Show HAD NARROW ESCAPE Nine Hundred Pasengers on Lake Steamer Saved by Scratch New York July STodays developments develop-ments show that the storm which swept Lake Erie last night was one of the most sudden and most severe known to the summer season Many yachts were broken from their moorings and driven on shore and the damage to the small craft was considerable The large passenger steamer Pearl which was caught by the squall as she was backing from her dock at Crystal beach Ontario with 900 Buffalo excursionists excur-sionists on board and driven stern foremost on a sand bar was released The damage to the boat proved trifling The rescue of the passengers was perilous peril-ous Gangplanks were spliced with rope and pushed from the Crystal Beach dock to the deck oc the Pearl which had listed to port so badly that It was feared sue would be turned completely com-pletely oval by l the waves Across this dangerous plank the 000 men women and children on board were forced to walk or crawl while the driving sea I foamed about them I |