Deseret Evening News | 1910-09-10 | Page 1 | Twenty-Nine Lives Were Lost

LIVES WERE LOST I But It Will Never be Known What Caused Ferry No 18 to Sink SinkIn In Lake Michigan NOT STORM OR OVERLOADING I ur or Any tny 11 t tIo tho Ir In I II Supt Trumps Ludington Midi Mich Hept 10 That yes Peb wreck of ut l ro tto cur curf co r f fer y No N IS and the loss 1051 Io lives was wa not due dio to a storm to overloading or to toa a 1 breakdown In thi vessels machinery and that tho real ret causo cause of ot thu th disaster er will never siever bo be fully tull determined In hi Ii tho the thoI I conclusion by b General Supt HUIt I w V D I Trump ot of tho tim Peru Pero i railroad who came hero Itero yesterday to the thu wreck A c to the tho report sent mont by Mr to 10 Iero headquarters in Detroit today tody todI Capt Hussell or orI o I 1 17 11 was y asked by b Capt Jit of Ut No 18 to Bland by when hen ho hoI I arrived at tho scone scene Capt CUlt Kilty 1 not believing his vessel CISSel vila 18 In Iii immediate danger Capt nj t 11 however I thill No Nu 1 IS S was wa sinking and lowered j his hili lI bouts boats just juat before No 18 wont went I down According to lo Mr Trump there were G G people 1 un ul n board No 18 1 Tho rho 16 i thu Ihu regUlar re crew tour four I or of tho IhA t Chicago Navigation company com pan I with Seymour B K Cochrane pret I dent d nt of ot the tho and a a corps of at utra scrubbers carpet layers etc ciu who iho were ro working while tho the boat was WILS moving In order ord r tv tu save BIO time Mr was WM saved but his hIli tour four cm ern were lost The Tho first Intimation those on board bourd bourdNo INo No 18 lied had that tha anything WitS was I was wa 88 when shan aboul 11 bou 4 um nm umI I found that Ihal the Vas I not respond r lliS 1 quickly kly The compartment c of ot tho thoI ho I engine room was lIB wa then found to eon con tam A considerable amount of or water though not enough nough to 10 disturb dt dl the Oro men und and deck hands hais sleeping thero there Ignal were wern given ns as the tho vc es pel nl el continued to sink and the tho life lite lifeboats boats boate on the port side ilde were lowered but not cut away from Irom tho the Capt Kitty continuing to head the for tor or the tho yest shore of Lako Michigan All MI of or th the Jumped or were thrown front from tho lb boat when nhe ilie sunk nd were picked up ur by b boats from tr m steamer Zo No 47 fl