Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-05-30
BIG STORM ON THE LAKES
One of the Most Disastrous Known
in Many Years Sweeps Over
the Inland Seas r.. ..-.
LARGE STEAMER SINKS IN LAKE HURON.
Twelve Livea. Including the Captain
and His Wife, Are LOst-Full Ex-
tent of the Gale Not Yet known
Many Vessels Stranded and Some
Are Ompletely 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 heavy raft, the two men
were adrift on the lake under heavy
seas all day Friday, and one of them
was crazy when rescued.
Names of the Victims.
The following lost their lives with
the wreck of the Baltimore:
Capt. NJ. H. Place, master of the steamer,
Cleveland; Mrs. NJ. 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, Waterman:
+ Herbert Winning, Waterman; P. Marcoux,
chief engineer, Chicago; William Barker
fireman; P. Kruger, fireman; August An
: derson, deck hand.
Many Vessels Wrecked.
{ The full extent of death anu disas-
ter by the storm is not known yet.
From Chicago to Ogdensburg, n. Y,
the storm held sway and score of
vessels were sunk, wrecked, or sui
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 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 eNcursionists aboard. sprung
a leak ~ 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.
The schooner NJ on TN orency is ashore
on Charity island, near Bay City, Mich,
and may prove 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
fa1o 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 one of the worst in IS years
More Victims.
Milwaukee, May q. 49, Seven more
victims have been added to the list
of those perishing in last Fridays
gale. This fact became known Sun
day, when a waterlogged, dismasted
hulk, all that remains of a schooner
was sighted by an incoming steamer
Beyond doubt it is the three-masted
schooner c. H. Hackley, of this city
which met the storm while on its
way to Sheboygan. That Capt. Cert
};up and his six Seamen eScaDed is he,
lieved impossible, as had they reached
shore they would have been heard
from long ago, and if adrift on wreck
age they could not have survived
long in the wild storm of Friday.