The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-02
NINETEEN PERISH IN STORM
Worst Disaster on Lake Superior Is
q Loss of the Owen and Grew.


Duluth, Dec. 2.-That tho steamer
crew is lost in the great gale that swept
Lake Superior there no longer is any
doubt. Captain Kellar of the steamer
II: B. Nye first reported having seen
the Owen in distress off Outer island,
and last night word came from Ashland
that the steamer Sir William Siemens
passed thru wreckage$ which included
a lifepreserver from the missing ship.
The lifepreserver bore the name Ira
The lost steamer was in command Of
Captain Joseph Mulligan, and his chief
engineer was Hugh Buchanan. The
day noon with barley for Buffalo. She
was q comparatively old boat, built in
1887, and was 262 feet long. The Owen
CARVED a crew Of nineteen men, and
from the viewpoint of loss of life, the
sinking of this vessel was the greatest
disaster Of the storm. = = .T,@. -
Big Steamer Ashore. - ~ :.
The big propeller Western Star,
bound light for Fort William for grain,
is ashore two miles east Of Fourteen
known, her crew is safe. She is on q
sandy bottom. >#1 Y: -
The steamer R. W. England, which
went ashore at Minnesota point, two
miles from Duluth ship canal, about
two hours before the Mataafa was
wrecked, was released by tugs late yes
terday. a%* n. -.
The barge Constitution, consort of
tho Victory, has been picked up and is
now safe in Bayfield, harbor, south
shore. IT,, ,M~5 v
Lake Superior. Mate sturtevant was
washed overheard and drowned. The
Nye had 100000 bushels of fax in her
hold. sE.s ~.
z T. Heroisn Of Crew. =,
Heroism worthy Of Americas great.
est sailors, daring that Knocked at wind
and wave, GOODNESS sublime in the face
Of death, and endurance that surpasses
belief, saved the steamer Umbria and
her gallant crew from destruction in
the storm which sent so many noble
vessels to the bottom.
Stripped Of her pilothouse by bill.
low that smashed her wheel and carried
away the cOmpasses while her men
We're struggling, blinded in the seas
into the teeth of the gale, rolled for a
moment helpless in the trough Of the
sea-. &
With GOODNESS that never deserted
him in this terrible crisis, Captain G.
NJ. Seph, from the hurricane deck
roared out an order, and like so many
tigers, the forward crew, headed by the
first and second mates, sprang to the
afterdeck and worked like demons tt
make the couplings of the after wheel
tho every moment the pillows swept
them like chips to the ropes, where
feet.
In six minutes, which seemed Xix.
hours to the helpless crew below, tn,
couplings were made and the wheelme1
sprang to their posts on the afterdeck
exposed to the full fury of the elements
! and by desperate labor and consum
| mate skill brought the trembling an,
battered leviathan from the trough o
the sea and once more turned her nos
to the gale.
Thirty-six hours Of endurance tina
defed despair in the face of momentar,
death tells the tale Of the strugGl
with the waves which brought the boa
safe to harbor, battered and broker
her officers and crew cruelty bruised an
cut BY flying missiles, but triumphan
| over death in a thousand forms an
proud in the Joy of having saved tn
noble steamer from a place among tn
wrecks Of Lake Superior.
The Umbria was loaded at Cleveland
a and carried 1000 tons of coal for DIT
luth. Leaving the 500 at 9 o'cloc
Sunday night, she encountered the flu
fury Of the storm twenty -four hour
later, between Eagle river and Quite
island.
Pilothouse Is Lost.
i Four hours she flew with the gal
until abreast Of Devils island, and at
4 a clock Tuesday morning the capital
j gave the order, and she was turne
with consummate skill into the storm
then blowing at it's height.
Then occurred the critical loss Of he
pilothouse and the driving Of the me
aft. With nothing but the after whe,
she was held for thirty eight hours
4 the full breast Of the hurricane, whic
furnished the only possible guide b
which to steer, for the compass ha
q been swept overheard. During the who,
time, exposed to the full blast of the ic
! wind and the pillows which engulfe
the deck, the two wheelmen, Edwa1
!. Olson and Henry Larson, stuck to the
post and saved the ship.
- Gut by flying glass Of the pilothous
bruised by the Wreckage from the roo