St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-08
TWENTY-FIVE GO DOWN.
STEAMER ALBANY, LOADED WITH
GRAIN, rs LOST.
ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED.

Collision With the Propeller Phil.
adelphia, Which Was Loaded
With Coal and Merchandise,
and Bound for Duluth he
Two Boats Valued at Il Quar-
ter of a Million Dollars.
SAND BEACH, Mich, Nov. THE
propeller Albany. of the Western Tran
sit company, loaded with grain. and the
propeller Philadelphia, of the Anchor
line. loaded with coal and merchandise,
collided off Point auXBarques in dense
fog: sunk in 200 feet of water. Cap
taihs of both boats, with twenty-one
men, got ashore at O'Clock this morn
ing at Port aux Barques. The Phila-
delphia struck the Albany head on. for
ward of the two gangways. All hands
got on the Philadelphia; she towed the
Albany half an hour. when the Albany
sunk. The Philadelphia went down
thirty minutes after. Both crews left
in two boats; only one has re ched
shore yet.
Reports just received state that the
remaining boat, which contained TWEEN
ty-five men, was sunk, and all perishe ed.
Eleven bodies have been recovered.
The Albany was bound from Chicago
to Buffalo, with grain and general mer-
chandise, and the Philadelphia was
bound from Buffalo to Duluth. with
coal anu miscellaneous cargo. Both
were steel steamers. The Albany was
built in Detroit in 1884, was worth $780,
nd ic hai n hn tiail y in
sured. The Philadelphia was built by
David Bell at Buffalo in 1867, and was
valued at $4,000.
The eleven bodies were found by the
lite-saving crew at Point aux Barques.
CHICAGO, Nov. mo steamer Oh
our line" Mr.. Mcmillan added, lever
made more money or ran with more
clock-like regularity than did the AL
banY. There were two boats built
exactly alike by the Detroit Dry Dock
company IN 1884. They were the Al
bany and the Syracuse. These boats
proved such perfect successes that they
have been the models of all our subse-
Queut boats, and | have nc doubt that if
the Western Transit company were to
build half dozen more they would be
practically duplicates of the Albany,
with the exception of size. Until we
have particulars as to the collision, |
cannot of course pass any opinion, but
at present | cannot imagine that Capt.
Macdonald could have been at fault
Both boats being sunk, there is no
possibility Of legal complications over
the collision, as when a boat, whether
at fault or not, is lost, the responsibility
of her owners comes to an end.
The hard luck which has followed the
Anchor line ever since midsummer re-
ceved general comment along Sherman
street, This is the fourth boat that has
been either stranded or sunk, and the
aggregate losses now exceed S150,000.
DETROIT. Nov. IA special dispatch
to the News from Sand Beach, Mich,
says:
Life-saving crews we're out all the
morning. and found Boat No 2 upside
down. They picked up eleven bodies
with life preserverS on. and it is sup
posed that the whole crew of twenty
four men are drowned, eight of the Al
bany's crew and the balance of the
PhiIadelphia's crew.
The bodies were put on the steamer
Concord, bound south. The harbor
master at Sand Beach is searching for
the rest of the bodies with the tug Sand
Beach.
The names of the Albany's crew
crowned are: .. Is. Mulrhead, chief
engineer; James Motley, second eDgi-
neer; Thomas PIERCE, second mate :;
Job Price, Waterman; S. M. Murtrie,
waiter; William Sturrah, porter; Frank
Keithen, deck hand; Albert Holm, deck
hand,
The names of the lost crew of the
Philadelphia are: G. M. Leggett, first
engineer; Jerry Moran. second engineer;
j. Hunt first mate; A. Hanna, second
mate; w. Gibbs, wheelsman; c. Lin
quist, wheelsman; - Crown, lookout;
- Renshaw, lookout; Williams,
watchman; S. Coffee, fireman; John
Paint, fireman; G. Labelle. fireman; ;
George Reiderwaster, cook; George