People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — WATERY GRAVES. [ARTICLE]

WATERY GRAVES.

They Prove to Be the Portion of Many Unfortunate Sailors. The Barge Wocokea Founder* In Lake Ontario and Thirteen Live* Are The Victim* of the Dean Richmond Number Twenty-Four. another crew lost. Port Rowan, Ont, Oct 18.—The steamer Wocoken foundered in 10 fathoms of water outside the cut just above Long Point in the recent storm. Only three of the crew were saved. The dead number thirteen. The Wocoken was bound from Ashtabula to Milwaukee with a cargo of coaL It left there Friday and went to Erie, where it picked up its consort, the barge Joseph Paige, and started up the lake. It was struck by the storm in the middle of the lake and started to run to Long Point. The sea was too much for it and it dropped its consort and headed for the west end of Long Point for shelter. It was unable ’to make this place, and foundered. The Paige ran before the gale and is now in shelter under the point, with all its canvas gone. The hatches of the Wocoken became pounded loose by the seas sweeping over its decks, and it filled.