Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1898 — STORM ON THE LAKES. [ARTICLE]

STORM ON THE LAKES.

Wild Wind and Waves Work Terrible Havoc. From all over the great lakes Wednesday came tales of wrecks, dangers and narrow escapes in the terrific gale of Tuesday night. The storm was defined by the w’eather authorities as a cyclone, with its center between Chicago and Grand Haven, Mich. Tales of numerous wrecks and dangers came from all points in the southern portion of Lake Michigan. It will be several days before all the story of the storm can be learned. So far as Chicago is concerned, the storm was the most disastrous bf recent years, not excepting the great gale of May, 1894. Old tugmen say that the waves were higher than at any time since 1889, when the lake shore road and a part of Lincoln Park were washed away. Lincoln Park Commissioners estimate the damage done by the storm at $30,000. Fisk Hall, the large new building of the Northwestern, University, was for a time in great danger of serious injury from the high waves. The wall that was built out into the lake to protect the building from just such storms was washed away at a loss of $5,000. The steamer H. A. Tuttle, laden with grain from Chicago, went down off Michigan City, the crew being taken off by life savers.