The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13
 TWENTY-TWO
 LOSE LIVES
 ---e-- A Fine Steel Ship Goes
 Down. ONLY ONE PERSON SAVED Graphic Account of Crews Last Moments on Board.
 -s- steamer Wa. Making Fairly Good wessher in storm When The Cafse shifted. causins .
 Heavy List.
" ONE PERSON SAVED

E Salt Ste Marie, Mich. Oct. 12--Bound down from the head of the lakes on the second trip she had made since
 being launched at Lorain. Ohio. on August n, last. the fine steel freighter Cyprus 40 feet long and owned by the 'Lackawanna Company of Cleveland, foundered last night In Lake Superior. twenty-two members of the crew.
 Second mate c. J. Pitt, washed ashore
 iashed to e life raft, is the only person left alive of the ships people and his
 condition is so critical that, since he
 was found on the beach. he has only
 been able to gasp out the name of the
 sunken ship and the fact that twenty
 two lives were lost Pitt is suffering
 from the dreadful exposure in the lev
 waters of Lake Superior. in addition
 to the buffeting he received from
 breakers.
 Until he recovers sufficiently to talk,
 the story of the wreck and the exact
 cause of the stout steel ship founder- ing will not be definitely known. Deer Park is about thirty miles South of Grand Marais on the shore of Lake
 Superior Several bodies from the wreck have been washed ashore and two are known to be those of the first mate and watchman.
 The names Of but five of the drowned lpersons are definitely known. They are az follows:
 Captain. F. B. Huyick. of sheridan. N. Y.
 First mata John Smith of cleveland.
 Engineer. ,. P. Norcross. of GowandA. | N. Y.
 Cooks. s. N. Dupdon and wife. Mate Pitts Tells story. Recovering consciousness after hours
 of constant nursing, Second Mate Pitt of the steamer Cyprus, gave a graphic account of the last moments of the
 crew on board the iil-fated vessel. The mate said the Cyprus was mak- | ing fairly good weather ih the storm wilen suddenf' the cargo shifted gfv- | Ing the craft a heavy list. This was about ' p. IEs.. when the vessel was | off Deer Park in the regular course oi | vessels bound up. and down. Water began pouring in the hatches and . panic ensued, many of the crew put ting on life preservers.f Captain Huy- ick, however, felt confident he could | reach shelter behind White Fish Point,
 and the boats were not lowered. End pumps were working and the crew felt sure the vessel would not sink without warning. But suddenly the big freighter rolled over on her side and almost Instantly plunged to 
 | the bottom.
 When the vessel rolled over, the first and second mates. watchman and | wheelman, were close to life raft which they cut loose and cast off just l in time to escape the whirlpool caused | by the cyprus as she plunged beneath 1 the surface of the water. The boat sank about 8 o'clock in the evening and until 2 a. m. the four men clune to their fraIl support while the waves | drove them toward shore. Five times I in the angry surf of the rocky shore | the raft was upset the men each time having to fight the heavy undertow for their lives.
 Each light weakened the benumbed | ana desperate sailors, and after the | fifth battle with the surf. only one oi the quartet remained upon the raft Rut the next time the raft was caught unon the surf, 1t was thrown upon the l beach. The mate just had enough
 strength left to crawl out of reach oi
 the waves before he fell exhausted
 where he was later found by the patrol | of the life saving station.