In the fall of 1913, a violent force was unleashed across the Great Lakes. More than a century later, it still goes by many names. All are deadly: The White Hurricane. The Big Blow. The Frozen Fury.

What remains staggering all these years later are the details of the devastation. At least 250 sailors lost, a dozen ships sunk, and 30 vessels left stranded or smashed against rocky shorelines from Lake Superior to Lake Erie.

It was five days of chaos that packed blizzard conditions as well as hurricane-force winds. Fast-moving “trains” of huge waves - some topping 30 feet high - lashed ships that were desperately trying to make their last runs of the season.

If you were out on the lakes, caught in this unexpected storm, it would have been something out of a nightmare. Mariners reported win

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