The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1905-12-16
NINETEEN MEN
PERISH IN LAKE
Steamer Owen Founders in
Big Storm and Entire
Grew Is Lost.
VESSEL HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Cargo OF FIaxseed Shifts on the
Steamship Nye, but She Succeeds
In Making Port After Water Ruins
Half the Load.

Chicago dispatch: The Chicago
steamer Ira II. Owen, with n crew of
nineteen men. foundered on Lake Su.
perior during the great storm OF Nov.
2S, and every person on board per
!shea. The fate % ship and crew be
came certain Friday evening when the
steamer Sir William Siemens arrived
at Ashland and Captain NJ X Cham.
berlain reported passing through
wreckage from the owen, when
twelve miles east OF Michigan Island
In the Apostles group the Siemens ran
into mass OF chairs stanchions, the
top OF a cabin and other debris. and
floating In the midst OF Il were life
proseryers marked IS. s. Ira H..
Owen
In addition TO the owen disasters
10 five big ships were reported. IN.
creasing the list OF wrecks 10 forty.
three and swelling the property loss
70 s3.235.500. The total Of lives now
known to have been lost is forty one
Men Lost on owen.
The Owen was loaded Slth grain
from Duluth. The members OF the
crew, so far as could be learned, were
as follows:
]. b. Alger. second engineer.
II. Buchanan. first engineer.
Joseph Hulligan. captain.
Thomas Homer, first mate.
NJ. Haggerty, second mate.
b. ~ Hook. oiler.
j. Jacobsen, wheelman.
j. Knudsen, lookout.
l.. Montray. wheelman.
c. Mckay. lookout.
The last seen OF the owen was
when she was sighted about forty
miles on Outer Island OF the Apostle
group by the steamer Harold y. Nye,
when the storm was at It's height, Nov.
2S. The Owen was then blowing dis
tress signals, aud seemed 10 be in n
bad way. The Nye had all she could
do to keep afloat herself, and could
not respond to the signals Then the
snow set In again, shutting the dis
abled boat out from view. when a
lull came two hours afterward the yes
sci had disappeared.
Manager Gives Up Hope.
The manager OF the lost vessel Is
Captain J. g. Keith, 522 West Jack.
son boulevard. When Informed OF
the finding OF the wreckage Captain
Keith reluctantly admitted that all
hope was gone.
Il do not understand what could
have happened TO the owen" he said
she had a cargo OF 10000 bushels
OF barley which was a light load
for the ship. | spent thee days I'm
Duluth before ~ owen sailed, and
know no stea " ever went out in
more seaworthy condition"
Captain Joseph Hulligan was a vet.
eran In lake service. and was we'll
known at every important lake port.
The owen was built at Cleveland In
1887. and has always been consid-
cred especially stanch and sea
worthy. She was Insured for 800.
600.
Seldom does n ship have n more
narrow escape from laundering than
the steamer Nye experienced of Isle
Royale. Lake Superior. The Nye had
$4,000 worth OF faxseed on board
having left Duluth, Nov. 81 The
slippery cargo shifted in the gale. and
one man. William Sturteyant OF
Cleveland. the mate. was washed
overheard. The steamer Colonel laid
alongside the Nye for two hours.
When. after forty-eight hours, the
Nye succeeded in getting into Two
Harbors Friday. she was drawing
twenty-six feet or water forward,
when her marks should have shown
seventeen. IL was believed that the
water In the hold had ruined at least
half the cargo.