Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-10-05
BIG LOSSES ON LAKES.
CITY OF CONCORD AND A CAN
FERRY FOUNDER WITH LOSS
OF SEVERAL LIVES.
STEAMER FOUNDERS.
Suddenly Disappeared While OF Sanilac,
Mich, and She May Have Gone
to the Bottom.
MANY VESSELS ARE sfoRMBouND.

MILWAUKEE. Wis. Oct. L. Spc-
cial. The tag end of the southern storm
struck the Great Lakes Saturday night.
Three men We're drowned When, with
scarcely an instant's warning. the Wis
consin x Michigan railroad carterry
No. : turned thrtie and sank, after nav
ing dropped anchor at the north break
water outside OF Chicago harhor,
Lake Erie Loss Large
Two more ycsse,s were lost anu an
other is missing on Lake Erier, and
an unknown steamer is reported to have
iuuuuered with all hands III Lake Huron
of Sanllac. Mich.
AdYi,rs during the day We're 10 the
effect that the lost boat was the CITY OF
Rome This vessel. however, passed
MackIHaw City AT l2:15 O'Clock i'll sale
ty. Then it was suggested that the DIS
trcSS Signals seen We're those OF the barge
knapp, which later arrived in Port iih-
ron alter having broken away tom her
cons, ri.
'Iue Nori bwestern Transit company s
steamer FayetJe Brown, which WAS
beachcd at I.orajn, o., in the gale oi
Saturday night was still fast in the sand
west OF the west hreukwater this morn
ing. and apparently was resting securely
The vessel carried Il crew OF eighteen
men, all OF WnCM were SAFE anu SUNNI
Unknown Steamer Founders.
FORT HURON, Mich, Oct. IAN
unknown steamer fOundefcd with lis en-
tire crew i'll Lake Huron, off Sanllac. ut
3 o'clock Sunday morning during ter
riblc northwest gale. The tragedy was
seen by the crew of the passenger
steamer City Of Mackinaw, winch ar
rived ut Harbor Beach.
The Mackinaw was some distance
from the vessel WHOM she WAS seen 70
plunge beneath the surface, and imnicul-
ately started for the scene ut full speed,
but was too late to render any assist
anCe.
The Mackinaw cruscd for some time
in the vicinity in the hope of saving
some of the crew, but no trace of amy Of
her members could be found i'll the dark
ness and storm. nor was there any clue
as to the identity of the ill-fated craft,
City of Concord Lost.
CLEVELAND, o.. Oct. 1.-The old
three barges III tow, went down off
huron, o., Saturday night during the
terrific storm which swept Lake Erie.
Three of the crew of twelve men were
droM They were:
rETEKS, tkANn, fireman, Muskegon
RISER. JOHN, Waterman, Milwaukee
WAKEFIELD, ROY, deckhand, Sanilac
Mich.
I he other nine men, after battling
with the waves for more than five
hours II their yaWi, and hAylhg given
themselves up for lost severa times,
managed to land at Cedar Point Sun
day morning. and walked INFO Huron
seven hours Iater III an exhausted cOndi-
ton.
Experience on the Negaunee.
The crew Of the Negaunee numbering
bni f.Ity
. terrible experience. They were about
twelve or fifteen miles out from Huron
when the Concord blew danger signals
and they cut loose. not knowing what
was wrong. They tried TO run To Huron
with one toresail and staysail set, and
the pumps going to keep the vessel afioat.
While still several miles out the rigging
broke and hey were helpless. They
tired to anchor. but the small anchor
would not hold and before the large an
chor could be set down the boat struck
on the Cedar Point beach, just opposite
the Ohio State university laboratory.
With great difficulty they got into the
small boat. the women being lowered
with ropes, and running stern first, with
the bow to the seas, they succeeded in
landing Then they forced an entrance
into the laboratory. where they found
matches and lamp and bed clothing.
Sunday mor~ing they We're discovered by
eHlploSeS OF thL summer resort, cared IOr
and brought here.
An Old-Timer.
The City of Concord was built thirty
eight years ago, but, notwithstanding her
age, Capt. Charles McEcherun of Buff
falo put out of this narbor in the face
Of the high wind Saturday night,
Carferry Turns Over.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. Oct 1.-The accident
n no md hIaf
No. here Saturday evening cost three
lives:
OLSON. o. c.. captain, residence Chicago
HANSON, GABRIEL, donkey man, Il
Center avenue, Chicago.
DECKHAND, name unknown.
John Dempsey, the mate, and William
BaEnell. the wlteelsman, were picked up
I out Of the water by the tug Perfection
Norman Kennedy, the cook, was carried
for long distance on some telegraph
poles. and was finally saved by the lie
saving crew under command of Capt
Charles Garland. The six men colu-
prised the crew.
The boat evidently had sprung n bad
/ leak a short time before she put in Mt
the Chicago harbor. while she was lum-
bering through the heavy seas that pre-
vailed oil the way from Ptshtigo, in the
Green Bay region Of Michigan.
1t may be possible to raise the ferry
boat and save her cargo, which consisted
cs fourteen cars loaded with iron ore
ald sixteen loaded with cedar posts.
Six Die in Lighthouse.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 1.-The
deaths of Lighthouse Keeper Neil Nell
son and Andrew Hunson and the wash
ing of thei1 lighthouse into the sea were
reported today by Lighthouse Inspector
Sears. who returned from a trip of i'll
specton OF the sound. This makes six
lives known to have been lost in the
wrecking Of sound lighthouses alone.
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