Arizona republican., 1919-11-24
MADDENED SEA CLAIMS CREW OE |LL-FATED LAKE STEAMER Terrific Northwestern Sends Freighter on Rocks =
 Is Believed Lost WOuld-Be Rescuers
 Driven to Safety Ship Goes to Bits in Few Minutes-Beach Strewn
 With Wreckage
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SAULT STE MARIE, Mich, Nov. g -Eighteeen persons, comprising the crew of the steamer Myron, are be- lieved tonight to have been added to the victims of Lake Superior's fury of the past two weeks. Caught in d terrific northwester, the Myron found cred a mile and a half off Whitefish Point last night and early today sank in four fathoms of water.
 Futile efforts were made by two steamers to throw lines to the men clinging to the cabin. Sc wild was the sea, however, that the men could not hold the lines and for their own safety the two steamers were compelled to leave the scene. Tonight coast guards are patrolling the shores of Whitefish Bay for 45 miles hoping the Myrons | lifeboats will be blown ashore. i Search For Survivors The United States submarine chaser
 4SS. also was securing the bay to-
 night for possible survivors The
 beach is covered with lumber, the
 Myron s cargo. but not body had come
 ashore up to late today. The gale con tinued tonight aDd there was little hope l that passing steamers could have picked up the lifeboats. which it is believed were sWamped in the noun
 tsinous seas
 The steamer Calumet, passing here late today reported sighting a water
 logged lifeboat south of Whitefish
 Point. As far as could be ascertained
 the boat was unoccupied
 The barge MizteG which the Myron
 had in tow when she left Munising
 down bound, was cut loose and was
 picked up by an unknown steamer
 which lowed it into shelter at White fish Point. The barge's deck load of
 lumber and rudder were carried away but it is understood her crew is safe. First word of the disaster came by
 wireless from the steamer Pairing. lying in shelter behind Whitefish Point. When the steamer Adriatic ice cov-
 cred, locked through here today, her , captain reported that he twice turned
 his ship around trying to pick up the
 stricken vessels crew, who were then
 in two lifeboats. The men were unable
 to hold the lines, however. and the | attempt to rescue had to be abandoned Men Left To Fate The steamer Mcintosh later passed through wreckage of the Myron, close
 enough to throw lines to several men seen clfnging to the cabin. The men had life preservers on and were call ing for help. One man also had a
 small flash light This attempt at rescue also failed and the men. unable
 to grasp the lines had to be left to
 their fate. Whitefish Point tonight is strewn with wreckage. according to
 wireless dispatches
 { 4A1 I,
 lowed up by storm driven Lake Su-
 perior in the last two weeks. The others were the IT. L. Runnells and the John owen, the latter with the loss of her crew of g men,
 The steamer Myron of wooden con . struction. was built in Grand Haven Mich. in 1888. She was 1S6 feet long and 676 gross tonnage. O. w Blod- gett of Bay City is the owner : Captain McRae of the Adriatic sai.! he saw the distress signals sent by the barge Miztec which was later re [ ported taken in tow by another steamer.
 but gave his attention to attempt thz rescue of the Myron's crew. At that time the Myron was going to pieces.
 he said, and about 15 of the crew had 2 taken to life boats the others cling T ing to wreckage.
 ' Durlng the lDeLecIudl attempts at s rescue the Adriatic struck bottom e Captain McRae declared and he was forced to leave the vicinity for tha
 safety of his own shin
 . Unless the Myron is entirely broken e up, it is possible marine men hera say that her hold cargo of }umbeT s will help keep the boat afloat and | that those men who remained on board = may be saved Steamers in shelter 9 I Whitefish are assisting the coast guard o in efforts to locate the drifting steamey e and members of the crew.