Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
Or LAKE MICHIGAN
ELEVEN PERISH IN SQUALL ON
LAKE MICHIGAN

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SIZED, and eleven persons were
drowned The Goodrich line steam
cr Sheboygan early Sunday morning
rescued the other seven persons who
had been floating about for several
hours on pieces of wreckage. Re-
port OF the disaster reached Marin
cite today.
The Ilackley was struck by the
squall when some distance off Green
Island, which is seven miles from
Marinette. The upper work was
blown away before the men could
each haven. The boat then turned
over and went down in deep water.
AS the Hackley went to the bot
tom, those who could, seized floating
piece Of wreckage, while the women
and three or four Of the men, failing
to find any object TO which tn cling,
sank in the raging sea, as far as
known.
The darkness made rescue slow,
but the officers of the Shebuygan feel
sure that they took abroad every
person aIloat. Some of the persons
who were rescued say that it is posi-
bic that one or more Of the eleven
persons missing may have escaped
death This view is not given much
credence 10y the sailors of the She
bOygan
The Sheboygan made into Fish
U eek when hope of rescuing other
persons seemed improbable. The
rescued persons were SO exhausted
from their struggle against drowning
that they were unable for some time
TO tell anything about the wreck.
The persons saved by the Sheboy-
gan say that with the crashing away
Of the upper work, all persons aboard
the Hackley ran on deck Hasty pre-
parations for a plunge into the WAGER
we're begun but before auy plans
could be carried out, ths boa,
listed, turned over and went down
like a rock.
Milwaukee, Wis.,, Oct. ga Sen
tinel special from Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
says:
Iurser Blakedeld, one of the sur
viyors Of the lIackley who was Oh the
steamer Shchboygan when 1t reached
here, gave a vivid description Of the
WI ok. lie said:
1.-The squall struck us about 6
o. lock as we were just north Of Green
Island II came suddenly aud with
terrific fury. | was in the pilot
house vito the captain who had just
said that tie clements looked threat
eniug and that he would try to run
b. port. When the first fierce gust
hit us the captain tried to throw the
| boat up into the water and his efforts
to do so were unavailing. Then l
joined him at the wheel but our
combined efforts were not sufficient
TO make heI mind the wheel.
"Thcn, of d sudden she lifted and
began 10 ill with water. Realizing
hat the passengers and crew were
becoming panic stricken, | left the
;lptain IN the pilot house and ran
aft TO let down the lift boat. BY
The time | got aft the Hackley was
iling SO rapidly that it was appar
ent il would be impossible to launch
any boat. There came another fierce
elaSt and the upper works went by
the board Then the steamer began
70 sink rapidly, and it was apparent
ieI settling 10 the bottom would be
1 question OF only a few minutes
eighteen o; the nineteen poop
aboard were gathered on the deck,
most Of them in state Of frantic
oanic. The situation was made pal
icularly heart-Tending by the woman
7ho shouted hystericaIly, implo in
he men to save them, and accom-
p MED their appeals for assistance
with prayers, AS the boat sank il
was clear that there was only one
nope Of sny one being saved aud that
was by Clinging to the wreckage.
gave orders for the men to put the
women on it first. They did o, an
behaved well, every man remaining
on the sinking boat until the wOmeD
had been placed on pieces of the
cabin and other wreckage. IL was
thsn a wild scramble on The part of
each man to get such pieces Of plank
ing as he could secure and cling to
it.
every man found something t.
loaf on except the captain, who rc.
mined in the pilot house to the last
doing his best to right the boat, and
ne finally went down with her.
"Those Of us, who were fortunate
enough to escape chung to the wreck,
age all night, bitten by the cold vino
and benumbed by the colder wate
and the surprise is that we did not
all die of exposure. We drift2d
know not where until picked up J