The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-28
WRECKED IN THE HARBOR
The City of Duluth Goes to Pieces
on Sand Bar.
THROWN AGAINST A PIER
Seventeen Passengers and the Crew
Saved From the Sinking Ship-Mrs.
William Tryon Was Badly
Frozen and viii Die.

| St Joseph. Mich, Jan. 27.-The big
| grain steamer City of Duluth arrived
off this port from South Chicago last
night at $50 o'clock and attempted to
enter the harbor. There was a tre.
mendouS wind from the northwest, and
a very heavy sea rolling. The Duluth
kept on her course into the harbor and
at the mouth of the river struck "A bar
ana was thrown heavily against the
north pier, breaking in two Immediate
~. The mammoth steel arches on
either side of The boat gave way i'm
mediately, and the bow of the boat
dropped two or three feet A large
hole was stove in the port side of the
boat as she swung around and she
went to the bottom in an nour, Ieav-
ing only her cabin and part of her bull
warks above water.
The two big tugs, Morford and Pro-
lection. which had accompanied the big
boat on her trip across the lake made
several desperate attempts to reach her
and get the passengers off, but they
were unsuccessful. The life-saying
crew was summoned and reached the
scene OF the disaster in quick time
considering that they had disbanded for
the winter. AT midnight they had shot
a mortar line to the boat and the res
cue began. The first one to be taken
ashore was August kerwein a business
man of this city. He dipped into the
water several times during the perilous
trip, and was badly frozen when he
was pulled out ON to the pier. The rest
or the passengers We're taken ashore in
this manner, one at a time. There
were IL passengers and % of the crew
captain Mclean was the last to leave
being taken off at 5 o'clock this morn
ing. There We're several ladies on
board. The members or the lfe-saving
crew took turns going out in the car
after them. Mrs. William Tyron is now
dying from the effects of the trip. She
was in delicate condition and was
badly frozen and seized with nervous
prostration. There is no hope for her
to live.
The City of Duluth had heavy cargo
OF corn and -four and deck load of
for 10 al merchants There |
is no nope OF saving anything of the |
wreck, as there is a very high sea roll |
ing. No boat can reach her and she is |
rapidly gong 10 pieces. The engineer |
SAYS that when the boat struck tho |
engine jumped foot and was immedi |
ately torn TO pieces. The water rushed
IN ana put out the fires, and the fire
man barely escaped up the ladders
fhe floor of the deck gave a mighty
iedVe upward and the passengers were
-hrown into the widest confusion.
The city Of Duluth was an old Int
'taunch steamer. She was under char
er OF the Graham & Morton Transpor-
alton company, carrying principally
through freight from Chicago to this
,ort, in connection with the Big -Four.
she was owned by the Lake Michigan
ma Superior Steamship company. Her
was about 900 tons and her
'alue $4,000. She was laden with
'ackage freight and grain. The
teamer Is we'll insured and it is un-
erstood there is $4,000 insurance on
Ter cargo. ON several previous trips
he struck on the bar while entering
his harbor.
The spot where the City of Duluth
truck is the same dangerous sand bar
Z the mouth of the harbor on which |
he ill-fated Chicora and it's hapless
rev went down three years ago. al
lost to day. 1t is one of the most
angerous and dreaded spots on the
asst shore and its exposed situation in {
west wind and the tortuolIs channel
lake 1t point of peril which mariners
pproach with anxiety and pass with
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