Four Brave Rescuers Lost On Lake Huron

The schooner William Shupe was struek by the storm on Lake Lfcuron off Sanilac. She battled against the waves and the wind for several long hours, but at last struek on a sand reef off Lakeport, six miles from Port lluron. The crew was in great peril and a volunteer life-saving crew was organized at Port Huron to go to the rescue. The waves were running mountain high in a gale blowing 40 miles an hour. when Capt. Henry C. Little, Barney Jlills, Angus King, Wm. L. Lewis and Daniel Lynn, all of Port Huron, were towed in a yawl boat to within half a mile of the ill-fated Shupe. They reached the vessel safely and had made a line fast and were about to take the crew off when the yawl caught in or under a timber projecting from the side of the schooner and a wave tossed the yawl over in an instant throwing all into the water, One of the men. supposed to have been Mills, disappeared at once, while the others began striking out for shore, 200 yards distant. Little, Lewis and King soon succumbed, but Lynn, who is a robust young man, had more endurance and swam for nearly half a mile, the gale carrying him down the lake. He also would have succumbed had not aid reached him from shore in a most heroic manner and just in the nick of time. Chubb Randall, L'O years oíd, a river reporter, and Charles Conkey, who were watching the attempted rescue from ashore waded out into the lake against the heavy swells about 75 feet and reached Lynn just as he had beuome exhausted, he falling down unconscious when the young men approached him and he had to be dragged ashore. He would have been among the lost had the two brave young men beeu 30 seconds later in reaching him. After this catastrophe the life-saving station at Sand Beach was notified and the crew came down by special train. The tug1 Thompson towed their life boat up to within half a mile of the wreek and in two hours the life savers had taken all of the crew, six persons, off the Shupe and taken them to shore. The were Nelson Little. Port Huron, captain; William Brown, ï'ovt Huron, mute; James Blair. Port Huron, sailor; Reddy Curry. Oswejjo, K. Y., another sailor, name not learned, and Irs. Johnson, Port Huron, cook. The crew were in excellent condition. considering that they were exposed to a fierce gale 124 hours. The Shupe was owned by her master. Nel son Little, and was valiod at about 83,000 with no insurance.