The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-09-07
ELEVEN VICTIMS
OF LAKE HORROR
Survivors Rescued Only Ate,
Three Days Of Untold Hard
ship and Suffering.
FOUR WOMEN ARE SAVED
Over Hail the Twenty-Five Persons
Aboard Volunteered to Die to Save
the Remainder-captain
Bravely Leads Them.

Bravely Leads Them.
Duluth, Mimi, Sept. 6.-Eighteen or
twenty lives were lost and property val
ued at $500, 900 sacrificed in the furious
storm that swept over Lake Superior
Sunday and Sunday night.
The gale was the most destructive
TO lake shipping that has been expert
enecd in many years.
Besides the wreck of the steel steam
er Seyona, which broke in two on Rand
Island reef, seven Of the crew losing
their lives. it is now believed that two
more ships were lost with their entire
crews. One of these Is thought to be
The schooner Pretoria. of Bay City,
Mich, the largest sailing ship on fresh
water. and carrying q crew Of eight
men. The other is believed to be the
schooner Olive Jeanette, which carried
Il crew or seven men. The Pretoria
broke loose from the steamer that was
towing her during the storm, and today
Captain Wandig, of the steamer Mary
Boyle, reported that the Spars of q
sunl1en three masted schooner could be.
seen Il short distance east of the outer
island of the apostle group about 100
miles from Duluth. The Olive Jeanette,
~ 10 FChy gill ~ III oOSAkf
ten miles from Portage entry. A mass
OF wreckage was sighted by the steam
CT .tuniata near that point, and al
though the identity Of the ship has not
been completely established there seems
10 be little doubt that 1t was the Olive
Jeanette. The schooner was in tow
OF The steamer l.. B. Doty when the
latter vessel was lost with her entire
CREW on Lake Michigan a few years,
ago.
The storm at times reached the pro-
portions Of a hurricane, and the.
~slaunchest steel vessels were forced to
run for shelter in a more or less bat
tered condition. The new steel steamer
Stackhouse arrived at the 500 on her
first trip with herfhatch covers SO bad
" sprung that water poured contin-,
uously into the hold. One of the crew;
was washed overheard. The whaleback
steame Samuel Mather also lost one Of
her crew overheard.
The terrific battering the steel
steamers received in the storm gives
rise to the gravest fears for the safety
OF many wooden ships which ave not
Yet been reported, and the record of,
death and destruction may reach much
greater proportions than the present
estimates. The monetary loss Of the.
Seyona is placed at $17O,000, while that.
of the Pretoria is estimated at $780,
Gee.
Duluth, Mimi. Sept. A telegram
received here reports a tug found Cap
tain Mcdonald of the Sevona on his
vessel with the remainder of the crew
alive and they We're rescued.
BAYFIELD,, Wis, Sept. eleven of.
the crew Of the steamer Sevona We're
drowned by, the wreck Of a steel steam
or on Sand Island reef on Lake Su-
%!}@1ivr late Friday night. Eleven others
were rescued, including the remainder
OF the crew and four women.
The story of the disaster is a thrill
ing tale OF shipwreck on the Great
Seven OF the dead offered their lives
Rs II sacrifice. for the rest of the TWEEN
ty-tWo on board the i'll fated ship, al
though four of the latter We're drowned.
The rest reached the shore after a.
hight OF butfeting by waves in an open
boat and a trip Of more han twenty
four hours in cutting a through
the wilderness of northern Wisconsin.
Story of the Disaster.
friday evening the steamer was
blown ca reefs during a fierce north
vest gale. When the vessel finally
struck, a great hole was torn in her
how. and in half an hour the vessel
broke in two.
When tbs shock came the captain
found there was no chance for all to
reach the shore and called for volun-
t@ers to stay on the ship.
More than half the crew volunteered
to stay aboard while the rest tried to
reach shore and call for help for those
who were to remain on the wreck. Fin
ally the captain, two mates and four
other sailors. who We're under no obli-
cation to stand by the sinking ship,
We're selected to risk their lives for the
safety Of the rest. Engineer Phillippi
was one Of the volunteers, but Captain
Mcdonald ordered him to take COM
malld of the, ships oat which was to
take the 0 women ashore.
Afloat in Small Boats.
With Phillippi Went six others of the
crew. a small boat large enough to
carry tho four took another party. The
boat with the women tried to make
sand island, but was swept past.
When the boats left the Sevona, the
seven men left aboard were huddled in
the wheel house waiting for the rescue
tina was to come too late.
The trip ashore of the lifeboat was
one of terror. All night the men fought,
with the elements in an effort to reach.
the shore, which was only five miles,
away, but the wind was carrying the,
craft parallel with the beach and it was
daylight Saturday before the boat was,
washed ashore at Little Sand bay.
Here they fo9nd a hornesteader who
lei them to a farm two miles in the,
interior. The men were so exhausted,
they could hardly walk to the farm:
house.
Aew Way Through Woods.
Then, while the rest of the party was,
cared for, the engineer and Farmer
Thibadeau set out with a team for Bay
field, twenty miles across the peninsula,
through an almost untrodden country
Most of the way it was necessary to
literally cut q road through the woods.
Upon reaching Bayfield, at 4 o'clock
saturday afternoon the fishing tug
Harrow started out for the scene of the
week with q party of fifteen men.
llaaded by Engineer Phillippi. The trip
took Two hours in the teeth of a north
easter.
When the tug reached the wreck Of
this Sevona, only q few spars and the
after hundred feet of the craft was
left. There was no trace of the cap
rain and his party or Of the four in the
stGall boat and they are undoubtedly
lest.
MURDER WAS MYSTERIOUS.
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