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Show STEAMER CREW ! WALKS ASHORE Remarkable Escape of Sailors in Vessel Which Runs on Rocks. STEEL FREIGHTER TOTAL WRECK IN fin DULUTH Driven by Gale on Rocky Point W ith stern Close to Shore. BUPERlbR, Wis., Nov. 28 -The steel freighter, Crescent City, of the Pittsburg Pitts-burg Steamship company iieet, is ot randed on the north shore of Lake Superior, total wreck. She was driven on the rocks within the limits oi the t-lt) ..r tfuluth m o'clock this morning. All the members of ih- crew anil captain are safe. The Crescent City was coming up the , lake light, driven by a seventy-mlles-an-hour gale from the northeast. At Lake Wood, near the entrance to the Ihiluth-Superior harbor, It was seen that the engines were powerless to keep the gale from driving Iki on the rocks. Anchors Thrown Out. Anchors were thrown, but they were of no available usv, and the ship went bow-on at a rocky point of the shore. The wind quickly drove the stern around so that the ship lay broadside to shore, and the stern was so dose that Capt Frank Rice and his crew ihrew a ladder to the beach and walked off In safety, abandoning the ship to her fate She will lie u total losrs. Wreckage Is now being strewn all along the shore between the point wlvre she went on and the bay of Superior. Su-perior. She is 40 feet long and of 6476 gross tonnage. A furious wind and snowstorm, starting last night. Is battering this city today. There Is no sign of abatement. abate-ment. The steamer Crescent CltV is ashore near Duluth. and there are ru- I mors of othei steamers In similar pre-dlcaments. pre-dlcaments. A sixty-mile gale, contlnu-Ing contlnu-Ing C r hours, has lashed Lake Superior into a fury, and grave f.-ars are felt foi lake-going i raft and their 1 rews. A damp snow accompanies the gale 1 and drifts from four to six feet high The street ear lines are stalled, all but l the sturdiest are confined within doors. ; and business Is at a standstill. Rail- ' road iraniH ..re far behind their sched- I ules and snow ploughs have been sent I OUt from division points. Woist Blizzard In Years. The blizzard l said to be thv worst since 1872, although the temperature here Is only r.lightly below the freezing point. A sharp dr.ir, however. Is predicted pre-dicted for tonlghi The iiiw. r-hon switchboards have burned mjt. Th telephone system has 1 ceased to operate making it Impossible at present to secure news of the lak- i di:Hrii t.i from the tug and shipping offices A report from Two Harbors la to the effect that a steamer In ditreri has been blowing signals since - o'clock this morning. Owing to novv flurries on the lake, it is impossible to ascertain ascer-tain what . raft It Is. |