Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1905 — SHIPS WRECKED BY STORM. [ARTICLE]

SHIPS WRECKED BY STORM.

Many Vessels Ashore In a Terrific Blizzard on Lake Superior. St. Paul was the storm center of the great disturbance which raged over the west and northwest east of the Rocky Mountains Monday night. The temperature up to noon Tuesday was mild and the terrific gale which raged nearly all. night died out with the coming of dawn. Over the British northwest the temperature is zero or below. At Superioh, Wis., a blinding, wet snow accompanied a GO-mile hurricane, with the result that snow drifts four to six feet deep obstructed the principal streets. ,°The citizens in their homes were literally snowed under. The estimated velocity of wind all night was between sixty and seventy miles an hour. All night the snow fell, while the wind increased in force. Lake Superior was lashed into boiling fury. The. hurricane marks the first really fierce, blizzard anything this storm is worse than the one thirty-three years ago. , f .The steamer Crescent City is ashore near Duluth in a furious storm and it is reported that a “whole bunch of steamers” is ashore on the Lake Superior coast and that the vessels are being pounded to pieces by the heavy sea. It is feared that the loss of life in shipping disasters will be heavy. The Crescent City of the Pittsburg Steamship Company fleet, which is stranded on the north shore of Lake Superior, is a total wreck. She was driven on the rocks within the limits of the city of Duluth. The Crescent City is 470 .feet long with 5,705 gross tonnage, being' one of the best of the steel trust’s shi^s.