Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-08 | Page 1 | Five Perish When Barge Goes Down

FIVE PERISH WHEN BARGE GOES DOWN Disaster Overtakes the Athens During Blinding Hailstorm on Lake' Huron. t"v International News Service. DETROIT. Mich., Oct. 7. Five persons per-sons sank to their death when tlie barge A chens foundered in a blinding hailstorm hail-storm twenty-five miles front Southampton. Southamp-ton. Ontario, in Lake Huron early today, according to a message received here from Harbor Beach tonight. The Athens was loaded with S00 tons of soft coal. Tho dead: M. J. STARK EY, captain, Tonawanda, N. V. MARK STARKEY. his son. IS year? old. JONAH E LANDER, ;? years old. of Sweden. KENNETH 6M ITH, 19 years old, Ashtabula. Ash-tabula. Ohio. MRS. FLORENCE STALKER, a widow. 3 vears old, of Sarnia. Ont. Captairi Frank Sinnott, commanding the tne- Lucknow, which had the barge in tow. rescued three members of the barge's crew who were in the Athens' yawl. He was handieapDed by darkness and storm, and found it impossible to rescue the four men and woman who were Jos;.