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The Ludington Daily News
Wednesday, November 13, 1940
page 8

                           Storm Elsewhere
                         
                 With 18 known dead, coast guard officers
               estimated the toll of the storm that swept
               Lake Michigan Tuesday at 65 as the grim
               work of rescue and salvage proceeded.
                 The saga of the storm, which lake mariners
               described as the worst in their experience,
               bristled with stories of other daring rescues.
                 Fishing boats removed 22 men from the
               SINALOA, gravel carrier aground off Sac bay
               in northern Lake Michigan. Coast guard beach
               rescue equipment saved 17 others.
                 Other coast guardsmen were seeking to rig
               a breeches buoy to the stranded CONNEAUT, a
               Detroit freighter aground some 500 feet off
               shore west of Epoufette in upper Lake Michi-
               gan, so that an injured helmsman could re-
               ceive medical attention. A heavy snowstorm
               delayed the wrecking tug FAVORITE, enroute
               to the CONNEAUT's aid, at St. Ignace.
                 An airplane was dispatched from Detroit
               to search for the NEW HAVEN SOCONY, a gaso-
               line tanker which at noon was more than 36
               hours overdue in Muskegon and unreported.
               Offices of the Pennsylvania Central Air-
               lines, which provided the plane, said they
               were informed the tanker lay off Ludington,
               partly submerged.
                 The coast guard cutter EWING reported this
               afternoon that the FRANK J. PETERSON, earlier
               reported aground, was stranded on the west
               end of St. Helena island in upper Lake Michi-
               gan. The cutter's commander radioed that he
               was "investigating to see if the crew desires
               to be removed."
                 On the other side of the ledger were the
               EMPIRE STATE, which ran aground in Green Bay
               but was floated during the night and reached
               safe shelter with a temporary rudder; the
               tanker CRUDEOIL of Cleveland, which limped
               into the Sturgeon Bay, Wis., ship canal with
               six feet of water in her hold, and the motor-
               ship MERCURY of the same fleet, which reached
               shelter in the lee of North Manitou island.
                 Four coast guardsmen from South Haven, Mich.,
               reached Chicago safely after a harrowing Lake
               Michigan crossing in a 36-foot surfboat in 
               quest of two fishing tugs, the RICHARD H. and
               the INDIAN of South Haven. Both tugs are still
               unreported and the members of their crews,
               eight men in all, given up for lost. Requiem
               services for the eight were planned in South
               Haven.
               
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