Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the fate of the Milwaukee. Old lake sailors described how, when a car ferry is pitched by high-running combers, the freight cars break from their clamps. On the Milwaukee were 27 loaded cars. Back and forth they must have creaked and strained, bolted and battered, gaining momentum until they catapulted thunderously overboard, capsizing the careening, helpless ferry...
...rock spur of a Lake Huron island was impaled the S. S. Maplecourt. Coast-Guardsmen, defying the walloping surf, rescued her crew...
...From Lake Superior came S. 0. S. signals. Henry Ford's lumber barge Lake Frugality and the steamer Chicago were both driven aground. Their crews clambered off unharmed. Lake Frugality's crew debarked on the mainland, but Chicago's crew of 32, less lucky, found themselves on a desolate island. Faced with starvation, seven of them straggled nine miles through a bramble-clogged swamp to an Indian settlement. The Indians peeled off their ice-caked clothing, gave them food, but stolidly refused to try to reach their derelict companions. Not until four days later, when the seas...
...north shore of Lake Erie lay a contorted pile of scrap iron, all that was left of the freighter M. J. Nessen. The crew, twelve men, a woman, was rescued before the ship broke up. On a sandbar nearby was lodged the steel sandsucker C. M. Caldwell. A crew of 18, gambling that she would ride the storm, stayed aboard...
...awash, strewn with rocks and wreckage. Breakwaters crumbled before the unprecedented autumnal surge. Chicagoans fled through the storm from shorefront homes and hotels. Hundreds of feet of concrete boulevards were crumpled. Waves mounting up 30 feet battered a new government lighthouse. A disrupted disposal plant poured sewage into the lake, made "city water" undrinkable...