Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — FACE DEATH IN LAKE. [ARTICLE]

FACE DEATH IN LAKE.

Passengers Spend a Night of Terror on Lake Michigan. Two hundred passengers on the steamer City of Grand Rapids, which left South Haven, Mich., for Milwaukee Saturday night, faced death through the long hours of the night in a violent northeaster, which caused .the leaking boat to nearly founder and which threatened to rend the vessel from stern to bow at any moment. With the water in the bold within two inches of the fires The captain put about for South Haven and after a desperate struggle with the waves and water the steamer reached that port at 6 o’clock Sunday morning almost in a sinking condition. One force pump of all on board was serviceable and this lone pump alone saved the passengers from what seemed certain doom.