The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-10
|CAR FERRY SINKS
/ |NLAKEM|CH|GAN;
TH|RTYLOSEL|V[S
Worst Marine Disaster
in History of Lake
Traffic.
ANOTHER VESSEL,
BUSHES TO RESCUE
More Than Thirty Are Saved by
Heroic Work Of Second Fer
| ry Boat-Financia1 Loss Will
Amount to More Than
Half Million
Dollars.
ANOTHER VESSEL
BUSHES TO RESCUE

Ludinston, Mich. September o.
Thirty lives We're lost to-day, whom
Pere Marquette car ferry No. IS, pound
from Ludington to milwaukee,. went
way across the lake. The dead include
sezepanek of Chicago. purser ami
wireless operator. whose signals OF
distress brought assistance to the
sinking steamer. and two members OF
the crew of car ferry No. II. who lost
their lives in an effort to rescue the
crew of No. IS. ELI colhean, of sagt-
nav. Mich, member CT tho crew
OF No. Is, would make thirty-1r
victim. but 1t is believed that lie wss
not on board when No. Is set ont
from here last night on her fatal trip.
Peter Kitty. of Luding.on, captain.
Joseph Brezinski. mate. OF Mani
". II. Brown. second mare, o. Lua-4
S. F. sezepanek, purser. So G,ld
| Street. Worcester, Mass. s.
E r. Leedham, chief engineer. OF
! Ltding ton.
chalmer Rosencranz, assistant engi-
neer. of Northport, Mich.
neer. Ludngton.
unknown oiler, Norwegian.
| A. j. Mack, steward. Westflald N Y
/ w. Fl. Cummins. Webster and Hal
stead Streets, Chicago
John Schraufuagl cook, Milwaukee,
n L. Bertrand. passenger. Ludington.
Michael SaythaIer, fireman Forss.-
willie. Mich.
Samuel Bouchio. freman, River Bour-
Z. geois. n. S.
w Parker, fireman. Marine city.
Unknown fireman.
Mrs. Marion Turner. cabin maid. Lud-
: inston. 4 = -
Peter r., I. Hire watchman. Ludington.
II Unknown lookout
Ole Bakkcn, wheelman, Ludington.
> Joseph Marion. scruhber. Ludlngton.
| Two stoWaways. Tom Kelly and
!, brother. Detroit
Frank Warner, Chicago Frank, !"
;, tporter, Chicago.
i known.
Il Charles Jensen, oiler, Ludtngton
Joe Peterson, watchman, steamer No.
Jacob Jacobson, serubber. steamer
/ No. II. Ludington
The steamship company issued list
4 OF thirty-hve names of survivors Of
i the. wreck, all members of the crew.
and most of them were brought here
.so-night on Pere Marquette Car Ferry
Eight bodies were recovered, six be-
Ing brought here on cal. ferry No. II.
and two being taken to Milwaukee on
Purser sezepanek. steward Mack w
q. Cummins. N. L. Bertrand and Mrs.
Marion Mario Turner. ,I'1l,s One OF the bodies
i Joseph Breztnsk. The other was re-
ported to be that OF Joseph Koch but
as there Is James Koob in the list
\ regard to the second body taken to
4 milwaukee,. Koch does not appear In
the steamship company's list OF dead.
Cause Is Unknown.
| The cause of the disaster is envel-
i nn1 ofnrH
1 watch said that the boat was very
low at the stern when the first alarm
was given. He said they pushed twen-
! ty-nine railroad cars into the lake to
ease the vessel but without avail. Sey-S
4 mour Cochrane, of Chicago, another
survivor. said he was reading maga-
zine in his berth when cabin boy
4 raped on his door about 1880 A. M.
and shouted that the boat was sink
\ ing.
Cochrane tloated on cabin door un-
til picked up by No. II. The purser
had given him $1,000. which was due
| Cochrane's employers, after they had
/ delivered the boat to the Pere Mar
quette Railroad Company, they having
| leased her all summer But Cochrane
could not load himself down with ths
! coin and tied the money to the steam-
er's rail- as the boat went down.
| Many OF tle tllle uodts WcIe StoSS ~ s.
by wreckage tumbling in every direc-
ton on the tossing sea, the occupants
Of the small boats being thrown into
the water and many OF them drowned.
The sum total of the catastrophe !.
/ told In the fatal figures twenty-nlne
1 lives lost and financial ls;ss exceeding
! 100000
The story of the loss of car ferry
| Pere Marquette is constitutes the most
tragic and thrilling chapter yet writ
| ten In the history of the Lake Michlsanss 4
! marine.
Leaving Ludington last night at
I11:S0 o'clock, with fair but stin wind.
and twenty-nine loaded cars on deck.
the ferry made good weather FOR rvs
hours on its course to Milwaukee,
| AT 4;S0 o'clock word was sent TO
Captain Peter Kitty that his boat was
rapidly making water and that I've
pumps were unable to keep even WITH D
the Inflow. With full confidence In tho
stability and seaworthiness OF MS erait,
| the veteran car ferry navigator headed
his ship with all speed toward Sheboy-
gan, on the Wisconsin shore
The steamers pumps were worked 20 q
\ their fullest capacity and all the en-
pedients known TO skilled aKd To-
| sourceful mariner We're resorted 70. &
1 But In spite OF every effort the terrible
! fact dawned upon the captain and al Y
| on board that tho boat was sradaally
but surely sinking,
An effort was made 10 run nun
Iber OF railroad ears overheard and
| thus tighten the load and gain 4 few =
,[precious minutes With great dtftleul-3
| IL nine cars were dropped on the stern
iof No is, but ti,ls savo the. vessel oniy q
slight and temporary relief, s &
1 The shin was doomed, etlnotwit h-
I! standtnr this appare fact and In thu