Show 19 1 9 DIE 7 SAVED IN SHIP TRAGEDY CLEVELAND Oct 19 INS Deeds eeds of heroism were recounted I today oday by seven grim-faced grim men survivors of a night of horror on two wo overturned lifeboats in storm- storm tossed ossed Lake Erie after sinking of the Canadian ship Sand Merchant foot 50 Canadian vessel with loss of f 19 lives All the survivors Captain McClelland McClelland McClelland Mc Mc- Clelland and six of ot his men will recover physicians said In a serious serious seri- seri ous us condition was Martin White second engineer father of ot year 20 old Id Harry White a deckhand one of f the victims White and Crane Operator William Gifford and Fred Morse remained In a 8 hospital under treatment for shock and exposure Other Survivors Sun The three other survivors were Crane Operator Herman Dault only surviving member of the trio of brothers who shipped on the Sand Merchant Jack Meuse deck engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer and John Ideson a deckhand Among the dead was one woman Mrs Florence Drinkwater She perished with her husband First Mr ME W Bernard Drinkwater who had taken aken his wife along for one last ast boat ride before the cold weather Captain McClelland Dault and Ideson deson were picked up by the freighter reighter and the he tiers by the Bessemer and Marquette car ferry terry at 8 a a. a m m. Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day ten hours after the Sand Merchant Merchant Merchant Mer Mer- chant went down 18 miles off Cleveand Cleveland Cleveland Cleve- Cleve land and harbor at the height of the bitter storm hat that lashed the lake I Lashed by Waves During the long night that the two wo small lifeboats tossed and pitched itched in the waves one by one the he benumbed men slipped sUpped off when they hey couldn't hold on any longer Captain McClelland told how Dault ault and Ideson repeatedly pulled him back on the lifeboat when high waves washed him away When the Sand Merchant went down and the suction capsized the two wo small crafts husky year old Ideson pulled Dault out of the water onto the lifeboat Many hours later just before the rescue escue Dault kept young Ideson awake by abusing him and swearing swearing swear- swear ing ng at him when the younger man became numb and start started d to go to sleep leep Meuse told how Harold Cannon and Peter Daigle firemen called goodbye to him released their holds and sank Meuse told of kneeling in prayer on the deck of the Sand Merchant with Amos Dault Coast guard vessels put out today to o resume search for the bodies The victims of the Sand Merchant besides the first mate and his wife the he two Dault brothers Harry I Daigle and Cannon were Second Mate Wilfred Bourrie Bourne and andus his us brother Daniel Walter McGinnes William Grant and Sandford Gray engineers Nicholas McCarthy and Roland Demille Demille Demille De- De mille j Lytle and Frank Burns cooks Crane Ope Operator ator AI- AI Alphone phone jhone and two firemen Ray Harper and Frank |