The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...
The year was 1892. As the late summer sun glinted off Lake Huron's waters, Captain Peter G. Minch stood proudly on the deck ...
A reddish snowy owl in Huron County has drawn national attention, and now appears to be returning back to "normal." ...
The only survivor was Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart of Algonac, Michigan. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 3, 1892, when Stewart reached shore, he walked 12 miles to the nearest life ...
On Aug. 30, 1892, Minch took his wife, two young children, sister-in-law and niece on a late-summer cruise aboard the Western Reserve up through Lake Huron when bad weather in Whitefish Bay forced ...
on the Western Reserve. Captain Minch, a millionaire shipping magnate, owned the boat. The weather was pleasant through Lake Huron, but when they reached the area of Whitefish Point on Lake ...