The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-30
The Mighty Lake Superior
Shsws Fury Under a Gale
WRaPPEDlNm MYSTERY
Are Many Losses OF Ships and Steam
ships-Bis Vessels Are as Help
less a. Smaller and Older Crafts
or the Waters Of the Greatest OF
Great Lakes.

Lake Superio. plays 10 faror!tes
Big modera vessels are as helpless
as older and smaller crafts when
great gales lash her waters. AS Ions
ago as 1882. vesse! men declared that
ships were getting so large on the
c t Lakes :ha: their chances o:
losses O. serious disaster were .e-
note. Su. the big and little. ancten;
"hookers" and the finest and !arg-
est o. the modern leviathans ali look
alike to the cold. beautiful! rock and
forest brinned inland sea.
Il is slow TO anger. but its fury
at times is irresistible. The salt va
.e, sailor who makes &is fcse trip
on Lake Superior in calm weather IS
prone to sneer at its dangers. but
once be has ridden out a northwest
eru gale aad witnessed and felt The
srea, shor!dering seas. which carry
the twisting motion OF the ocean. he
Is s!ieneed. Lake Superior IS &C"
called the port Of missing men
with Whi,eSsh Po!nt as the grave
yard Of the lakes.
The Adel!a Shores IS the latest VIC
tim OF the greatest os the Great
Lakes. She vanished from the sur
face with crew Of Is men. That
Is al! that is known and perhaps al
that will be known. The other day
q paddle bearing an inscription.
"Ade,.a Shores" was washed ashore
q. wa!.essh Point. indicating that
the ship and its crew are some dis
tarce from tha: point. but further
than tha: the mystery Of the as
ester Is looked IN the icy breast OF
the mighty lake. a sailor dashed
70 q plank or 10 q spar may dTlft
ashore. but no man expects that the
incidents surrounding the laundering
OF the craft will .rer come TO light.
There IS something exceedingly
tragic in the loss OF any ship IN any
circumstances. but when one gees
down with all hands on board and
not q word comes 20 land TO tel!
the manner OF her vanishing II IS
q knife shrus: for the loved ones who
await the news with aching hearts
and the hope tina, springs eternal.
and tie public is awed b. the sub
Amity which surrounds such mourn
eai events. Everything is left 10!
the imagination. and one can only
ruess Of the gallant fght for life,
tia possible deeds Of heroisn and
OF unavai3ing sacrifice.
The body OF q man was found on
the shore OF Whitash bay several
days ago. Nothing remained wnere-
ny Il might be identified, but from
she location where il was discovered
the conclusion is drawn that It is
the body OF one OF the % members
of the steamer Clemson. which went
down year ago. The D. n. Clemson
end the Cyprus. two Of the largest
and newest boats constructed for
Great Lake traffic. were claimed by
Lake Superior during the last s"2
years. Only one man escaped from
tie Cyprus out OF crew OF 2a.
When the 400. 500 and So0-soot-
ers were still = dream It was pre-
d,cted that soon lake disasters would
be q thing OF the past, but the great
est loss OF life that ever occurred
on the inland seas was to the pas
senger steamer Algoma. when 20
persons pe..shed. The steamer Man
fs.ee went down in November. 1888.
The mystery OF her loss has never
been solved. On the memorable Nov.
II. 1905, the Ma,aafa and the Ira
II. Owen went down at Duluth and
every man on both vessels was lost
7wensy-six years ago the steamer
Winnipeg went down after being
burned 20 the waters edge. And 50
the tale goes on and hundreds 0:
other incidents might he recounted
dating from the time that the ars'
Ans:JSaxcn placed his paddle IN the
mighty inland sea.