The Detroit times., 1909-12-11
HOPE .ABANB0hEl
FOR CAR FERRY's
CREW Of 81
Wives and Children Stand All Night
at Wharf in Conneaut, But Vessel
men Say Men Undoubtedly
Have Perished.
Tug Sent in Quest Of Missing Ferry'
Returns After Thorough Search
With No News. ~

With No News.
CREW OF NO. .
MATTER ROBERT n. MCLEOD. Ces-
FIRST NATE JOHN C. MCLEOD, Fort
Huron. Mich. ~
SECOND NATE FRANK STONE, Cs.-
CHIEF ENGINEER EUGENE woOb.
First ASSISTANT e. BUTLER, Con-
SECOND ASSISTANT THOMAS KEN
AEDN, Connenut.
OiLER J. WIRTZ, Conneaut.
anSpY 4 nan 1MS G MsSr So.....
FiREMAN W. WIGGLHwoRTH. Cor
FIREMAN J.. COOK, Connesut.
PURsER n. G.. SMITH. C0nneaut. 4
STEWARD GEORGE n. SMITH, Cen~
W,,HEELsMAN :: CLANCY: Cen.es.s.
MATCHMAN =. ANNIs, Conneaut.
WATCHMAN y. WALKER. Conneaut.
COOK THOMAS, eonneaut. ~
WAITER }. swARTz, Conneaut
PORTER q. LAWRENCE. Conneaut.
SEAMAN r. HARVEY, Connesut.
SEAMAN T.. HUGHES, Conneaut.
SEAMAN VI. SHARP. Connesut.
sEAMAN ID. RAIL-, Conneaut.
SEAMAN n. CLEAyER, Conneaut.
COAL PAssER II. HINE, Conneaut.
C0AL rAssER >: HING. Conneaut.
COAL PAssER y. PAsSER. Connenuf.
COAL PAssER J. c. HAGEN, Cos-
neaut.
CLEVELAND. Dec. 11.-Nothing
more has been heard from the steel
lifeboat Of the Clarion, containing Il
men, or from the small boat that left
the steamer W. c. Richardson, near
Buffalo. with five men in It. The
death list from the burning and sink
ing OF the Clarion and the sinking OF
the Richardson seems likely to remain
at 20 persons, including a woman.
washed from the Richardson The
loss OF life on AXE Erie in the four
days storm Of this week, with 80 hav-:
ing perished on the steel car ferry,
Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, reaches
the appalling total Of So.
, CONNEAUT, Ohio, Dec. 11.-AlI
hope has been abandoned for The
crew OF 80 of the big car ferry Mar
quette & Bessemer No. .. Vessemen
say there is not one chance in
thousand that the boat can be safe.
Wives and children of members of
the crew were grouped all night at
the wharf in the hope OF getting some
wcrd of their loved ones.
The car ferry left Conneaut o..
bound for Port Stanley, Tuesday
forenoon at 10 O'Clock, with the wind
freshening. She had on her usual
consignment of 80 cars, and a crew
OF 81, including the captain and other
officers. he only news heard of her
from the hour she left was a rumor
from Port Dover to the effect that
she was lying in shelter behind Long
Point a tug sent out by the COM
pany Tuesday morning returned Fri
day with the report that hours Of
scouting behind the point and for a
long line of coast failed to discover
a trace of her. Her sister ship, No.
l. which left Conneaut about the
same time. arrived at Rondeau, Ont,
early Thursday.
on the arrival of No. |, the COM
pany sent her east and tug west, in
search Of the missing ferry. A con
tinuous search for 20 hours proved
fruitless.
A Cleveland dispatch last hight
says that wreckage reported by the
steamer w. B. Davock is from the
lost car ferry. Among the wreckage
was discerned a green metallic small
boat. which is said TO answer thc~lc-
scription of the ferry yawls. Fhe
same dispatch says that the yagl of
the Clarion. in which Capt. Bell and
his men we're lost. was white
Other vessels arriving i'm Cleveland
late last night report the same wreck
age viewed by the Davock. and the
captains say 1t is without doubt from
the car ferry.
That the car ferry had stormy
time and came near laundering two
weeks ago on the same run. Is an
other report. II states that the boat
shipped seas from her open stern
until she carried eight feet of water
in her hold. and that Capt. Mcleod
was seriously considering the adj
visibility of running his load Of cars
into the lake To lighter the boat.
when the pumps showed gain. and he
made port safely.
a. Leslie general manager OF the
Marquette a. Bessemer Dock e. Navi-
cation Co. Vaudeville and Conneaus,
with incorporation in Jersey City, n.
J.. owners of the boat. said last
night:
We are hoping against hope. but
there is little doubt in our minds hut
that No. . has gone TO the bottom
with all ON hoard F"