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That a total of
at least ten vessels and 167 lives were lost in the great blizzard that enveloped
the great lakes from Sunday until Tuesday, is indicated in the compilation today of
reports received from various points on the lakes.
The list shows
that Lake Huron exacted the heaviest toll.
In addition,
twenty-one other vessels were partially or wholly destroyed, their crews escaping.
The list of lost
and missing vesels and their dead is apportioned as follows:
STEAMER M. F.
BUTTERS, Milwaukee, crew of 15. Foundered in Lake Superior. Wooden steamer, 500
tons capacity, 164 feet keel, 30 feet beam, built in 1882.
STEAMER WEXFORD,
of Toronto, reported wrecked off St. Josephs, Ont., and 23 probably dead. Wexford
is a Canadian steamer of 2300 tons capacity, steel, 250 feet long, 40 feet beam, and
built in 1893.
STEAMER CHARLES S.
PRICE, of Cleveland, lost and 7 bodies recovered to date. 9500 tons capacity,
steel, 504 feet long, 54 feet beam, built in 1910. Crew of 28.
STEAMER JAMES
CARRUTHERS, of Toronto, missing and 7 bodies recovered, other wreckage found.
Carruthers was an absolutely new big steel steamer, 500 feet long, and the biggest
of the Canadian boats. Crew of 25
STEAMER JOHN A.
McGEAN, of Cleveland, two of the crew dead on the shore below Goderich. 8,000 tons
capacity, 440 feet long, 52 feet beam, built in 1908. Owned by Hutchinson &
Company of Cleveland. Crew of 28.
STEAMER HYDRUS,
passed Soo Sunday at 9:30 a.m., down bound. Not yet heard from, probably lost.
7,000 tons capacity, 416 feet long, 50 feet beam, built in 1903, and owned by
Pickands-Mather Company of Cleveland. Crew of 25.
STEAMER ARGUS,
9,000 tons capacity, steel, 404 feet long, 54 feet beam, built in 1901. Passed
Port Huron, up bound, 1:50 Sunday morning. Crew of 28.
STEAMER REGINA, of
Toronto, steel, 3,000 tons capacity, 249 3-10 feet long, 42 1-2 feet beam, built in
1907. Three bodies found. Crew of 20.
STEAMER LEAFIELD,
reported wrecked at Angus Island, crew of 26 missing. Canadian steamer, 2,000 tons
capacity, 249 feet long, 35 feet beam, built in 1890.
STEAMER
NOTTINGHAM, steel, 6,300 tons capacity, 330 feet long, 50 feet beam, built in
1902. Grounded at Parisan Island. Three of crew of 25 missing.
LIGHTSHIP NUMBER
8, crew of 8 lost, sunk off Buffalo in Lake Erie.
BARGE PLYMOUTH,
Menominee, Mich., wood, 1500 tons capacity. 228 feet long, 35 feet beam, built in
1854. Went down near Gull Island, Lake Michigan, with 7 men on board.
STEAMER NORTHERN
QUEEN, steel, 3000 tons capacity, 299 feet long, 40 feet beam, built in 1888.
Wrecked off Port Frank. Crew saved. Reid tugs now attempting to release her.
TURRET CHIEF,
Canadian, steel, 3200 tons capacity, 253 feet long, 44 feet wide, built in 1896.
Completely wrecked off Keweenaw Point, six miles east of Copper Harbor.
STEAMER L. C.
WALDO, steel, 7,000 tons capacity, 452 feet long, 48 feet beam, built in 1896. On
Gull Rock, Lake Superior, 26 men and women saved.
HOWARD M. HANNA,
JR., steel, 9,000 tons capacity, 480 feet long, 54 feet wide, built in 1908. Broke
in two off Point Aux Barques. Crew had narrow escape.
STEAMER MATHEW
ANDREWS, steel, 10,000 tons capacity, 532 feet long, 56 feet beam, built in 1907.
On Harlem reef, released Tuesday at midnight.
STEAMER HAWGOOD,
steel, 7,000 tons capacity, 414 feet long, 50 feet beam, built in 1903. On ground
on Lake Huron beach, north of Point Edward.
SCHOONER SEPHIE,
Canadian, wood, 500 tons capacity, 136 feet long, 27 1/2 feet beam, built in 1865,
sunk off Cape Smith, Georgian Bay, crew saved.
STEAMER ACADIAN,
Canadian, steel, 3,000 tons capacity, 246 1/2 feet long, 43 feet beam, built in
1908. Hard on reef on Thunder Bay. Reid's tugs have gone to rescue.
STEAMER J. M. JENKS,
steel, 7,000 tons capacity, 414 feet long, 50 feet beam, built in 1908. Aground
at Midland, Ont.
TUG LAFAYETTE,
formerly the Cornell and then the America, lost on Lake Superior. Belongs to Great
Lakes Co. Crew of 5. Capacity 42 tons, 64 feet long and 15 feet 7 inches wide.
Built in 1894.
STEAMER MATOA,
steel, 3,200 tons capacity, 290 feet long, 40 feet beam, built in 1890. Ashore at
Point Au Barques. Probably total loss.
STEAMER RHODA EMILY,
wood, 850 tons capacity, 166 feet long, 32 feet beam. Built 1884. Ashore two
miles south of Harbor Beach. Tug Hackett working on her.
MIDLAND QUEEN,
bound down with grain, steel. Capacity 3200. 249 feet long, 42 feet 7 inches beam.
Built 1901.
STEAMER ISAAC M.
SCOTT, steel, 9500 tons capacity, 504 feet long, 54 feet beam, built 1909. Passed
Port Huron up bound Saturday night at 9:30.
STEAMER MAJOR,
owned by John Mitchell, Cleveland. Captain P. E. Rouvel, Marine City. All Saved.
Steamer foundered in Lake Superior. Wooden boat, 3200 capacity, 238 feet long,
41 feet beam, built in 1889.
STEAMER H. B.
SMITH, Captain James Owen. Crew of 30, all thought to be lost. Steel, capacity
9700 tons, length 523 feet, beam 55 feet. Built in 1906.
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