Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-09-28
THE STEAMER DISASTER.
PARTICULARS OF 1T.

CoLLINGwooD, ONT, Sept. I'D
A. Thinks and Christy Ann Morrison, supposed
to be the only survivors of the wreck of the
steamer Asia, have arrived here. Thinks re-
ports that he boarded the Asia near owen
Sound, with j. II. Thinks and IL. b. Gallagher
of Manitou. The steamer was crowded. ALI
the staterooms were full and many passengers
lying on sofas and the cabin floor. About IL
o'clock Thursday morning storm struck the
YES eel. My uncle, j. H. Thinks, jumped up and
said the boat was doomed. Dishes and chairs
were flying in every direction. We left the
cabin and found difficulty In getting on deck,
the boat rolled 80 heavily. got life preserver
and put it on. The boat fell into the trough o
the sea and would moi obey the helm. She rolled
heavily for about twenty minutes, when she
was struck by heavy sea and foundered and
went down, with the engines working, about
1880. The Asia was making for French river
with men, horses and lumbermen's supplies for
the shanties. saw three boats loaded. Twas
In the 6rst. About eight were with me. At
first more got in, till the boat was overloaded
and turned over twice, people clinging TO my
liie-preserver, which got displaced and
threw ii off, 1 then loft thu boat and swan
to the captains 10 at, which was near by, and
asked John McDougall, the purser, to help
me IN. He said 1t was of hut little use, but
gave me hand. When got in there were
eighteen in the boat. By that time there was
larger number in and clinging to the boat /
had left 1 know nothing of the third boat.
a. h. cd nd II No
People were hanging to the spars and other
parts of the wreckage. Our boat was full
OF water and the sea continued breaking over
us. One OF the first to die in the boat was the
cabin boy He was dying, and being support
ed by one OF the men, when wave washed
him overheard.
The next to 60 was a boat hand, who jump
ed oft. / could see him padding around in
the water for nearly 100 yards. Our number
was now reduced TO seven, five of whom died
before reaching the beach. Capt. Savage, who
was the last, died In my arms about midnight
Thursday. John Little, OF Sault Ste. Marie
Mate Mcdonald and two others, names I'M
known, also died. The boat finally stranded
near Point au Barrie about daylight Friday
morning, with Miss Morrison and myself only
surviving. I put the bodies out on the beach
and pried the boat of with an oar, but did not
bail it out. Miss Morris and 1 went down
he beach il the beat to a derrick about two
miles distant, and laid on the beach all night
About O'Clock Saturday morning an Indian
came along, and engaged him 10 bring Us to
Parry Sound. He would not bring the bodies.
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
The steamer Northern Belle. of the same
line, which reached here this morning,
has been furnished with ice, etc, and has left
for the bodies. There were probably about
one hundred persons on board the Asia.
WITHOUT LICENSE.
TORONTO, September lS.-The Government
Inspector here states that the iii. fated steamer
Asia was running without license, having
been refused one on account OF carrying an
insufficient number Of life boats and life pre-
servers.
A man named Horace Young was run
over by Lake Shore d Michigan Southern
railroad train about a mile and half north Of
Dorr last night and was instantly killed, his
head being severed from bis body and carried
several rods aud the body frightfully mangled.
II Is supposed he W drunk and had laid down
upon the track.
a. safe in Peter b. Sanborn's elevator
Office at Croswell was cracked by burglars, but
as there was no money in 1t the burglars were
disappointed.
Goggins. the Grand Rapids man who
killed his wife by stabbing her Fl times, is not
satisfied with the verdict of the jury cenvicting
bin.