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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. =========================================================================== JAMES CARRUTHERS HAS FOUNDERED ---------------- Undoubtably Went to Bottom With Her Crew of 23 Men ------ THE CAPSIZED FREIGHTER ------ Attempts to Positively Identify Derelict Are Unsuccessful Few Doubt but That It Is the Regina ------ JAMES CARRUTHERS LOST Latest Disaster to Be Reported From Great Lakes Goderich, Ont., Nov. 12 - Another lake tragedy was added to the long list resulting from the blizzard of Sunday night and Monday when wreck- age from the James Carruthers, owned by the St. Lawrence and Chicago Steamship Navigation Company and operated by the Richelieu and Ontario lines, washed ashore today. That she has foundered a few miles off Goderich Harbor seems a certainty and her crew of 23 men, headed by Captain W. H. Wright, of Toronto, has been given up as lost. No bodies have come ashore, but the wreckage cast up against the piers at Goderich today includes portions of a lifeboat, including a rudder off Lifeboat No. 1, James Carruthers. A patrol sent out in search of other wreckage found cork matting off the cabin doors, table legs, furniture, portions of the cabin, and other parts that were probably washed away by the intensity of the storm before the big boat foundered. The James Carruthers was the larg- est carrier on the lakes. She was 550 feet 8 inches long, 58 feet beam, and 31 feet deep and had a capacity of over 15,000 tons. She was launched on May 22. The Carruthers was built at Colling- wood. She was carrying a cargo of 370,000 bushels of wheat from Fort William to Port Colborne, and passed down the Soo River last Sunday night. IS IT THE REGINA? Port Huron, Michigan November 12., After working desperately since this morning in an unsuccessful at- tempt to positively identify the dere- lict freighter which lies bottom-side up in stormy Lake Huron, eight miles northeast of here, marine men return- ed to Port Huron tonight. Most of them said they were convinced that the boat is the Canadian package freighter Regina. Captain George Plough, of the Lake- view life-saving station: Captain Thompson, of the wrecking tug Sport, and Captain Carmine of the revenue cutter Morrell, all said tonight that the wrecked boat resembled the Regina so closely that they were con- vinced the latter must be the victim of the strange accident. The Regina's beam is 43 feet. Captain Plough measured the overturned boat and said her beam was slightly more than 42 feet. The wreckage from the Regina washed ashore yesterday, in- cluding a lifeboat, which contained two bodies of sailors, positively identified as members of the crew of the Regina, indicated that the freighter wrecked in the vicinity where the overturned vessel was found. Little credence is given here to the report from Goderich, Ont., that the seven bodies found on the shore of Lake Huron below Grand Bend were sailors on the steamer Charles S. Price, reported lost. The Price may have sunk, marine men admit, but it is believed the bodies were members of the Regina's crew. They were found not a great distance from where the Regina victims, found in a row- boat, were washed ashore. It was also learned that one of the sailors whose clothes contained a letter, ad- dressed "care steamer Charles S. Price" formerly worked on the Price but later joined the Regina crew. When the relief fleet steamed out to the floating wreck this morning a diver was taken along. A gale was blowing across Lake Huron and waves were dashing ten feet over the dere- lict, but the diver urged the captain to allow him to attempt to climb down the side of the vessel's bow to as- certain her name. The men in com- mand considered the plan foolhardy, and refused to allow the diver to leave the tug. They promised to give him a chance tomorrow, pro- vided the lake is not so rough. A report this afternoon from Port Frank, Ont., stated that eight more frozen bodies were washed ashore in a lifeboat there today. Wires are down, and the identity of the life- boat could not be learned. COLLINGWOOD HARD HIT Collingwood, Ont., November 12 - In addition to the eight of the crew of the Wexford drowned in Lake Huron, there are ten Collingwood sailors on the freighter Leafield, reported missing of Angus Island, Lake Super- ior. Captain Charles Baker, his officers and the engineering and firing staff are all from here. There are also four or five from here on the G. R. Crowe, of the St. Lawrence & Chicago Steamship Com- pany, which was en route, light, from Byng Inlet in Fort William, and which is not yet reported. So many wives and families in Collingwood have been bereaved that the whole town is in mourning. NO TRACE OF THE LEAFIELD Port Arthur, Ont., November 12. - Should the Algoma Central steamer Leafield turn up safely or prove not to have been lost at Angus Island, as many shipping men here believe will be the case, this end of Lake Su- perior will have escaped any serious disaster. Marine men here are still disinclined to believe that the Leafield went down off Angus Island, which is situated opposite Thunder Cape and known to almost every passenger up and down the lakes in the last six years because it is pointed out as a resting place of a sister ship to the Monkshaven, which ran on the rocks there in a snowstorm six years ago and was never released, being still plainly visible from all passing ships. Continued search has failed to reveal any trace of the Leafield or any other steamer there. It was quite possible for the boat to hit the rocks and bounce off and sink in hundreds of feet of water, but it is hard to believe that no life boats, buoys or other floating material could be left. The Leafield is one of four similar ships brought out from England by F. M. Clergue, of the Soo, in 1902, the others being Paliki, Theano and Monkshaven. Theano and Monkshaven have both been lost just outside Thunder Cape, while endeavoring to make this port with rails. If the Leafield has gone down in the same vicinity then only the Paliki of the original quartette remains. The Lea- field's captain is Charles F. Baker and the engineer, A. Kerr. EFFECT ON GRAIN MOVEMENT Fort William, Ont., November 12. - That the number of the wrecks, on the lakes caused by the storm would not seriously affect the movement of the grain this fall was the opinion expressed tonight by Manager J. Speers, of the Lake Shippers' Clear- ance Association. There were up- wards of 1,000 boats on the lakes, he said, and in such a number, the 20 that were wrecked would not make a great difference. Two thirds of the vessels wrecked were in the ore trade so that their loss would not af- fect the movement of the grain. Although the storm had cut down shipments greatly in the past few days, and might do so for a few days more, it would give the elevators at the terminals a chance to get cleaned and so the grain would be handled faster by them than before. Vessels were now arriving most as usual, and the storm was over. Speaking of the chances of finding traces of the boats still overdue, he said that any not reported by tomor- row would likely be lost, as ships were coming both straight across the lake and along the north shore, and watching for any traces of damaged boats. --------------- BROCKVILLIANS ANXIOUS (Special to the Gazette) Brockville, Ont., November 12. - Re- latives of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Mur- phy are much exercised over their safety in the big blow which swept the upper lakes with such loss to life and property. Murphy is chief engineer on the steamer J. W. Jenks, and on his last trip from Buffalo to Duluth was accompanied by his wife. The boat was billed to leave Duluth either on Friday night or Saturday morning for Midland, Ontario, from which place Mrs. Murphy intending returning to Brockville. Up to the present no report has been received of the craft reaching her destination. William Buchanan, another Brockvillian is a member of the crew. Charles and John Tunleek, of Brockville, are aboard the steel freighter H. B. Hawgood, of Cleveland, reported ashore in Lake Huron. The former is chief engineer, and the latter an assistant. ===========================================================================