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The Fine Steamship H. C Akeley Goes Down on Lake Michigan. After Saving the Tug Protection's Double Crew She Is Overwhelmed Herself. IhQ Circumstances of the Disaster in the Fearful Gale Related by Survivors. Gallant Rescue of Twelve of the Crew by the Schooner Driver. Captain Street-, the First Mate, and Four of the Crew Find Watery Graves. ooner "Driver ou: in the lake off Chicago* at I o'clock yesterday morning, at anchor, and so iced up as to render it a work of Rome time to raise the anchor so as to tow her into the harbor. Seeing that she was safely anchored, the captain left the vessel there, bringing;, however, the letter referred to, on shore, 1 be letter being thrown from the schooner to the tug. This letter read as follows: "The steambarg© H. 0. Akeley foundered nine miles off Holland, and I have twelve of the crew on the schooner Driver, and brought them back here. We are at anchor. Tell our wives we are all right.*" During yesterday the tug Satisfaction went out and brought the Driver in. A SEARCH FOB NEWS. A n inter vie w was h ad 1 as t n ight about 10 o'clock with Captain Miller on board of his tight little craft, in Illinois Central Blip C, the reporter, however, not reaching her ice-covered d eks until after nearly losing himself during an hour's wandering in and around and through a puzssliog labyrinth of very cold-looking slips, lhat seemed suggestively ghostly in the moonlight, after hearing of the lives lost in the late norms, to say nothing of lumber piles *md endless freight trains under which he had to crawl or make a detour of a mile around them. This was not ail of his difficulties. The Bailors, like honest citlsens, had all gone to bed, iind one crew after another had to be wakened up wit h stentorian voice before the wandering seeker after news could obtain information of the Driver's whereabouts- I-'inally he got a clew. A sleeply subject of Neptune said she was on the othier eldo of the slip. A mile's walk, more or less?, brought the reporter round on the other side bfuresaiu. Another crew wakened up didn't, Know where the Driver was, but had seen a vessel vome iii on the other side during the afternoon with a Urge number of people au board. iHE WRECKED PROTECTION. DISPATCHES RECEIVED. The following dispatches were received in Chicago yesterday : SAU&A.TUCS, Mich., Nov. 14.—To Captain J. L. Higgle, V. 0, T. Line, Chicago: The Protection lies easy, bedded in sand, head on, about one. hundred feet from shore. Captain Anderson says she will not go to pieces. Saved: Captain Martin Blackburn, Captain Anderson. Captain John Fitz Patrick, William Dalton, John Powers, Albert Powers, Charles Clark^ Kdward Comisky, William Gen go, August White. The crew of the Arab all saved. Tlie lost are Captain Willia.ni Kelley and William Grace. C. IT. Cook. ¦ii^-o'X Y Nov. 14. -Tlia wind has sub- .' .,;,(ltl\ and ¦ "ua t0 fchewwt- northwesf. The weather has become much colder since morning. There were four upper-lake arrivals to-day, the propellers Buffalo, New-riurg, Waverly, and Barnum. all from Chicago. There were no departures. The schooner W. S. Crosthwaitc has canceled her coal charter and is laying up. The City of Home and Niagara will lay up on their arrival here. Coal freights are quiet aud rates unchanged. Engagements—Propellers Fred Mercur, for Chicago, $1; H. C. Akeley, tor Milwaukee, $1.10. il The propener* Hiawatha and Minnehaha are expected here to-night from DnJAn. Saugatuck. Mich., Nov. 14.