Evening star., 1936-10-19
Shipwreck

Continued Prom First Page.)
something hit me, I don't know where,
and I went out like light. The next
thing remember was some one pull
ing my hair, and 1t made me mad
During the night several boats
passed within sight, in fact one was
only about a quarter OF Q mile away.
We had no way to attract their at
tention. Several times Dault and
Ideson pulled me back on the hfeboat
when I thought I was gone. After
10 hours Of hanging on we were
rescued.
II wouldn't have lasted much
longer and Ideson wouldn't have
lasted 10 minutes" said the captain,
one of living triplets.
Jack Meuse, q deck engineer, saved
"the only real treasure I had in this
world-my girls picture. I always
did think it was . pretty good thing
to carry along with me and I'm cer-
tain Of it now"
Meuse said 1--WE sailed my last trip
as member Of any crew of any
ship"
Amos Dault, one Of the wheels
men, was my pal. He had o girl and
had one and We always made Q
foursome when We were back home.
I saw Amos standing up there on
the after deck.
He said. Jack, good luck to you;
God be with you I said. Amos,
we're going to need 1t and the same
to YOU Then We went over the side
to the overturned lifeboats, he to one
and I to the other.
I'VE chung to the hoat-at least
seven Of us-all night. We kept hol-
lering out our names. That's the way
We kept track Of each other. The
boys slipped of one by one. There
were four Of US left"
Held Brother -Four Hours.
Meuse,s friend, Amos Dault, slipped
into the chilling. clutching waters of
the lake only a half hour before the
other three we're rescued on the other
,ifeboat.
His brother, Herman Dault, said
he held on to him for four hours.
couldn't hold him up any longer.
kept slapping him to keep the blood
circulating, but just couldn't hold
on. I was all exhausted. He didn t
say a thing when he went down. He
just slipped"
A third brother. Joseph Dault, also
was lost in the mishap.
It was the second sand-sucker trag-
edy on the Great Lakes this season.
The Material Service sank of Chicago
on July a with IS lost.
Coast Guards from Cleveland, Lo-
rain and Toledo searched for bodies
without success. Only bits Of the
broken Sand Merchant were visible
on the agitated waters.
I'VE saw driftwood and pillows and
other wreckage, but there was not
q sign of anything else" said Will
liam e. Crapo, head Of the Cleve-
land Coast Guard.
Inquiry Is Planned.
At Ottawa r. K. Smith. deputy
minister of marine, said immediate
stops would be taken for a prelim-
mary inquiry as the basis for for
NAL inquiry.
Capt. George Barrett of the United
States Coast Guard at Erie, Pa. said
q lone unidentified sailor on the barge
Genevieve Meyers had drowned on
Conneaut after the barge broke loose
in the same storm.
The rs sailed from Point Pelee,
Ontario, Thursday afternoon with a
load of sand. The Inflated Cleveland
bound boat ran into the gale Satur-
day night. After q battle with the
mounting, commanding seas, it cap
sized at 10 o'clock IL miles northwest
Of Cleveland.
First word of the disaster came
when the seven survivors, four on the
one overturned liftboat and three on
the other, were rescued by the freight
er Thunder Bay Quarries and the car
Ferry Bessemer &S Marquette, No. /.
J. D. Payne, general manager OF
National Sand d. Materials, Ltd, own
ers Of the e-year-old. 2,o00-ton steam
er, announced today that the ON
cial death list was 10 persons, all
Canadians.
List Il Announced.
The list announced by Payne was:
Bernard Drinkwater, frst mate,
Port Stanley, Ontario. and Mrs. Lillian
Drinkwater, his wife.
John Bourrie, second mate, and
Daniel Bourrie. wheelsman, brothers,
Of Victoria Harbor.
Amos Dault, wheelsmaa, ana Joseph
Dault. pump engineer, Of Victoria
Harbor, brothers Of Herman Dault,
crane operator. who was one Of the
seven saved.
Walter McGinness. chief engineer,
Bay du vim Beach. New Brunswick.
Sandford Gray. third engineer, VIC
toria Harbor.
Nicholas Mccarthy, oiler. Sydney.
Nova Scotia.
Roland de Mile, oiler, Rexton, New
Brunswick.
Harold Cannon. fireman. Cape
Iormentine.
a.-l~ a~llk~n1~ AnsAfn~A