The Hartford republican., 1913-11-14
Blizzard
HITS LAKES
Wreckage Litters Shores of
Inland Seas.
Loss Of Life and Destruction to
Property Appalling--Tales Of
Horror Told by Survivors.

Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE shores OF
Lake Superior, Huron and Erie were
strewn tonight with the wreckage oi
a three day gayle and a snowstorm.
wkfch cost the lives of probably thre
score persons. turned bottomup In
mid-lake a 3OO-foot vessel with It's
crew, wrecked or grounded numer-
GUS O. er craft and caused proper
ty loss as yet unestimated. but
which will run into the millions.
The details of the storm, which
literally swept from hte western end
of Lake Superior to the eastern shore
of Lake Erie, became known only
today when survivors began arriv-
ing IN various ports with tales OF
hardships and heroic rescue seldom
equaied on the lakes.
The land the storm hit hardest was
at Cleveland. o., where twenty-one
inches of snow fell, five persons were
killed, and ten Others lost. and
ed TO property chiefly telephone and
telegraph systems, thus keeping that
city out of direct communication for
two days. The death toll with many
ports unreported. is told thus:
Twenty-Five. perhaps forty. men
probably drowned in the over.urn-
ing OF a frsghter found floating in
'.ake Huron.
Five bodiss washed ashore at st.
Joseph. on the Canadian Side OK
Inhe Huron. Four had belts markel i
wexford" and one wore a belt
4urked London"
Three bodies washed ashore on the
West shore of Lake Huron.
Two bodies washed ashore oppo-
site the position of the overturned
boat.
Six members of a llghtboat drown
ed in Lake Erie. near Buffalo. New
York.
The escapes from death were num-
erous After the storm ABOUT Fri
day midnight, had blown AWAY the
forward part OF the ship. Capt. j.
W. Dudleson, of the steamer l.. {.
Waldo, navigated by a small inac-
curate compass and the aid of
lantern. held by a sailer. In this way
he guided himself and crew to
reef, where the crew on landing, suf-
fered intense cold and hunger un-
ill their rescue today.
The crew on hte Turret Chef, when
the ship struck te rocks In Lake Su-
perior, were forced to go ashore
scantily clad. They built hut to
protect them from the blizzard.
ID was impossible even to es-
Innate the loss to vessels wrecked
o. damaged by grounding. Shippers
In Detroit estimated the loss in
Lake Huron and the Detroit and
st. Clair Rivers at alone to be sew
aral hundred thousand dollars. Three
Il the wrecked steamers increase
the loss by 100000. while the scores
of smaller craft driven ashore In
Lake Superior and Lake Erie will
send the total much higher.
The more important mishaps to
vessels were:-
Unidentified 300-foot steel freight
er, floating bottom-up in Lake HUI
ron, a few miles south of Port Hu-
ron. Built in Canada, cargo prob
ably flax; United States llfe.saving
crew found vessel in such position
as to have made 1t almost impossi-
BILE for any of the crew OF twenty
five to have escaped.
Lightship No. s2 in Lake Erie. off
Port Albine, fifteen miles west or
Buffalo. with crew of six. believed
lost; lifeboat found floating bottom
side up In wreckage of ship floated
into Buffalo harbor.
Steamer l.. c. Waldo. OF Bay
Transportation Company, Detroit, torn
to pieces by storm Friday night, and
pounded against rocks on Gsill Rock,
MAnitou Island; captain and crew
OF twenty-five men and two women
rescued after having been without
food FOR ninety hours; terribly froz-
en-; taken tonight to Houghton,
AMh.; vessel. which Is loss OF $780,
900, was 4.466 gross tonnage, with
a 452-foot keel. and was built An
1896. o."
steamer Turret Chief. OF the Mer-