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Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Aurora (Illinois) Daily Express Wednesday, November 8, 1893 Twelfth Year, No. 3458 TWO SCORE DEAD. Twenty-four Drowned in Collision Between Steamers. ELEVEN OF THE DEAD RECOVERED. A Heavy Fog the Cause of the Disaster About Which One Captain Refuses to Talk DETROIT, Nov. 8. - A special dispatch to the News from Sand Beach, Mich., says: The life-saving crew was out all morning looking for the bodies of the drowned by the collision between the Propeller ALBANY of the Western Transit Co., and the anchor liner PHILADELPHIA. The two vesseles collided in a fog off Port (sic) Aux Barques, and both went down in 200 feet of water. The crews took to the boats, and but one boat has reached shore. The life savers found the second boat upside down. They picked up all the bodies with life preservers on and it is supposed that the whole crew of twenty-four men were drowned, eight of the ALBANY'S crew and the balance of the PHILADELPHIA'S. The bodies were put on the steamer CONCORD, bound south. The harbor master at Sand Beach is searching for the rest of the bodies with the tug SAND BEACH. Names of the Dead Men. The names of the ALBANY'S crew drowned are: S. B. Muirhead, chief engineer; James Molley, second engineer; Thomas Peirce, second mate; Job Price, watchman; S. M. Murtrie, waiter; William Sturrah, porter; Frank Keithen, deckhand; Albert Holm, deckhand. The names of the lost crew of the PHILADELPHIA are: C. M. Leggett, first engineer; Jerry Moran, second engineer; J. Hunt, first mate; A. Hannah, second mate; W. Gibbs, wheelsman; C. Linguist, wheelsman; _____ Crown, lookout; ______ Renshaw, lookout; ______ Williams, watch- man; S. Coffer, fireman; John Paint, fireman; C. Labelle, fireman; George Breiderwaster, cook; George Wise, second cook; A. Connors, porter; deckhand, name unknown. Something About the Boats. The PHILADELPHIA was the older boat of the two, being one of the few remaining vessels of the iron construction class which were intro- duced in lake trade by David Bell, of Buffalo, in 1867. Her carrying capacity was 1,900 tons. The value of the vessel was $100,000, and her cargo was worth probably $25,000. The hull and cargo were both fully insured. The ALBANY was built by the Detroit Dry Dock company in 1884. Her hull was of steel, and her total value was $150,000. Her class was A1 and her freight capacity was 3,600 tons. She was loaded with grain, flour and merchandise and the PHILADELPHIA with coal and miscellaneous goods. Refuses to Make a Statement. A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich., says that Captain McDonald, of the sunken steamer ALBANY, refuses to give out any statement whatever about the collision between the PHILADELPHIA and ALBANY. The only facts obtainable are that the PHILADELPHIA ran head into the ALBANY at 2 o'clock in the morning, striking her near the second gangway. The ALBANY floated for about half an hour and her crew went on board the PHILADELPHIA, which also went down half an hour later. Both crews, numbering forty-seven, left the PHILADELPHIA in boats. The boat con- taining the captains and mates of both steamers has reached Point Aux Barques. There Was No Sea Running. The other boat containing twenty-four sailors was lost. There was no sea running and how the boat capsized does not appear. The steamer CITY OF CONCORD found the empty boat and picked up eleven bodies, all of which had life preservers on. She took them to Tawas and the cap- tain of the PHILADELPHIA and the mate of the ALBANY will go to Tawas to identify the bodies. The rest of the crews are expected to reach this city this afternoon. Sixteen sailors from the PHILADELPHIA and eight from the ALBANY are lost. EIGHTEEN LOST THEIR LIVES A Steamer on a Canadian Lake Burns With Terrible Results. TORONTO, Nov. 8 - By the burning of the steamer FRASER on Lake Nipissing eighteen persons lost their lives. The disaster occurred near Goose Island, and in spite of the most strenuous efforts to save life this number perished. Lake Nipissing is situated near the head of Lake Huron, near Ontario, nearly midway between it and the Ottawa river, and it is supposed that the steamer was in regular service on the lake. Only the most meagre particulars are obtainable. James Phelan, of Detroit, has been appointed collector of customs of that port, vice James H. Stone. ===========================================================================