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The (New York) Evening Telegram
Thursday, November 13, 1913

             167 DEAD IN ELEVEN WRECKS
                   ON GREAT LAKES.
              
           The JOHN A. McGEAN, with Crew of
            Twenty-Eight, Latest Steamship
              Reported Lost.
              
             HEAVIEST TOLL EXACTED BY
                    LAKE HURON.
                    
           Port Huron, Mich., Thursday. - The
         steamship JOHN A. McGEAN, of the Hutch-
         inson Steamship Company, foundered in
         the storm in Lake Huron, it was learned
         to-day, and the captain and his crew of
         twenty-eight men are believed to have
         perished. The bodies of twenty of the
         seamen were picked up to-day at Goderich.
           The latest disaster makes a total of
         at least ten vessels and 167 lives lost
         in the great blizzard that enveloped the
         Great Lakes from Sunday until Tuesday,
         according to reports received from various
         points on the lakes.
           In addition, twenty-one other vessels
         were partially or wholly destroyed, their
         crews escaping. The list of lost vessels
         and their dead is apportioned as follows:
           The JOHN A. McGEAN, of Cleveland, crew
         of twenty-eight, lost somewhere off Sarnia,
         Ont., in Lake Huron.
           The CHARLES S. PRICE, of Cleveland, crew
         of twenty-eight, sunk off Goderich, Ont.,
         in Lake Huron.
           The JAMES S. CARRUTHERS (sic), of 
         Toronto, crew of twenty-five; wreckage
         washed ashore at Grand Bend, Ont., in 
         Lake Huron.
           The REGINA, of Toronto, crew of twenty,
         capsized in Lake Huron.
           The WEXFORD, of Toronto, crew of twenty,
         believed to have been in collision with
         the REGINA and sunk in Lake Huron.
           The LEIFIELD (sic), Sault Ste. Marie,
         Ont., crew of fifteen, wrecked on Angus
         Island, Lake Superior.
           The PLYMOUTH, Menominee, Mich., crew
         of seven, sunk off St. Martin's Island,
         Lake Michigan.
           The LIGHTSHIP NO. 82, crew of six, sunk
         off Buffalo, in Lake Erie.
           The M. F. BUTTERS, Milwaukee, crew of
         fifteen, believed foundered in Lake
         Superior.
           The WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM, Cleveland, three
         of the crew of twenty-five missing, wrecked
         near Sand Island, Lake Superior.
           The list shows that Lake Huron exacted 
         the heaviest toll of all the lakes.
           Vessels owners financial losses probably
         approximate $3,000,000. Only three large
         vessels are still unaccounted for - the
         HYDRUS and ARGUS of the Pickands & Mather
         Company, Cleveland, and the ISAAC M. SCOTT,
         of M. A. Hanna & Co., Cleveland.
           The steamship JOHN W. GATES, one of the
         largest vessels in the Pittsburg Steamship
         Company's fleet, left here to-day on a re-
         lief expedition up the lakes to aid the 
         score or more of vessels reported stranded.
         The GATES was fitted with supplies of all
         kinds.
           So far twenty-nine bodies and wreckage
         of all description had been tossed upon
         the Canadian shore from Point Edward,
         opposite here, north to Goderich.
           Although marine men were still firm in
         their belief that the overturned steam-
         ship is the REGINA, the latter's owners
         were insistent to the contrary.
         
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