Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-29
storm ON LAKES
COSTS MANY LIVES
Nine of the Grew of the Mataafa
Are Frozen and Drowned
Near Duluth
PART OF THE CREW RESCUED
Survivors Tell of Terrible Suffering
During the Nisht-severaI Lose
Lives in Effort to Move From One
Part of Ship to Another-Many
Crafts Wrecked in the Gale.

Crafts Wrecked in the Gale.
Chicago, Nov. 29--Twenty-six lives
are feared to have been lost, and fully
a score of vessels were driven ashore
iby the hurricane that swept over the
great lakes Monday night and yester-
day. Six vessels are missing, caught
between ports at the height of the
/ storm. Fears are entertained for their
| safety The financial loss is estimated
at possibly $2,0OO,O00. No accurate
figures of the loss Of life are obtain
able, but with one exception, the
crews were removed from all the
| wrecks reported.
Duluth, Mimi, Nov. 29-Nine dead,
! including the entire engineering crew,
is the terrible result Of the wreck Of
i the steamer Mataafa at the mouth of
i the Duluth ship canal yesterday. From
the time of the arrival of the life saw
ing crew yesterday evening desperate
efforts were made to get line to the
boat, but without avail. In the pres
ence of thousands of people who
watched the scene breathlessly, line
was fired over the ship from a cannon
three times. Once it caught. Those
on the forward end of the boat began
to haul it in, but the rocks on the bot
ficials of the company owning the boat
j advised the crew to give it up until
daylight When the storm died out
somewhat this morning, the life saving
crew was able to hit the boat. and the
{ work Of bringing the crew ashore was
begun at once. In the forward end
of the boat all were safe, but in the
stern none were saved, having sue
| cumbed to the cold and drowned. In
the first boat load seven men were
brought to shore. Later eight more.
! The names Of the lost are:
William Most, chief engineer, Cleve-
land.
Second engineer Claude Farringer,
Cleveland.
| James Early, Buffalo.
| William Gilchrist, oiler, Winton. Ont.
Carl Carbon, oiler, Chicago.
Henry Wright, steward, Cleveland.
Walter Bush second cook, Amherst
burg.
Fireman and deck hand, shipped
at Conneaut, names unknown.
The night on the Mataafa was a
fearful one to the living men, to say
nothing Of the terrible torture that
must have fallen to the lot Of those
who died. Tucked in warm beds in
the hotels the members Of the crew
| tell of what they underwent. Charles
Byrne, Henry Saunders and Herbert
Emigh made a trip in the afternoon
from the rear of the boat forward
across the slippery deck, over which
great waves rolled, and tried to break
their hold Four tried it, the fireman,
name unknown, being another, but he
| failed and retraced his steps, now be-
ing numbered among the lost. This
fireman was three times washed over
the side, but held his grip on the rope
railing and climbed back only to be de-
feated in the end.
Alpena, Mich, Nov. 29-The schoon-
er f. T. Judd, which broke away from
the steamer Jim Sheriffs yesterday in
the gale has arrived at Alpena, badly
battered up, but all the crew safe.
Duluth, Nov. 29.-The steamer Will
liam Edenbern is ashore at Split Rock,
on the north shore of Lake Superior.
about twenty-five miles above Two
Harbors. The information is meagre,
| wires being down, but it is known the
second assistant engineer is drowned.
The rest of the crew is believed to
| have been saved. The vessel is brok-
| en- in two. Two hours previous to go
/ ing on the rock she dropped her con-
sort, Madeira, and nothing is known Of
her fate.
| The Mariposa, reported last night as
| lost, entered Duluth harbor this morn
ing.