The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-07-12
MANY RESCUED
BY LIFE SAVERS
U. s. SERVICE ALSO HAS SAVED
TEN MILLION DOLLARS IN
PROPERTY. SHIPS
AIDED.

During the fiscal year of 1910 th'
United states life-saving service sue
cored G6i persons. most of the rescuei
being made under the most hazardou!
circumstances, and saved property
valued az $1O.051,1G0. The annual re-
port of that department Is fttins
testimonial TO the efficiency and worti
of the service. The patrols eXtenc
along the Atlantic, Pacific and Gull
coasts as well as along the waters OF
the great lakes.
Two items I'm the summary OF oper-
atoms for the year attract special at
tention, namely the number of vessels
appearing i'm the tabulation of casual
ties and the preponderance of gaso-
line motor boats. The figures for 1910
with regard To the number of persons
endangered and the values of the YES
sells and cargoes imperiled within the
scope of the service are not especially
noteworthy i'm a comparative sense, be-
ing considerably less than the same
figures i'm last years report. The num-
Der of lives lost during the two years
would have been Identical but for the
lamentable wreck of the schooner
Czarina near the entrance To Coos Bay.
ore Jan. ~. 1910. when 23 men out
Of crew of "a perished under condi-
tlons that made a rescue by any hui
man agency impossible.
The number of vessels reported dur
ing the year as having been disabled
or wrecked was l,i63. OF this number
Az belonged to the documented class
and 1.04G To the undocumented, the
latter class including a majority of the
motor boats and smaller craft.
49 Big Vessels Lost.
OF the 304S persons on board the
documented vessels 80 lost their lives.
The undocumented vessels carried
3,Ol3 persons, of whom II persisted.
Forty eight vessels of the larger class
and 2G of the smaller were totally lost.
OF the 1,463 vessels involved. 552
were on the great lakes. Fifteen of
these vessels were totally lost, but
out of 2,161 persons on board the inn
periled vessels only one life was lost.
At the great lakes life saving stations
13S persons were succored during the
year. The value of the property in
volved i'm the list amounted to $i,402,-
435 and the value of tho property lost
only amounted To $339.110.
The life-saving crews rendered as
sistance to 2.1O1 vessels in distress
during the year. Most of the acct
dents were on the Atlantic coast.
During the year 756 motor craft.
large and small. were involved in ae-
these boats constitute SO per cent of
the entire number of vessels of all
classes that sustained casualties dur
ing 1910, and that they carried 2.747,
or Al per cent. of the 6,661 persons
aboard the vessels mentioned in the
lists. only three of the motor boat ac-
that occurred during the year
resulted i'm fatalities, and six persons
lost their lives. Disabled engines were
responsible for $50 of the motor boat
accidents.
There were % foreign vessels in
volved i'm disaster during the year
within the scope of operations of the
live saving establishment, all except
two of which were documented. Great
Britain appears first In the tabulation
of accidents with 90 vessels. 10 of
which are of Canadian registry. Ger
many follows next, with two vessels,
then Norway, Austria. Italy and Spain
with one vessel each.
1877 Rescued From Peril.
The members of the life-saving
crews fiji variety OF helpful offices
during the year. as the report shows.
A total of 1877 persons In danger OF
losing their lives. suffering serious in
pury, or in distress from exposure to
storm and flood, were rescued in the
course of the year. OF these 132 were