The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-29
Hurtles Into Seas
In Jump for Life
From Sinking Ship
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experience and suffering from the all
night exposure to the flashing north
ern gale and the battering waves. The
crew of the Chambers Brothers tug
reported three attempts had been
made to drag from the water the
chief engineer. Judas Busc.lmann Of
Manitowoc. Wis. but each time
Euschmann, crazcd. fought them Oft
and screamed to be let alone. After
Il rec attempts. with 80 foot wavcs
tossing their trail craft dangerously.
they were forced to desist and crcpt
ashore with the Is they had saved.
One lifeboat with four mcn aboard
capsi2ed but three Of the mcn man
aged TO cling TO the overturned boat
until rescue crews reached them. The
fourth. Joe Doherty. went down.
-Four Lives Uncertain
Fred Trubcr. lookout, suffered a
broken arm and leg in boarding a
life boat. He toppicd into the water
but was picked up.
The racing coast guard ship brought
in four more men about 10 Il. nj. to-
day but whether they were still alive
was uncertain. Harvey Lyons. of Mil
wauhec. tpurser cn the Wisconsin. was
one Of the last saved by tho Chambers
tug.
Tales Of heroism III the disaster
drifted iii with every incoming ship
load Of rcscuers and rescued.
The Wisconsin. its hold full of wa
ter, finally settled back on its stern
and with the impact of a terrific
wave rolled over and vanished. A
score or mel still aboard. dashed ia
their life rafts and girdled with life
belts were set adrift while the Ra-
cine and Kenosha life crews were
%plunging cut from the shore for a
new attempt at rescue.
Waves Turn Raft Over
The tug Chambers reached the
scene first and found two RATS tossing
about. Three men were afloat OH or
and nine OIL the other. Three more
were in the water. The latter were
picked up first. Then. the tug ap-
proachel tho heaviest laden raft
which turned over thrice in The
lchurning sea before il was reached
Eight Of the men looscd their strap,
and were helped aboard the tug. The
ninth was unable to get up. Clifton
Young and Clarence Ferriess of tho
tug crew left their ship and carried
him safely aboard.
One man vas found floating in tho
waves. apparently unconscious. HI
paid no heed to ropes tossed TO him
Suddenly a wave hurled a bed spring
upon him. the blow revived him anc
he graspcd the next rope that vas
thrown and was pulled aboard.
Craft Rolls Over
Eight life RATS and one OF the SIX
lifeboats were still on board when the
stern Of the snip was seen to sink
the boat rolled heavily on its side
and settled beneath the waves.
Those known to have been left or
the Wisconsin when the last boatloaC
OF survivors was brought ashore
we're:
Capt. Dougal Morrison. Chicago.
Chief Engineer Judas Busci,mann
ManitoWoc. Wis.
Chief Mate Edward Halverson, Chi.
cago.
Purser Harvey Lyons. Milwaukee.
Stewart Tom Langc, Chicago.
Quartarmaster ELL Strand. Chi
cagO.
A nan named Burt.
Beats Brave Waves
The two power boats of the Kenos.
1Hl ov,d Dno.a,n an0cf Ctfo,slc VNyyckor
out again into the thirty-foot wave!
in the FRAGILE hope that the last rem
nant of the crew might have escapct
OH the RATS before the Wisconsin
went down.
No women were aboard the sEiI
when it left Chicago last night with {
cargo OF merchandise for Milwaukee
A cabin maid. Mrs. Davidson Of Chi
CagO, had missed the boat.
!, Guards Show Courage
The two coast guard crews wen
out to the rescue in answer to tin
first S @ S calls about , a. III. Fol
two hours they fought to get a lin,
aboard the Wisconsin, but it IA i'm
possible to approach the vessel ant
ono rescue boat was nearly lost il
the attempt. Five lifeboats final.
were launched and those rescue(
were picked up from the smallsboats
The Wisconsin, 48 year old veteran
of the Goodrich Transit company
lake fleet. a an army hospital shil
during the World war. The stcamel
was $50 feet long. with a 1876 foo
beam and II foot draft. She was
combination passenger and freigh
carrier plying between Milwaukee ant
Chicago.
Crew Cool and Obcdient
Elmer Ross of Muskegon, Mich. al
Oiler, said the crew acted with cool
ness and obedience throughout tn
exciting hours preceding the sendinI
of the SOS. The only confusion de
! veloped, Ross said, when three life
boats were launched, the crews hav
ing difficulty in handling them in tn
high seas.
The men IN the lifeboats wer
picked up by the coast guard cutie
Grant and the lifeboats turned adrift
Lake Michigan was kicking higl
rollers from the east as the WiScon
sin put out from Chicago at IA
p. m. yesterday. Other lake craft TO
the most part Rugged the harbors
The only steamers besides the Wis
consin to venture out We're the Good
rich steamer Illinois, Milwaukee i
Chicago: the Goodrich steamer Ala
bama. bound from Chicago to Gram
Haven. Mich; and the Hill Line
steamer Waukegan. bound from Re
noSha to Milwaukee. The Waukegal
; sent out an SOS when it was nearing
Milwaukee. but made harbor safely
Springs . Hull Leak
The Wisconsin began taking waite
q few hours out. At l a. m. today he
wireless reported the going very rougl
but that the steamer was m0vin
: slowly north.
Halt an hour later the Wisconsin
crew discovered that water vas fore