Sunken Schooners

The scbooner City of (ireen Bay, a toree niaster, bound down the lake loaded with iron ore, sprung a leak off Saugatuck on the night of Oct. 2d. The captain attenipf ed to keep lier afloat until the heavy sea subsided and lay off shore at Bt. Joseph. Atfouro'clock in themorning the cargo in the hold was covered with nine feetof water and he found it impossible to save the boat. lioth anchors were dropped and the boat beached two miles southwest of the pier, within a hundred yards of the shore to save the lives of the crew. The life-saving crew went to the rescuei but failed to get near enough to be of service, owing to the rotton ropes and equip age taken. Liners were thrown off the boat but would break, and although the shore was lined with people, they could do nothing. The crew were in the riggiug and were frequently washed down, but could get nothing on which to float to shore. They made signs for help, but the spectators' eyes only fiileJ with tüara to see them in the perilous condition. One man of the crew told the others to get a piece of the deck and float to shore. but they heeded not, and he juniped and caught it. lle was the only one saved of the crew of seveu. lle does not know even the name of the captain orany;of the lost, nor does he know the destination of the boat. Had the life-saving crew taken out on the first trip strong equipage people say the crew could have been saved; also the boat. Capt. Cross of the life-saving crew, had three ribs broken by being thrown against the side of the boat. The schooner Havana, with ore from Escanaba to Kt. Joseph, carne to anchor off bt. Joseph at 10 o'clock on the night of the üd inst. The wind was blowing a guie from the west, and the sea running over her tilled the cabin. The crew labored all night bailing and pumping, trying in vain to weather the storm. At v:io the next morning she shippcd her anchor and startod for the shore under three jibs, the fore and mammast being gone. When about one a half miles off shore and live miles north of iSt. Joseph harbor she went down in tifteen feet of water. Capt. John Curran of Chicago, Cook John Morris of Benton Harbor, and one seaman went down with the wreek. The mate, Samuel McClenan, and seamen Geo. Hughes, Kobert McCormick and Chas. Hagen were rescued by the tug Hannah Sulhvan. Capt. Mallaghan and a yolunteer crew of eight men from the life-saving crew went to her assistance also, but the vessel being so far out they could not reach her with a short line. Both schooners belonged to Capt. A. P. Reid of Kenosha, Wis. The Boilers were Rusty. Four persons were in stantly killed and two seriously wounded by an explosión in Plant's nouring mili in St. Louis, the other morning. The boilers were all rusty, henee the explosión.