Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-10

LUDINGTON. Mich. September TO-
IS. o. $. Car ferry No. Is. Sinking
For Gods sake. Help
This message, repeated Ger and Ger
flashed across Lake Michigan about J
o clock yesterday morning, and startled
wireless operators on dozen vessels
into instant activity.
They tried to break i'm on the message
to ascertain the location OF the sinking
ship. but the man at the sending ap-
paratus could not be stopped. He kept
repeating that desperate message for
more than an hour.
Silence Announces Tragedy.
Then the wireless stopped. Instantly
other operators flashed queries through
the air, and repeatedly called the num-
Der of the Inflated vessel. But no re-
ply came, and all realized that the ship
had gone down to the bottom of the lake.
Details of the sinking OF the big car
ferry No. IS were brought in by car
ferry No. IL, a sister ship OF the one
calling for help. No IL started out from
Ludington Immediately on receipt OF the
first call to search for the sinking YES
sci. Full steam ahead was the order,
and the big steel ferry sped over the
route taken by No. IS when she left here
at 40 Thursday night.
No IL arrived on the scene, forty miles
from Sheboygan, just in time 10 see NO
Is go down with swirl and to rescue
some of the survivors.
Late last night she returned. Her nags
were at half-mast as she entered the mar.
Dor here bearing the bodies of six oil
the crew of the Inflated ship and thirty
three survivors. Two other dead were
recovered and two other survivors were
brought in by car ferry No. 20 and taken
to Milwaukee, according to oficers OF the
Pere Marquette railroad, owner OF the
vessel 1t was announced that twenty
nine lives were lost when the big vessel
went down.
Sinks in Middle of Course.
Car Ferry No. * left here Thursday
bound for Milwaukee with fun cargo
Of twenty mine cars, eleven loaded with
coal and eighteen with miscellaneous
freight. She was half way across the
lake when the accident occurred, which
caused her to sink.
The vessel is one of six owned by the
Pere Marquette railroad, and had just re-
sumed her place in the line after being
away at Chicago for two months, car
fNlng piCnlcheIs
The vessels are all equipped with wire
less apparatus, ana when Purser Seze-
panek of Chicago, who was also the wire
less operator, began calling for help, No
IL, on her way to Ludngton from Mil
waukee, responded. as did also No. 20,
which had just left Ludington.
No IL got there first, and was in time
to see the doomed vessel goto the bottom.
Her crew went TO work with VIII 10
rescue the living and recover all the DEAD
they could. Then late yesterday they
came on here with the story of the wreck.
The bodies brought here are those OF
Capt Peter Kitty, Mrs. Marian Turner,
cabin maid and y. J.. Bertrand, all OIL
Ludington: Albert Mack. steward. OF Chi
cago: William Cummins OF the Chicago
Navigation Company. and Stephen Seze-
panek, Chicago wireless operator.
Two other bodies. those of Joseph
Brezinski. first officer. of Manitowoc and
Joseph Koch of Ludington. were taken
to Milw aukee on board car ferry No. 70
There was a moment of intense silence
as the big black steamer came through
the piers into the harbor.
Then men and women turned upon one
another and fought and struggled with in
sane eagerness TO get first tfdings OF the