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- the, MEMORIES OF A-GREAT DISASTER IN ANNALS OF UPPER LAKE NAVIGATION WHEN THE STEAMER ASIA WENT DOWN. Tt was just twenty-eight years ago on Sept. 14, that the Asiqg went down in Georgian Bay--that memorable disaster in Which too lives were blot- ted out, while two others were saved just by a-miracle, says a writer in the Toronto Telegram. The Sunday ociore tbe wreck --1 remember it well--was such another as last Sunday (Sept. 11}. 1 spent part of the day on the Asta, between Little Current and = Manitowaning, while the ship was on the last vorage she was destined to,cotmplele, It was perfect, September, weather, warm as 'August, net a breath of air stirnng, atl a have as of the beginning ef In- dian summer spread over sea and { land. A night shortly before the storm ibroke also is fixed in my memory. - About tuelve o'rlock the heavens | were fairly ablaze with those 4 lights which never beacon 1 Fearful Save when kings or heroes dic. | Even the night before Flodden it- j self could not have equalled the aw- fut glory of that September midnight (in 882. It was not alone the north- ern heavens that were illuminated. From the horizon on wll sides were "great waves of light shot up towards the cenith, and there formed the most fantastic, brilliant figures. THAT AWFUL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT Rut it was different on the Wed- Mmesday afternoon when the Asia ache Collingwood. The storm king wa just beginning to make itself felt, and the old ship was. badly buffcted petore she reached Ow Sound. Why the captain leit the shelter of the latier port that Wednesday night no man knows. Ife must have known what was waiting for him outside, But ne did leave in the midst of darkgess and storm, and he followed not the comparatively sale route up under the Ligh lands of the Indian Peninsula and then across the is lands which furnish slight breaks in "the Gap dividing the mainland | from Manitoulin; he followed the shore line. fora time and then steack. holdly across the storm-tossed bay for French River. Tle attempted eross the full width of the Georgian Rav, while that inland sca was torn and driven by the greatest storm in the memory of living man. Tt) is probable the captain counted on the fact. that-he- had-oa--follewing- sea---and thought he would be safe as long as he could keep his ship letfore it, { | ' to! ON TO ITS DOOM, At there' all events, when morning broke was' no very alarm among the passengers. True, it was rough, bat there were to Mackinaw ites abdaril at that season. The pas- sengers Were otostly lumbermen and hardy merchants and darmers fren near Manitoulin--tnen who had seen teeth of a gale before. There no thought of a regular break- however... There. was too much | on for that. A few snatched a ibite in the steward's pantry, and then | hastened out to Jook onee mere on | the ever-increasing pale. Still the ship rofled on, although from the top ef every monster wave great sluets of water were canght up and driven with jorce over the crest of the billows. THE But The from the it veered strength was fast, sea fierce WIND CHANGED, AND THEN. suidenly there was a change. wind kad been blowing steadily south-west. Quick as a Mash and came with increased from the notth-cast. Then | mighty saves, formed by the cross currents of wind, crashed together and masses of foam flew up as high: as a church steeple, That was too| much for the Asia. She staggered! ed first upon one side and) then pen, the other, Men and watnen were! thrown about in the cabin and jam- med in q heap at the companion way leading to the hurricane deck. Some prayed, others lore their hair in an- guish; while others again were are fed with the horror of the situation. The captain, crew atl many of the! passengers neither prayed nor raved. | Down between decks they went and worved like men, throwing over cate | tle and Horses io order to lighten a while up above the Rev. a Methodist minister, awed |S about with great fortitude, adtminis-| tering Spiritual consolation to theme | in need, while his own leart breaking because of the knowledge | that his wile was doomed to accom pany him to a watery grave. ROATS WERE CAST AWAY. i 1 i i i ! all im Vain, water poured down ity the fires, the! 5 just as Per: ilt s Leatherette table toa bed NDRON Tan. tshould buy a Co., Ltd. oO right here' Sold by most first-class "dealers. Write to us if your dealer doesn't carry them. e ealer, 2436 under the tremendous blows, deliver- | ' was (™ worse than death' that has befallen "| t sone day. But paver and tears aud toil were | to reeall the memore REthe