and she
drifted ashore. The captain, j. II. Ba-
ker, and crew launched their life boat
and putting his wife, daughter and two
boys in the boat, pulled for the shore and
landed safely.
Mayor ,ullbtsch communicated with the
Cleveland life saving station and asked
for help to rescue the seamen, as no
regular boat could be launched in the
surf.
Capt Motley, of the Cleveland life saw
ing station, at once ordered a surf boat
and line throwing mortar upon two hat
cars and started on a special train. They
arrived here at 8 o'clock. Three lines
were soon thrown over the hi-fated
boat. but the crew were too much eX-
hausted to pull the necessary tackle
aboard The life savers then launched
their surf boat and brought the drenched
sailors safely to shore.
They were Norman Graham, Of Canada;
Martin Magan, of Detroit; Alexander
Blakeley, of Toledo, and a lad called
Jimmy" of Cleveland. The men We're
thoroughly drenched and stiff with the
cold. the boy being terribly overcome.
DETROIT, Mich, Nov 2.-After pound
ing around in Lake st. Clair for several
hours this afternoon fighting the storm,
which has ragged all day, the steam
barge Myrtle M. Ross went to the bot
tom three miles to the east of the south
end of the ship canal. Capt. j. W.
SearleS and a crew of five men and a
woman COOK were rescued from IHe IiS-
ging of the steamer, where they had
been clinging for over an hour with the
seas breaking over them, by the crew of
the steamer w. L. Frost The Ross was
of 155 tons burden, and was bound down
from Port Huron to Sandusky, o., with
coal.
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 21-A severe
storm swept over western and northern
Ohio today. Much damage to property
is reported, but no loss of life. At Tip
pecanoe City, six miles south of Troy,
Shearer's tobacco sheds were wrecked
and the Masonic hall and other buildings
damaged.
At Bucyrus the German Lutheran
church was badly damaged and the Ohio
Central roundhouse partly unroofed.
TOLEDO, O., Nov H.--A terrific wind
storm swept over Sandusky today and
did many thousand dollars worth OF
damage Half dozen large ice houses
were blown down and demolished. Sew
eral small vessels were blown upon shore
and a number of buildings unroofed.
CYGNET, o., Nov. H.-The storm today
blew down derricks and other buildings
over the big oil fields of northwestern
Ohio. Through Ottawa, Erie, Hancock,
Wood and Lucas counties the damage
will reach many thousands of dollars.