The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-12
Survivors Reach Ports
With Tales Of Fear
full Hardships.
HEROIC RESCUES
SELDOM EQUALED
Property Loss Expected to Run
Into Millions-Cleveland Hit
Hard, Five Persons Being
Killed and Property Of
Great Value Ruined.
Gale Is Subsiding.

Chicago. November 1l-The shores
Of tho Great Lakes woro etrcwn to-
night with tho wreckage OF three
days gale and snowstorn,. which cost
the lives OF probably thrcescore per-
sons. turned bottom UP in mid lake n
0oroot vessel with its crew. wrecked
or grounded numerous other craft and
caused a property loss which will run
into the millions.
Details OF the STORM, which literally
swept from the western end Of Lake
Superior 10 the eastern shore ON Lake
Erie. became known only to-day. when
survivors began arriving in various
ports with tales or hnrdships ana he
roic rcscucs seldom oaita.ed on tic
lakes.
on land tho storm HIT hardest nt
Cleveland. o. where twenty Tour inches
Of snow fell. 1--WE persons were Killed
and ten others lost and where several
million doliHrs damage was caused to
property. chiefly telephone and telc-
graph companies, thus Keeping that
city out OF direct communication for
two days
Death Toll on the I.nkcs.
The death toll OF tho storm on the
Great Lakes. with many ports unre-
ported. Was a. follows:
Twenty -hve, perhaps forty men, prob
ably drowned in the over;urninE OF q
fre!ghter found floating In Lake Huron.
Joseph. on the Canadian side Of Lake
Huron (four had belts marked "Wex-
ford,' and ono belt marked Lon
DOM.
Three bodies washed ashore on the
west shore OF Lake Huron.
Two bodies washed ashore opposite
the position Of the overturned boat.
SiN members of lightship drowned
~ Lake Erie. near Buffalo, y. Y.
The escapes from death were nu-
day midnight, had blown away the for
ward part of tho ship. Captain j. W.
Duddleson of the steamer l.. G. Waldo
navigated his vessel by a small lnac-
curate compass and with the aid Of n
lantern. He reached a reef. where the
crew suffered intense cold and hunger
until their rescue to-day.
The crew OF tho Turret Chief when
the ship struck The rocks In Lako Eu-
perior. were forced TO go ashore scan
tiiy clad. They built Il hut 20 protect
them.
M Estimate OF Loss.
1t was Impossible even TO estimate
the LOSE TO vessels lost or damaged by
grounding. Shippers in Detroit esti-
mated tho iossIn Lake Huron and in
the Detroit and 81. Clair Rivers alone
10 be several hundred thousands dol
lars. Three OF the wrecked steamers
increase the loss by s5.o000oo. while
ashore In Lake Superior and Lake Erie
viii sond the total much higher.
The more important mlshaps 10 ves-
sells were:
Unidentified 3O0-foot steel fre!ghter,
floating bottom up in Lake Huron, n
few miles south of Port Huron. Ear
$50 probably flax. Believed entire
crew OF twenty five lost.
Light ship No. 81. in Lake Erie. Off
Port Albino. Ii miles west of Buffalo
with crew OF six believed lost
Steamer a. c. Waldo. OF Bay Trans
portation Company, torn to pieces
on rocks on Gull Rock Manitou Island
captain and crew of twenty five men
and two women rescued after having
boen without food ninety hours, bad
]y frozen; vessel. valued at 100000
tptal loss
Steamer Turret Chief. OF the Mer-
chants Mutual Line. went to pieces on
the rocks six miles east of Keweenaw
Point, on Lake Superior. Grew of sew
entcen rescued. after having lived for
three days in a hut on reef; loss.
100000.
Unidentified vessel wrecked on rocks
ut Angus Point, Isle Royale. Lake Su-
perior
The vessels reported aground with
slight or no damage numbered more
than thirty.
Reports from all points TO- night indi-
Gated the storm had subsided.
Cleveland Ia Hopeful.
/, Cleveland, O., November 1i.-With
fair. warmer weather predicted for to-
morrow, Cleveland tonight Is hopeful
OF II speedy cessation of tho difficulties
that have bcset the city since the worst
snowstorIn in its history descended
upon IL Sunday night.
Damage from tho blizzard has al
ready reached many millions OF dol
lars, and five lives are known TO havo
been lost. a resumption OF the storm
would mean additional deaths, since
IL would prevent relief from the food
scarcity. which tho city now faces
Roin would seriously complicate tho
situation. because food conditions then
would ensue. AS result OF the dis
turbed state Of the lakc, a new menace
developed to-day. The drinking water
has turned the color OF coffee, and
warnings were issued by the health de-
Dartment to obviate typhoid cpl
comic by boiling drinking water.
Tho number of known dead as re-
suit OF tho storm was increased to five
to-day. when john Richmond was
crushed to death by the collapse OF
tho roof OF his house beneath the
weight OF tho snow, and william Com
bort wne frozen In a snowdrift.
Steps for tidying UP tho city were
( made possible this afternoon, when a
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