Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-27
THIRTEEN PERISH
IN fierce GALE
BESIDES LOSS OF LIFE TWELVE
SHIPS ARE REPORTED
MISSING.
LATER NEWS WILL
SWELL DEATH ROLL
Most Disastrous Storm in History of
Great Lakes Has Passed After
Long Duration-Raged for Thirty
Six Housewives Blown Down.

Six Housewives Blown Down.
Cleveland, o.. Oct. 23.-From the
best information o%btainable Saturday
10 lives and IL ships were lost on
the great lakes as a result of the ter
rife gale which ragged for SO hours
ending at daybreak Saturday morning.
These are the minimum figures and
will in all probability be increased by
down in many sections and it is be-
lieved that when fun reports are re-
ceived the number of lives and YES
sells lost will show the storm to have
been n of the most disastrous in
the history of the inland seas.
Word was received here Saturday
that salmon-colored wreckage is COM
ing ashore neal the southeast shoal
lightship, Lake Erie. This is sup.
posed to be from the tow barge Tas-
mania, which passed down Detroit
river Friday in tow of the steamer
Bulgaria. The Tasmania is owned by
James Corrigan, of this city. The boat
~ q SlSm VI ClShI lCI
Another Vessel Goes Down.
A telegram Saturday from Sandusky
says that the barge Commerce, with
a crew of seven aboard, slowly sank
inside of Cedar point. The vessel
could hardly have been saved, but
the crew was in little danger.
The steamer Sarah e. Sheldon,
which went ashore near Lorain early
Friday, has been almost completely
broken up by the heavy seas and moth
ing remains in sight except a part of
her stern. The steamer Wisconsin,,
which ran onto a submerged break
water at Lorain Thursday night, has
been pulled into Lorain river and
placed on a dry dock. The storm sub.
sided early Saturday, but a very heavy
sea is still running on Lake Erie.
Big Steamer Missing.
Alpena, Mich, Oct. 23.-The big
steel barge Malta, owned by the Pitts
burg Steamship company, is missing.
She was in tow of the steamer Will
liam Lynn and broke away during the
storm Friday morning in midlake.
The Lynn reported the loss at Thun-
der Bay Island Friday night. No one
along the shore has seen her. She
carried a crew of eight men.
Seven Drowned in Saginaw Bay.
HARDER Beach, Mick. Oct. % The
barge Minnedosa was lost with her
crew of seven people in Saginaw bay
before daylight Friday morning in the
terrific storm that has been sweeping
the great lakes, The dead include
Capt. Phillips and wife, of Kingston,
Ont. Together with the barge Melrose
the Minnedosa was in tow of the
steamer Westmont, all three vessels
being owned by the same company,
When the Minnedosa was seen to be in
q dangerous condition the Melrose pre-
pared to weather the storm alone and
before the former went to the bottom.
The Melrose a later picked up by
the Westmont and was towed into
Harbor Beach.
Mate Loses His Life.
Detroit, Mich, Oct. %. = Although
Ouly JIG dCdlu, ludI VI q lawn
Syze of the steam barge Joseph Fay,
wrecked at Rogers City, Mich, was re,
ported during the day as the result of
the terrific storm which ragged Thurs
day night and Friday on the great
lakes, evidence of disasters is reported
In several directions.
Reports to the local Office of the
weather bureau Saturday are that the
storm which caused such widespread
damage on the great lakes Thursday
night and Friday is over on Lakes
Superior, Huron and Michigan, and is
slowly passing over Lakes Erie and
Ontario. Middle Island, in Lake HUI
Saturday was only 16 miles an hour,
while on Lake Michigan it is blowing
about ten to twelve miles. The water
at the lime kilns crossing at the
mouth of the Detroit river has risen
to Is feet z inches, and the 20 steam
ers held up above the crossing by the
low water hope to get into Lake Erie
before many hours.
Disaster on Lake Erie.
Cleveland, o., Oct. 23.-As a result
of the widest storm that has swept
Lake Erie in years wrecks have strewn
the shore the entire distance from Buff
falo to Detroit. The known losses in
clude the following: Freighter Sarah H.
Sheldon, beached and wrecked near Lo-
rain; steamer Wisconsin, OF rocks off
Lorain; schooner kingfsher beaten to
pieces. off Cleveland; steamer F. A.
! Prince, damaged near Cleveland; tug
Walter Metcalf, sank off breakwater
light, Cleveland; several barges sank
off Buffalo harbor; steamer Prinkel
reached Buffalo badly damaged; barge
Yukon sank off Ashtabula harbor, crew