—Atkins A Beck- „ , niit, No. 127 LaSalle street, Chicago: We lost . MO DEPARTURES FROM otBTXLAWD. ^ j nj"c< Captain Kelly on Sunday morning with theArab. S^^S^^^^Another gale to-losing one hreman Oajp^g SgftEZW • The breakwater i has been unmercifif? ! founded during the gales ; S • the past week,-arid in two or three places breaches have been made. It will be repaired as "iona ithe sea goes down sufficiently to allow work to be done. The damage will amount to $8,000. BARGE RYAN BEPOBTJBD SAFE. A report is current here that the barge Byan, iJTlral Here of Protection Survivors-- Loss of a Schooner and AU Hands. LOSS OF THE AKELEY. FIRST INFORMATION OF THK DISASTER. The special telegram from Captain Mart Blackburn given in The INTER Ocean yesterday morning was regarded ay of a great deal of importance in marine and Insurance circles. It-proved conclusively that the crews of the tug Protection and the schooner Arab, except Kelley and Grace, were all safe—some of the newspapers had the Arab's crew all lost. It indicated also, however, that, while the steamship Akelev had saved the expedition, she (the Akeley) was herself in dangerous condition and might have gone down. Her cargo of grain was shifted, and she was in bad condition generally to live in such a, sea as was running. The dispatch was as follows : Special Telegram to The* Inter Ocean, Saugatuck, Mich., Nov. 14, 1:30 a. m,-We left St, Joe Saturday at 7 p. m., and next morning at 4:30 the Arab went down, taking William Kelley, the pump engineer, with her. We got a line in the wheel of the tug, disabling her, and at 11 a. m. the steambarfee II. C. Akeley took, us in tow, she losing smoke-stack, main and mizzen sail, and shifting cargo, but holding on to us and saving our lives. We let go her at 7 p. m. last night, and got here al 9 this morning, and dragged ashore to-night. We were assisted ashore by the gallant life-saving crew of St. Joseph. All were saved except poor Kelley. Great praise is due to Captain Strach, of the staambarge Akeley. Martin Blackburn, Wrecking Master. THE WORST. It turns- out that the great steamship, after parting with the Protection, fared even worse than when they were together; that she finally foundered, and a number of her crew. Including the noble Captain Strach, went down to watery-graves. Whew Captain Blackburn put on record his gratitude—"Great praise is due to Captain Strech, of the steambarge Akeley"—-he perhaps did not dream that he was paying tribute to the great humanity of one who had passed away ; from this ltfa. vrt flUflh w*,a, ftfl fiWn, -r , , I In ofcfer to make the narrative of the disasterT clearly understood, a few linos of explanation are necessary. The little schooner Arab went on the beach near St. Joseph, and the tug Protection, with steam pumps, went to her assistance, Captain Blackburn being in charge of the expedition, Captain Armstrong commanded the Protection, and Captain Fitzpatrick acted as pilot: Captain William Kelley was in charge of the Bteam pumps. The arab was floated, and, with the pumps in operation on board, the PROTECTION STARTED TO TOW HER to Milwaukee. About abreast of a point between Kenosha and Racine, out in the lake, the Arab filled, rolled oytr, and sank. All those on board except Captain Kelley wjpre rescued in a small ¦J^oafc and taken aboard tjfe Protection. Tillie j w*ia \iVU» rr*h<vt undo t|fe Protectic >» one of th-fied over and WWSavy iron pumps as the Arab careened over and went down with the unlucky vessel.' When the line of the , Arab was cast off from the Protection, as the Arab went over, it floated for a time, and a bad maneuver on the part of the tug caused a most serious and fatal mishap. Captain Fltzpatridk was in charge at the time (it being Captain Anderson's watch below), and instead of starting the tug ahead he rang for the engineer to back her. She backed, and catching the floating line in her wheel, it was rapidly entangled and twisted about the wheel. Thus, WITH THE TWO CREWS ON BOARD, the Protection found herself disabled and in dire danger. She was in this perilous condition, with a heavy sea running, when the steamship Akeley, on her way from Chicago to Buffalo, came along. The Akeley took the Protection in tow, and cared for her during the most severe of the increasing gale. The two craft were driven over on the east shore. The Akeley shifted her cargo several hours later, and, it being supposed that the line had worked out of the wheel, the Protection cast off from the Akeley, the intention being to run into G rand Haven, put the tug into good trim, and then return and assist the now disabled steamer. In this way the two craft separated. It was dis covered after the Protection had