The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-06-06
BIG STORM ON IRE LAKES.
One Of the Most Disastrous Known
in Many Years Sweeps Over
the Inland Seas
LARGE STEAMER SINKS IN LAKE HURON.
Twelve Lives, Including the Captain
and His Wife, Are Lost-Full Ex-
tent Of the Gale Not Yet known
Many Vessels Stranded and Some
r Completely wrecked.

Chicago, May 25.--In a storm that
dashed the waters of the upper lakes
the steamer Baltimore was sent to
the bottom of Lake Huron, near Au
Sable, Mich, Friday morning, and Of
her crew of IA men only two escaped.
dashed to a heavy raft, the two men
were adrift on the lake under heavy
seas all day Friday, and n of them
was crazy when rescued.
Names of the Victims.
The following lost their lives with
the wreck of the Baltimore:
Capt. M. H. Place, master Of the steamer
Cleveland; Mrs. M. H. Place, wife of cap
tain; stewardess; Michael Breatden. first
mate; John Delders. second steward: Ed
ward Owen, wheelsman: c. w. Sears,
Wheelsman; George w. Scott. watchman;
Herbert Winning. w%atchman; P. Marcoux,
chief engineer, Chicago; William Barker,
fireman; p. Kruger, fireman; August An
derson, deck hand.
Many Vessels Wrecked.
The full extent of death ana disas-
ter by the storm is not known yet.
From Chicago to Ogdensburg, N. Y,
the storm held sway and a score Of
vessels were sunk, wrecked, or suf-
fered serious damage. The reports
received from ports on the lakes told
only of disasters in their immediate
vicinity, and it is feared that other
wrecks, with fatalities, occurred at
isolated places along the shores.
Anxiety is felt for vessels in mid
lake, which could find no shelter
from the gales fury.
A drill and a scow broke away from
the tug Columbia, near East Tawas.
Six men aboard the drill were picked
UP later, but the scow was lost. The
Columbia picked up the two surviv-
ors of the Baltimore.
Six Hundred Lives in Peril.
The sidewheel steamer Empire State,
with 600 excursionists aboard, sprung
q leak IL miles out from Ogdensburg,
N. Y. The water put out the fires, and
the vessel just made shore when it
sank in eight feet of water. There was
a panic aboard, but the officers main
tanned order, and few of the passen-
gers realized the extent of their peril
until the vessel reached the beach.
The schooner H.. d. Moore, laden
with hardwood, collided with the pier
at ~Sheboygan, Wis. Masts and rigging
were carried away and the crew was
taken off. The vessel is at anchor, but
leaking and pounding hard.
The fishing tug Constance was cut
in two and sunk in collision with the
steamer c. w. Moore in the river near
Menominee, Mich. The crew escaped.
Theschooner NJ ntmorencyis ashore
on Charity island, near Bay City, Mich,
and may prove a total loss. The cargo
is being removed.
The steamer St. Louis and two
barges are aground on the head of
Strawberry island, near Buffalo, N. Y.
The schooner Sailor sunk at the Buff
falo docks.
At all ports on the lakes many YES
sells put in for shelter. Many that had
started out met the gale and turned
back. The storm was declared by ma
rine men n of the worst in Is years
Probably Drowned.
Racine, Wis, May 29.-Ten miles
northeast of Milwaukee, bottom up
and w~aterlogged, lies the three-mast-
ed schooner, H. Rand. of Racine,
wrecked by the gale over Lake Michi-
gan last Friday. Three men and a
woman, who were on the boat, are
supposed to be dead. They are: Capt.
Jefferson, of Racine: his daughter,
Daisy Jefferson, aged 81 years, cook
of the vessel; Harry Lecus, of Mil
waukee, and Frank seabert, of She
bOypan. sailors.