Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 May 1894 — Page 4

THE BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1894.

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THRILLING SCENES DURING A BLI2ZARD ON THE GREAT LAKES. Old Superior \Vn» < hanged Into an Angrj Oe«*an, ami the Lives of Wrecked Mariners II ung by a Single Thread True Tales From tin* Life Savers’ Logbooks. [Copyright, 1 1H, by American Press Association. Book rights reserved.1

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, of the lake In the harbor of Marquette, Mich., a vast throng of people on the ntonthut the fascination

which threatened calamity exerts upon the human mind. Prevention and rescue might be Impossible, but a burning desire to see and know the worst caused hundreds of townsfolk to quit their warm firesides and face the snow laden, biting air of a northeasterly blizzard, which, in the nature of things, must strew the coasts with the broken hulls of wrecked vessels and the

bodies of hitman victims.

For a day the gale had ragisl over the bosom of the Itlkcand lashed it into a roaring sea. Throughout the wild night the thrilling tale hadsp»-d from house to house and flown from lip to lip that the waves had broken over the bounds fixed by the hand of man; that the bulkhead sheltering

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Sec. Hoard of Health ..F.ugeae Hawkins M. D | the docks was simply a lone rock in the 1st Ward... LVomai Ahnuns. J h Handel Niagara of waters dividing the flood and 2nd " Edmund Perkins, James Bridges arousing it to fiercer anger, its danger 3rd ” John Kllcy, John H. MIIJer light tower swept away, its planking ^t Commissionor 'ynmehed loose from the spiles and a nv A. Brockway. ) | slstless current foaming over it with each

swell of the tide, dismantling and submerging the warehouse docks and platforms along shore. Reports of vesselsdriven headlong before the blast and snatched from destruction by the narrowest chance mldixl to the general nervousness and alarm. One distressing tragedy enacted before a crowd of sightseers on the shore powerless to render aid lent an aspect of realism to the weird and awful scene. A man, in trying to escape from a schooner which was about to crash upon the dis ks, jumped from the rigging toward the dock Vof a tug which was pounding up and down Miloili/sidt' and fVll irriniltinr

supping on-horrors, and finally a party of men loaded a small boat upon a wagon and set off down the shore. At the mouth of Chocolay river, some miles, as it proved, from Marquette harbor, they saw two vessels aground on a liar 400 yards from the shore line and opposite the mouth of the river. The wrecks were a steam barge and a four masted schooner. They lay stern on the beach, with the sea pouring over their main decks. The barge looked like a complete wreck, being swept from end to end by the waves as she lay low in the water. Occasionally those on shore thought that they tould distinguish through rifts in the snow clouds the faces of men (hit ing from the wheclhouse and captain’s cabin of t he barge. The schooner, although fast in the sand, stood higher in the water and was loss at the mercy of the waves. The peril and suffering of the supposed imprisoned crews nerved the people on ' shore to attempt a rescue with the means j at hand. Five men put off in the yawl, to ! which was attached a long tow rope held by friends on shore. The wind and surf proved too strong for them, and they put j back again and again. Once the tioat 1 shipped a sea which nearly swamped her, and the crew was barely saved by means i of the life line, which hauled them back ! to the beach. A tug then trietl to plow through the surf, but was also driven back

by the heavy wind and waves.

The crowd at this point was now swellI eil by arrivals from the landing heaeh and from the city. Each fresh group had its j plan of rescue, and while the baffled crew ! of the yawl started with their team to fetch a mortar for firing a life line to the wreck another zealous crew manned a skiff and attempted to outride the surf and reach the helpless sailors, who, watching the ef-

At e o’clock the mortar arrived, and the first shot dropped 50 feet from the muzzle. A heavier charge was put in, and the can non flew into a hundred plisi’s, fortunately harming none of the crowd standing anxiously about it. The last die hail Ixim cast, thought the multitude, whose feelings were harrowed by the sight of doomed men far out in the sea and the futile yet promising attempts at rescue. There was | nothing to do but await the breaking up of tho vessels, when possibly some of the more vigorous sailors could stem the break ers and reach the shore. Meanwhile what of those luckless men ! imprisoned on the Imr? Companions in j misery, they had been companions in toil. The barge was the Robert Wallace, and the ! schooner, her consort and tow, the David ; Wallace. They had been sailing with the | wind across the lake, and losing the way ‘ in tl>e I'Jindlng storm of the previous night

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alongside and fell between tho grinding hulls, where he was instantly crushed to a shapeless mass. Undismayed, seven of his shipmates took the hazardous leap for life and were saved. The same tug had snatched another unmanageable schoooncr from collision with the half hidden breakwater. These rescues had occurred on the previous day before the storm reached its height. On the 18th, the day of the thrilling episode narrated below, the tugs were as useless in that leaping sea ns a common river

skiff in the wildest ocean surf.

