Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — THIRTEEN MORE ARE LOST. [ARTICLE]

THIRTEEN MORE ARE LOST.

The Steamer Wocoken Sinks Above Long Folnt in Lake Erie. It is now known that the steamer Wocoken foundered in ten fathoms of water outside the cut just above Long Point, Lake Erie, in the recent storm, and thirteen of her crew are added to the list of those who went down in the gale. The Wocoken was bound from Ashtabula to Milwaukee with a cargo of coal. She left Friday and went to Erie, where she picked up her consort, the barge Joseph Paige, and started up the lake. She was struck by the storm in the middle of the lake and started to run to Long Point. The sea was too much for her. and she dropped her consort and headed for the west end of Long Point for shelter. She was unable to make this place and foundered. The Paige ran before the gale, and is now in shelter under the Point, with all her canvas gone. The hatches of the Wocoken were pounded loose by the seas sweeping over her decks; and she filled. One of the survivors, in telling of the loss of the Wocoken. said: “We were off Rondeau when the full force of the storm struck us. We drifted eastward until a few miles from Long Point, when the Paige was cut. loose and we made aa effort to reach shore. When four miles east of her and two miles from shore the steamer sank in ten fathoms of water. This was 10 o'clock Saturday night. When we saw that the boat could not live through the gale preparations were made to launch the small boats. When working at this a tremendous sea broke over us, carrying fourteen of the crew over-, board. The three of us remaining; took to the rigging, where we remained until Sunday morning, when the local life-savng crew succeeded in taking us off after four hours' hard work.” Lost with AU Hands. The spars of a three-masted vessel are reported sticking out of the water eighj miles out from Port Colborne, Ont. The masts are painted black and the boat has a square sail. It is sup* posed to be the F; C. Leighton of Port Huron, Capt. B. Calhoun.