Show BONFIRES SAVED THE SHIP duluth nor bonfires built on abe shore to cheer the sailors on the etca matamata afforded a haacon to which the big package freighter george gould from buffalo and erlo was able to safely pass the piers last night to abo people who built the fire on ebore I 1 am deeply grateful said captain cottrall ot the steamer gould had it not been tor tho fire which threw a on the pier I 1 am satisfied wo should leave shared tho fate 0 the mataafa Mat aara for the aea us running terribly high ewhen we left the had no intimation of the coining of the 1 storm and did not notice anything in particular until we reached keowee aaa at midnight the gale accompanied by a heavy snow etrick us from the northwest wa tossed little until we reached outer island one at tha apostle stoup here wo ran into a terrific sea tho worst I 1 have ever seen the wind veered to the north and almost died away at 3 p in yesterday ter day I 1 picked up abe north chore about thirty miles north of duluth and closely followed the shore until we entered the alerd where a terrible sea was runn lne we came through thanks to the bonfires on shore with out mishap 1 I have been the sea 26 years but it is the worst storm within my experience we saw two boats going down the lake this afternoon na we were coming up but they were too far away to identify them we were followed about tour malca by a but could not learn who she was |