The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-06-29
WRECKS SHIPS
The Mighty Lake Superior
Shows Fury Under a Gale
WRAPPED in MYSTERY

ships-I5ig Vessels Are as Help
less as Smaller and Older Crafts
OH the Waters of the Greatest oT
Great Lakes.
Lake Superior plays no favorites.
Big modern vessels are as helpless
as older and smaller crafts when
great gales lash her waters. AS long
ago as 1882, vessel men declared that
ships were getting so large on the
Great Lakes that their chances of
losses or serious disaster were re-
mote. But the big and little, ancient
"hookers' and the finest and larg-
est of the modern leviathans all look
alike to the cold, beautiful rock ard
forest brimmed inland sea.
1t is slow to anger, but its fury
at times is irresistible. The salt Wa
ter sailor who makes his first trip
on Lake Superior in calm weather IS
prone to- sneer at its dangers, but
once he has ridden out a northwest
ern gale and witnessed and felt the
great shouldering seas, which carry
the twisting motion Of the ocean, he
is silenced. Lake Superior Is now
called the port of missing men"
with Whitetish Point as 'the grave
yard of TIE lakes"
The Adella Shores is the latest vic
tim of the greatest Of the Great
Lakes. She vanished from the sur
face with a crew OF Is men. That
is all that is known and perhaps al,
that will be known. The other day
a paddle bearing an inscription,
"Adella Shores" was washed ashore
at Whitetish Point, indicating that
the ship and its crew are some dis
tance from that point, but further
than that the mystery of the dis
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the mighty lake. a sailor lashed
to q plank or to spar may drift
ashore, but no man expects that the
[, incidents surrounding the founderjng
of the craft will ever come to light.
There is something exceedingly
tragic in the loss OF any ship in any
circumstances, but when one goes
down with all hands on board and
! not word comes to land to tell
the manner OF her vanishing it IS
! knife thrust for the loved ones who
await the news with aching hearts
and the hope that springs eternal,
and the public is awed by the sub
Unity which surrounds such mourn
full events. Everything is left for
the imagination, and one can only
guess OF the gallant fight for life
the possible deeds Of heroism and
OF unavailing sacrifice.
The body OF a man was found 90
The shore OF Whitfsh bay several
days ago. Nothing remained wnere-
by 1t might be identified, but from
The location where it was discovered
the conclusion is drawn that it is
| the body of one OF the "a members
Of the steamer Clemson, which .we2l
down year ago. The d. NJ. Clemson
| and the Cyprus, two of the largest
and newest boats constructed for
Great Lake traffic, were claimed by
Lake Superior during the last tw"
years. Only one man escaped from
the Cyprus out OF a crew OF 25.
When the 400, 500 and 600-foot
| ers We're Still a dream it was pre-
dicted that soon lake disasters would
be thing of the past, but the great
! est loss Of life that ever occurred
on the inland seas was TO the pas
scngrr steamer Algoma, when 70
persons perishcd. The steamer Map-
istre went down in November, 1889.
The mystery Of her loss has never
beer solved. On the memorable Nov.
81, 1905, the Mataa!a and the Ira
II. Owen went down at Duluth and
every man on both vessels was lost.
Twenty-siy years ago the steamer
Winnipeg went down after being
burned to the waters edge. And So
the tale goes on and hundreds OF
! other incidents might 1e recounted
dating from the time that the first
Anelo-SaXon placed his paddle in tbs
mighty inland SEA.