The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-14
IKES SWEPT
By HEAV Wy STORM
SUNDAY EVENING
The WAVES. SWEPT HIGH ON OUR
INLAND SEAS LATE YES
TERDAY EVENING.
STEAMERS CITY OF ERIE AND
City OF BUFFALO, HAVE
III MARROW ESCAPES.
@cAP,TAIN DELL MINNY, OF THE.
TUG GREGORY, LOST HIS
LIFE in THE STORM.
(By Publishers Press

(By Publishers Press)
CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 14.-Afte1
S the heaviest storm in the history OF
the lower lake regions the wind so far
5&subsided this morning that transpor.
s$ftation, te1egraphic and telephonio
communications were able to take
~ stock and estimate the amount of
damage So far as can be learned uI
to the present, but one life was lost,
that of Captain Dell Minny, Of the tug
$s Gregory, which foundered off this
city The big steamer City Of Buffa-
& 10, was badly battered by the gale,
Z but managed to reach port in fair
" shape with a large number of badly,
frightened passengers on board. A
4 number of other lake steamers had a
4 bad time Of it during the night, but
y had made a safe anchorage this morn
ing.
The wind began to blow about four
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, and by six
O'Clock had reached sixty miles an
hour, which it maintained for hours.
Fortunately the weather bureau had
sent out a storm warning early in
the day, and this kept many boats
from venturing out on the storm
sEtossed Lake.
.sss 'Ihe wind soon caused a heavy sea,
and the waves swept high. over the
8breakwater and dashed clouds of
spray over the abutments.
When darkness fell the Lake was
in fury, and marine men say that
4 the storm was the worst of the year.
Fears were expressed for several YES
fse1s that We're on the Lake, many
with tows, and some with passengers.
The steamer City of Erie left Buffalo
before the storm was at its height but
the city Of Buffalo, after her disass
$trous experience of the night before,
did not venture out into the Lake,
through harbor entrance that was
rendered dangerous by the wreck OF
the tug Gregory which went down a
few hundreds feet from the end OF |
the pier, and cost the life Of the |
captain, Dell Minny, of Buffalo. The
captain, by a strangeriony of fate had
taken out the tug Gregory on her own
captains day off Ninny was captain
or the Al Henry, but was working ex-
ira time on the Gregory.
W. The tug was coming in towing a
.scow, and just inside the brea>water
she was suddenly caught in the trough
of the5.sea and overturned. The cap
tain and the crew of two, the engineer
and fireman, jumped. The captain,
clad in d heavy overcoat, was unable
to cope with the rough sea and high
waves, and was drowned.
The engineer, Albert Tlickhardt. and
the fireman. Ralph Parrish, clun2 TO
some wrccllage that had been swept
from the tug until the life-saving crew
under Captain Motley, arrived and
rescued them Although almost I'M
conscious from the chilly water and
beating waves, they We're soon reviv-
ed and We're able to proceed to their
homes.
n The scow went aground just west
Of the life.saving station, but was
of by the tug Marguerite and
life saving crew.
W Whether any other vessels We're
caught in the terrible sea will not be
known until to-day, but it is believed i
that almost all the vessels on the t
lower lakes reached harbors OF safety. t
Not only over the lake did the storm {
blow strong, but throughout the city :
the gale swept for several hours, and i
the damage was considerable. man t
walking across the Erie railroad tracks t
with his head down failed to see an I
train and was run down c
by the engine: His skull was frac- t
lured. e
THE wind played havoc with an in
-, r. t1s,,4 >
John ID. Rockefeller, blowing heavy :
scaffoldings from the topmost stories
and threatening destruction to pedes- t
rians and passengers in the street t
!ars that passed the building. t
sSAs group Of heavy plans, swept from f
lie fifteenth story by the wind fell e
I'll the back p1at form of q passing car 7
ldgarely missed ;kno king out$as dooze1n.Eg
ives car ollowing ha d u the front La
ND crushed In EWo Of the ans,i c