The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-14
seventeen Die
IN LAKE AND
COAST STORMS
Crew of Eleven Goes Down with
Tug in Florida Hur-
ricane.
SIX LOST IN WRECK OF
STEAMER NEAR DETROIT
Lifeboat, Containing Eight, Ups
sets and Only Two
Are Saved.

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 1L-News reached
here today of the sinking of the tugs
Sybil and Sadie at Bahia Honda in
Mondays hurricane. The crew of the
Sadie escaped.
The loss Of life on the tug Sybil in
cludes. beside Captain Parker. Engineer
Fox. Pilot Whitmere. Engineer Peter
son and seven deck-hands.
DETROIT. Oct. 14.--The steamer
George Stone, Of Cleveland, was
wrecked yesterday on Point Pelee, Ont,
upper Lake Erie. Six lives were lost
and twelve were saved. The vessel was
not insured and belonged to M. A.
Bradley, of Cleveland.
The six victims lost their lives when
the captain and seven men were cap
sized in the surf attempting to &c
ashore for assistance. Two of the
crew clung to the overturned boat four
hours untils, they drifted ashore and
the other six In the boat were drowned.
The remaining ten members of the
crew were taken off the wreck about
noon by the steamer #. M. Osborne, of
Cleveland, and taken to Detroit.
The drowned were: Captain Paul
Howell, 27 years old, of Erie. Pa: Peter
Daley, of Erie, Pa, a passenger and
friend of the captain; William Henry,
of South Chicago. ILL.,, second engineer;
Cook Lucas, of Cleveland; William
Boyer, of Cleveland. an oiler; watch
man, name not known.
HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 1.-THE fol-
lowing wireless dispatch has been re-
ceived at the offices of the Southern
Pacific Company from the steamer
Antilles, aground off the Bahama
Islands:
Everybody ON board safe and we'll
Position OF vessel Is not dangerous
Comus leaving New Orleans today
reaching here about Friday morning
will take OFF passengers and carry then
to New York. Everything all right OF
the Momus, west bound, and she Will
arrive on time this morning at New
| Orleans"
CLEVELAND, o., Oct. 14.-Aftei
fighting desperately for over twenty.
four hours against the gale prevailing
the pumps and signals of distress n.y.
X,
James Davidson, Of Bay City. Mich.
was towed last night into the harbor al
Fairpoint, o.. by tugs sent to her as.
sistance.
The barge, bound up with COAL parted
from the steamer Shenandoah early
yesterday.
KEY WEST Fla, Oct. 1.-THE Brit
ish steamer Pleroma arrived here yes
terday, bringing the crew of the
schooner Florence r. Hewson, which
was so badly wrecked by the storm
that she was abandoned by her crew
when she became water-logged.
The schooner Hewson encountered the
storm off Havana, about twenty-five
miles, Her decks were swept clean and
her rigging carried away. Finally
when all hope of saving the vessel was
gone, the crew embarked in small boats
managing TO keep afioat until picked
up by the Pleroma.
KEY WEST, Fla, Oct. 4.-Imme-
diate assistance from the outside world
Is necessary to carry on the work OF
cleaning UP the city and caring for the
victims of the hurricane of last Mon
day.
Mayor Fogarty today announced that
the city was forced to suspend work
because of lack of funds.
Great distress and suffering already
is reported among the employees OF
the large tobacco factories which suf-
fered by the storm. Hundreds are on
the point of starvation, it is declared.
Today the only work in progress is
being carried on by private corporations
and the large shipping interests
Sewers are broken and clogged and an
epidemic of sickness is feared.