Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
FATE Of 100 CAUGHT
ON LAKES IS HIDDEN
AS e ARE RESCUED
Coast Guard Cutter Braves
Pounding Sea to Save
Stranded Crew.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 24.-The region
of the Great Lakes, storm-scarred and
wind whipped, today counted its losses
in men and money.
The fate of at least 100 persons,
caught on the lakes in the fury of the
storm, remained uncertain early today.
Hope that the car ferry, Milwaukee,
of the Grand Trunk fleet with So
aboard, had weathered the 48-hour
storm on Lake Michigan faded today
with a report that wreckage from
boat had been picked up 10 miles off
Wind Point. which is about miles
north of Racine, according to advices
from Milwaukee.
Capt. C. N. Bedell of the steamer
Colonel told Grand Trunk officials here
that he sighted empty life boats, mat
tresSes and the upper parts of white
cabin floating in the lake off Wind
Point. The upper part of the Mil
waukee was painted white.
Some of the wreckage was picked up
by the Colonel, but none of it carried
any markings to make identification
certain, Capt. Bedell said.
Marine men here interpreted the loca-
ton of the wreckage to mean that the
Milwaukee probably foundered not long
after she left here Tuesday. She appar-
emily got no further out in the lake
than 25 miles when the 81 freight cars
aboard perhaps were torn loose from
their moorings, they said.
Planes Are Asked.
Not until today did Grand Trunk
officials admit they were apprehensive
regarding the fate of. the Milwaukee.
The ship was commanded by Capt.
Robert Mckay of Grand Haven, vet
eran skipper of the Grand Trunk fleet
operating daily between Grand Haven
and Milwaukee.
Capt. Beden told Capt. Charles E.
McLaren, marine superintendent here,
that in his opinion the wreckage was
from the Milwaukee without doubt.
Capt. McLaren appealed to the
Kohler Aircraft Corporation to have one
of their planes fly over the wreckage to
see if the pilots could make out any
thing that would definitely establish
that it was from the Milwaukee. Racine
Coast Guardsmen were sent TO the
scene.
Fears were felt for the steamer Will
liam B. Pilkey and its crew OF 81 men.
Gravel Island, east of Detour. The steel
sandsucker c. A. Caldwell, with a crew
of 16, was aground in Lake Erie OIL
bennington, Ontario.
Coal Freighter Reaches Port.
The freightar Donaldson, loaded with
coal and carrying crew of 25 and pos
sibly 80 men, which was overdue at Su-
perior, Wis, where it was scheduled to
o,-yit.a mic iT1fn
day. 1t had put in at the Apostle Is
lands to weather the blow.
TWenty-three seamen and officers OF
the stranded steamer, Maple Court.
of the Canada steamship lines, were
rescued by Coast Guard cutter at 80
am. today from their vessel, which has
been hard aground on Magnetic Reef,
Cockburn Island, in Lake Huron, since
am. Sunday, according to dispatches
from Sault Ste. Marie.
The Coast Guard cutter which res
cued the crew of the Maple Court set
out after leaving the seamen at Detour
for the William B. Pilkey.
Officers of the Coast Guard boat said
they passed the grounded freighter
while bringing in the crew of the Maple
Court. They reported seeing no signs
of life aboard the vessel and said the
fires apparently had been put out. They
said it was not light enough to de-
termine definitely whether any one was
aboard or whether the vessel was badly
damaged. The crew of 80 seamen and
officers might have found some means
of getting ashore on Gravel Island, they
said
Rescue Attempts Hazardous.
While the storm was reported abating
somewhat in the upper lakes, there is
still a fairly rough sea running which
makes rescue efforts hazardous, marine
men said today.
The Maple Court was reported to be
in very bad shape" by members of the
crew, who reached Detour this morn
ing. The ship, they said. is wedged on
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