Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-29
15BfL|EvED DEAD
AS )6 ARE SAVED
Off SINKING SHIP
Many 4 Maddened Survivors
From Lake Vessel Raked
by GaIe Are Near Death.
HovsElHIaH. WAVES
DF2vE BOATS TO PORT
Captain SOes Down With Steamer
After ivaliant Fight Against
! Storm.
s%iated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KENOSAlA. Wis, october 29.-Be-
tween 10 and is men went down with
the lake eamer Wisconsin in a severe
storm OF Khe Kenosha shore early to-
day.
More Fan three-score were saved
many of a fem maddened and some near
death froA the horror and the exposure
Of hours the wind-whipped sea. The
three passengers aboard were rescued.
Capt rgugal Morrison, bound to his
duty and -ue to the tradition of the
sea. remained aboard his ship to the
last and 6yent down with a score of
shipmates1 His body was picked up later
by Coast 45uard crews.
1azed Engineer Dies.
Chief Fl gineer Judas Buschmann of
ManitowoA Wis, clung to life raft as
the steanS r. up-ended, rolled over and
sank. RI Nscuers tried to haul him
from thee water, but, crazed by his
plight, he xought them of and died.
Fifteen 4nen who chung to life raft
from the 2ueamer were rescued by the
ChambersA Bros. fishing tug and were
brought ashore. Coast Guardsmen
took of letween 40 and IS early this
morning, tsoon after the Wisconsin
sounded xe S o s.
No wof len we're aboard the ship
when It Int Chicago last night with
cargo Of Merchandise for Milwaukee. A
cabin majf Mrs. Davidson Of Chicago,
had missef the boat.
Two CoHst Guard crews went out to
the rescuA in answer to the first S 0 S
calls about 2 am. For two hours they
fought toHget a line aboard the Wis
consin. If was impossible to approach
the vessel and one rescue boat was
nearly losS in the attempt: Five life
boats finely were launched and those
rescued vRre picked up from the small
boats. 4
Survivors Describe Horrors.
Grew arN passengers from the sunken
steamer sSday told the story of the
"niehtma4 cruise" only one degree
removed krom tragedy for most OF
them.
Dazed A1d chilled by exposure, their
refrain WIS at first, where's a stove?
Where's aIcigarette? Whose got some
thing hoW to drink" Later, as they
huddled around a huge stove in the
Kenosha foast Guard Station, they re-
lated hovk Lake Michigan had proved
too strork for the passenger-freight
boat thatshad weathered many fercer
blows.
Hardly a minute after the Wisconsin
poked hek nose out of Chicago harbor
She was Ought up in the storm. Pitch
ing and Y1cking like "a big swing" one
sailor sai4, she struggled up the Wis
consin sbAre toward Milwaukee. Then
she begar4to take water in her bunkers.
It came kascading in on the stokers
working desperately in the engine room.
The pumYs were falling behind. Soon
feet ofS water had flooded the floor.
Just abovS am. the water reached the
fires and the stokers had to leave to
save theiS lives.
WorA Calmly to Lower Boats.
Above, Ahe radio operator clung to his
post, senLsng first I'VE are In distress"
and thenNhe S o S, I'VE are in a sink
ing CONDITION."
On theldeck. in sharp relief from the
red lightk of flames, the captain, crew
and PASSENGERS we're calmly working to
lower lifSboats. The lifeboats rocked
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