Show I 1 severe storm it at chita ch imago CHICAGO april 13 A severe wind and rain storm has been raging here bince rince sunday morning and the waves oa on lake michigan igan are rolling high shortly before midnight the lookout of the life saving saying station saw a email small schooner trying to make harbor and firing signals cf of distress lie ile called up the crew but the vessel was drifting rapidly A boat and mortar were loaded on a wagon and the crew started rapidly the vessel apparently 11 let no go her anchors off forty fir t street but by the time the savers arrived opposite they seemed to have broken and she drifted rapidly away before the eale tle the life eavers savers got no chance to fire a line and the cea sea was eo so high it would have been madness to launch a boat as the vessel be saen seen nothing can be done until daylight the cap ain of the life savers fears ehe she is lo gone and 8 bays aye there must have been eight or ten men on board tuga tugs tried to go out but one nearly swamped and the it attempt tempt was given up an unknown 1 learner was also seen off alyde park reef making of distress but ehe be afterwards seemed to get about and was making for sooth south chicago driving before the storm |