The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-06-16
TWO LAKE STEAMERS
Meet IN COLLISION
Five Persons Lost on St. Law.
renee River by Sinking
of Vessel.
MANY WE'RE MI PERIL.
Steamer Canada, Which Sank Had ITO
Passengers on Board Nearly All of
Whom Were Rescued With
Difficulty.

Montreal, Quebec. June 1.-THE
Richelieu and Ontario Navigation com
pany's steamer Canada, bound from
Quebec for Montreal, came into COL
lision with the Dominion Coal COM
pany's collier, Cape Breton, six miles
below sorel. Twenty minutes later the
canada went to the bottom. At the
time OF the collision there were ITO
people on board the Canada; five were
lost, the others were rescued Those
who persisted were:
ALFRED THIBEAULT, ticket agent
or h company at Quebec.
TWO SONS OF ALFRED THU
BEAULT, aged IL and Is.
PURsER BONNETERE, of the Can
adj.
A man named Brunet, OF Sorel, Is
missing, and 1t Is supposed hat he has
persisted.
The collision occurred just as dawn
was breaking. The Cape Breton lay at
the entrance of the lake In St. Peter
channel, waiting for daylight so as to
find her way through. She was get
ting under way when the Canada. max
Ing for Sorel at full speed, came Into
view. Just what the collision was due
to and who is responsible for it has
not yet been made known, the officials
declining to talk, but from the state
ments given out 1t would appear that
the Cape Breton had not got Roadway
on enough to answer her rudder, and
that she swerved across the path of
the passenger boat, her bow striking
the Canada just forward Of the paddle
box on the s~tarboard side, and tearing
its way half through. Then the Cape
Breton swung clear and the two steam
ers came alongside each other.
Shock Aroused Passengers.
The shock of the collision aroused the
sleeping passengers. The Canada at
nY,n n NOR =. -. ~
Breton did not ppear to be seriously
damaged, the passengers were hurried
ly transferred to this steamer. In the
excitement some of the passengers
jumped overheard and were picked up
by boats from the Canada and the Cape
Breton.
Twenty minutes later, when the Can
ada went down alongside the Cape
Breton all the passengers who could b.
found had been transferred.
Ihfbeault and his two sons occupied
"a stateroom near where the Cape Bre-
tons bow entered the Canada, INC it Is
supposed that they were killed in the
herths. The body OF the father was re-
covered late In the day, but the remains
OF the sons have not yet been found.
Bonnetere, the purser, was seen after
the collision making his way to his
quarters on the lower deck with the
intention of saving the cash and the
records. 1t is supposed that he per-
ished in the attempt.
Brunei was a second class passenger,
and no n saw him after the collision,
though it Is possible that he vent
ashore with the crew OF one of the
boats which was sent to secure help
from SOral.
Assistance arrived about 4 O'Clock in
the afternoon In the steam barge Pre-
fontaine. The Prefontaine took the
passengers and crew to Sorel, and they
were brought to this city on board the
company's steamer Columbian.
Many Of the passengers who occupied
staterooms on the upper deck saved
their baggage, but those on the main
deck lost all their belongings.