cast off that her wheel was still clogged, but it was too late, and shi- went driving before the wind and sea and] was filially beached at Saugatuck, all except one' of those on board being saved, however, bv the! brave St. Joseph life crew. The Akelev went' from bad to worse, and on Monday afternoon F0UNDKBED OFF UOLLAND, MICH. The schooner Driver, Captain David Millcrj >-'" i ed twelve of ! lie crew, after most perilous and heroic efforts, but a number were lost, Including I n . aplain and rirst mate. The Driver arrived at Chicago yesterday morning, bringing the sur-ind the first positive news that the Akeley had gone down. THE RESCUE. CAPTAIN MILLBS'S LETTER. The letter given below from Captain David .. of the schooner Driver, whose gallant orew 1 the lives of so many of the crew of the ill- i tated steamship, explains itself. The letter is i addressed to Captain T./W.Kirby, of Grand Ha- ! Mich., the owner of the Akeley. The letter ' was given by Captain Miller to the Captain of the i reporter went back again: got. to where two vessels were lying abreast; woke up the crew of the nearer one: they didn't know what the name of the outside vessel was, but knew it had rescued some people from some wreck. Reporter climbs up its side, grabbing with most affectionate tightness the ropes of the vessel; crossed her deck, and climbed over into the next, and jumped down on her slippery decks, after first waking up the crew and finding out that it was the Driver indeed. CAPTAIN MILLER TALKS. In a pair of legs in nature's pale, pink attire, very pretty but very cool. Captain Miller gave the narrative of his gallant achievement. They had, he said—that is, the schooner—gone out light the day before. When about nine miles off of Holland, Mich., shortly before 2 * 'clock in the afternoon, they sighted a large amshlp with signals of distress flying from her mast-head. Preparing to head the schooner for her, they again looked for the craft in distress, but she had disappeared. It was blowing a hurricane at this time and the Driver was herself looking for shelter. A seaman had. been sent aloft to look for land, and it was he who first saw the steamer. The Driver immediately bore down for the locality where the steamier had been, and half an hour later sighted a snnall boat full of men. The Driver made three {arise in her endeavor to fish the boat up, but each time failed. Finally Captain Miller and one of his seamen launched the Driver's yawl. It was seen that the other boat had no oars. Captain Miller's yawl sjon had the other in tow, and after skillful maneuvering of the Driver, in charge of the mate, the two boats were picked up and all the occupants were finally landed on the Driver's decks. Tlie foundered steamship proved to be the H. C. Akeley, of Grand Haven, bound from Chicago to Buffalo with a cargo of grain. Captain Streoh and five others of the crew had gone down with the steamer, but twelve of the men had been saved in the boat. After cruising about in the vicinity for a time to be certain that none of the missing ones were not afloat on rafts, the Driver put about for Chicago and arrived off here yesterday morning as stated. MATE POULSON QUESTIONED. The second mate, Mr. Poulson, was talked with by a reporter during the evening. He was shown the following dispatch, received here at 10 o'clock yesterday morning: "Grand Haven, Nov. 14, 10 a. m.—Captain John Prindiville, Chicago: Akeley broke down, I think she is anchored about off South Haven. The tug Arctic is all ready to leave for her when the weather permits. T. W. KIRBY." Th«e reporter told Mr. Poulson that this dispatch! had created the impression that the survivors had made a scramble for the boat, and had really left the disabled steamier before she Went down. Mr. Poulson said that such was by no means the case. He added: "I was the last man to leave her myself, and I had to leap for tlie boat in order to save myself from going down with her. The first mate and steward had taken to the wooden water tank aft, and CAPTAIN STRECH HAD MADE A RAIT of the bucket-rack. [He could hardly washout of that, and I