Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
IS SHIPS, I40 LIVES
LOST IN BLIZZARD
TWENTY OTHER VESSELS IN GREAT
LAKES GO ASHORE.
FROZEN BODIES ASHORE
The Total Loss Of Life and Property in
Four Days Storm Is Probably the
Greatest in History-Death List
May Increase.

and property in the four days storm
which swept the Great Lakes is just
beginning to be counted. Revised re-
ports received show that at least thir-
teen steamers were wrecked and are abb
solute losses. Twenty others are known
to have gone ashore, while more than
twenty-five are missing. The dead or
missing so far known totals $40 and 1t
ia known the list may reach 200 when
missing steamers are heard from. The
loss ON known wrecked steamers is 81
100000. This is exclusive of cargoes.
Most of the boats had cargoes OF iron
ore, coal and grain. The loss on this
will be heavy, but any estimate al this
time would be mere guess work.
Two important additions to the liSt
of wrecks came from Lake Huron. They
were the steamers James Carruthers,
the largest freighter on the lakes, which
sank near Goderich, and the Charles
Price, lost off Grand Bend. The Car
ruthers carried a crew of twent y-tive,
and the Price twenty-eight. All hands
were reported lost. Lake Superior add
cd twelve to the death list. The barge
Buffers, which left Fort William FRI
day, has not been heard from since, and
hopes for her safety nave been aban-
doned.
The vessel wrecked On Angus Island,
in Lake Superior, has been identified as
the Leafield. Her crew of fifteen is
missing. The identity of the steamer
which turned turtle near Port Huron,
in Lake Huron, is still a mystery. She
may be one of three vessels, all miss
ing-the Wexford, the Regina or the f..
A. S. Clark. The tug Martin, reported
lost off st. Martins Island, in Lake
Michigan, is safe. The lost vessel was
the barge Plymouth, which sank with a
crew of seven.
The bodies washed ashore near Kettle
Point, on the Canadian side of Lake
Huron, and supposed to be from the
Northern Queen, were really from the
Regina. The crew of the Northern Queen
was saved. When the vessel struck
near Port Frank, Ontario, the sailors
were unable to launch their boats. They
donned life preservers and jumped into
the raging, waters The waves carried
them out and in, finally tossing them
close enough to the beach for a party
of young farmers, protected against be-
ing washed away themselves by life
lines, to rush into the water and seize
them. Most of the sailors were uncon-
scious when taken out.
The dead and missing are apportioned
as follows:
Lake Huron-Charles S. Price, 20.
James Carruthers, rs; Regina, 20; Wex-
ford, 20 ;E. A. S. Clarke, 20; barge
Halstead, S-total, 121.
Lake Superior-Leafield, IS; barge
Buffers, IL. William Nottingham, 3
total, 30.
Lake Michigan:
Barge Plymouth, 7.
Lake Erie:
Lightship No. SO, 6.
A complete list of the known disas.
ters:
Lake Huron:
Overturned vessel near Port Huron.
May be either the Wexford, Regina or
E. A. S. Clark. All are missing. Com
bined crews total so.
James Carruthers, sunk, Goderich,
Ont, with crew of 25.
C. NJ. Hanna, wrecked at Point Aux
Barques. Crew of 33 saved.
Charles S. Price, lost off Grand Bend
with crew of 2s. Fifteen bodies recov-
cred.
Unknown lumber vessel, wrecked near
Alpena.
Barge Halstead, lost near Harbour
Beach. Crew of eight lost.
Stewart, a freighter, disappeared off
Lexington.
Northern Queen, near Port Huron.
Crew safe.
Harlow, ashore at Perche Island.
Crew safe.
Arcadian, ashore at Point %Iroquois.
Crew safe.
Mathew Arnold, ashore at CosicA
Shoals. Later released.
j. T. Hutchinson, ashore at Point Ir.
oquois.
j. NJ. jerks, ashore in Georgian Bay.
II. B. Hagood, ashore at Weis Beach.
Other steamers ashore but later re-
leased were: +. G. Hartwell, w. G. Pol
lock, j.. H. Sheadle, G. j. Grammer and
lightship No, 81.
The steamer Honoria, which went
ashore at White Fish Point and for
which safety great fears we're express.
ed, released herself and arrived at Fort
William safely. She carried so pas
sengers.
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