Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. 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 Toledo Blade Saturday, November 22, 1958 Lake Search Goes On For Lost Seamen Rogers City Plans Mass Funeral As Inquiry Continues CHARLEVOIX, Mich., Nov. 20 (AP) - Though almost despairing of finding any more men alive, the coast guard today set up another search of north- ern Lake Michigan for the bodies of 15 missing crewmen of the sunken freighter Carl D. Bradley. The ship sank Tuesday night in a storm. Only two of her crew of 35 survived. Eighteen bodies were recovered. As the search by air and sea went on after one of the Great Lakes' worst disasters, a coast guard board of inquiry resumed an investi- gation. The little shipping town of Rogers City prepared for mass funeral services. Bodies in Gymnasium Rogers City, 90 miles across Michigan on Lake Huron to the east, was the home port of the Bradley. Most of the lost seamen had their homes in the community of 4,000 population. Bodies lay in state at the high school gymnasium. Simultaneous funeral rites were to be held at Catholic and Protes- tant churches. Four ships now at sea for the Bradley Transportation Co., owner of the lost vessel, were under orders to drop anchor at noon for memorial services. Seamen of four other ships in port were given leave for the day. Guard Moves Hearing All shipping and industry was closed down. Rogers City is in official mourning for a month. The board of inquiry moved its hearing here from Rogers City to get testimony from the Bradley's two survivors, first mate Elmer Fleming, 43, and watchman Frank Mays, 26. Both men are still hospitalized for exposure from 14-1/2 hours on a pitching raft. In three days of search, little evidence of the wrecked ship was found. This included only four empty lifejackets, a few wooden chairs and an overturned lifeboat. ===========================================================================