Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-10-05
BIG LOSSES ON LAKES.
CITY OF CONCORD AND A CAR
FERRY FOUNDER WITH LOSS
OF SEVERAL LIVES.
STEAMER FOUNDERS.
Suddenly Disappeared While OFF San1ac'
Mich, and She May Have Gone
to the Bottom.
MANY VESSELS ARE sroRMBoUND.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct. 1.--lSpe-
ciaI 1.-The fag end of the southern storm
struck the Great Lakes Saturday night
Three men were drowned Wneh' VIZ
scarcely an instants warning, the w 10
consin & Michigan railroad carlellS
No. 2 turned turtle and sank, after nav
ing dropped anchor at the north oreaA-
water outside of Chicago harbor.
Lake Erie Loss Large.
Two more vessels were lost and an
other is missing on Lake Erler, ana
an unknown steamer is reported 10 nav
foundered with all hands in Lake huioA
off Sanilac, Mich. 4 tho
Adyices during the day were to the
effect that the lost boat was the Clty VI
Rome. This vessel, however, passeu
Mackinaw City at 1915 O'Clock III sa ~:
ty. Then it was suggested that the uls-
tress SIGNALS seen were those of the barge
knapp. which later arrived III fort II
ron after having broken away from nei
consort. oox,,s
The Northwestern Transit company
steamer Fayette Brown, which was
beached at Lorain, O., In the gaze ID VI
Saturday night was still fast III !ne So So
west of the west breakwater TINS moi moi
l.
ME vessel carried a crew OF eighteen
men. all of whom were safe and SOUND
Unknown Steamer Founders
PORT HURON, Mich, Oct; i l. AN
unknown steamer foundered with IT'S en-
tire crew in Lake Huron, off Sanllac, at
g o'clock Sunday morning during ter
rihln northwest gale The tragedy was
seen by the crew of the passenger
steamer City of Mackinaw, which ar
rived at Harbor Beach.
The Mackinaw was some distance
from the vessel when she was seen 10
plunge beneath the surface, and lmmedl-
ately started for the scene at full speed,
but was too late to render any ASSIST
ance. j..
The Mackinaw cruised for some time
in the vicinity in the hope OF saving
some Of the crew, but no trace OF any ~
her members could be found III the dark
ness and storm, nor was there any clue
as to the identity of the Inflated craft
City of Concord Lost.
CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 1.-The old
wooden steamer City of Concord, with
three barges in tow, went down OFT
Huron, O., Saturday night during the
terrific storm which swept Lake Erie.
Three of the crew of twelve men were
drowned. They were:
PETERS, FRANK, fireman, Muskegon,
Mich.
KISER, JOHN, Waterman, milwaukee,;
WAKEFIELD, ROY, deckhand, Sanllac'
Mich.
The other nine men, after battling
with the waves for more than five
hours in their yaWl, and having given
themselves up for lost several times,
managed to land at Cedar Point Sun
day morning, and walked into Huron
seven hours later in an exhausted cOndi
ton.
Experience on the Negaunee.
The crew of the Negaunee, numbering
seven. reached this city Sunday after a
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 foresail and staysail set, and
the pumps going to keep the vessel afloat.
While still several miles out the rigging
broke and they were helpless. They
tried to anchor. but the small anchor
would not hold; and before the large an
Choir could be let 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 morning they were discovered by
employees of the summer resort, cared for
and brought here.
An Old-Timer.
The City Of Concord was built thirty
eight years ago. but, Notwithstanding her
age, Capt. Charles McEcheran of Buff
falo put out of this harbor in the face
of the high wind Saturday night.
Carferry Turns Over.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 1.-The accident
to the Wisconsin and Michigan Carferry
No. here Saturday evening cost three
lives:
oLsoN, Q. G., captain, residence Chicago
HANSON, GABRIEL, donkey man, Il
Center avenue, Chicago.
DECKHAND, name unknown.
John Dempsey, the mate, and William
Bannell, the wheelsman, were picked up
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 life
saving crew under command of Capt
Charles Garland. The six men com
prised the crew.
The boat evidently had sprung a bad
leak a short time before she put in at
the Chicago harbor, while she was Inn
berlng through the heavy seas that pre-
vailed oil the way from Peshtigo, in the
Green Bay region of Michigan
1t may be possible to raise the ferry
boat and save her cargo, which consisted
Of fourteen cars loaded with iron ore
and sixteen loaded with cedar posts.
Six Die in a Lighthouse.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 1.-The
deaths of Lighthouse Keeper Neil Nell
son and Andrew Hunson and the wash
ing of their lighthouse into the sea were
reported today by Lighthouse Inspector
Sears, who returned from a trip of in
spection on the sound. This makes six
lives known to have been lost in the
wrecking of sound lighthouses alone.
CARS SECRETS SOLD.