People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Cost of the Storm, [ARTICLE]

Cost of the Storm,

Chicago, Oct. 19. —The storm of October 14 cost fifty-live lives and caused an aggregate loss of over ?G75,.000 ta lake shipping Not since October 10,. 1880, has any lake storm approached the great gale of last Saturday and Saturday night in the number of lives lost and value of property destroyed. In all thirteen boats have become total losses, while many more now on the beach on every one of the great lakes may be added to the list. The aggregate of the total losses is *320,000. Strandings add *BOO,OOO more and minor damages increase the grand total by *50,009, leaking it over *075,000.