The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-10-27
FIERCE STORM
SWEEPS LAKES
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN
WAKE OF GALE ON THE
LOWER LAKES.
TWELVE DROWN In ANGRY SEAS
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS WORTH OF PROP
ERTY LOST.
MANY VESSELS ARE WRECKED
ONE Or THE FIERcEST GALES
THAT EVER SWEPT THE
LOWER LAKES.

Chicago Get. %. - Death and de-
struction have resulted from one of
the fiercest gales that ever swept the
lower lakes, which has been blowing
for the past twenty-four hours and has
not yet subsidized.
AS Tor as returns are obtainable ten
vessels have been completely wrecked
and twelve of fifteen others more or
less severely damaged. Twelve lives
are known to have been lost, and as
the gale on Southern Lake Huron and
Lake Erie is still blowing fiercely it is
feared that other losses, both of life
ands property, will be reported within
the next twenty-four hours.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of property has been lost. Grip
pied vessels yesterday sought refuge
in Chicago harbor, and at every other
lake port.
The east shore of Lake Michigan
has suffered severely, dock property
worth thousands of dollars being
swept away at st. Joseph, Holland,
South Haven, Grand Haven and Mus
kegon. Heavy waves are still bonn
harding the coast and the Pierre Mar
quette bridge spanning the ST. Joseph
river near it's mouth, is in danger of
being swept away.
Great Anxiety Felt.
Much anxiety is felt in shipping
circles for vessels that are on the
lakes. The hurricane was one of the
worst in recent years, and it is be-
lieved shipping interests will be for
tunate if many wrecks are not re-
ported.
Three vessels that made port at
Chicago yesterday came in badly dam
aged. The AL Williams of Sheboygan
was crippled to such an extent that
Capt. Charles Garland and his crew at
the life saving station prepared to go
to the aid of the boat, but tug
reached the vessel and towed it into
the harbor.
Fort River, and the schooner Lotus,
from Menominee, both lumber vessels,
got in with difficulty, badly damaged.
The storm damaged portions of the
sea wall along the north shore and
washed out huge chunks Of the bluffs
north of Evanston.
Barge Is Ashore.
The barge Rhoades, which broke
away from the Joseph Fay before the
latter was beached at Rogers City, was
reported ashore yesterday at Sheboy-
gan Point. She is in an exposed po-
sition, but all the members of the crew
We're saved. From Lake Erie comes
reports of the sinking of vessel
7, thought to be one of the vessels of the
barge fleet owned by James Corrigan
| of Chicago. Capt. Stewart of the
steamer Walter Scranton. which
| passed up the Detroit river yesterday,
sent word ashore that he had passed a
! sinking vessel in Lake Erie. Capt
| Stewards report was that the
Wreck Was Seen
two and half miles southwest of the
| southeast shoal lightship. The top of
her cabins showed above water and
| the Corrigan colors were in evidence
The steamer Bulgaria Of the CORR
| gan fleet was soon after sighted under
shelter of an island. Apparently Meth.
er of the two barges Tasmania or Ash
J land, which the Bulgaria had in TOW,
when she passed Detroit Thurs lay
were then with her. From this it was
inferred that the sinking vessel sight.
ed was one of these barges, the fate
of the other remaining problem.
Evidence of another wreck is found
in the discovery of considerable
amount of wreckage floating by Thun
der Bay island in Lake Huron late yes
terday. The schooner Emma L. Mel
son Of Alpena, Mich, is reported
ashore in Pressure Isle harbor, which
is not far from Rogers City.
1 Shore Is Strewn With Wrecks.
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 22.-As a re
suit of the widest storm that has
swept Lake Erie in years, wrecks have
strewn the shore the entire distance
from Buffalo to Detroit. The storm
came with abrupt suddenness at an
early hour Friday morning and contin
ued throughout the day.
The storm swept the lake from one
end to the other and every vessel that
was exposed suffered to more or less
extent.