FREIGHTER MAJOR IS
ABANDONED ON FRIDAY

Eighteen Members of Her Crew Are Picked
Up by The Steamer Byers--Lake
Superior Is Swept by Storm

Marquette, Nov. 14-There is great apprehension here that the six hundred foot steel freighter Henry B. Smith, of Cleveland, must be added to the list of vessels which met with disaster in the recent heavy storms that swept the great lakes. There is fear that the Smith foundered in Lake Superior with her crew of probably forty men.

She was commanded by Captain James Owen. With seas washing over the breakwater, the Smith loaded with 11,000 tons of iron ore left Marquette harbor Sunday evening. That night and Monday morning, the storm raged with exceptional violence.

Not a word has come from the Smith since she left the shelter of this harbor. Marine men have little doubt that the vessel was lost with all hands.

Wreckage washed ashore here yesterday has not been identified but it is believed by Captain Cleary of the life saving crew to be from the Waldo wrecked on Manitou Island.

The awful suspense and anxiety which has held every port along the great lakes in a relentless grip for the past four days is gradually being relaxed. The pall of sorrow is deepening but those who have been hoping against hope are gradually becoming reconciled to the situation.

Each message brings in some information regarding authentic details and the mystery, which for days shrouded the awful horror that was enacted on the great lakes Sunday night and early Monday morning, is gradually being lifted.

The passing hours have served to steel the anxious friends and relatives of the men aboard the missing boats, to anticipate the worst, and Spartan-like courage and resignation is taking the place of forlorn hope.

Today's developments add two more boats to the ever increasing list of doomed ships. The steel steamer Henry B. Smith has gone down in Lake Superior with her entire crew of 18 men. The Smith was 525 feet long and was commanded by Captain John Owen.

The dead bodies of the crews of the steamers Argus which was abandoned thirty miles from Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. The crew of the Major was picked up by the steamer Byers and taken to port. Captain Philip Rouvel, of Marine City, was in command of the Major and this morning The Times-Herald received word that a telegram had been received by relatives of Captain Rouvel in Marine City to the effect that the boat was gone but that the crew were safe.

Further developments of the day remove the steamers Midland Queen and the Butters from the list of missing boats, as both steamers have been reported safe in port.

The interest of the entire lake region now centers at the foot of Lake Huron and within a radius of ninety miles from Port Huron. Some place in this vicinity are the steamers Regina, Carruthers, Wexford, C. S. Price, Hydrus, McGean, Argus, Scott and the "mystery ship."

The latest dispatches now indicate that the steamers Wexford, Carruthers, Price, Argus, McGean and Regina are on the bottom within this radius, and the entire crews have gone to their death.

The dead bodies of the crews of the crews of the steamer Argus and Carruthers are coming ashore today in the vicinity of Kincardine and south of that Canadian point. Considerable wreckage from these two ships and also the Hydrus has been tossed up on shore and settles beyond any doubt that the three steamers have gone to their doom together with their crews.

In the morgue at Goderich, Ont., some sixty miles south of Kincardine are bodies from the Wexford, McGean, and Carruthers. These silent dead, encircled in the lifeboats of the boats on which they sailed on their last trip, are mute evidence of the awful disaster that befell these steamers.

At Port Frank and Thedford, 30 miles north of Sarnia, are bodies from the Price and the Regina. Four of the bodies from the steamer Price have been identified by Milton Smith, of this city and St. Clair relatives. One of the bodies, that of Arze MacIntosh, one of the youthful wheelsmen of the Price, was brought to this city this afternoon and is now at the sorrow stricken home in St. Clair.

Here is a list of the Price's dead that have been identified:

Chief Engineer John Groundwater, Cleveland. The Times-Herald last night sent a telegram to Groundwater's relatives apprising them of the identification.

Steward - Herbert Jones, of Superior.

Fireman - Chris Faulkner, New York City.

Wheelsman - Wilson McInnis, Owen Sound, Ont.

Wheelsman Arzie MacIntosh, St. Clair, Mich. Body taken to St. Clair today.

This in brief sums up the wreck situation in as few words as possible. There are, however, no words that can express the agony and torture and sorrow that exists in hundreds of homes today and any attempt to picture such a scene would be useless.

The mystery ship, as the overturned boat in Lake Huron has now become known, still holds her secret, carefully guarded by the murky waters of the lake.

This afternoon another attempt may be made to send a diver down to ascertain the name of the vessel. One of Reid's tugs was preparing to leave, although marine men were of the opinion that the high sea on the lake today would make it impossible for a diver to work.