GREAT LAKE STORM

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1929, Page 5

GREAT LAKE STORM

A FERRY DISASTER. FIFTY-TWO. PERSONS LOST. ■ V ;'GRE,iT DAMAGE DO^E.' [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at .9.j£fn.m.l •' .. v^NOotto,' October 24/ A message from JJilwaukee, Wins-' : cousin, states hope that the Grand *Trunk . chr : ferry, Milwaukee, v’itl) itfty*two persons aboard, ha'd weathered the forty-eiglit hour storm , on Lake faded to-day with a ' report o| ;yteekage including empty" life tboats, 'mattresses,' part's of a 1 white cahin beliefeed ■to• be from the; car of the 'ferry, being picked 1 \p four miles north of Racine. ' Tlie ferry. left Milwaukee on. Tuesday e'ii route for Grand Haven, M»ch'v- v,: . , , - Thd fate' of; md'iiy persons on board utirephrted shjpeMs uncertain, followa -terrific storm, on' the Great I Lakes.’’- y - - '\'V •• ; . ;' : ' i ;jf Property damage by the storm in - Cihica&o including breakwaters, boule-4a:rdsVand-parks is-.estimated at two; ' dollars, vtith orter a million 1 r damage to jpafivatc property- in the, city ’ and"'el^eithere. . 1 b f .b: u { - :i“0 wo\ *i*c {v- <- - : TWO BODIES ‘RECOVERED' ■ : ' j iy h/-:,- i:; > • f.ls& fattedV*rl - this^day’•*(icpooti.) •.•;=? ] r ;':‘ VANCOUVER;:: Oct: ;S24 < .i { A message from. Milwaukee states i th'if bodies iiit'iif'febeßs- markediMilwau- > kee,['hiW^en^^^r^^ *>