ss sche The bulwark crashed in, | upper works began to break op, and then all knew that the end was at hand. What little panic there had bern before was all" how, Whether it was the stupor of despair or the resignation of the Christian is tot known, but there was no outcry from passengers ; the only noise was the shricking of the gale, 'and the crash of breaking timbers Then the boats were Just as they were going D. A. Tinkis --the "boys all called kim) 'Dunk,"* said to his uncle, J. H. Tinkis, who at his side on the wrecked steamer "Let us jump amd swim for them "You go if vou like ; it's no use me trving,"' was the reply. Dunk jumped, and uncle aid nep- hew wete parted forever. ! SWAM TO LIFEBOAT. 7 . cast away. stamp vee =? Voung Tinkis was a magnificent swimmer and as cool as an iccherg. He struck out boldly, and whenever any wreckage from the vessel ap- proached «hit be joined his hands ahove his head to avoid being stun- ned Ile swam to the lifeboat and asked to be drawn im. "LT don't think tyere is much your coming in here,"' replied McDougall, who sat in the sheets, "but you may try it,' Dunk was helped in and in another moment the Asia disappeared. ~ About use in the same time the other stmall boats too were swamped, and the lifeboat I, and" her passengers were Jeft alone on the angry waste of waters. Even the metallic boat had a Jile and death struggle, Time and again she was upset and | |i every time that she was tighted it] 4 was found that one-or--more of the) Ww eccupants had been swept awa. Purser McDougall was one of the first to go. Others were caught one after the other. Hut at Jast the sea | ¢ began {o calm down and the boat)¢ turned over no more, A THE LAST TYMN. 3 Presently. the distant glimmer of: 5 1 the lighthotse at Byng Inlet came in|! view, And now he hali-lozen-or so survivors thought they were safe at last. Jovously yet reverently led by the mate they joiwed in that gtand old hymn which never meant as much as then :-- 7 'Light in the darkness, sailor, day is at rand, he 1 See over the foaming billows fair ifaven's land the vovage, almost o'er, Leave the poor old stranded wreck, And pull for the shore.' "THE CAPTAIN IS: DEAD." They did not Know that they yet had to face an cnemy but little less dreadful than that they had just es- caped from. Exhaustion followed the infemse nervous sirain, long hours of struggle and ing. Captain Savage was among the) 1] first to succumb, ~ Wis head sank on his breast. His companions thought for q moment he was sleeping, but a moment later it was told in an awed whisper that 'the captain ts dead." A little Jater on a brawny youth named Titth from Manitoulin, one of those who had acted the part of a hero in trving to lighten the slip in the morning, also succumbed. Ry and hy the mate, he who had Jed but a few minutes before in the revival |, : : a hymn, likewise succumbed In aly short time only two-were Jeft alive, |, Dp. A. Tinkis and Miss Morrisot. ip Eventually these teached one of thet, islands in Party Sound. Here it! seemed for a time as if they had only escaped drowning to die of starva- tien. The minutes lengthened into the hour into days and still or hope or rescue appeared, just as they were about to to despair an India: appeatesdd a sailboat, and the two survivors the most dreadful disaster that ever occurred on our inland seas were taken into Parry Sound harhor the Sundar following the Thursday on 'which the vessel ent down. There are other stories that might the tohd, stories of the dreary tomeli- 'mess of many Manitoulin fircsides that first Christmas "'after the Asia went down." The story of the almost miraculous escape of the Manitoba, the Carmona, from sharing the fate cof the Collingwood propeller and the all too awful tale of the fate Drear sailor, now eR LP fag Fa | in of ee et - 2 those who lost their pro- in that fierce some of tectors and guardians storm 2 vears ago. these things mat be told Hut meantime the recur- annivefsary never fails} Some al rence of the went down to their deaths. amid the 'roar of the equinectial gale of Sept. | 14, 1883. | cies A wite Fagainst doing thim te do. ' hushbatul ske wants ailvises ket the things wise KING ROOSEVELT. i * Maia e tip Ami calling the official choir to his tside he directed them to sing Une ima tional anther country, 'tis to Me You owe all fealtv-- Sing, biast-vou, sing ! Down with Democracy, Cant and hypocrisy, Hail Themdocracy, Hail te the King ! j My And alter the+*chorus had been re- ipeated the delegation of Intetligent 'Voters departed and butted their brains out against the palace walls,-- New York Sun. MINARD'S LINIMENT CURES BURNS, ETC, |