The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
LAKES SWEPT BY STORM
AS BLIZZARD SUBSIDIES RIVERS
CAST Up BODIES.
Shipping on Lake Huron and Rivers
Lost Thousands of Dollars
Thrilling Tales of Rescue Reported.

Thrilling Tales of Rescue Reported.
The shores Of Lakes Superior, HUI
ron and Erie Tuesday night were
strewn with the wreckage Of three
days gale and snow storm, which
cost the lives Of probably three score
persons, turned bottom-up in midlake
a 3O0-foot vessel with it's crew,
wrecked or grounded numerous other
craft and caused property loss as
yet unestimated, but which will run
into the millions. Details of the
storm, which swept from the west
ern end of Lake Superior, eastern
shore of Lake Erie, became known
only Tuesday, when survivors began
arriving in various ports with tales
of hardships and heroic rescues sell
dom equalled on the Lakes.
On land the storm hit hardest at
Cleveland, O., where twenty-four
inches of snow fell, five persons were
killed and ten others lost, and where
s2,000,000 damage was caused tc
property, chiefly telephone and tele-
graph systems, thus keeping that city
out of direct communication for two
days.
The death toll of the storm on the
Great Lakes, with many ports unre-
ported, follows:
twenty-five, perhaps forty, men
probably drowned in the overturning
of freighter found floating in Lake
Huron.
Five bodies washed ashore at St
Joseph, on the Canadian side Of Lake
Huron. (four had belts marked
wexford" and one wore a belt
marked "London").
Three bodies washed ashore on the
west shore Of Lake Huron.
Two bodies washed ashore opposite
the position of the overturned boat
Six members of a lightship drown
ed in Lake Erie. near Buffalo, N. Y
It was impossible even to estimate
the loss to vessels wrecked OF damag.
ed by grounding. Shippers in De-
troit estimated the loss in Lake HUI
ron and in the Detroit and St. Clail
rivers alone to be several hundred
thousand dollars. Three Of the
wrecked steamers increase the loss
by s5,000,000, while the scores o.
smaller craft driven ashore in Lake
Superior and Lake Erie will send the
total much higher.
The important mishaps to vessel:
were:
Unidentified 300-foot steel freight
er, floating bottom up in Lake Huron
a few miles south of Port Huron.
Lightship No. 80 in Lake Erie of
Port Albino, fifteen miles west o.
Buffalo, with crew of six. believed
lost; lifeboat found floating bottom
up in wreckage of ship foated into
Buffalo harbor.
Steamer l.. C. Waldo, Of Bay
Transportation Company, Detroit
torn to pieces by storm Friday night
and pounded against the rocks or
Gull Rock, Manitou islands; captain
and crew of twenty-five men and two
women, rescued. Vessel valued al
100000; total loss.
Steamer Turret Chief, Of the Mer
chants Mutual Line, Ontario, went
to pieces on the rocks six miles east
Of Keweenaw Point, of Lake Supe'
rior, before daylight Saturday; crew
of seventeen rescued, loss 100000
Unidentified vessel wrecked or
rocks at Angus Point, Isle Royle
Lake Superior.
Among the frail craft jeopardized
but saved. was the Santa Maria, 6
reproduction Of the Columbus Cara,
vel, which was bound from Chicago
to San Francisco. It was driven into