The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-05-28
The Baltimore Lost on
Lake Huron.
TWELVE DROWN ED
Two Rescued After Terrible Ex-
perience--One Went Crazy
and Tried to Drown
Com . a MON.

The men were tossed about In tho
lake for some hours, lashed to piece
Of wreckage, and were finally picked
up by the Columbia and brought here.
George McGinnis, a deckhand, one of
the rescued. became insane from his
experience. The other survivor,
Thomas Murphy, of Milwaukee, sec
ond engineer. was able to tell the
story of the disaster.
we're:
Thought To Have Perished.
NJ. ii. Place. captain, Of Cleveland.
Mrs. M. IL. Place, his wife, stew
ardess.
Michael Breathen, first mate.
Edward owen, wheelman.
&. w. Sears, wheelman.
G. w. Scott, watchman.
Herbert Winning, watchman.
August Anderson, deckhand.
George McGinnis, deckhand.
ohm Delders. second steward.
z. Marcoux, chief engineer.
William Barker, fireman.
p. Kruger, fireman.
The Baltimore was built at Gin
raltar, Mich, in 1881, rates Al12 and
was valued at $4,000. Her cargo
was valued at about So,OOU.
Finally Able to Talk.
1t was some time after the Colum-
bia had brought the shipwrecked men
into port before Murphy was revived
sufficiently to tell his story. The
Baltimore foundered about o'clock
in the morning Friday. and he was
in the water until late in the after
noon, exposed to the buifeting of a
furious northeast sea, but when re-
yived he said:
I'VE were bound from Lorain to
Sault Ste. Marie. and had in tow
large steam drill and scow. When
of Thunder Bay last night Captain
Place saw that the steamer was max
ing bad weather, Tor the waves had
smashed in the engineers quarters
and the washrooms and the water
was running into the hold.
Captain Place decided to turn
about and run for Tawas for shelter.
Everything went all right until we
were of Au Sable, when the steamer
struck heavily on the bottom. The
seas broke over her at the same time
and carried away the deck house,
then the after cabin. and finally the
smokestack fell. Both rails forward
broke in two just aft of the forward
deck house and we knew that it was
only few minutes before the steamer
would go to pieces" continued Muir.
ply.
Every Man For Himself.
att is every man for himself now,'
shouted Capt Place" continued the
engineer. The look OF despair on
Mrs Places face was something |
shall never forget Ii was awful. We
took the captains advice and every
man started to save himself as best
he could. Some OF the boys took to
the rigging, but McGmnis and |
lashed ourselves to a ring bolt in a
piece OF the Gfter cabin and we were
washed overheard shortly afterward.
The strain was too much for Nc
Ginnis and he went crazy before we
had been in the water very long. He
tried TO throw me off the wreckase-
but | talked to him and encouraged
him to hold on. Twice he got loose
and tried to drown us both, but each
time | succeeded in quieting him. I
told him boat was coming to take
us on and then | would get him tied
fast again.
Help Near, Yet So Far.
THE passenger steamer City Of
Holland passed by US this morning,
but We were too far away for her
crew TO see US. believe. IL made me
feel pretty despondent for a time. for
WAS getting very weak and the seas
broke over my head so as to drive
the breath out OF my body at times.
The Columbia finally came along
and picked us up. Just as | was about
to give up hope. | am afraid all of
the rest of the crew were drowned
including Mrs. Place. | only wonder
how 1t was that We lived through il
ALL Our wreckage was big enough
to make raft. but it was small. and
the seas swept it constantly"
Murphy lives at 325 Bartlett street
Milwaukee. The tug Columbia lost a
drill scow, with six men on board
just before she picked up the men
from the Baltimore The Columbia
! went out again and found the drill
making good weather The men
were taken of and they were badly
frightened. as the scow had neither
boat nor life preservers. The scoW
was then towed in here. The scov