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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 Ludington Record Thursday, June 4, 1896 Volume XXIX [extracts of marine news] Last Monday the gale on Lake Huron scattered four large rafts of logs then in tow for Michigan. The rafts aggregated 20 million feet and a large proportion will never be recovered by the owners. The schooner SUNRISE was cut in two by whaleback barge No. 133, in tow of the steamer W. H. GRATWICK, some sixty miles northeast of Chi- cago harbor, Thursday morning. The schooner went to the bottom so quickly that the crew had barely time to launch the lifeboat and get clear of the wreck. They were then transferred to the GRATWICK. FATAL EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER. One of the large flues in the boiler of the steamer RHODA STEWART exploded off Presque Isle Sunday morning. Three of its crew were fatally scalded, and two have since died. The dead were Henry Kesten, second engineer, and Robert McNorton, fireman; Court Schrader, a deck- hand was fatally injured. The life-saving crew from Middle Island responded to the signals of distress from the STEWART, and took off the injured men. They were made as comfortable as possible at the life-saving station until the passenger steamer CITY OF ALPENA passed, when they were placed on board. Kesten died on his way to Cheboygan and McNorton died after being landed there. The STEWART was not badly damaged. It was on its way from Cheboygan to Lake Erie with lumber when the explosion occurred. By the recent heavy gale the water in Saginaw bay was driven out two or three miles from shore, and thousands of fish were left high and dry on the bottom of the bay. Many tons were picked up by the settlers at Linwood, some fish weighing all the way from 1 pound up to 25 or 30. The CONNEAUT'S cargo of shingles which was to have been delivered at the south mill dock has been taken by team. The old schooner still lies fast on the bottom of the bayou. On Tuesday the spile scow with steam pump was taken through the bridge under command of Captain Bob Richardson. As Capt. Aubery is a military man and not a nautical man he has been relieved of the command of the foundered CONNEAUT. Capt. Richardson has been pumping day and night but it seems that the leak- age equals the capacity of the pump or nearly so. The CONNEAUT is to be dismantled and used as a tow barge in the future. Mr. Wallace Thornton of the life saving crew at Point Sauble, was delighted this morning to find a ten pound boy at his home. He is re- ceiving the congratulations of everybody at the Point and bears his honor with becoming dignity. THE RECORD force jointly and severally congratulate the happy father. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, June 11, 1896 Volume XXIX The L. C. WALDO'S repairs at Cleveland have been completed and the boat is again in commission. Mr. D. T. Huston has purchased the Duddleson residence on east Ludington avenue and is moving in. Capt. Duddleson's household goods are being packed for shipment to Saginaw. Mr. Marshall has raised the CONNEAUT and had her towed to near the north mill, where the schooner will lie at peace awaiting the next move which will probably be to dismantle her forever. The lawsuit sure to result between the owners of the L. C. WALDO and the boat with which she collided, places Dr. Geo. Roby, late of this city, in a very peculiar position. He is a heavy stock holder in both boats and no matter which company wins the Doctor will both win and lose, so that the accident will cost him considerable money. The steam barge M. F. BUTTERS took a load of lumber and shingles last night bound for Chicago. Thirty large spars were towed over to be left at Milwaukee while the boat would proceed to her destination. A schooner lies at the Butters & Peters dock discharging a cargo of coal to be used as fuel for the manufacture of salt. It will be dem- onstrated how that coal can be used as fuel when the last log has been cut and the edging fuel has disappeared. Mr. John B. Roby is president and general manager of the Wolverine Steamship Company of Detroit. Next Saturday the company will launch the biggest vessel ever built in a Michigan shipyard, and the second in size afloat on the lakes. The "SENATOR" is 420 feet long over all, 400 feet keel, 45 feet beam and 28 feet deep, and will be propelled by a triple expansion engine. It is expected that on a 16 foot draft she will carry 4,800 tons of ore. The Northern Michigan Transportation Company had their steamers PETOSKEY and CHARLEVOIX running on schedule time yesterday. On Satur- day nights the LAWRENCE leaves Milwaukee at 8 p.m. and arrives in Lud- ington on Sunday morning at 6 a.m., leaving again for Muskegon at 8 o'clock. This extra connection should be a great accommodation to people wishing to come to Ludington from Milwaukee Saturday, as no F. & P. M. boat runs that night. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, June 18, 1896 Volume XXIX On Saturday morning the PETOSKEY ran hard aground on the point at the foot of James street and it took several hours of hard work to drag her into deeper water. The steam ferry boat HELEN TAYLOR has gone out of the business and is tied to the dock. In all probability Mr. Taylor would sell the boat cheap enough to anyone who can devise a means of having it earn some money. An appropriation of $50,000 will be expended on Grand River this summer to make Grand Rapids a marine port. When the improvements in contemplation have been carried out, steamers may ply direct between the valley city and any other lake port. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, June 25, 1896 Volume XXIX [No marine news in this issue] ===========================================================================