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Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== TWO MONTREALERS GO DOWN ABOARD THE LOST REGINA ------------------- Another Montreal Man Also Feared to Have Joined Vessel TO STOP LOOTING ----------------- Floating Derelict, Still Unidenti- fied Tosses Wasves and Men aces Navigation ALMOST TWO HUNDRED DEAD London Underwriters Are Disturb- ed by Estimate of Property Loss TERRIBLE TOLL OF STORM Lives lost (Conservative esti- mate) 167 Montrealers drowned 2 Vessels lost 10 Vessels partially or wholly destroyed 21 Estimated damage $3,500,000 Officers and sailors rescued 210 Two Montrealers are now numbered among the victims of the terrible storm which has strewn the shores of the Great Lakes with the bodies of able seamen, and wreckage from the staunchest vessels that ever carried freight to the port of Montreal. It is absolutely certain that P. Grat- ton and T. LeBreton (or L. E. Burton) of this city, are numbered among those who went down aboard the Regina. These additions to the death list were received yesterday afternoon by W. H. Duthie, of the Canada Shipping Com- pany, in this city. Adding an additional touch of horror to the news is the fact that LeBreton's body was robbed of probably $800 by men who prowled along the shore near Port Frank where eleven bodies were cast up by the waves. Attorney Gen- eral Foy of Ontario has taken steps to put a stop to the devestation of the vic- tims. It is also feared that a third Mon- trealer lost his life on the Regina be- cause the Canada Shipping Co., in Mon- treal has received word that Batisse Charlevois joined the vessel just when she was leaving the city on November 1. Charlevois has a wife and mother in Montreal. The company is anxious for relatives of all three victims of the Regina to communicate with them. With the latest news to hand, the worst fears concerning the devestation of the storm have been realized. The curious fact is that some of the newest and largest vessels, specially equipped to withstand the worst gales, went down in the storm, while many of the old-type vessels rode it in compara- tive safety. UNKNOWN VESSEL TOSSED BY WAVES Standing out as the greatest mystery of the entire disaster is that of the unknown freighter which still tosses bottom upwards on Lake Michigan (*1) defying all attempts to discover her name and threatening to become a serious menace to navigation. Two thoughts prevail regarding her: that she is the Regina, or that she is another vessel which collided with the Regina in the teeth of the gale, sending the latter to the bottom of the lake. List of Lost Vessels The list of lost vessels and their dead is apportioned as follows: John A. McGean of Cleveland, crew of 28, lost somewhere off Sarnia, Ont., in Lake Huron. Charles S. Price of Cleveland, crew of 28, sunken off Goderich, Ont., in Lake Huron. James S. Carruthers, of Toronto, crew of 25, wreckage washed ashore at Grand Bend, Ont., on Lake Huron. Regina, of Toronto, crew of 20, capsized in Lake Huron. Wexford, of Toronto, crew of 20, be- lieved to have possibly collided with Regina, and sunk in Lake Huron. Leafield, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., crew of 15, wrecked on Angus Island, Lake Superior. Plymouth, Menominee, Mich., crew of 7, sunk off St. Martin's Island, Lake Michigan. Lightship number 82, crew of 6, sunk off Buffalo, in Lake Erie. M. F. Butters, Milwaukee, crew of 15, believed foundered in Lake Superior. William Nottingham, Cleveland, three of crew of 25 missing, wrecked near Sand Island, Lake Superior. The list shows that Lake Huron ex- acted the heaviest toll of all the lakes. Only three large vessels are still un- accounted for, the Hydrus and Argus, of the Pick and Mathers Company, (*2) Cleveland and the Isaac M. Scott of M. A. Hanna and Company, Cleveland. IS SECOND SHIP BELOW DERELICT ---------------------- Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 13. - Does another vessel lie beneath the wreck of the overturned vessel in Lake Hur- on, 13 miles from here? The theory is advanced by Milton Smith, assistant engineer of the ill- fated steamer, Charles S. Price. Smith had a premonition of the approaching danger and left his ship at Cleveland, the day before it rode into the teeth of Lake Huron's gale and foundered with all hands on board. Mr. Smith returned to Port Huron to-night from Thetford, Ont., where he went to help establish the iden- tity of the men whose bodies were in the morgue there. The first body he identified was that of John Ground- water, chief engineer of the Price, whose home was in Cleveland. "Are you sure," asked the coroner. "I am as sure as I know my own name it is Smith," he replied. "Well," this man had on a Regina life preserver about his body," said the coroner. Smith was dumbfounded as to how the chief engineer of the Price happened to be found in one of the life preservers of the Regina. Then it dawned upon him that the Regina and Price may have collided and in the attendant excitement sailors of each vessel grabbed the life preser- vers that happened to be nearest. His theory is further strengthened by the fact that the bodies of the men who went down on the Regina and the Price were found in the same position on shore, some of them even clasped in each others arms. This practically substantiates the belief that the overturned vessel on Lake Huron is either the Regina or Price. It is also thought the vessels collided with such force that one of them sunk completely from sight. The accident occurred with terrible suddeness is established in Smith's identification of the Price's steward, Herbert Jones, of Superior, Wis. "There he was," said Smith, "lying there with his apron on, just as if he were about to prepare a meal or just had prepared it." JOHN McGEAN IS THE LATEST LOSS ------------------ Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 13. - Each hour to-day added to the tolls of di- sasters. Bodies of sailors of five, and perhaps six vessels, were found on the shore of the lake. Wreckage from two other boats, still missing, was cast up by the sea. Lying in various mor- gues along the Canadian shore are bodies of sailors of the steamers James Carruthers, Regina, John A. McGean, Wexford and Charles S. Price. There are a number of bodies un- identified. Perhaps these were of sail- ors on the unidentified freighter which lies bottom side up in Lake Huron, 13 miles north of here. Wreckage of the steamers Argus and Hydrus has been cast ashore. Neith- er of these boats has been heard from since the storm swept the lakes. The freighter Isaac M. Scott is also missing. This afternoon word was received from Captain Ely, of the tug Sarnia City, that he had sighted the wreck of an unidentified steamer while his tug was passing Port Austin. Greatest among to-days tragedies was the confirmation of the loss of the steamer John A. McGean, a 432 foot freighter. Twenty-eight bodies of her crew have been washed ashore. All are in morgues. Several have not been identified. THIRTY DROWNED ON HENRY SMITH ----------------- Marquette, Mich., Nov. 13. - Thirty lives are reported to have been lost in the wreck of the steamer Henry B. Smith, of Cleveland, in Lake Superior, near this city. One body has been washed ashore and the ship's name was obtained from wreckage picked up on the beach. The Smith is owned by the Hawgood-Avery Transit line. ------------------ Underwriters are Disturbed (Canadian Associated Press) London, Nov. 13. - Considerable mis- givings have sprung up among Lon- don underwriters in connection with the Canadian gale. They feel that in adopting the present rates on vessels trading on Canadian lakes, they have not taken into account the possibili- ties of such a serious gale. They roughly place their loss at $15,000,000, but judging by later cables, this fig- ure may be considerably increased. The Montreal Daily Mail November 14, 1913 (Transcriber's Notes) (*1) Should have stated Lake Huron (*2) Should be Pickand Mathers Company ==========================================================================