Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-25
STEAMER RAMMED
F. BY ANOTHER SINKS;
18 PERSONS LOST
Vessels Back Broken and 1t Goes
Down Before Boats Can
Be Lowered
TRAGEDY ON LAKE HURON
Captain, 2 Passengers and 3
Members of Crew Only
Persons Saved
'RAGEDY ON LAKE HURON
ASSOCIATED Press]

ASSOCIATED PressJ
n ORT HURON, Mich, May 24.-Fol-
lowing is the list of missing who
Il are believed to have lost their
lives in the sinking of the steamer
Frank Goodyear:
MRS. LILLIAN BASSETT, wife of
steward.
JOHN BASSETT, aged 3.
GUS ZAETSCH, first mate.
ARCHIE FULLER, second mate.
JOHN GIBSON, chief engineer.
WHEELSMAN JACOB PLERGIS,
South Chicago.
JOHN PAPP, Cleveland.
WILLIAM PITT, watchman, Mid
WILLIAM SCHLUETER, watchman,
Milwaukee.
LOUIS KRAMER, deckhand, Keno
sha, Wis.
IVOR CARTER, deckhand, Kenosha.
FRED HERMAN, deckhand, Chey-
boygan, Mich.
Chicago.
WILLIAM ROMERT, oiler, Carson
vile, Mich.
HOWARD SHOOK, oiler, Au Sable,
Mich.
VANDERSLAW KLUBOZEWSKI,
South Chicago, and
ERNEST STREEK, Kenosha, Wis.
Man, name not given.
Families and friends of the missing
eighteen members of the crew of the
steawer Frank Goodyear, which sank
Monday off Point Aux Barques, after
being rammed amidships by the steam
er James B. Wood, tonight practically
gave up hope that any of the missing
persons have ben rescued.
The steamer Sir William Siemens,
said to have picked up some of the
missing crew, passed Detour today and
made no report of any survivors on
| board.
Four of the rescued members of the
crew have gone to the Goodyear head
quarters in Cleveland, and Mrs. Emma
Bassett, the only other survivor, IS
still at Port Huron.
The Goodyear, operated by Mitchell
& Co. of Cleveland, was coming from
Lake Superior, laden with ore. The
Wood, owned by the Gilchrist Trans
portation company of Cleveland, was
going up light. There was little sea at
| the time. and fog is held responsible
| for the accident.
The Goodyear was sunk in forty-sev-
en- fathoms of water. The steamer
James B. Wood of Cleveland which
| struck the Goodyear bow on came into
Port Huron harbor today with a big
hole in her bow, carrying half a dozen
| survivors from lIl6 OOOuy ScA' hO AeN'-
ter carried a crew of twenty-tnree men
and several passengers.
ONLY SIX ARE SAVED
CAPTAIN F. r. Hemenger of Algonac,
| Mich. who commanded the Goodyear;
| chief Engineer Gibson; Steward David
Bassett; one wheelsman and two pas
sengers, Mrs. Thomas II. Bassett and
he'd daughter of Mariane City. Mich,
were saved and brought to Port Huron
on the steamer Wood.
The Goodyear was struck amtdships
on the starboard side and the bow or
the Wood was punctured.
In a moment it was seen that the
| GOODYEAR was doomed, as she began
rapidly to fill with water. Every one
on board was supplied with Ire pre-
server. and every effort made to man
and launch the small boats. But the
water poured into the hold so fast that
the heavy matches were forced from
their frames by the pressure from un-
derneath and shot into the air in every
direction, and the falling hatches
snread injury and death among the
| terrified crew and passengers. WIN
his infant child in his arms, steward
I9assett had almost reached safety IN
| one of the life boats when one OF the
! t,Iunhling matches snatched the baDy
from his arms. The little one fell INTO
tbe lake and was drowned despite the
frantic efforts of it's father to rescue II.
When the Goodyear settled beneath
| tho surface of the water 1T was eVl-
dent she was practically broken IN
two. the action of the water having
completed the destruction begun py
the blow received In the COLLISION