should have thought he would have floated.] I wanted the Driver to go back after she picked up our boat and look for the others on the rafts, but Captain Miller said his vessel had passed right along there, and that there was no one afloat. One of the boats was washed overboard the night before, and there was but the one. As the Akeley went down CAPTAIN STRECH WAVED HIS HAND to me. He was up forward, and was launching himself on his raft. The captain, mate, and others preferred rafts to attempting to get iuto the boat. We had great difficulty launching the beat. The first- engineer was in if first., It turned over twice. W'e had hardly a hope that it would live anyway, and if the Driver had not come to us as she did we would all have been lost. The Driver commenced her attempts to rescue us at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon aud we were not ; on board the vessel until almost dark In the evening. We are all very grateful to Captain Miller and his crew." THi: GAUSB. "Do you think the efforts of the Akeley to save the Protection and her crew caused her (the Akeley'aJ loss?" "Oh, no. After the storm became so severe we \ could not keep any straight; course* anyway, and' the fact that we had the Protection in tow did not I hurt us in the least. Indeed if the Protection J had hung on to us she might have saved all those I who are lost. We didn't deviate from our course at all on account of the Pro.ection. The storm caused the disaster, and that's all there is to it. We all sincerely mourn Captain Strech's loss. He ' was a good, kind man. It was the breaking of the Akeley's steering gear, and the shifting of the cargo that canned the loss of the steamer. She was loaded pretty low, but only had her usual cargo on board. When we saw she must founrle we went to slip the cable so that she would drive In nearer the beach, but sea after sea came aboard; she was buried and we could not get at the stoppers. Wc had made a large rait of the boom and canoes and hawsers, but she went down so suddenly that no one got onto this raft. None oi us saved anything except what we had on, and the watchman (who is still on board the Driver) hasn't got any clothes at all; he was "turned in" at the time. One of the deckhands was hurt, and has gone into the Marine Hospital. We are all without money, and the We got ashore here to-night, of tug. Will get home Friday or Saturday. M. Blackburn. A telegram was sent to Captain Blackburn asking him to come home immediately. He re -sponded thus: Saugatuck, Mich., Nov. 11.—P. H. Fleming, No. 127 LaSalle street, Chicago: I will leave here to-night, and be in Chicago to-morrow. M. BLACKFUBN. SURVIVORS ARRIVE IX CHICAGO. Captain Starke and his crew, of the schooner Arab, arrived in Chicago last evening. They are full of gratitude to the officers of the Akeley and also to the St. Joseph life-saving crew. The reason that Cantain Kelly was lost was that one of the pumps crushed him. Young Grace was washed overboard from the Protection The J when she first struck the bar at Saugatuck. Mr. George and Mr. Comiskey, " (jiwwY a5'si3',srrlved,u111TUTas^'uTOnTr cine and water r,m.'.v J. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Saugatuck, Mich., Nov. 14..— The crew of tho schooner Arab and several of the men of the steam pumps left for Chicago this morning, ami should get there this 'evening. Captain Blackburn left this evening, in company with the life-saving crew, for St. Joseph, and he will probably be home in the morning. William Sullivan, fireman onjthe tug, was washed overboard and drowned. On inquiry from the men it is learned that he had been on the boat but a few days; that he was single; that he stopped at Captain Boyd's place, on South W'ater strejt; that be hail been on the tugs Ingram and Rebel, and that they believed his folks live near Grand Haven, but were not certain of this. The beach has been searched for five miles south, but the body of the unfortunate was not found. The tug lies hows on, about one hundred feet from the shore, and is standing upright. The men say that the cook, Charles Clark, refused