Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service: For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1879
Six days later, on September 13, 1878, another life was lost from the steamer Pearl, of Detroit, Mich. This vessel was moored inside the piers of the'harbor of Fairport, Lake Erie, during a northwest gale, which became so violent, and raised such a sea in the harbor that, at eight o'clock in the morning, two barges broke their moorings and drifted down on to the Pearl, jostling her with such force that she parted her cables, tore several piles out of the pier and swept out into the lake where a heavy sea was raging, and where in attempting to get back she went ashore 160 rods east of the harbor. As the steamer drifted away, 20 of her crew of 26 leaped for the pier. Nineteen of them reached it in safety, but one fell Short and was drowned. The current in the river was so strong that the crew of Station No. 7, Ninth District, composed at that time of volunteers resident in the town, could not get across to the stat-ion on the other side, and obtaining a yawl from one of the barges, they pulled out to the stranded steamer and took Off the 6 per sons left ou board, one of whom was a woman.
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