It was 100 years ago today that the White Hurricane
12 ships sunk, 250 dead and millions in damages happened over two days in 1913.
Waves 36 feet high and 80 mile per hour winds battered the lake freighters, damaging many, and sending 12 to the bottom and some have still not been located today.
It was the greatest maritime disaster in the history of the Great Lakes.
Leafield: 18 lost.
Regina: 20 lost.
Wexford: 17-24 lost, precise number unknown.
Charles Price: 28 lost.
Hydrus: 25 lost
Argus: 28 lost.
Henry B. Smith: 25 lost
James Carruthers: 22 lost.
Plymouth: 7 lost.
John A. McGean: 28 lost.
Isaac M. Scott: 28 lost.
Lightship 82: 8 lost.
100 years later, we can learn of and remember their loss.
Eternal Father, strong to save
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave.
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep
Oh hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.
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