The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-01
KEIlNOSHAN'S KIN
FROZEN TODEATH
Relatives of DR.. A. J. Ran
dali Perish in Wreck of
Lake Steamer.
THREE STILL MISSING
Brother and Son Still Missing
While Wife and Daughter
Found Among the Dead.

Confirmation was received this morn
ing by DR.. A. J. Randall, 655 Charles
street, establishing without doubt the
truth of a previous rumor to the eff
feet that his brother Captain Harry
Randall, wife and baby daughter, to-
gether with an adopted son, all of
Kingston, Ontario, were four of the
eight who lost their lives on last
Thursday morning when the cruiser
Getty of New York" floundered in the
middle of Lake Ontario in a sleet and
snow storm. The frozen body of
Mrs. Randall was found along with
bodies Of four members of the crew
in life boat on the following day.
The bodies of Captain Randall and of
the children have not been recov
cred but all hope for them has been
abandoned. The boat floundered in
mid lake and sailing experts declare
that in the face of such storm, the
three survivors could not have es-
capped being frozen to death for so
long time.
Father Identifies the Dead.
The bodies found in the open yawl
were identified by Captain John Ran
dali, the father of DR.. Randall and
of Captain Harry Randall. He identi-
fed them as Mrs. Randall Mate Wesley
Warren, Engineer Harry Dorey and his
brother Gilbert Dorey, of Kingston.
The fifth body, that of fair-haired
youth, remains unidentified.
The ill~fated steamer left Oswego at
three o'clock Thursday morning with
cargo Of phosphate rock bound for
New York It is believed that it was
caught in the sleet storm in mid lake
and sank about seven o'clock that
morning.
Probable Last Moments.
Awful was the death which was Wis
tied upon the passengers and the crew
of the ship. Faced in an open sea
with terrible storm and with the boat
laundering, the crew saw before them
lingering death from cold and ex-
posture. 1t is believed that when the
ship struck, Mrs. Randall and the four
seamen were put in yawl and that
Captain Randall, true to the tradi-
tions of his career, was the last to
leave the ship. It is thought that he
probably returned to place the child
rem in the life-boat when the yawl
drifted away from the ship.
Either this happened or Captain
Randall while rescuing the two child
rem went down to the bottom of the
lake in his Inflated ship. How long
the five persons in the yawl were toss
ed about on the angry water will al
ways remain matter of conjecture.
The storm was terrible one and the
found indicated that the cold and ex-
posture had driven them almost to des-
peration for the men were huddled
under the big seats apparently in
an attempt to protect themselves as
rnch as possible.
Been in Former Wreck.
Japtain Harry Randall had lived a
life on the lake, having been long en-
gagged in the shipping business on Lake
Ontario. He was inAa wreck last No
vember when the barge "John Randall"
foundered off Duck Island. Captain
Randall had never visited his brother
in Kenosha but he was known to several
! Kenoshans who had met him in Canada.
Last Thursday reports of the wreck
of the steamer Getty Of New York"
reached Kenosha, but as the names of
the victims could not be established
until the recovery of the bodies, it was
not known then that the kin of the
Kenosha physician were numbered
among the dead and missing.