The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 5

THE “TAKE GALES TAKE BIG LIFE TOLL OF BELATED FLEET Beven Survivors of Tug Re- liance Reach Soo—29 Be- lieved to Be Lost. @AINE BOATS IN PERIL. Many Boats Frozen In in St. Mary’s River Await 1 Ice Breakers. CHICAGO, Dee, 18 (Associated Press).—Battling through seas and freezing spray, lake ships are fighting an cpochal battle across the fey wastes of Lake Superior to keep navigation open far beyond its usual time and bring down the lakes the last cargo of the year. Already the fight has claimed a large toll of lives and before the last ship ha counted for—or been given up for lost—that toll may be greater Nearly a dozen died a few da when a Canadian s towering pn ae- Reliance, owned by the Superior Paper Company of Sault Ste. Marie was told yesterday when seven sur- vivors reached the Soo, Five days ago the tug, with a crew of fourteen and twenty-two pasgen- gers, was dashed to pieces on the rocks of lonely Lizard Island, sev- enty-five miles north of Point aux Pines, the western entrance to the St. Mary's River, and twelve miles from inland. The Captain and yen men took one bout, and Mr. and Mrs. John Harten, cooks and seven others took the other. The Captain's boat has not been counted for, but the other, afte drifting several hours in the storm, finally was blown ashore on the On- tario mainland, eighty-five miles nort’ of Sault Ste Marie. Mrs. Harten was so exhausted +! party was forced to rest thirty-six hours at an Indian hut before s ing the twenty mile tramp inland to the railroad, When th z reached Mr. and Mrs, 4 suffering so much from t they were left at the medical treatment, while seven survivors went on the So hey holh! out little hope for the in and his companions. If the sneceeded in reaching tlsard they might find huts there, but, while game {s plentiful, they had no weapons. The scene of the wreck of the Re- is one of the most desolute on tho upper Ja From 1y to Michipicoten Hay - of more than fifty no settlements. The © woodsmen, trap- (is are off the main steamer route an are seldom visited Ab inods within: i s throw off except by woodsmen and fishermen safety at the mouth of the Vortage SU ECU Ie Lee ici ; inte nd boat If th Ship Canal carrying the Captain and h Last night twent added to the prol ven more were nth roll when survivors of tug feliance, wrecked lasb Weduesday at Lizard Intand, reacted sat Marie after almost incredible hardship The tu cy reached the seene of the wr morning and found two overturned and battered lifeboats, [1 of the m but no ing: persons open untt and rail stri shipped to t the castern As ed ow ships and way down I uper toward that graveyard of gallant vessels, Whi fish 1 to win through to Buffalo (: In Mud 1 Harbor, Grand Ma Point, Detre Mackinac Island and Manis val radio operutory Guarding tho fr night with radio « are | sand walting for the culls p which may come Tho story of the fate of the tog Best six conti islands, y drifting Ice, ashore anions failed to survived the gale and it may lave been blown on the mainland, miles from human habitation If such was the it is improbable that the sea ‘ach the 50,000 IRON MOULDERS GET 6 PER CENT. 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