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Show FLEET OF LUKE SHIPSIGEDDUISD ICE CfiEAKER AND TUCS HAVE LITTLE EFFECT IN E!" FORTS TO MOVE SHIPS 1?5 Ships With Agnren.ite Cargoes Valued at $25,000,000 Are Still Tied up In The St. Mary's River Saulic Sic. Marie- -The giant ice breaker, Saillle Marie, a;' listed by tugs anil lighters, ehnr;-.ed about with lillle effect against I In: iee formation el' the Si, Mary's river which threat-fiisi threat-fiisi to imprison for the winter a Meet nl' lake vesseles hound for Canadian and united States ports. Afler working all 1 1 i ; : h t and during a day the Sainle Marie had succeeded in freeing three uphniiud vessels, the Canadian Pacific, liner Assiniboia, loaded load-ed with passengers, and the freigt hers Ontadne and S. M. Clements. Tin' work la exceedingly dilliculL and slow, as it is necessary for the Sainle Marie to make a new lane to each ship and hy the Lime she carves a path wide enough for lu;s to op-p.'iale op-p.'iale in, pulling the trapped ships free, the starting stretch of the lane freezes over. The Sainte Marie was frozen ill several times herself and was able to full free with ditlictilly. The difficulty of the work and Hie inaccessihility of some of the ships led lake engineers to express the op inion that the jam may not he completely com-pletely broken before sprint;. |