People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — FATAL STORM. [ARTICLE]

FATAL STORM.

Several Deaths Are Reported on Lake Erie. Buffalo, N. Y., June 12.—Buffalo had a furious gale Sunday. The wind blew sixty miles an hour for two hours. Through the city the trees, outbuildings and shrubbery were badly damaged. The streets and parks were strewn with broken limbs of trees and the roofs of small buildings. William Beardsley, one of a fishing party, was drowned in Lake Erie during the storm by the capsizing of their boat. Half a dozen fishermen’s shanties are now floating in the lake near the breakwater. Late Sunday afternoon a capsized boat and the body of a woman and child were found in Scajuquada creek. The bodies were taken to the morgue, but have not been identified. They had been in the water only a few hours. The rumor about the sinking of the Nyack is not credited here.