Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-12
Blizzard Sweeps
 the Great Lakes
MANY VESSELS WRECKED, SIXTY
 LIVES LOST
BODIES WASH ASHORE
Property Loss to Shippers Wiu Be Hundreds of Thousands-Proper+y Damage at Cleveland, $2,ooo,ooo.

Chicago, Nov. 1.-The shores of Lakes Superior, Huron and Erie were strewn tonight with the wreckage of three days gale and snowstorm winch cost the lives of probably three score persons. turned bottom up in mld-lake a three hundred foot vessel Wlth us crew, wrecked or grounded nu- nerouS other craft and caused a prop erty loss as yet unestimated but which will run into the millions
 The details of the storm which lit- eraIly swept from the western end of Lake Superior to the eastern shore of Lake Erie, became known only today when survivors began arriving in va r1ous ports with tales of hardshiT,s and heroic rescues, seldom equalled on the lakes.
 $2,oooooo Damage at Cleveland.
 On land the storm hit hardest at Cleveland, Ohio, where 21 inches of snow fell and five persons were killed Ten Ten other persons are missing in Cleveland and S2,000,0O0 damage was caused to property, chiefly telephone and telegraph systems. The city has been out of direct communication for two days. The death toll, with many towns unreported, is thus told:
 Twenty-Five, perhaps, forty men. probably drowned on the overturning of freighter found floating in Lake Huron.
 Five bodies washed ashore at St 5oseph, on the Canadian side of Lake Huron -four had belts marked Wex- lord and one wore a belt marked Lon- don)
 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 Iightshfp drowned in Lake EfTfa fo1
 Hardships of Sailors.
 The escapes from death were p,I merous. After the storm Friday mid night had blown away the forward part of his ship, Captain J. W, Dud- dlestOn of the steamer L. C. Waldo navfgated by a small, inaccurate com pass and the aid of a lantern held bv sailor. In this way he guided him self and his crew to a reef where the crew on landing suffered intense cold and hunger until their rescue today.
 The crew of the Turret Chief when the snip struck the rocks in Lake Su- perior, were forced to go ashore scant- fly clad. They built a hut to protect them from the blizzard
 It was impossible today even to es- innate the. loss to vessels wrecked or damaged by grounding. Shippers in Detroit said the loss on Lake Huron and in the Detroit and St. Clair rivers alone would be several hundred thou sand dollars. Three of the wrecked steamers increase the loss by $500, 900 while the scores of smaller craft driven ashore fin Lake Superior and Lake Erie will send the total much higher.
 Mishaps to VssseIs.
 The more important mishaps to yes sells, werel
 Unidentified. 800 foot freighter, float ing bottom up in Lake Huron. a few miles south of Port Huron. Built In Canada cargo probably flax; United States life saving crew found vessel almost impossible for any of the crew of from 25 to 40 to have escaped.
 Ldghtship No. S2, in Lake Erie, off Port Albine. fifteen miles west of Buf- falo, with crew of six, believed lost; lifeboat found bottom up in wreckage of ship which hoated into Buffalo har- bor.
 Steamer L. c. Waldo, of Bay Trans portatfon company, Detroit, Michy torn to pieces by storm Friday night and pounded against rocks on Gull Rock, Manitou island; captain and crew of having been without food for thirty hours terribly frozen: taken tonight to ghton, Mich. The vessel was valued at $500, 900.
 The Santa Maria Saved.
 Steamer Turret Chief of the Mar- chants Mutual line of Ontario, went to pieces on the rocks six miles east of Keweenaw Point in Lake Superior before daylight Sunday: bound for Port Arthur. Ohio. blown fifty miles out of course to the south shore; crew of r rescued after having lived for three days in a hut on a reef; loss $100 900.
 Unidentified vessel wrecked on rocks at Angus Rock, Point Royal, Lake Su- perior
 Among the frail craft jeopardfzed, but saved, was the Santa Maria. a re- production of Columbus caravel, which Is bound from Chicago to San Fran cisco It was driven into a mud bank near Erie Pa. On board Is what Is cherished as the original anchor with which Columbus set sail for America.
 Vessels reported aground with slight or no damage numbered more than thirty.
 Reports tonight from an points indi- cated the storm had ended.