to cook for them, and they had been without food for some time on Sunday. The dispatch from Captain Blackburn gives in a few words all particulars. The men are loud in their praises of our men here, as is also Mr. W. L. Stevens, keeper of the St. Joseph station. Among the many men who stood by all night were Timothy Flyrm and Lewis Smith, who were waist-deep in the water for an hour helping the life-saving crew. A report was received here this afternoon that the steambarge H. C. Ackley had foundered between Holland and Grand Haven. ROCKAWAY'S EXPERIENCE. AS BELATED BV CAPTAIN THOKPSOX. The schooner Bockaway, feared to have been t lost, but announced in The Inter Ocean yester-da\ as having made Kenosha, has arrived in Chicago, her destination. Caplain Olo Thompson relates his experience as follows: On Saturday night last the vessel left Muskegon freighted with 1 Stl.000 feet ov lumber. It was fair sailing until they had proceeded about fifty miles and got on the west shore, when suddenly they w.-ie 8ttu.dk by a gale from tho west. In an Instant the foresail and jib topsail were in shreds, anil nothing was left by which to run the vessel save two cross mainsails. The craft was hea_ded for the east shore after the gtale struck-her. Having lost her canvas she was At the mercy of the storm, and was run before t-he wind until Tuesday, when she brought up aboutt ten miles off Kenosha, The distress flag was hoisted by tho famJsJj* iiig crew, none of , whom had eaten a morsel of food nor left the deck for forty-eight hours. Captain Thompson had not left the wheel in that time, and alt hnfl abandoned hope of ever placing a foot on lam igaiu. The waves \ washed over the sides and de! .iged the cabin, de-1 ¦ priving the mvn of their dry clothing, and of tlie comfort of a fire in the stove. With sinking hearts they STARED DEATH IN THE FACE and were on the point of giving up the struggle . son, of the lost steamship Akeley, were before the when the life-saving crew stationed at Kenosha- Government Steamboat Inspector in Chicago yes-Rpr.eared on the water, coming in their direction. , __ „i.tii.arna„l.a aa j.„ *>,« The rescue was just in time. Captain Bfin terday and made sworn statements as to the Cameron and eight healthy young fellows com-¦ circumstances of the disaster. The state-posiug the life-saving crew came on board of the ' menta agree -with those published in The Inter liockaway and took charge of her. The vessel at this time presented the appearance of a float-in which'iVin the Ohio's tow, is safe at anchor under I ong Point, twenty-two miles be low Erie This report is denied by some who Sty they do not believe the Evan could make that place in the itonn. Other vessel eaptains, however, say it mThe steVmbarge Ohio is under shelter of Point aiAv?ivais-Prop Ogemaw, Au Sable, lumber; schr Z*ek Chandler, Escanaba, ore; schr Magnetic, Marquette, ore; schr Cheney Ames, Escanaba, ore. THLi QUEBEC RELEASED. Soecial Telegran; to Ike liujr Ocean. South iMPTOJT, Ont., Nov. 14.~-The steamer Quebec, which was aground in the harbor on Chantry Island, released herself this morning and is' now awaiting the weather to moderate, when she will proceed on her way to Lake Superior. THE MANITOBA. There is no important change in the condition of the steamer Manitoba. She is still lying easy,. with her bows on the Island awaittng the arrival ¦of a tug to release her. A fct'OW ADRIFT. SpeetBlTelettrara to The inter oce*a. _.a.., : Newcastle, Ont., Nov. 14.—The tug Nithsdale with a scow iu tow, which has been working at this harbor for some time, in trying to mafcotne harbor this aTtrruoon parted her towline aud the scow with one mall aboard drifted lakeward. A perfect gale blowing from the northwest prevented the Niihsdtde, which is a very smallling, from going to his assistance. The tug White ot Port Hope, was at once telegraphed for and left at 5 o'clock in search of the scow. MORPETH, ONT. ¦ Special Telegram to The Inter Ooega. MORPBTH, Out., Nov. M. -Three vessels are anchored here, one a three-masted, the others two-masted. No wrecks are reported along the shore from Clesrviih* to Leamington. A strong gale is Wowing from tho west. Passed Down To-day—Schr W. I. Preston, De-] twit to Ogdensburg, wheat. With the exception | of the steamer Roanoke, nothing has left this ; port bound up this week. • CREW ALL LOST. