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Show All AwJuitStouu. Chicago, III., May 18 The storm w hicn today swept Lake Michigan was the most disastrous of recent years. Eight vessels were r ven ashore witnin the city limits of Chicago, and out of their crews, ten men are known to be drowned and in everv instance boat and cargo are utterly lost. One schooner, the Myrtle, wa3 wreck ed just outside the government pier, wilhiu a halt mile of Michigan boul-vara, boul-vara, and 6ix men of her crew went down to death in plain view of the hundrtdsof people w ho lined the boul-vard boul-vard walks or watched the awful storm from the windows of the big hotels, which overlook the harbor. The wrecks extend from Glenceon the north, where the Lincoludale went to pieces, to South Chicago, an air-line distance of Ijrty miles. At 11 o'clock today ten wagons hauled away from Springville the common-weaiers common-weaiers and their effects to Thistle. The men have supplies enough to last them five days. Some of the men pie averse to going out in squads, and declare de-clare it a tcheme of the railroads to break them up. Others are anxious to got turther east. One young man, who le making his way to "Kansas City, his old home, said: "I might have been there by this time had I gone al ne. llere we have been t'iree weeks on the road and only got thirty six miles. If I couid get my blankets, I would go on this eening." It appears the leaders hold that the bedding, etc, is army-property, army-property, and refuse to give the effects to the men when they desire to leave, Of courBe the men must have some idea of going east in squads or in other ways or tney would never go into the canyon as thev have done. A meeting of the Agricultural Bicitty of Utah county is in session at tha company's office on J street, this afternoon, Bienop Booth of the Fourth ward, this city, this afternoon tied the silken knot for R beit M. Wilson and Winnie Kendall, both oi Lehi, |