The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-06
STEAMER WRECKED.
Thousands on Shore Lock On Power
less to Help Crew.
Many Of Whom Freeze in the
Wreck 3 fore the Storm Ab.r-
ed and Belp Reach Them.

Sy-six men are believed to have frcze
10 death aboard the United State
Steel Corporations ore steamer Mat
aafa. which broke in half in the sigh
Of thousands in the haIbor Thursda,
the height OF the worsu storm tina
bas swept the western end Ct Lax
Superior in twenty five years.
The n Alaafa, stich left her barge
behind half q Dnie out Of the harbo;
stten pied to run the canal locks
Sic vas caught in the waves ane
dashed against the pier heads. II
attem 2ting to 20 about to get bacl
into the lake, tie great sea lifted hel
bodily, poised the ship like a toy ant
then casned it with crushing forcs
upon the lock Of concrete mas
onary.
Thousands locked on from the dccks
helpless and the men on deck in theii
distress appealed tor aid tllrcugf
megsphones. Their voices were
droWred in the roar OF the sea, bu,
although those on shcre understood
they could not help. Not even tug
could be sent to aid the untor5uhate
men.
TIE ship finally broke in half an6
;be ore was washed out by the angry
sea. For hours the men clung to 5ne
wreck until after dark. Then al.
signs of life vanished. 1t Is believed
al have frozen to death.
TIE steamer EiTood OF the Steel
Corporation feet, collided with the
North pier and steve q hole below hel
water line. Soc was to 1ed to shallow
water where she settled. Il Is repoI-
ted the Ste.l Corporation steamer
Mariposa is ashore north Of Two Har-
boes. The steamer E. G. Pope turn.
d back and made the harbor, coming
5o7cugh the ship canal under full head
Of steam.
Tne protec ion piers at Superior
ssre swept away for the second time
bis season. The main strset OF Du
nth are filled with wrekage of the
storm. Two S eel Corporation boats
are wrecked and another is sunk in
the hsrbor. The steamer B. W.
E lgland Of the E7gland Transporta.
zion Company is ashore on Minnesota
Point.
The steamer Crescent City Of the
Steel Corporation vent ashore in the
binding snow driven by IS mile
an hour gale. She is in hai shape
and the sea is pounding her to
pieces on the rocks. The crew OF
men escaped on life RATS
in the Ice Of the stranded ship. The
Crescent City is valued at a quarter OF
a million dollars.
A dispatch from Milwaukee says
the G~v:rrment lighthouse at the
erd Of the Milwaukee breakwater
pier was battered by the high seas
and the assistant light house keeper,
William Foster, was rescued with
difficulty by the life savers.
II all my experience on the lakes
dtaeen years-l never saw the like
before. About 5 o'clock the sea be
gan breaking over the house. About
l:3O I saw q particular large wave
coming. Involuntary I grabbed
the stanchion. That act saved my
life. The wave broke in the ertire
east wall earring sway with it all the
windows and doors. I was carried
alcng, and it was only the beam l
lung to that stayed my progress and
thus SAVED me from being swept
away.
The big steamer Appnmattox, coal
laden which went ashore several
weeks ago, was battered to pieces.
The steamer D. c. Whitnep, coal.
laden, ran ashore during the gale
at Pert Washington. The life savers
reScued the crew.
LAST NEWS.
The steamer MaJafa which went
ashore at Superior, Wis, and whose
crew was forced to remain on board
went to pi>c;s Wednesday morning
and nine OF creH were dro sned.
Life.savers made desperate but futile
efforts to get a line to the boat Tues
day night, In the presence Of thcus-
ands Ct spectator line was fire6
over the saip from the cannon three
lines. Once it vas caught and thos:
N the forward end Of the boat, where
it landed, began to haul In but tbs
ROCKS OF the bottom OF the canal cut
he rope in two. When the storm
died cu5 somewhat this morning the
life saving crew we're able to begin ths
work OF bringing the crew ashore
In the forward end Of the boat
ail were safe but in the stern it was
found that al Ead succumbed t
cold and were drowned. Fifteen
Were rescued.
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