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TAE Marine Review . 87 WRECK OF THE EDINBORN AND MADEIRA. The steel steamer Wm. Edinborn went ashore at Split Rock about 25 miles above Two Harbors and was terribly pounded on the rocks. All of her crew were saved with the exception of the mate who, when the ship struck, went upon the mizzen rigging and was not seen after- wards. The steel barge Madeira, in tow of the Edinborn, went ashore four miles below the Edinborn, and smashed herself to pieces on the rocks. THE CORALIA AND MAIA, The steel steamer Coralia with the barge Maia in tow went ashore at Point Isabel at Bete Grise Bay. They both went on hard, but the Coralia was subsequently re- leased without great difficulty. The lighter Rescue, how- ever, in endeavoring to release the Maia was driven away by weather conditions. THE ANGELINE'S EXPERIENCE. Great relief was felt in the office of the Cleveland Cliffs | Iron Co. when the steamer Angeline was reported as having passed the Sault, after having been missing for four days. The Angeline was struck by the tempest off the Keweenaw peninsula and had a terrible battle with the storm. Once the steamer was near Eagle harbor but her master, S. A. Lyons, was fearful that he would be driven on the rocks and accordingly turned about and headed for the open sea. In this maneuvre the boat was neces- sarily in the trough of the sea for some time and tons upon tons of water crashed upon her decks. According to the crew there were never such seas running on Lake Superior before and the fear was that two big waves would lift her up by bow and stern and break her in two. So violent were the elements and so precarious the condition of the ° _ vessel that the crew had practically given up hope that she could weather the gale.. To Wim. McLean, first mate, fell the duty of constantly watching the hatches to see that none were crushed in. With the rope fastened around his waist and two of the crew standing in the shelter of the forward cabin holding the: rope, McLean time and again made the rounds on the deck. Once a wave engulfed him and he was dragged back into the cabin by his comrades. He started out again when another wave, larger than the first, picked him up and washed him overboard. He was momentarily stunned by the blow and forgot that he was at the end of the rope. He~began swimming in the icy waters, but the men holding the line quickly hauled him back on deck again. Capt. Lyons was lashed to the bridge during the entire 48 hours that the Angeline was in the heart of the storm. He said that the seas ran higher that the vessel's smokestack. The Angeline is a well constructed and powerful boat and beyond the starting of a number of rivets was not especially damaged. She proceeded to the lower lakes and laid up at the C. & P. docks at Cleveland, _THE UMBRIA'S EXPERIENCE. The steamer Umbria, of the Hawgood fleet, had a ter- sible time in the gale. She was stripped of her pilot ° house by a wave that smashed her, wheel and carried away her compasses. The steamer was immediately thrown into the trough of the sea, while the .crew worked to make the couplings to the after wheel. For the next 36 hours the steamer was steered thus and was badly battered and broken by the time she reached Duluth harbor. 'She was struck by the storm between Eagle river and Outer island and for four hours flew before it until abreast of Devil's island, when Capt. C. M. Seph gave the order to turn. It was then that she lost her pilot house. The passage of the crew from the pilot house to the after part of the boat to make the couplings was attended with great danger, as the waters were con- tinually washing over the vessel and they were several times swept against the ropes. In 38 hours of sailing against the storm, the boat made exactly 40 miles, FATE QF THE MONKSHAVEN,. With a hole 25 ft. in diameter in her bottom, a rock driven clear through the hull, and her stern completely into water, the Canadian steamer Monkshaven lies a wréck about one mile south of Pie island, 21 miles from Fo:t William. The crew of 2t men were saved, Thirteen of the men who had left the wreck in a yawl were picked up by the steamer Sylvania. When the Monkshaven struck, the crew leaped to the rock, some of them without clothing, and for 48 hours they remained without food and with only the shelter of a windbreak formed of branches of trees. The latest reports are that the vessel will probably be a total loss. TRIP OF THE GERMAN, About the worst beating that a boat received without losing any of her crew was that experienced by the steamer German. She left Two Harbors at 10 o'clock on Monday night and for 80 hours headed into the storm; not trying to follow a course, but simply fighting to keep safe. The waves broke over her in continuous seas and carried away all of her railings, dismantled her forward house and pilot house and broke the heavy glass windows in the cabins aft. Hot water was kept running for 26 hours, but even with this help the companion ways became so clogged with ice that it was barely possible to pass between the cabin and the rail of the boat. The wheels- man was thrown from the wheel and through the cabin door by the giant waves. It was the sad irony of fate that this steamer, having successfully weathered probably the most furious gale which there is record of on the lakes, should have become stranded on a sandbar in a snow storm when within 15 miles of Chicago. STRANDING OF THE WESTERN STAR. The steel steamer Western Star bound for Fort William to load grain went ashore two miles east of Fourteen Mile Point near Ontonagon, 'after all bearings had been lost in the struggle for hours in a terrific sea. The steamer was bound right for Fort William when she was caught in the gale and went helplessly on the sandy shores on the south side of Lake Superior. While the captain and mate were over in Ontonagon summoning assistance, the steamer Viking came along and noting the Western Star's plight, went to her assistance. A hawser was placed between the boats and in a very short time the Western Star was in deep water again. As.the crew could do nothing until the master returned, the Viking went on her way. The Western Star was not seriously injured. BURNING OF THE PARNELL. The steamer C. S. Parnell, burned and sank off Squaw island, Lake Michigan, last week. Thanksgiving dinner was being served when smoke was discovered coming from the coal near the steering gear. The crew got two lines of hose at work, but it was found that the entire cargo was on fire and Capt. Wm. Griffin ordered the men into the life boats. They could do nothing in the - heavy sea and were nearly exhausted when picked up several houss later by the steamer Harlem. The Parnell was built in 1884 and was owned by M. J. Cummings of Oswego, N. Y. The Parnell was worth about $40,000 and was insured for $30,000. The steel steamer Harold F. Nye had a frightful experi- ence in the storm. Her cargo shifted and the steamer Colonel lay alongside for two hours off Isle Royale to render assistance if. needed, Wm. Sturtevant, the mate, was washed overboard and drowned. When the Nye left port she was drawing 17 ft., but when she succeeded in making 'Two Harbors she was drawing 20 ft. and narrowly escaped foundering.