The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-08
Collision
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Prov of the 420-foot coal carrier,
owned by the Nicholson Transit
Company of Detroit, and sailed
by Captain c. A. Tickner, of
Marine City, knitted into the
smaller craft. Their operations
are being handicapped by the
extremely deep water and
steamer traffic at tine point
where the collision occurred, off
Clay's Landing.
The dragging operations are
being conducted under the direc-
ton of Chief Boatswain Joseph
c.. Brown, coastguard command
er of the Port Huron-Old Club
district.
The fourth victim of the trag-
edy, Mrs. Irene Wiseman, wife
of James Wiseman, of High
land Park, succumbed, appar-
emily to shock, after she had
been pulled into a rescue craft
following the crash.
10 ESCAPE INJURY
The other 10 members of the
Inflated boating party escaped
with a shock and a wetting.
In a statement issued to re-
porter at the hospital last night
Dryer, owner and skipper of the
powerhoat, told Of having made
$50 trips" up the channel. He
said that he was bearing on the
red lights and sailing between
them. The Betty was 10 or Is
years old and had been owned
by Dwyer for about year and
a half, he said last night. He
got his knowledge of navigation
from two previous years of boat
ing on the craft of friends and
in the operation of his own
boat he told the reporter. He
has been employed at the
Chrysler Tank Arsenal for about
three years.
Discussing the crash itself,
Dwyer said that he heard the
boom of the steamers whistle
Just an instant before the crash.
He was standing in the pilot
house of his craft with another
passenger, DR.. c. H. Hamill, of
Birmingham, when he saw the
bulk of the freighter looming
above him, he declared. William
Hamill, 13-year-old son of the
doctor said, oh" and the crash
came, Dryer said. All the skip
per of the powerboat can recall
saving as the vessels hit was
Jump" and Keep calm or the
equivalent.
REPORTED ON COURSE
Reports from the scene of the
crash are to the effect that the
freighter did not alter its course
as it proceeded up the channel
and that lit was right where it
belonged"
Captain c. A. Tickner, master
of the vessel has sailed ships of
the Nicholson line for about five
or six years and had sailed YES
sells of the Jenkins line out of
Cleveland for years before that,
it was stated today at the office
of the Detroit steamship line.
The formal inquiry of a ma
rine inspection board into the
crash is held UP pending return
of the steamer to Lake Erie
port. At the time of the crash she
was upbound with a cargo of
coal and will bring down ore.
AS soon as she docks, state
ments will be taken from mas
ter and crew by the marine
beard of inquiry which will also
take statements from Dwyer
and his passengers at hearing
in Detroit.
HEAVY PENALTY
reports that III found guilty.
of reckless, willful or negligent
of the motorboat act
navigation of lakes and
rivers by powerboats, Dwyer
would face a two-year prison
term, were refuted today by
Captain w. T. Kiel.- of the
United States Marine Inspection
Service. In such case Dryer
would face fine of not more
than $4,000 or Imprisonment for
not more than one year, or both
such fine and imprisonment and
his license to operate a motor
boat would be suspended or re-
vokcd, il was stated.