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

MANY WERE LOST.

Z Tempest on the Lakes Causes Numerous Wrecks. rh* Steamer Doan Richmond Founder* on Lake Erie and Eighteen Person* Are Thought to Have Perished The Minnehaha and Six Men Lost. LAKE CRAFT SUFFERS. Chicago, Oct. 17. —The entire chain of lakes was swept Saturday and Saturday night by a northwester gale whose severity has not been excelled in the season of navigation for the last ten years. The same wind which drove vessels on the beach on every lee shore also leveled telegraph wires, an<| reports of wrecks are somewhat slow in reaching the outside world, particularly from out-of-the-way localities. But the list of wrecks, in proportion to the number of vessels which were out in the gale, is larger, perhaps, than in the history of the latter-day marine. That there has been a large loss of life now seems certain, but it may be several days before it is known just how many sailors perished. The Wrecked Vessels. Following is the list of wrecks so far reported: steamer Dean Richmond, foundered on Lake Erie; eighteen lives lost Schooner Minnehaha, beached at Marquette, Lake Michigan: six lives lost Barge J. G. Masten, sunk off Racine, Lake Michigan. Schooner Yukon, ashore at Waiska bay, Lake Superior. Steamer Kersnaw, ashore at Waiska bay. Lake Superior. Schooner Sage, ashore, Whitefish Point Lake Superior. Steamer Hecla, ashore off Ogdensburg, N. Y. Barge Sweepstakes, ashore, Cheboygan, Mich. Barge Knight Templar, ashore, Cheboygan, Mich. Lake tug Acme, foundered, Lake Huron. Schooner Volunteer, stranded, Port Austin, 3nt Schooner John T. Mott sunk, Fairport O. Schooner Amboy, ashore, Buffalo. Schooner Mont Blanc, waterlogged, Buffala Steamer Schuylkill, stranded, Bar Point Steamer Maritana, stranded, Elliott Point Schooner Ironton, ashore. Bay Mills, Lak* Superior. Schooner Falconer, ashore, Lake Ontario. Steamer C. F. Curtis, ashore, Cheboygan Schooner Nelson Holland, ashore, Cheboygan, Mich. Yacht Enterprise, ashore Lion’s Head, Lion's bay. Loss of the Dean Richmond.

Dunkirk, N. Y., Oct. 17. —The steamer Dean Richmond foundered off here Saturday night with all on board. Three bodies were found on the beach Sunday morning mingled with a large quantity of wreckage. The bodies had life-preservers on, and the men evidently had been killed on the rocks after having succeeded in reaching port after a hard fight with the sea. The beach is strewn with timbers for miles on each side of the city, and many barrels of flour have come ashore. The identity of only one recovered body could be discovered. It was that of Andrew Dodge, whose residence is unknown. The crew, all of whom are undoubtedly drowned, numbered eighteen. The steamer was conar manded by Capt. G. W. Stoddard;, of Toledo, The wreckage indicates that the steamer went down not over 3 miles from shore. [The Dean Richmond was the first of thelarger steamers which mark the coming ofr the present style of marine construction: oa the lakes It was of 1,257 net tonnageand was trailt In Cleveland in 1804, but wasrebuilt in 1873. It was oyrned by Bottsford and others of Port Huron and was< valued at 546,000. It Is believed thatIt was fully insured. The Richmond for several seastxis has been chartered to the ToSt. Louis & Kansas City line and ran in. the general merchandise trade between Toledo' and: this poet It carried no passengers. On thepresent trip-its cargo consisted almost entirely of hour from St. Louis and other southwestern. ' point*.] Six Urpwnod.

Manistee, Mich., Oct 1,7. —The big schooner Minnehaha was beached at' Starke, 201- miles north of here, at noon Saturday to save it from foundering in deep- water. The seas soon ovenwhelmed the wreck and drove the crew into the rigging. Before the arrival of the life-saving crews from this place and Frankfort the schooner went to pieces. Bart; one person, Capt. William Packer, was saved. The crew of six parsons- were drowned. The life-saving anew at this point worked hard to rescue the untSortunate sailors, but could not. Caps. Packer jumped overboard and swami ashore. [Tha lost schooner Minnehaha was owned by Hi JI Jcfhnsoa and others of Cleveland and was valued at 125,000. It was insured foi 118,090 with the-CesnmerctaJ Union, North America, th*-London Assurance and one other company. Ik was built in 1880 and was unfortunate from the-start 'ffVre years ago it was wrecked near Detour andi remained on the rocks all winter, being abandoned to the underwriters,wha flnally nescued. th* wreck and sold it]

Lom of Two Live*. ©wen Sound, Ont., Oct. 17.—During the height of the gale Saturday afternoon the yacht Enterprise, of Thornbury, was washed ashore near Lion’s Head. It is thought that her occupants were drowned. They were L. McAllister, owner of the boat, and W. McLean, his assistant. Loos of Life Feared. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 17.—Capt. Davdall, of the steamer Neosho, reports a three-masted schooner sunk in Gravelly bay. It is thought here to be the Typo, whose yawl boat wa. found) empty and bottom up off the harbor. It is thought that her crew were aU drowned in their efforts to row ashore The vessel is owned by Hargrave, of Detroit, and was valued at $6,500. Nineteen Fishing Smacks Missing. New York, Oct. 17. —Nineteen fishing smacks, the crews of which number 160 men, have been at sea since Thursday last, and it is feared that a number of them have foundered during the gale.