The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-14
4 LAKES SWEPT
Bl HEAVY STORM
SUNDAY EVENING
SWEPT HIGH ON OUR
INLAND SEAS LATE YES
TERDAY EVENING.
ss3 CITY OF BUFFALO, HAVE
NARROW EScA9Es
TUG GREGORY, LOST HIS
LIFE IN THE STORM.
2CBy Publishers, Press.)

(By Publishers PTeSS.)
s..gCLEVELAND, O.. Nov. 14-After
5s the heaviest storm in the history of
the lower lake regions the wind so far
subsidized this morning that transport
V tation, telegraphic and telephoni1.
communi cations were able to take
ss stock and estimate the amount Of
damage So far as can be learned UP
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,
but managed to reach port in fair
shape with a large number of badly
Z frightened passengers on board A
II number of other lake steamers had
. bad time OF it during the night, but
# had made a safe anchorage this morn
a 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.
Y Fortunately the weather bureau had
sent out storm warning early in
the day, and this kept many boats
from venturing out on the storm
tossed Lake.
The: wind soon caused a heavy sea-,
and the waves swept high over the
y breakwater and dashed clouds OF
spray over the abutments.
54ssa When darkness fell the Lake was
lin a fury, and marine men say that
4 the storm was the worst of the year.
Fears were expressed for several YES
sels that were on the Lake, many
with tows, and some with passengers.
The steamer City of Erie left Buffalo
e before the storm was at it's height, but
& the city of Buffalo, after her disas:
slytrous experience of the night before, |
5 did not venture out into the Lake,
through harbor entrance that was
zrend cred dangerous by the wreck OF
the tug Gregory, which went down q
few hundreds feet from the end OF
y the pier, and cost the life of the
captain, Dell Ninny, of Buffalo. The
captain, by strangeriony of fate had
taken out the tug Gregory on her own
captains day off Minny was captain
n of the Al Henry, but was working ex-
s ira time on the Gregory.
The tug was coming in towing a
&scow, and just inside the breakwater
5of% the sea and overturned. The cap
tain and the crew of two, the engineer
and fireman, jumped. The captain,
clad in heavy overcoat, was unable
to cope with the rough sea and high
running waves, and was drowned.
The engineer, A!ber; Rickhardt, and
the fireman. Ralph Parrish, cluns 60
some VIZ cckage that had been swept
from the tug until the life-saving crew
under Captain Motley, arrived and
rescued them. Although almost un-
conscious from the chilly water and !
beating waves, they were soon reviv-
ed and We're able to proceed to their
homes.
sz The scow went aground just west
of the 1ife-saving station, but was
dragged of by the tug Marguerite and :
life saving crew.
@ 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
lover lakes reached harbors of safety. t
Not only over the lake did the storm a
blow strong, but throughout the city \
the gale swept for several hours, au6 i
the damage was considerable. A man t
walking across the Erie railroad tracks t
with his head down failed to see an 4
approaching train and was run down c
by the engine. His skull was frac- t
tured- e
s The wind played havoc with an in
completed skyscraper building for
John d. Rockefeller, blowing heavy :
scafoldings from the topmost stories b
and threatening destruction to pedes- t
trians and passengers in the street t
cars that passed the building. t
group Of heavy plans, swept from f
the& &ffteenth story by the wind, fell Eg
onsthe back platform of q passing car T
adSgarely missed knockin out q dozen Eg
lives. car fol loving had the front a
end dgcrushed IN ~. two 8of the plans Ic,