Show treasure trove of lake huron H won WALLACE IDAHO MINER burton knisely writing from alpena michigan tells now how the cargo of copper that went down with w ith tile the pewabic in lake huron over fifty years ago is now being recovered by a wrecking company the pewabic was a magnificent passenger ger I 1 and cargo carrier and had only been in commission a few weeks local inte given to the story by the fact that mrs anna cochran a well known pioneer resident of this city was living in michigan on the lake huron coast at the time of the disaster and vividly recalls all the circumstances she saw the pewabic Pe only a few days before she went down and it is through her that the miner is able to publish this graphic account of tile the disaster and the recovery of the long lost treasure to fight the kaiser treasure hunt ing now for copper mined to fight the south and buried since then in the crumbling hold of the old pewabic in stormy thunder bay with some of the trappings of the hunt for pirate gold but also with twentieth century machinery they are taking out of davy jones locker a treasure because the war has made copper worth 35 to 37 cents a pound instead of 8 to 12 A great dredging scow with metal hands is furnished with eyes by diving suits just invented in which men go down feet these modern adventurers face cheerfully an operating expense of a day because one bite of the clam brought up out of lake huron a five ton chunk of copper worth over in two months the leavitt wrecking company has taken out of a nest of dead mens bones worth of copper and other salvage and expects to double that this modern wrecking expedition in the it graveyard of the great lakes within sight of a beach where hundreds of S ships h i ps have been lost brings the strange flavor of the ear ringed romantic days of buried treasure into the matter of fat fact present of steam shovels tile the story stretches from war to war war tle the great destroyer is also the pe wable babic teaches the great salvager just as it is turning this worthless copper into treasure tile the pewabic Pew abic her first paint still shining white after a short service sank on tile the evening of august 9 1865 in a lake of glass but to captain PersO persons lisp boyishly active after two score years as a government lifesaver tile the last man to see her before she ran into tragedy every detail remained distinct as ile he told me tile the great epic of thunder bay she took people to the bottom in four fotr minutes against a flaming sunset such a chance as this that a mate left the brilliantly lighted salon and the dancers for the twilight shadows on deck just a minute too soon or too late tells the sinking of the pewabic Pew abic rammed by her sister ship meteor as captain persons recounted it to nie me the mate stopped in the salon to watch the dancers everything was music and lights the was taking the pewabic to port past the meteor the wrong way hut but safe if the boats signal ashes closer than you think sir advised tile the elsman the mates eyes were not adjusted to the change in light the boats seesawed into each other the meteor rammed the pewabic Pew abic before she backed out a score jumped to the meteors le deck one father tossed his son across and ran back to die with his wife the nameless boy was adopted by a meteor officer some perhaps fifty in all were picked up but the sinking of the pewabic remains the in most ost tragic and the worst of thunder bays wrecks I 1 stood on the rail of the wrecking barge as tense as the cleasure tle treasure asure hunters themselves I 1 had seen a diver lowered to feet and then raised three times as fast as a steam winch could drop an and d hoist him A a pound suit of manganese bronze enabled which in 11 him to make in a minute an ascent a rubber suit would have taken an hour to prevent the bends because of change in ia pressure ni ill the big steel clam was coming UP ayou ou re bet its copper said a workman on for a dime replied the man next the clam swung free it had a preel pre chunk of practically 1 immense ous grip on an too five virg virgin 1 i n copper found to weigh the wbk while the salvagers salv agers held their breath hoisted n young fortune of a was being aboard hides thee tb ingot copper slab copper m Is the ati are not all dead mens bones 01 fine men died in trunks of ad are tile trinkets bright tin types such der mementoes of the pewabic Pew abic when the alie clam brought up the t throttle it was still open sank W and he help lp flags flying screaming for ers dro drowned wiled in each others arms the be in and her copper may yet gerli on the tn that send others to death f front |