Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — LAKE CRAFT IN PERIL. [ARTICLE]

LAKE CRAFT IN PERIL.

Vessels Caught in the Storm Have Hard Rnn« to Reach afety. Chicago was the center Sunday of a storm area whose strange influences made night of early afternoon and transformed Lake Michigan from Evanston to South Chicago into a sea almost as troubled as the Atlantic off the dreaded Hatteras during the autumn gales. The wind attained a velocity of forty-seven miles an hour and wrought havoc with pleasure craft in the harbor and along the shore. A number of yachts were capsized in the* basin. The life-saving rrews were kept busy afternoon and evening answering signals of distress and going to the assistance of imperiled boatmen. • . - Two cars on the Brooklyn, N. Y., elevated railroad were burned while on the way to Coney Island. The cars were filled with passengers. The fuse in the motor blew out, which fired the cars. The passengers became panic-stricken. Some of the women attempted to climb out of the windows, but were prevented. ■ ■ .1 Louis Lapiner, Chicago, father of little Gerald Lapiner. who was kidnaped, is bankrupt Liabilities $24,000, no assets. . , Bob Roberts. dtvalry, wasJkillod