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OLD SERIES, NO. 39 Thursday, June 1, 1882 [extracts of marine news.] The propellers GRACIE BARKER and GEO. D. SANFORD, JR., will run during the season, Sundays excepted, between Pentwater and Frankfort, touching at intermediate points each way, on the following time, viz: Going north, leave Pentwater at 6:30 a.m.; Ludington, at 8:30 a.m.; Manistee, at 1:00 p.m.; arrive at Frankfort at 4:30 p.m. Returning, leave Frankfort at 6:30 a.m.; Manistee, at 1:00 p.m.; Ludington, at 4:30 p.m.; arrive at Pentwater at 6:00 p.m. Round trips on the GRACIE BARKER, Sundays, to Manistee and return, connecting with the GEO. D. SANFORD, JR., from Frankfort, at excursion rates. For terms, freight or passage, apply on board. Ludington Merchants can get very favorable rates on freight from Chicago by steamer COLIN CAMPBELL. John A. Mitchell has returned to Ludington as U.S. assistant engineer, and will superintend the government work on the harbors from Pentwater to Charlevoix. Later accounts of the burning of the lake propeller MANITOULIN, in Georgian bay, prove the disaster to have been a dreadful holocaust. It is said that twenty to twenty-five persons perished in the flames or were drowned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record VOL. XV. OLD SERIES, NO. 40 Thursday, June 8, 1882 [no marine news this issue.] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record VOL. XV. OLD SERIES, NO. 41 Thursday, June 15, 1882 The tug BROCKWAY is in Milwaukee undergoing more repairs. The COLIN CAMPBELL will tow the Lyon's scows until the BROCKWAY is put in commission again. The propellers GRACIE BARKER and GEO. D. SANFORD, JR., will run during the season, Sundays excepted, between Pentwater and Frankfort, touching at intermediate points each way, on the following time, viz: Going north, leave Pentwater at 6:30 a.m.; Ludington, at 8:30 a.m.; Manistee, at 1:00 p.m.; arrive at Frankfort at 4:30 p.m. Returning, leave Frankfort at 6:30 a.m.; Manistee, at 1:00 p.m.; Ludington, at 4:30 p.m.; arrive at Pentwater at 6:00 p.m. Round trips on the GRACIE BARKER, Sundays, to Manistee and return, connecting with the GEO. D. SANFORD, JR., from Frankfort, at excursion rates. For terms, freight or passage, apply on board. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record VOL. XV. OLD SERIES, NO. 42 Thursday, June 22, 1882 The propellers GRACIE BARKER and GEO. D. SANFORD, JR., will run during the season, Sundays excepted, between Pentwater and Frankfort, touching at intermediate points each way, on the following time, viz: Going north, leave Pentwater at 6:30 a.m.; Ludington, at 8:30 a.m.; Manistee, at 1:00 p.m.; arrive at Frankfort at 4:30 p.m. Returning, leave Frankfort at 6:30 a.m.; Manistee, at 1:00 p.m.; Ludington, at 4:30 p.m.; arrive at Pentwater at 6:00 p.m. Round trips on the GRACIE BARKER, Sundays, to Manistee and return, connecting with the GEO. D. SANFORD, JR., from Frankfort, at excursion rates. For terms, freight or passage, apply on board. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record VOL. XV. OLD SERIES, NO. 43 Thursday, June 29, 1882 The tug BROCKWAY is again in commission, as good as new. An examination of the injuries to the steam barge MARSHALL F. BUTTERS, recently damaged by fire at Chicago, after her arrival at Milwaukee showed that it would require at least $5,000 to put her in first-class shape again. She will be in commission, it is expected, in about three weeks. A rare phenomenon occurred at Cleveland, Ohio. From the placid surface of the lake suddenly arose a wave variously estimated at from ten to twenty-five feet in height and two to four miles in length, which swept to the shore with resistless force, destroying everything in its progress. It is described by scientists as a cyclone wave similar to the tidal wave in mid ocean; but nobody seems to know pre- cisely what caused it or when something of the kind may occur again. A DISASTROUS TIDAL WAVE At 6:10 a.m., of June 23 last, a remarkable tidal wave swept into the city of Cleveland from Lake Erie doing damage to the amount of some $30,000, besides an unknown amount to floating property. Signal officer Newlin, of Cleveland, describes the wave in the following manner: "At 6:10 a.m., I heard distant thunder to the northward over the lake, and, looking in that direction, saw a huge cloud, like a thunder cloud, the lower part of which looked like a large heavy curtain hang- ing over the water, above it a contorted, angry-looking conglomeration of clouds, and north of it a large stratus of cloud. It moved very rapidly, and about 6:20 o'clock the wave reached the shore. When first noticed, the tidal wave was about a quarter of a mile from the shore, and appeared like a great green wall, ten feet high. The lake had been calm, and this was the first disturbance of the surface. The wave swept along rapidly and silently until it reached shallow water, when it made a loud swishing noise, and broke on the shore with a great roar. The wave reached from north-northeast to south-southwest. After it struck the shore two recoil waves followed close together. At 6:35 o'clock, a quarter of an hour after the wave reached the shore, a shower began, which lasted fifteen minutes, during which two hundredths of an inch of rain fell. No hard wind was perceptible here, though slight squalls on the lake are reported by incoming ves- sels." Sergeant Newlin also said that "the cloud was an electric cloud, like those of ordinary thunder-storms, except the peculiarities above described. Many of the phenomena are similar to what would be expect- ed to accompany a waterspout, but no waterspout was formed, nor did a hard storm precede or follow, as is usual in the case of tidal waves. After the grand rushing of the water the lake relapsed into repose, and its surface was calm and unruffled as if nothing unusual had hap- pened. The wave was wider-reaching than at first supposed. Word comes from Glenville that it played havoc with boats and boat houses there. Near the railway bridge over the river a log 75 feet long and 31 in diameter was carried nearly 200 feet inland. Before the phenomena occurred the wind had been blowing gently from the south, and soon after the cloud passed, resumed the same direction. The water in the lake is about two feet higher than the ordinary stage and the tidal wave at the life-saving station reached 8 feet 10 inches above the present water mark." This is the third tidal wave that has occurred on Lake Erie within the last fifty years. [part of this column cut off] **** found in Lake Michigan between Manistee and Frankfort, has been identified as that of **** of the schooner SAILOR BOY, lost over- board about two miles off Manistee. ===========================================================================