boiler of Ill Fated tug erie belle salvaged from lake after fifty years virld recollections of a summer day GO 50 years apo ago when the captain of the tug erie loelle vowed with a mighty oath to pull the schooner carter off the rok rods bound shore south of kin cardine or blow up his tug in ill the attempt were awakened when tile the boiler or of tile the ill feted erle relle belle was hauled from the lako lil bottom to the shore says a kincardine Kin cardine ontario writer riter in the detroit free press iress charles who undertook the prodigious task of drawing dr awin the boiler from its resting place proposes to have it placed la in victoria park as a relic of the tha days alien hen kincardine Kin cardine was a noted lak lake e port of course tile the boiler rusted and corroded ded will be painted and on it will be placed a plaque telling tile the story of tile ill fated tug proving the old adage that truth Is stranger than fiction of halt half inch steel 10 feet in height with copper flues only one of which remains to show that the boiler was once a part of the erie belle made difficult the task of drawing the steel bulk fro from in its resting place in two feet of mud and rock yards from the shore Se several verill abortive attempts were made before the boiler could be dragged to shore As if reluctant to ataye the scene of the catastrophe in which seven men went to their deaths the boiler snapped chains which were placed around it just half a century ago tho the erie helle belle blow blew up from a an overtaxed boiler which was too small to pull ohp tit huge schooner from the rocks with pieces of machinery and woodwork the crew and spectators who were aboard the little tug were blown into the air by the mighty blast 1