Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — Gale Wrecks a Ship. [ARTICLE]

Gale Wrecks a Ship.

After an all-day battle with tremendous waves in a gale on Lake Michigan the water-logged wreck of the steamer Pewaukee was towed into the Chicago harbor at 6 o’clock Friday night. Thirteen men, composing the crew, completely exhausted by their desperate efforts during twelve hours to keep the sinking v craft afloat, dragged themselves upon the docks and expressed joy that safety was at last a reality. For hours the steamer, half full of water, with spars and smokestack gone, with fires out and with pumps useless, had drifted before the fierce wind, the men aboard utterly helpless. Every fresh gust threatened to send the craft to the bottom. Death seemed certain to every member of the crew until another steamer appeared.