Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-06 | Page 2 | Howling Blizzard Hits Wreck Victims

HUG BLIZZARD HITS WRECK VICTIMS High Seas on Lake Superior Make Rescue of Survivors Exceedingly Difficult. DULUTH, Minn., Dec 5. The passen-per passen-per steamer Eiwtoii of the Boolh line, with fifty person.i on bourd, lies tonight on the rocks on Ironuols reef, thirty miles west of Port Arthur, exposed to tho fur iof one of tho wona blizzards 1 1ml has swept Lake Superior In yearn. She went on early today and was reported re-ported by wireless lonlpht with her stern out of water, but holdlnp together. Humors of loss of life on tho vct.sel arc persistent, but the local manascr of the line. Louis T. Jlogstad. suya that so- far as ho has learned, all members of tho crow and pasKenfjoiQ are safe. The wind is blowlntr from the north In tho Port Arthur district and as the vesuol lies within about flyo mllea of shore, llosstnd expressed the belief that the scaa aro not heavy enouKh to pound hor to pieces. ' A wireless mcscaso from Port Arthur at midnight said two tugii and a Uflhter wero beside the vessel and that tho passengers and crew were bclnsr removed, re-moved, .