Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — DESOLATE HOMES. [ARTICLE]

DESOLATE HOMES.

Those of the Navigators Along the Chain of Lakes. A List nf the Disasters Caused by the November Gales. During the succession of recent storms on the chain of lakes, over fifty vessels were either stranded or foundered, and the sacrifice of life, so far as learned, is in the neighborhood of ninety. Death and desolation have come into numerous homes, and a general gloom prevails marine circles all around the lakes. Toe losses to the underwriters are very heavy. Many of the stranded vessels will doubtless be rescued, but the losses be great ne /crtheles?. The gale—or rather’ seiies of gales—were the worst in every respect that have swept our inland lakes since 1867, as shown by the number of disasters that have occurred. A careful count shows that there were about fifty-eight vessels which either went ashore or foundered and are a total loss. The following is a list of nearly all the disasters: Nature of Name. accident. Value. Schr. Lilly E Ashore $ 8,000 Schr. Chartes Luliag Ashore 9,000 ♦Schr. Ashtabula Ashore 2,000 Schooner Guiding Star.. Ashore 13 000 ♦Schr. Arab Foundered 9,0)0 Schr. George C. Finney ..Ashore 14,000 ♦Schr. Elizabeth Jones.. Ashore 44,000 Schr. J. L Ca«e Ashore 56,000 ♦Schr. Clara Parker Ashore 31,000 ♦Schr Leadville Ashore 32,000 ♦Schr. Potomac Ashore 4,500 ♦Scbr. Lucy J. Clark... A shore 14,000 Scar. L. C. Butts Ashore 22,000 ♦Schr. Ketchum Ashore 6,000 ♦Schr, Lincoln Dali Ashore.., 6,000 Schr. H. D. Moore Ashore 7,000 ♦Schr. Norman Ashore 5,0-0 Schr. Wsilula Ashore 3,000 ♦Schr. Fitzgerald Ashore...., 32,003 ♦Schr. Lake St. Clair... .Ashore, 800 ♦Schr. Ontario.... Ashore 3,200 Schr. Trio Ashore 603 Schr. Nelson Ashore 1,200 Schr. Wa f ertown Ashore 10,000 ♦Schr. J. B. Penfield .. .Ashore 8,000 ♦Schr. Blazihg Star..... Ashore 12,000 ♦Schr. Begulator Ashore 4,000 Schr. H. F. Merry Ashore 8,000 Schr. Athenian Ashore 4.000 ♦Schr. FI ring Mist Ashore 11,000 ♦Schr. J. N. Carter Ashore 6,000 Schr. Maple Leaf. Ashore. 1,000 Schr. Mary E. Cook .... Ashore 4,000 Schr. Maria Ashore 4,000 Prop. Avon. Ashore 16,000 ♦Prop. Fred Mercur. .... Ashore 126,000 ♦Prop. H. C. Akeley Foundered 126,000 Prop. Nyack Ashcrc 160,000 Prop. Quebec Ashore 90,000 Prop. Oneida Sunk 95,000 Tug Protection Ashore 7,000 Prop. Abyssinia. Sunk 110,000 ♦Prop. Milwaukee 10,000 Prop. Norman.... 8,000 ♦Schr. James Wade Sunk. 16,000 Str. BL J. Jurett Ashore 225,000 Str. Manitoba Ashore 76,000 ♦Str. Manistee Sunk 75,000 ♦Schr. Wabash Sank ‘ IdJOOO The valuations of the vessels are simply approximated, and include both hulls and cargoes. All those not marked * have been released, or will be. The actual loss of life resulting from these disasters aggregates ninety-four persons, while half that number of people have been drowned at different points on the lakes through the gales. This table does not take in the vessels which lost portions of their rigging, canvas, deck-loads, and met with minor mishaps, and these alone would form quite a comfortable sum.