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Show NEVER GIVES UP ITS DEAD. Lake Superior Keeps Its Victims In tbo DopUis of Its Waters. From the Minneapolis Tribune: Lake Superior never gives up its dead. Whoever Who-ever encounters terrible disaster happily hap-pily infrequent in the tourist season and goes down in the angry, beautiful blue waters, never comes up again. From those earliest days when the daring French voyagers in their trim birch bark canoes skirted the picturesque pictur-esque shores of this noble but relentless relent-less lake down to this present moment, those who have met their deaths in mid-Superior still lie at the stone-paved bottom. It may be that, so very cold is the water, some of their bodies may have been preserved through the centuries. Sometimes, not far from shore, the bodies of people who have been wrecked from fishing smacks or f ro'fia pleasure boats overtaken by a cTuol squall have been recovered, but cmly after the most heroic efforts with Graf? net or by the diver. Once on a 1 t-lp down the lakes I met a clergy- man who, as we passed a point of land some miles before entering the narrowing nar-rowing of the lake at the Soo, pointed out the place where the ill-fated Al-goma Al-goma went down on the reef soma eight years ago, and as he looked he sakl slowly, "I was at the funeral of one man who went down with her, and the only reason his body is not at the bottom today with the other 38 that were lost is because it was caught in the timbers of ilie vessel and could not sink." |