Show GREAT STORM ON LAKE MICHIGAN Passenger Steamer Has Terrible Terrible Terrible Ter Ter- Battle With Wind and Waves DRIVEN OUT OF ITS COURSE Bl ni Vessel 1 l' l b ii JIa n i r cn Back Chicago Aug 27 Nine Nine hun hundred I persons n I after a night of oC terror in the largo large lake lalO steamer H II W. W Williams of oC the South Chicago-South Haven line lino reached Chicago this afternoon palo and trembling following a u battle with one of or tho ho fiercest storms in iii Lako Lake Michigan Michi Michi- Jan gun history which drove throve the tho great boat far out of or its course course- Due to leave leavo South Haven at 9 o'clock last ast night the time boat put out an and amid was twice driven Iriven back to seek seok the shelter of oC the port Gigantic billows made ever every timber limber creak and the Iho lower decks leeks were awash while time Iho shrieks s of or terrified passengers rose hl high h above the shouts of oC men and the Iho commands o of the officers The fhe lighthouse at South Haven pier twenty feet teet high could not nol bo be seen for COl or the boiling waves an and big billows swept over o the lie pier Jt itself like a sandar sand sand- bar ar Worst ewt In lii Many lamny Years This was the thc worst storm I have seen since silica I began working vi on the great Ireat lak lakes 5 two twenty years year u ago o said Captain Shea Simon If It I should have put out Into that storm the boat would have broken brol cn in two There la is no boat that could stand tand that northwester coming coining out a against It from tho the Michi Michi- Michigan Ian gnu shore The Thc boat finally started from South SouthHaven SouthHaven SouthHaven Haven at nt 1 1 I o'clock this morning the tho sailors detecting a weakening of the tho Ii t 0 i iii As tho the boat hoat nearer neared the Iho ml middle le o of the thc lake hake however tho ho wind once more grew fierce nereo and anid drove the tho vessel out o of her course It was found impossible sible to force her directly In iii the time teeth of th the gale ale and a northerly course was adopted At daybreak the time boat hoat met a still sun fiercer storm In iii the latitude e of oC Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- waukee and It required nine nino hours of rough battling battling- to finish tho the trip to Cli Chicago Other vessels reported equal dim dim- culty Every vessel was driven cn from flom fromor v or I or p. p passengers cn er were wore from irom berths and rolled roiled about on tho the cabin floors and anti the ducks decks were combed b by the tops of fierce waves almost continuously |