The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-12-16
GRUESOME EVIDENCE OF THE FATE
OF THE MISSING CARFERRY
OUT OF CONNEAUT.
FROZEN STIFF IN The SEATS.
Evidence of Heroism on the Part OF
Those Who Were Last to Sue
cumb to the Cold.
WILL SEARCH FOR OTHER BOATS.

/ were blowing SNcH gaze over Lane ~
today that Capt Jerry DriscoN VINO
yesterday picked up nine bodies OF those
lost in the Inflated Marquette and Bes-
semer No . found it impossible to start
out in search of twenty-three other men
who are believed to have persisted III
the terrible storm of Tuesday II was
the intention Of Capt DriscoIl and sew
cral other captains to start out at DAY
light, but the heavy sea caused them to
turn back. and the search will have to be
delayed until the storm has subsidized.
All through the night. friends aud rel
atives Of the nIne dead men who Wer"
picked up yesterday waited at the
murgur, where the cOrpses were being
prepared for burial The bodies Of til"
nine men will be sent To their homes
some time today and seafarlng people u
this city will take up the search Tor
more bodies as soon as it Is possible
again to venture out on the lake.
Officials of the carferry company have
spared no effort. to find their miISIns
ship and the shipwrecked crew. 1t -
reported that the burial of the nine bod
les recovered yesterday will be paid for
by the Carfcrry company as the loss IN
some instances falls heavily upon the
shoulders Of the surviving members OF
the sailors families Some Of the men
found frozen stiff in the yawl by the fer
rvs crew mad been long IN the service
of the carfcrry company.
Mans Humanity to Man.
story of sclf-sacriice and simple
heroism was told in the attitude of some
of the bodies Of the nine men who We're
all dead together in "A yawl which was
picked up yesterday. Manuel Souars, the
smallest man in the yawl, was without
a life presprver. Little Souars, the
weakest probably, succumbed first to the
bitter cold, and had crawled party be-
meath the seats Four of the other men
had lain down in the bottom Of the boat
over his legs and lower part of his body
apparently 10 lend portion of the fast
failing warmth of their bodies 20 pre-
serve the lad.
The heads Of two Of the men, Thomas
and O'Hagan, were badly bruised ana
clotted with blood. The pair were sit
ting upright In the bottom of the boat,
although the fury of the waves had
dashed the corpses this way and that,
battering the two mems heads against
the sides Of the yawl
The lifeboat found was No. 4, which
Capt DriscOll says would be the last
launched There were four lifcboats on
the carferry, and they would be launched
if practicable in rotation according to
their numbers.
Thirty-eight Perished.
1t became known today that thirty
eight persons, instead of thirty two, left
Conneaut, O.. last Thursday morning
aboard the carferry Marquette and Bes-
semer No. =, which mes disaster IN the
terrific storm that has prevailed over
Lake Erie.
Nine of this number, all frozen, were
picked up yesterday, in one of the
ferry's yawls. The fate of the remain
ing twcnty-niue ~ not definitely known,
but there is little doubt that all have
persisted.
Owing to fierce storm which is
sweeping Lake Erie today, efforts to
search for the missing Twenty-Five are
mt a stuudstI. \ number Of boats are
in the harbor ready to take up the
search, but the heavy sea makes an at
tempt at this time impossible.
Finding the Bodies
For forty-cight hours the Commodore Per.
~ secured the waters Of eastern Lake Erie
for traces Of the Carfcrry, but until a tiny
ten man yawl was sighted fifteen miles off
this port at II O'Clock Sunday the men on
the little state fisheries craft had almost
given W hope Of being able ever to tell
even a portion Of the story Of the fate of
the big curfcrry,
AS the lookout on the Perry sighted a
tiny hulfsunken yawl at about noon on
sunday orders were gwen 10 steam down
upon til" object The use Of glasses dis
covered the hoat to be loaded with nine
men. Az the Perry came abreast Of the
drifting aud half water logged yawl the
men gathered az the side Of the fish boat
saw that they had arrived too late. The
nine occupants Of the boat which was
marked "Hrsscurcr aud Marquette No t."
were frozen sim IL death.
Names Of the Dead.
Cauupuut where most Of the mon Iivnd
was uuitu,d BY telephone of the gruosumr
find, ANA hundred residents of that city
arrived here within two hours. They were
taken to tn" morguc, where the following
identihcations were made.
THOMAS, H., second cook, Port Stanley
RAY, WILLIAM, Conneaut.
SOlARS, J. W, waiter, COunoaut
SMITH, 9. r., steward, Conncuut.
STEEL, +, fireman, Conneaut.
SIlENk, j. fireman, tOnueaut
HART, j., Uller CUnncaut
D'HAGAN, -.-, tOuncaut
ALLEN, CHARLES. Conneaut.
The cook Of the carfcrry was the only
mnn 10 wear an oyercoat The eight other
men W"r" dressed Ia UyCrallS and iumnors
indicating that the departure from the car
ferry had been hurried. In the bow end OF
N" boat was found complete clothing for
one man, ana II is the belief that the yawl |
becoming crazcd, had discarded his cloth, |
ing ana jumped into the Icy waters OF
Lake Erie
Passenger Is Missing.
Albert j. VETS Of this aity. treasurer of
the Keystone Fish company aud Blair Stnte
Iron works, was passenger on the ill.fntrd
boat HIS relatives and friends had NOT
yet given up hope until the yawl containing
the nine men was tOwed into this port A
yet his body has not been found The OF
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