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The company received a dispatch from Coroner A. C. *unter at Goderich stating that the bodies of three men, which, lashed to a life raft, had been picked up there, had been identified. They were Thomas Stone, John Owen and Thomas L. Smith. -------------------------------------------------- 167 LAKE SAILORS IN ALL PROBABLY LOST WITH TEN SHIPS ON HURON'S BOTTOM. EXTENT OF DAMAGE DONE BY RECENT STORM CONSTANTLY DEVELOPING. SINKING OF JOHN A. McGEAN CONFIRMED BELIEF THAT CAPT. C. R. NEY AND CREW OF 28 WERE ALL DROWNED. 29 BODIES ALREADY FOUND. MYSTERY AS TO IDENTITY OF OVERTURNED STEAMER STILL CONTINUES. THAW IS AIDING CLEVELAND. City Begining to Return to Normal Conditions - Rain of Night Helps Reduction of Snow and Stops in Time to Allay Fears of Flood Damage - Fog Settles Over Lake Huron. That at least ten vessels and 167 lives were lost in the blizzard that enveloped the Great Lakes from Sunday until Tuesday is indicated in the compilation today of various reports. Twenty-one other vessels were partially or wholly destroyed, their crews escaping. The list of lost vessels and their dead follows: JOHN A. McGEAN of Cleveland, crew of 28, lost off Sarnia, Ont., in Lake Huron. CHARLES S. PRICE of Cleveland, crew of 28, 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, believed 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 seven, sunk off St. Martin's Island, Lake Michigan. LIGHTSHIP NO. 82, crew of 6, sunk off Buffalo, in Lake Erie. M. F. BUTLER, Milwaukee, crew of 15, believed foundered in Lake Superior. WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM, Cleveland, 3 of crew of 25 missing, wrecked near Sand Island, Lake Superior. Reports of other missing vessels. Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 13 - Reports of more missing vessels came in this forenoon, but great fog banks had settled down over Lake Huron and the secret of the number and identity of lost ships and men in the recent gale on Lake Huron was far from being revealed. The latest disaster reported today was that the steamer JOHN A. McGEAN of the Hutchinson Steamship Company of Cleveland had gone down. Probably 100 Sailors Lost. Including the McGEAN six ships may be on the bottom of Lake Huron and a hundred or more sailors are almost certain to have been drowned. The bodies of two men who sailed on the McGEAN are said to have been picked up today below Sarnia in the St. Clair River. The steamer passed up here at 2:10 Sunday morning. One of the McGEAN bodies is said to have been identified as that of John Cody. 27 Bodies Actually Found. Up to this forenoon 27 bodies and wreckage of all description had been tossed upon the Canadian shore from Point Edward, opposite here, north to Goderich. Lifebelts, lifeboats and watersoaked cargo bore evidence to indicate that the steamers REGINA, CHARLES S. PRICE, WEXFORD and JAMES CARRUTHERS were probably at the bottom of the lake. In the meantime the overturned derelict lay in the lake a few miles northeast of here as mysterious as ever. A diver was ready this morning to make another effort to learn her name when the fog lifted. Although marine men were still firm in their be- lief that the overturned steamer is the REGINA, the latter's owners were insistent to the contrary. Identification of but four of the bodies washed ashore had been made up to this morning. The list of recovered bodies this morning was as follows: Three from the steamer REGINA: one unknown; seven from steamer PRICE; two from steamer McGEAN; seven from steamer CARRUTHERS; nine from steamer WEXFORD. This is a total of 29. All of these bodies are now distributed at shore towns on the Canadian shore. Cleveland Conditions Near Normal. Cleveland, O., Nov. 13. - Rain which fell last night ceased, for a time at least, this morning and a thaw is materially aiding the city in re- suming its normal condition. The cessation of the rain has allayed fears of flood conditions. ==========================================================================