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Port Colborne, Ont.. Nov. 15.—A telegram was received to-night stating that a black fore-and-aft schooner is beached five miles below Port Burwell. Tlie crew were all lost in trying ro get ashore in the small boat. The vessel had a new foresail, and is supposed to be either the schooner Skylark or the E. Fitzgerald. THE EXPEDITION DRIVEN BACK. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Port COLBORNE, Ont., Nov. 15.—A dispatch' from Port Maitland to-night says the tug Mary, which left hore yesterday for the point, was farced to nut back, the weather proving too rough for her. She run into Port Maitland to-day; The t ug Hector arrived back at 8:30 to-night with the large Fawcett, the captain of the-barge being glad enough to accept of the second offer to get into more reliable shelter. . ANOTHER VESSEL ON LONG POINT REACH. Port Rowan, Ont., Nov. lb.—A vessel struck Long Point Beach, six miles from here, at noon to-day in a heavy snow-storm. The lifeboat has gone to the re FOl K'DEBED WITH FOUR LIVES. Detroit, MiohM Nov. u>. a aoow belonging to Marion Brothers, of Stony Point, which started for Detroit last Sunday, was last seen trying to weather the gale on Lake St. Clair. Nothing has pinee been beard of her, and she is believed to have foundered, with her crew of four men. THE AKELEY. SURVIVING OFFICERS SWORN. Chief Engineer Driscoll and Second Mate Poul- iceberg, and the rneh. were ice-covered to the eyes. Captain Thompson is effusive in his praises of the work done by Captain Cameron and his men, and declares that there is not a live-saving crew on the whole chain of lakes superior to the men to whom he and Lis men ara indebted for their lives. Had assistance not come when it did the Rockaway would have gone out into the lake again and foundered. When the craft was brought into harbor at Kenosha, the life-saving crew cleaned her up, removing all the ice from the rigging, and then got her under way for Chicago, where she arrived yesterday morning, with most of her cargo, the only loss sustained being about 500 feet of lumber. The Rockaway is owned by Captain Thompson and Sam Monroe and William Brennan, of Muskegon. Captain Thompson, in his thirty-six years' experience on the lake, never, in all the storms which he has passed through, had such a time as that encountered Sunday night. The names of his crew are: Christ Oleson, mate; John Sherman, cook; Swan Swanson, Nick Hulverson, and John Anderson, deck hands. Sunday night tbey saw three vessels within easy range, under bare poles, and Mondey could see nothing of them. It. THE KIVERS. DETROIT. Special Telegram to The Inter I icean. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 14.—The steamer J. Lvon was released last night. The" Uhens is mentioned still aground. Thecaptains of the H. J. Jewett and Boston reporl the beavieal weather ever experienced. They were out in ali the storm. The Boston took boarding-houses are trusting us until we get the ! the worst of it off Point Betsey : at -i i>. ni Sunday si ruck bv a terrific storm, :i.mi headed for the vreal shore: mad* land after nine hours' hard wages coming to us. A vessel was seen anout tnree miles ort this nar-bor yesterday afternoon with her stay sail set, laboring heavy iu distress. The steamer Akeley is reported sunk about ten miles off this harbor. Nothing dofinite as to the crew, but they are reported-lost. Wind northwest, going down; heavy sea yet; twelve i'eet of water at th< pier heads and no outside bar. THE BARGS iKELEY. Special T.elegritm to The im*-.:- Ocean. Grand Haven, Mich., >,ov. lb—The following are reported as the saved from the steambarge Akeley which foundered off Holland yesterday: James Connell, second engineer; John Driscoll, first engineer; H. P. Olsma, S. R. Mentin, S. St. Clair, William McDermot, Charles Reid, B. Kellev, David Lusk, J. Crawford, George Murray, Robert Mack. Captain Staeck, first officer; John Kingston, Jim Bettel, and three others were lost. The rescued were taken to Chicago by the schooner Driver, of Muskegon. The Akeley was woith $110,000, aud was owned by T. W. Kirby and H. C. Akeley. THE PARKER A TOTAL WRECK. Special Teleeram to The Inter Qcean. Grand Haven, Mich., Nov. 14.