The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-12
Choppy Seas and Sprung
Rudder Force Postpone
ment of Trip.
TRY AGAIN NEXT WEEK
Plan Another Attempt Early
Next Week If the Weather
is Favorable.

Wind, which made the lake too
choppy for soundings, together with a
sprung runner on the Helen OF Ke-
nosha, today prevented the search for
the Inflated fruit boat, Forelle, be-
lieved Ito lie under $50 feet Of water
IL miles southeast of here.
This will delay the attempt to To-
cate the exact position of the Forelle
preparatory to raising her until some
time early next week, it was stated
Meanwhile the Helen B will probably
be taken to Milwaukee where she will
be drydocked for repairs to the shift
ed rudder, according to Arthur Berk
her owner.
All preparations had been made fol-
the start of the search today Henry
sTamms, part owner of the boat, to-
gether with his nephew, son OF Cor
nelius Tamms, missing captain of the
boat, and Carl Meyer, son OF the miss
ing engineer, arrived in Kenosha ear
ly today with graphing hooks, under
water telephones" and other para
phernalia for determining, the exact
''lay" of the Forelle.
Wind Springs Up.
With sunrise smart west wind
sprung up which threw the lake into
heavy chop few miles from shore
Although the general opinion was
that it would be useless to attempt to
work today on account of weather
conditions, it was decided to take
run out from shore to see just how
rough the lake was.
At the same time it was decided to
tow the Helen B out into clear wa
ter where better view could be had
of the stern The Winnie, under COM
mand Of Capt Henry Postman, tossed
the Helen B a rope and moved out
several miles into the lake, The boats
put back to port an hour later con-
WINGED that it would be useless to at
tempt to work in this weather.
Capt. Berk stated that sounding
must be done in an almost dead calm.
The smoother the water the easier It
is to manipulate the sounding lines,
the graphing hooks, and the under
water "phones." If waves are tossing
the boat around it is almost impos-
sible to make Roadway.
Sinking a Mystery.
The relatives Of the lost crew are
still puzzled over how the all-steel
65-foot boat, powered with new $4,000
oil burning engines, which had never
given the slightest trouble, came to
be lost during a storm which swept
the lake last September when load
Of 5000 baskets Of grapes we're being
freighted from Benton Harbor, Michi-
gan to Milwaukee.
The boat, comparatively new, worth
S25. 900, was accustomed to putting out
to sea in much worse weather than
that which sent her to the bottom, it
was stated.
A theory which is advanced by Capt.
William Kincaid, Of the Milwaukee
Coast Guard station is that she was
too heavily loaded with fruit to be
able to withstand the weather. In
vestigation made by him on behalf Of
the government, showed that when the
boat was last sighted by just as she
was pulling out of Benton Harbor,
she was loaded even to her saperstruc-
ture with grapes.
Whon the SLOim sprung uP; 1'Dtiih5
the lake into 3O-foot seas, the Forelle
was found to be top heavy. Capt.
Kincaid believes that there is pos
sibility that she may have "side-slip-
ped" from the crest of one heavy sea
to the trough of still heavier one
and in SO doing have shipped tons Of
water into her hold Now lower than
before, the next sea would have been
sufficient to have sent her to the bot
tom. This, he believes would explain
how all of the men came to be trapped IN
her cabin without time to escape.
Even her alright bulkheads, with
which she was equipped both fore and
aft, would not have been sufficient to
have overcome the dead weight of the
fruit and the water. If this theory
proves to be correct when the boat
IS raised, she will be little worse for
her nine months at the bototm Of the
lake.
She is built entirely Of steel and
would not have had time to rust to
any extent. The engines would have
to be pulled down and overhauled, but
otherwise the ship could be recondi-
toned within few days.