Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — GALE ON THE LAKES. [ARTICLE]

GALE ON THE LAKES.

DEATH AND A RECORD LOSS IN FIERCE WIND. Lives and Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Are Cost of a Terrific Hur-ricane-Fatal Wreck Off Cleveland —Michigan Shore Is Swept. Death and destruction resulted from one of the fiercest gales that ever swept the lower lakes, which lasted for twelves hours Thursday and Friday. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property has been lost. Crippled vessels sought refuse in Chicago harbor, and at every other lake port. Many wrecks were reported. The east shore of Lake Michigan suffered severely, dock property worth thousands of dollars being swept away at St. Joseph, South Haven, Holland, Grand Haven, and Muskegon. Heavy waves bombarded the coast, and the Perre Marquette bridge, spanning the St. Joseph River near its mouth, seemed in danger of being swept away. Summer resort property has been destroyed. At least two,sailors lost their lives in the wreck of the,steamer Sarah E. Sheldon off Lorain, Ohio. The hurricane is one of the worst in recent years, and it is believed shipping interests will be fortunate if many more wrecks are not reported. Three vessels that made port at Chicago came in badly disabled. The Al Williams of Sheboygan was crippled to such extent that Capt. Charles Carland and his crew at the life-saving station prepared to go to the aid of the boat, but a tug reached the vessel and towed it into the harbor. Its canvas was torn into JMts. its masts broken, and it showed the battering of the storm in other ways. The schooner Kate Lawrence, from Fort River, and the schooner Lotus, from Menominee, both lumber vessels, got in with difficulty, badly damaged. The storm damaged portions of the sea wall along the Chicago north shore, and washed out huge chunks of the bluffs north of Evanston.