—The Clara Parker, which went ashore' here, Is a complete wreck. Our life-saving crew i nok off their nine men in splendid shape. The gale abated but little today, and much more disaster Is expected. .work; was in company of the steambatge Argo- ', naut; lost sight of her a! 1 o. m, Sunday during asnewstorm. The Boston and Jewetl are here waiting for better weatherto cross the Irme-klln. The wind is still west aud cOld. .. Tlie schooner Mears has been stripped, and is going into winter ojuarters: LOOKING FOR THE MERRIMAC. Specit.VTelegr'am'toTheZnterO<*ean. Port SIubon. Mich., Nov. 14.—There w aoth- ing known of 1 he barge Merrimne. Telegrams Have been sent to every port on the Canada shore asking if such a vessel couldbe sighted. Off Kincardine there is a large three-master to anchor. This may be the Merriraac. No word has been received from the John Owen, who is looking tor her The h. C. Butts Is off Goderich, flymg s signal of distress. The Mocking Bird will tow her here. ^ m FREIGHTS. THK SITUATION. Cor* 10 Buffalo, 3 '-j cents; wheat, 4 cents. Corn ; to Sarnia, 4 centts, There are few craft hvr*i. No line steamers, have arrived for several days. | Charters were iimiiied to the following: Ocean. ¦ ; The twelve survivors of the disaster are short of funds and are waiting the pleasure of the owners of the Akeley to pay them off. ALL HOPE ABANDON!' . Speeial Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Holland, Mich., Nov. 15.—J. O'Brien, of Grand Haven, is here searching for the lost on the Akeley. He has been patrolling the ¦ beach to-day without success. A terrible gale and snowstorm is raging, with a northwest wind. All hope of saving the captain and five men has been given up. The Akeley went down about nine miles off this harbor. Search will continue for the raft. AT GRAND HAVEN. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Grand Haven, Mich., Nov. 15.—The gale continues with unabating fury. The schooner? Kittle Grant and S. B. Pomeroy came in from Chicago this morning. Great anxiety is yet felt here for 'further particulars regarding the steambarge Akelev, which foundered off Holland Tuesday afternoon. Captain O'Brien, of the Kirby Tug Tiine, is on the beach nearest the point where she went down trying to find anything that may come ashore. Captain Strech, of the Akelev, ;iust before going down, is reported to have boxed all the papers and books safely and thrown them overboard, but they have not yet come ashore. FROM SAUGATUCK. Special Telesrani to The Inter Ocean. Saugatuck, Mich., Nov. 15.—The body of a man dressed in a neat navy blue suit, having a life preserver on, washed ashore here this afternoon. It was taken where it was supposed to be safe, and other persons notified, who, when they arrived, found that a large wave had again carried it out into the lake. It is being looked for. It is thought that it is the body of Captain Strech, of the steamer Akeley. A black clinker-built boat came ashore here this afternoon. It is about twenty feettin length. The body of William Sullivan, of the tug Protection, has not yet been found. The wind is still blowing a gale from the west, with slight flurries of snow. The schooner Lucerire, grain-loaded, did not leave Chicago, and she escapes the blow. The Pensaukee is probably all right. She was seen yesterday making good weather along the west shore. Her cargo is insured for $21,000 in the "Big 4." The Alleghany's flaxseed is insured for $60,000 in the "Big -A." The Gordon Campbell's cargo of corn is insured for +28,000 in the "Big 4." The cargoes of the Argonaut and Clyde are both in the "Big 4." The various line propellers iu the blow will all have wet grain. The Cargo Pool are not taking cargo insurances now at all.