Show I I RfSCf BY UFESAYING CPI BIG LAKE STEAJKBB WENT TOT TO-T BOTTOM DOTOM J Interesting Narrative Disaster and Courage Furnished I the Foundering of the Duluth ering te St Joseph Mich Jan jTh big grain steamer City of Duluth arrived off this port from South Chicago last night at 830 oclock and attempted to enter the harbor There was I tremendous mendous wind from the northwest ana a heavy sea rolling The Duluth kept on her course into the harbor and at the mouth of the river struck a ba and was thrown heavily against the north pier breaking in two Immediately Immedi-ately The mammoth steel arches on either side of the boat gave way immedIate im-medIate and the bow of the boat dropped two or three feet A large hole was stove in the port side of the boat a she swun around and she went t the btittom4n an hour leaving leav-ing only her cabin and part of her bulwarks bul-warks above ta > The two big tugs Motford and Protection tection which had accompanied the big boat on her trip across the lake made several desperate attempts to I reach her and get the crew a passengers sengers off but were unsuccessful The lifesaving crew was summoned and reached the scene of the disaster In quick time corsiderins that they had disbanded for the winter At midnight mid-night they had a mortar line to the theL u boat and the rescue began The first one to be taken ashore was August Kernwein a business man oC this city He dipped into the water several times during the perilous trip and was badly frozen when he was pulled out onto the pier The rest of the passengers were taken ashore In this manner one at a time There were 17 passengers and 23 of the crew Captain Cap-tain McLean was the last to leave being taken off at 5 oclock this morning morn-ing There were several ladies onboard on-board The members of the lifesaving crew took turns going out in the car after them Mrs William Tryon Is now dying from the effects of the trip She was in a delicate condition and was badly frozen and seized with nervous ner-vous prostration There is no hopes for her to live The engineer says that when the boat struck the engine jumped a foot and was Immediately torn to pieces The water rushed n and put out the fires and the firemen barely escaped up the ladders The floor of the deck gave a mighty heaveupward and the passengers were thrown into the wildest wild-est confusion The spot where the City of Duluth struck is the same dangerous sand bar at the mouth of the harbor on which the illfated Chicora and its hapless crew went down three years ago almost al-most lo a day It Is one of the most dangerous and dreaded spots on the east shore and its exposed situation In a west wind and the torturous channel chan-nel make it a point of peril which mariners approach with anxiety ant pass with rejoicings |