The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-01-24
Fifty-four Crafts of All Kinds Have
Succumbed to the Perila
of Navigation.

81 Ooners-tOnnage 2253, value S2l,VOO.
Total tonnage, 21,6223;, value, $745,0O0:
through stranding, 10 foundered. s wa
terlogged and went to pieces, 2 were
sunk by collision, and II were destroyed
by fire. Pains has been taken to ex-
clude from the list all vessels which be-
came constructive total losses and there
fore had to be paid for by the under
writer's, but which are still in existence;
definitely determined after the announce
ment that they had met with disaster.
PROMINENT among the vessels thus omit
tea are. the steamers Elhnmere, Avon,
Hennepin and tug keystone, which suf-
t Etsel hre damage, and the steamers Eliza
on Lake Superior. The chronology fol-
lows:
March 9-Steamer White Star destroyed
by fire at Port Huron.
May 2-Canadian fishing tug Tecumseh
1o~ia sao off Gore bay Light Grand Mani
MS sister, and man passenger drowned.
May 1O-Steamer Bon Voyage burned on
Lake Superior near Houghton. Two women
ana TWO children passengers drowned
ice in st. Clair river near Port Huron.
Detroit.
May 13-Schooner Narragansett. en- route
to Port Huron for repairs, sunk in Lake
May 14--steamer Hero destroyed by fire
near Relleville. Ont
May 21-Barge Montmorency wrecked on
one of the Charity islands in Saginaw bay.
Nay p Steamer Baltimore totally
wrecked off Point Sable, Lake Huron. Capt.
Place, his wife, and eleven of the crew
saved.
May 24-schooner II. Rand, laden with
slabs, waterlogged: capsized and went to
Capt: Jefferson, his daughter, and two sail
ors drowned:
May 24schooner Dollie NJ, stranded and
wrecked in Green bay.
June 29-T9g Fern foundered off Eagle
of four men drowned.
July 7-Small steamer Alberta. coal-laden,
wrecked Oh Lake Ontario near Cape Vim
cent.
July 9-Tug Sir Luke wrecked on the
north shore Of Green bay.
July 26- Tug Joseph Goldsmith sunk at
entrance to straight channel in Maunee;
bay. Afterward run into by passing yes!
sells and totally wrecked.
July 29,Whalebaek barge Sycamore, ore
laden; sunk by collision off Point IroQuofs
Lake Superior. Captain and two of the
crew drowned.
loaded with brick, destroyed by fire near
Depere. Wis.
August 7-schooner Smith 4 Pest, per-
forming lightship, service on Southeast
shoal, Lake Erie. destroyed by fire.
: August 1O-Barge Thomas P. Sheldon, ore
laden. sunk off Au Sable, Lake Huron. by
collision with her consort steamer Waverly
August so-sehooner Driver, laden with
hardwood lumber, waterlogged, capsized
and went to pieces off Point au Bees Scies,
Lake Michigan.
September 3-Canadian steamer John ],
Long burned in Georgian bay.
September barge Amaranth. laden with
lath, wrecked on Lake Huron near St. Clair
| river.
September 9--Schooner Sea Gen. laden
with hardwood lumber, wrecked south OF
harbor at Manitowoc.
September 15-Barge Jupiter, lumber
and vent ta to pieces
drowned.
September 15-Schooner G. Ellen. laden
with wood. waterlogged off Milwaukee and
went to pieces.
September 16--Western line steel steamer
Eagle River. Lake Superior. Entire crew
Of twenty-four persons lost.
September 17-Canadian steamer Saturn.
coal-laden, foundered In Lake Huron.
September 17-Steamer City of Cleveland.
ore-laden, wrecked near Cove island, Gecr-
gian bay.
September 2o-steamer Fedora, without
cargo: DESTROYED by fire near Chequamegon
bay, Lake Superior.
September 2HBarge Dacotah wrecked in
Georgian bay near Wharton.
September 28-Fishing tug Empire burned
! near the mouth of Detroit river.
September % Schooner Ella Ellenwocd,
laden with wood and bark, wrecked thir-
teen miles north Of Milwaukee.
September-Steamer T. S. Paxton de:
stroyed by fire at Marine City.
October 2-Steamcr NJ. NJ Drake, ore
laden, foundered off Vermillion point, Lake
October 2--Barge Michigan. oreladen,
foundered off Vermillian point, Lake Su-
perior.
October 12-schooner William Stone. lur,-
ber-iaden, wrecked in Cecil bay, Straits Of
October 12-Barge Elvina wrecked on
Thunder Bay island, Lake Huron.
October 12-Barge Mont Blanc, coal-laden,
foundered near the head of Lake Erie.
October 1S-Steamer Swallow, lumber
Lake Erie.
October 19-Barge Montgomery. lumber
laden: waterlogged on Lake Superior, drift
ed ashore and went to pieces. " -
October 30-Schooner Christine Nicholson,
undertaken, wrecked in Big Ray de
Nocque, Green bay.
November 7-Schooner Eureka, lumber
laden, waterlogged and went to pieces on
Lake Huron. Wife Of mate drowned
November 7-steamer A: B. Taylor de-
stroyed by fire at Grand Haven, Mich.
:. November 9--Schooner George E. Irving,
laden with cedar, waterlogged and went to
pieces on Saginaw bay, Lake Huron
November 9-SchOoner Emily Taylor. laden
with wood, wrecked twenty miles north of
MenOmfnee, Mich.
November 11-Steamer Porter Chamber
lain lumber-laGen, stranded on Dartch is
land In Georgian bay and burned.
November 11-Barge FL. J. Webb, consort
Of the Porter Chamberlain, stranded on
Dartch island and burned.
November 12-Schooner Peoria. laden with
wood, wrecked at Bailey's Harbor, Lake
Michigan.
November ,14-Barge Marine City, laden
with pulpwood, stranded on Scarecrow is
land, Lake Huron, and went adrfft after
the crew had left her. Later was picked
up by the Canadian steamer India and
t0wed to anchorage off Goderich, Ont,
where she went to pieces, drowning salvage
crew Of four persOns. -, :. :.
November 21-Schooner Pride, partly load.
ed with potatoes, wrecked In Washington
November 2e-sehooner Caledonia, loaded
with wood and Christmas trees, wrecked
at Glen Haven. Mich. =. = z n -5
November 29-steamer w. L. Wetmore.
lumber.laden, totally wrecked on Rabbit
island In Georgian bay. 5@ss@ 80 l=s.s
November 29-BarKe James c. King. lu1n.
hef.laden, totally wrecked On Rabbit island
In (3A0RRfan heY.s