Thrilling adventures by land and seaBeing remarkable historical facts, gathered from authentic sources . , gives thefollowing graphic account of the disaster: It becomes our painful duty to record the mostperilous shipwreck that has ever occurred on LakeSuperior, and having been a passenger on board theMonticello at the time, we are enabled to give allthe particulars in relation to the loss of the vessel,and the hardships of the passengers and crew. Wewent on board the Ontonagon on the afternoon ofthe 22d September, 1851, on her return from Fonddu Lac. She left the river at half-past five oclo
Thrilling adventures by land and seaBeing remarkable historical facts, gathered from authentic sources . , gives thefollowing graphic account of the disaster: It becomes our painful duty to record the mostperilous shipwreck that has ever occurred on LakeSuperior, and having been a passenger on board theMonticello at the time, we are enabled to give allthe particulars in relation to the loss of the vessel,and the hardships of the passengers and crew. Wewent on board the Ontonagon on the afternoon ofthe 22d September, 1851, on her return from Fonddu Lac. She left the river at half-past five oclockbound for the Sault, with about one hundred per-sons, twenty tons of copper from the Minnesotamine, and a few barrels of fish from La Pointe, andin coming out of the harbor one of the wheels strucka floating log very heavily, and it is supposed tohave loosened the packing boxes around one of theshafts.— She lay on the bar a few minutes on herway out, but the sea at that time was light, and wecannot think it possible that she sprung a leak fromthe effects of the slight pounding on the light BY LAND AND SEA. 295 We had been out about half an hour, when thefiremen discovered the water rising around the floorsof the engine; they communicated the fact to , and it was made known to the passengers,but the leak was not thought to be serious, andcreated but very little alarm. The pump was putinto operation, and on examination the captain andengineer seemed confident that the pump wouldkeep her clear till we could run down to Eagleharbor, a distance of sixty miles; but it was soondiscovered, that the water was fast gaining on thepump, and preparations were made immediately forraising water by means of barrels and buckets. The wind was blowing at first from the west-ward, but soon changed to the north-west — it wasfresh but fair, and aided by sails and all the steamthat it was prudent to carry, she came on at a rapidrate, still keeping on her course, in hopes to ma
Size: 1327px × 1883px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, booksubjectadventureandadventur