At daylight the range of vision was shut in by clouds of snow, but enough of tho harbor was laid bare to show tho extent of the ravages of 24 hours, tho sea of breakers and the vaulting volumes of spray where the waves dashed against the inland bulkheads. As tho day grow some of the watchers thought they saw far down tho eastern beach the masts of two vessels, which tho driving snow clouds now obscured and now unveiled. Tho spectacle was pointed out to newcomers on the docks, whose sympathies had.not l>cen dulled by

IN DESPERATE STRAITS, forts of those on shore, oast off lines at taiched to water casks in the hope that tho current would float them ashore. But tho waves tore the casks loose, and the lines disappeared. The skiff made half the distance nobly, then was caught in a power fill current and forced buck to land. Night was now coming on, and the hopes of the would lie rescuers turned to the mortar and life line. But tho gun had lieen Ipiked, and a long time was consumed in getting the vent drilled out. While waiting the crowd built huge bonfires of the driftwood along the beach, coiled down the lines ready for the gun and signaled good cheer to the hapless souls on the wrecks.

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-r THE F1RE8.1DF. WELCOME, stranded on the liar. The heavy seas broke | through the upper works of the barge, flooding the engine room and driving all hands into the upper cabins In a short time the hull broke in two, and tho after cabins were beaten to pieces by the waves. Fifteen men were cooped up in the wheelhouse and captain’s. cnbi'iv.Kiiut .^ff from their rood chests. The sfchooncr carried I a crew of nine. When night closed in, these men hud nothing but conjecture to encourage them in hope. Every attempt I at rescue had failed before their eyes. The sound of bursting of gun, which, hud they understood its meaning, would have I seemed a dcathknoll, they interpreted as a ! signal calling for help, and the bonfires i lighting up the sea of faces lingering exI pectantly on the beach strengthened this hope. Hud they known that at that moment the means by which their rescue | would come about were distant from Marquette 110 miles across a waste of drifted , snow, and still six miles distant over a j beach corduroyed with sea wreckage and also buried in snow, could they have re sistisl the temptation to jump into the j boilingsea and try to outride the breakers? A message rusliod off from Marquette the moment the startling discovery made by the yawl crew was known in tho city, had been wired across the peninsula and then carried across the lake and up the Old j Portage canal by a tug, telling the life saving crew at the Ship Canal Station of | the danger at Chicoloy bar. The dispatch ; reached Keeper Oeha at 4 p. m., and at 8 [ o’clock his full crew, with lifeboat and [ line throwing gun, was on board a special train at Houghton, headed for Marquette, having traveled from the station to Houghton on the tug which boro tho news. And now what a thrilling spectacle could It bo set upon one stage—the Btsanded ships; the imperiled crews anxioWly peer'ng j across that angry, reinorselesn sea to read

In the nrelit faces hraVing flic 'howling storm on the beach signs of hope to bear up th«*ir fainting souls; the speeding train, witli its iron horse, hearing in its wake a line of snow eappixl cars, whose black whirls, whirling through the drifts, send up a windrow of spray matching the foam of the breakers which encircles that i>orilous inke miles and miles alicau. A half an hour before midnight the relief train, snort ing after tin* hundred mile run, rolled into Marquette more like a fabulous rep tile incased in sealesof frozen snow crawling out of the black cave of night than a modern useful monster bearing instruments of mercy in its bosom. As the ears slowed up at the station, out leaped the lion hearted crew, ready for the battle w ith the sea. Across the six miles of heavy licoch the equipments Were borne in sleighs, and at 1 o’clock the gun and Ufcliont stood opposite the wreck. The wild cheering and j gestures of the crowd gave new lease of 1 hope to the sailors. Then came the line gun’s boom and the steel slug whirling 1 across the barge amidships. But the imprisoned men could not reach the rope, and Keeper Oeha turned to tho lifeboat. The rudder had Ixvn broken on the reckless trip down and had boon patched while the line was t«*ing fired. At - o'clock the launch was made, but at the first reef tho force of the breakers tient the rudder irons and split the timlier of the |lost. The crew retreated to the shore and made another effort to fire a line across the wreck. They succeeded, tint the sailors could not reach it, and once more the life savers manned the surflxiat, which had meanwhile been repaired. A long and des|x*rate struggle earriixl her through the breakers, but when she reached the barge she was weighted down with a heavy plating of ice. Nine of the suffering sailors, with the ice clad crew, were all that could with safety venture on the return trip. She was lieachod at last and instantly relaunched. On the second trip the boat shipped sea after sea and was nearly swamped, but finally the six remaining bargemen, all of whom were benumbed with cold and nearly starved from a two days’ fast, were landed beside the

warm fires.

