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200 Telescope steamer LIZZIE SUTTON that burned at Whitefish Point on October 19, and the barge EUREKA which broke Its towline and foundered on October 20. at $10,000 loss.23 The very next year Marquette again was to figure In sensational shipwreck news. A violent late October storm wrecked two schooners on Shot Point, east of Marquette, on the same day. pie smaller of the two, the GEORGE SHERMAN, was quickly broken to pieces, her crew escaping by yawl to shore. After wandering through the forest, they discovered a railroad track and made their waY to they reported the wreck of the second schooner, the ALVA BRADLEY. The tug ADAMS was dispatched with a yawl, but the waves were too high for It to approach the BRADLEY. A special train was sent down with a rescue party to patrol the beach. The rescuers, upon finding no bodies on the shore, rightly concluded that the crew must be still aboard the schooner.Thereupon, Marquette citizens telegraphed once more for the U. S. Life Savers at Portage Entry. The lifesaving crew came down on the midnight express. They Immediately launched a lifeboat and were towed by tug across to Shot Point, where they soon brought the lifeboat alongside the stricken schooner. The ten man schooner crew crawled Into the lifeboat, making nineteen in the small boat, but the tug had misunderstood the signals and returned to Marquette; whereupon, all had to climb back aboard the schooner. At daybreak, the lifesavers took the schooner crew ashore where a beach party had kept big bonfires going. The rescued crewmen were then hiked to the train and taken to Marquette. The lifesavers, however, had to return by water in their lifeboat towed by a tug. Upon reaching Marquette, they had to be chopped out of their seats, so badly was everything Ice-covered on the return trip. The same storm had stranded the schooner PLYMOUTH at Sunset Point just north of Marquette. The crew, however, was In no danger, and the schooner was taken off the following year, after its cargo of coal had been lightered over the lce during the winter. The next month, bn November 17, Marquette also was the scene of an unusual accident, which might have become a major catastrophe. The steamer ARIZONA, which had called at Marquette en route to Duluth, carried a cargo of acid and oil. As the ship emerged from Marquette harbor,It encountered rough seas which shattered a carboy of add, filling the hold with fumes which soon took fire. There were nine hundred barrels of acid and oil In the cargo. Before being forced to leave his post, the Chief Engineer set the engines at full speed. The Captain, thereupon, turned the vessel around and headed for the harbor. He ran the flaming craft against the breakwater, and the whole crew of twenty-three jumped clear. But now a flaming steamer, without crew but under full power, was careening about Marquette harbor which less than twenty years before had been the scene of a disastrous waterfront fire that levelled a good part of the town. Fortunately, the unmanned ARIZONA ran aground near the water works, away from shipping and docks, and burned to the water's edge, a twenty-four hour bonfire. Her loss exceeded $150,000, Including some expensive Iron-working machinery consigned to the new McDougall shipyard at Duluth and seme Imported mining machinery en route to the Copper Country. One fatal accident was recorded In 1887 on September 7 when the schooner barge NIAGARA, carrying 1,M»0 tons of Iron ore, towed by the steamer AUSTRALASIA, broke Its towline ten miles above Whitefish Point. The schooner fell into the trough and rolled over with a loss of ten lives.2o The same storm which had wrought havoc at