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The wrecked vessels and the number of victims on each one so far as known are as follows: The CARRUTHERS, 28; REGINA, 22; McGEAN, 28; WEXFORD, 32; PRICE, 28; ARGUS, 26; LAFAYETTE, 12; HYDRUS, 28; MANCHESTER, 26; PLYMOUTH, 7; LEAFIELD, 15; LIGHTSHIP NO. 82, 6; SMITH, 30; NOTTINGHAM, 3. From constantly increasing reports the loss of life and property has marked the storm as the most disastrous that ever occurred on the great lakes. If the men still missing were lost, as is feared, the death list will be well on toward, if not exceeding, 300. It was thought that the worst of the story had been told last night, but when the news began to come in this morning it was evident that the story of wreck and death had only begun. More Added to Missing. Boats which were not mentioned yester- day now appear among the missing, which places no limit on the death list that can be expected and the number of ships that went down with all hands. There is no doubt that the PRICE and the REGINA have gone to the bottom of the lake. Some of their dead are now at Thedford, Ont. From Goderich, Ont., comes the report that the wreckage of the steamer WEXFORD has come ashore, besides bodies of several members of the crew bearing WEXFORD life preservers. The steamer JOHN A. McGEAN was probably lost, for the bodies of three men lashed to a life raft on which was stamped the name JOHN A. McGEAN came ashore this morn- ing near Goderich. Later a report was re- ceived from Goderich that twenty more bodies from the McGEAN had been washed ashore. Perhaps the greatest mystery of the storm surrounds the overturned boat thir- teen miles from the Fort Gratiot light- house near Port Huron, and seven miles from shore. Bottom side up, with only a portion of the overturned boat and hull showing above water, the boat's identity is still undetermined. Not a scrap of wreckage can be found that can be traced to the ship. It is now asserted that when the steamer is examined it will be found that most of the members of the crew are still within the vessel dead from want of air. Vessel men say that when the ship rolled over practically none of her crew had an oppor- tunity to escape. If this supposition proves to be correct, some record of how the ship was wrecked will be found, as it is figured that men could live ten hours with the air already in the vessel. Ninety-six hours have elapsed since the vessel overturned and although expert marine men have examined the wreck from all sides they could not discover her name or anything else in regard to her. MILWAUKEE, Nov. 13. - Another blizzard started on Lake Superior to-night, greatly reducing the present slight chances of rescuing any who may have until now sur- vived the wrecks of las Sunday. 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 here. One body was 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. -------------------------------------------- LOSS ON VESSELS $4,000,000. Cleveland Underwriters Believe 19 Went Down in Lakes. Cleveland, Nov. 13. - Underwriters here now place the number of vessels lost in the storm on the Great Lakes at nineteen, includ- ing five boats, most of them big freighters, which are now three or four days overdue and have not been heard from. The known loss of life has reached 168, and with these five steel steamers gone it is believed the death list will total more than 250. The property loss now is figured at more than $4,000,000. The loss of the steamer JOHN A. McGEAN of the Pioneer Steamship Company with a crew of twenty-three men on Lake Huron was verified to-day. She was a modern ship of 7,500 gross tons capacity and was not insured. She was valued at $250,000 and carried a cargo of coal. The steamers ARGUS and HYDRUS are owned by the Interstate Steamship Company, of which Pickands, Mather & Co. are managers. They were valued at $200,000 each and were not insured. The steamer I. M. SCOTT, believed to be lost, was owned by the Virginia Steamship Company, of which M. A. Hanna & Co. are managers. Between thirty and forty bodies have been washed ashore at the lower end of Lake Huron. It will be several weeks before all the bodies of the crews of the wrecked vessels in that section can be recovered. ==========================================================================