The trip to the schixiner was the most difficult of all. The life savers were l;t\ndicnp|x‘d by the accumulations of ico upon their clothing, and the surging of the breakers was tremendous. Their boat was beaten back again and again and once was nearly thrown over at the second reef. The rudder again gave out, and the craft was steered solely by manipulation with the oars. But the crew was indomitable and refused to yield with the rescue half done. Howly and painfully they labored on, propelling and steering with alternate backward and forward strokes, until at 8 o'clock, after a full hour's struggle, they had the boat alongside the schooner. The return was comparatively easy, and every soul was landed w ithout mishap. Thus a crow of half a dozen resolute men, moved by the spirit of their noble service, had in Hi hourstraveltxl over 100 miles and accomplished a rescue which a thousand novices already on tho spot, with all the resources of a port and a city to draw upon, failed to do in an equal space of time. Geokub l. Kilmer. Handy With Ills Knife. Maysyille, Ky., May 29.—Charles Graham was horribly cut by his stepson, Henry Allen, at Helena. The trouble grew out of a horse trade. Graham was cut with a knife in over 20 places and will die. Allen’s mother was cut in the arm while trying to prevent the trouble.

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ROMANTIC WAR REMINISCENCES.

Frank Leslie’s Scenes and Portraits gj Part One Contains the following Full and Double Page Illustrations:

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Abraham Lincoln. I lie Sixth Regiment Volunteers leaving Jersey Depot to defend Washington, D. C.. April i8th, 1861/ The Seventh Regiment, New York, S. M., passing down Cortlandt street, on their way to Pennsylvania depot, en route for Washington, D. C. I he German Regiment, Stubbs Volunteers, Col. John E. Benedix commanding, receiving the American flag in front of the city hall, New York. Troops drilling in the grounds on the north side of the Capitol, Washington, 1). C. Lieutenant-General Winfred Scott. Colonel Ephraim E. Ellsworth. The murder of Col. Ellsworth at the Marshall House, Alexandria, Va. Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S. C., 1861. Castle Pickney, Charleston Harbor, S. C. 1861. Lieutenant Tompkins at the head of the B. Company, U. S. Dragoons, charging into the town of Fairfax Courthouse in the face of the 1,500 Confederate troops, June 1. 1861. J

12. Camp Corcoran on Arlington Heights, Va., near Washington—the Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York, S. M.,

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13. Battle of Great Bethel, between the Federal troops under Gen. Pierce, and the Confederate troops under Col.

Magruder, June 1, 1861.

14. Gen. Schench, with four companies of the First Ohio Regiment, surprised and fired into by a Confederate masked battery near Vienna, Va., June 17, 1861. 15. I he Battle of Bull Run, between the Federal Army, commanded by Maj. Gen. McDowell, and the Confederate Army, under Gens. Johnson and Beauregard, on lulv 21, 1861. J J 16. The charge of the first Iowa Regiment, under Gen. Lyon, at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, near Springfield

Mo., Aug. 10, 1861.

1;. Passage down the Ohio River of Gen. Negley’s Pennsyl yanja Brigade (77th, 7 Sth and 79 tl, Regiments, Penn \ olunteers) en route for the seat of War in Kentucky.

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Senool Superintendent

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Portrait of General Sherman. Unitt-il States Cavalry tin* in the neiKhborlniotl of Fairfax \ irginia. ’ Movement of the troops from Collins Line Poek, Cnnal street. New York. United States Arsenal at Charleston, S. C., seized bv State author ties December 28th, 1860. * ’ Portrait of Major Robert Anderson. Portrait of Brigadier Genera! lieauregard. 7. Scene of the Flouting Battery, Charleston Harbor, during borubardmenl of I I. I’liiiii(*r• 8. Battle of Rich Mountain, Beverly Pike, Va., July )2th. Battle of Corriek’s Ford, Va.. July l.'lth, 1861. ID. The engagement at Bealinnon, Va., between Ohio and Indiana Reirmients uik! a detachment of Georgia troops. * II,tni8

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