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The Ludington Chronicle
Wednesday, May 12, 1909

           MARINE
        STEAMER SHORES LOST IN SUPERIOR
        Wrecked off Whitefish Point - Crew and Passengers
         Perished - Cargo From Anchor Salt Block Ludington
         - Wreckage Strewn on Lake Tells Tale.

        When the big barge ADELLA SHORES steamed out of this harbor April
      21 with a cargo of 1,380 tons of salt from the Anchor Salt block of
      this city for the Superior Mfg. Co. of Superior, Wis., it was little
      thought that she was to meet destruction in a gale on Lake Superior
      and that not a single survivor of the 21 souls aboard would be left
      to tell the story.  Advises were received her Saturday morning to the
      effect that the steamer had gone down off Whitefish point in Lake
      Superior.  News of the probable sad event was brought to Duluth Fri-
      day night by sailors of the NORTHLAND who had seen wreckage believed
      to have been of the SHORES strewn all over the lake in the vicinity
      of that point.  Other passing steamers confirmed the report and por-
      tions of the wreckage were identified as belonging to the SHORES.
         The steamer was the property of the Manx Transportation company of
      Cleveland, having been sold last year by Mrs. S. O. Neff of Milwau-
      kee.  She was of 1,250 tons burden and under command of Captain
      Samuel Holmes of Milwaukee.  The engineer was R. Mott of Benzonia.
      Her crew of about 15 men were reported to have been picked up at this
      port but this cannot be verified.  The SHORES passed Sault Ste. Marie
      in safety, her captain having reported there on April 29 but after
      that no word has been received from him.  The storm in which the
      SHORES foundered also sent down three other vessels, the AURANIA,
      RUSSIA and NESTER.  It was the big snow storm of two weeks ago.  The
      wind attained a velocity of 70 miles an hour, a violent snow storm
      prevailed three days on Lake Superior making navigation extremely
      perilous.
         The ADELLA SHORES was well known in Ludington where she traded in
      salt at the Anchor Salt block for many years.

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The Ludington Chronicle
Wednesday, May 26, 1909

        Identify One Sailor
        Wreckage belonging to the steamer ADELLA SHORES, lost April 30, has
     been found ten miles east of Munising by a Marquette fishing tug.  It
     consisted of part of the deck, twenty feet square, on which there was
     a coat and an oar, the latter bearing the name "ADELLA SHORES."  In
     the coat was a seaman's union card made out to Peter Olson, West
     Allis, Wis.  A hole had been broken through the deck and the oar
     struck through it.  It is thought Olson used the oar to steer his
     raft, but had been washed off finally by the sea.

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