Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-30
COLD v AVE
FOLLOWS S
LAKESTORM
FIRST TOUCH OF WINTER UsH'
Erred IN BY DEATH DEAL.
ING GALE in THE
NORTH
STEAMERS WRECKED

Tho Mataafa Goes to Pieces Nea
Duluth and Thousands Of People
Watch Life Saving Crews Attempt
to Rescue SalIors-Nine Arc Los
and Fifteen Are Saved.
SHIPS WRECKED IN GALE.
Crescent City ...... Near Duluth
Mataafa So. ............ Duluth
England. $685.. Minnesota Point
oliver Mowat :. Oshawa, Canada
City Of Holland. Of Rogers City
Harvey Bissell OFF Alpena, Mich.
Unknown schooner ;. Pressure Isle
J. M. Spaulding ). Off Fort Gratiot
Appomattox. Near Milwaukee
j. H. Outnwaite ;. Off Sheyboygan
Alcona... -. Green Bay, Mich.
Charles M. Warner. Mine Mile
Point. Lake Huron.
Elphlcke !. ). Sheboygan Harbor
Sidonia ...... Sheboygan Harbor
Rosemount -. Near Ft. William
ID. G. Whitney Port Washington
r. A. Georger ;. Near Sheboygan
VIM. Endenborn. >. Near Duluth
VESSELS REPORTED MISSING.
Angeline :. :. -. Lake Superior
Panther ). -. :. 80. Lake Erie
Jas. MOwatt >. ;. Lake Huron
4 sModorio T olo Cunorjor
E Mohegan -. Lake Huron
Mlngoe ..... Lake Huron
Chicago, Nov. 29.-The north
west, middle west and the south
west sections of the country are
today experiencing the first touch
sSof winter. During the night the
/ temperature dropped from % to 40
4 degrees and at Z o'clock this morn
ing registered 6 degrees above
1 zero at st. Paul, the coolest point,
however, being Helena, Mont.
where the thermometer fell to "a
degrees below.
The cold wave was accompanied
by snow fiurries and chilling
winds, causing disarrangement in
\ railroad train schedules. The Sc
i yerest delay occurred on the
roads in the northwest, where sew
eral trains are hours behind time.
According to the weather bureau
the eastern part Of the country will
be in the grasp of frigid tempera-
ture tonight and freezing weather
will extend as far south as the in
terror parts of the gulf and the
south Atlantic states.
Chicago, Nov 29.--Twenty-six
" lives, it is feared, nave been lost
and fully a score of vessels were
driven ashore by the hurricane
that swept over the great lakes
Monday night and yesterday. Six
vessels are missing, caught be-
tween ports at the height of the
storm. Fears are entertained for
\ their safety. The financial loss is
estimated at possibly $2,0O0,OOO.
No accurate figures of the loss Of
life are obtainable. With one ex-
ception the crews were removed
from all the wrecks reported.
Duluth, Mimi, Nov. 29.-Nine dea
Including the entire engineering ere
Is the terrible result of the wreck
the steamer Mataafa at the mouth
the Duluth ship canal yesterday eve
ing. Desperate efforts were made
get line to the boat, but witho
avail. In the presence of thousan
Of people who watched the see
breathlessly, line was fred over t
ship from cannon three times. On
it was caught and those on the fl
ward end of the boat began to haul
in, but the rocks on the bottom cut
in two. At midnight the officials of t
company owning the boat advised t
crew to give up until daylight. VIII
the storm died out somewhat ii
morning the life saving crew was al
to hit the boat and the work of bril-
ing the crew ashore was begun
once.
Fifteen Live; Nine Are Dead.
In the forward end of the boat
were safe, but in the stern none we
saved, all having succumbed to t
cold and drowned. In the first boat 10
seven men were brought to shore a
later eight more were rescued.
The names of the lost are:
WILLIAM MOST, chief engine
Cleveland
SECOND ENGINEER CLAUl
L 9FARRINGER, Cleveland
JAMES EARLY, Buffalo.
4. WILLIAM GILCHRIST, oiler, w
ton. Ont
CARL CARLSON. oiler. Chicago
HENRY WRIGHT, steward, Gle
land
WAITER BUsHE, second cook, A
herstburg
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