Show t LAKE STEAMER IS SUNK IN COLLISION VESSEL GOES DOWN AND CARRIES CARRIES CAR CAR- RIES TWENTY EIGHT MEMBERS MEMBERS MEM MEM- BERS OF CREW TO BOTTOM Following Collision There Collision There Was An Ex i l in Boiler Boller Room of Doom Doomed ci r 4 tw Steamer Those on Board Having Hav Hay Hav t ing No No Ch Chance nce of Escape Sault Ste Ste. Marie The The s steamer teamer Sup Superior iI r was run down and sunk by the freighter King late Friday Fri day night It has Just been learned lw Twenty eight nty members of the crew v and one woman were missing and the four survivors brought here after beIng being be be- ing picked up from the w wreckage had nil all but abandoned hope for their escape escape escape es es- cape owing to the short time that elapsed between the collision and an explosion In boiler room which wrecked the stern of the steel ore c. c car Jl tier rier Peter Jacobson a survivor who Mas evas at the wheel wh when 1 his ship was r rammed mm d declared the King lire down on n nth th them m after the exchange of ol the theS 7 S usual Signs The sea was calm and hv c- c the weather was rather hazy but no He 1 could easily distinguish lights of the thea a I King he declared f Captain Herman Nelson of ot the King however maintained a fog enveloped eloped the vessels 5 Belief ellel that a number of the the missing were killed or severely Injured by the explosion was expressed by Captain i Edward r-Jward Sawyers of the Superior City The majority of them were In staterooms staterooms state state- rooms directly over the boiler boner room he said lie He attributed the sudden sinking of his vessel to her heavy cargo of ot Iron ore I sank deep Into the Icy water he SS S said paid and the shock brought me back to my senses I thought I would never reach the surface After Atter swimming five lve minutes up from the depths came camen a n steamers steamer's hatch cover upon which I climbed and hung until picked upI upI up 4 I guess God wanted me to live a bit longer he added for where that o hatch came from I couldn't figure Despite the statement of Captain Sawyer of ot the Superior City that the night was clear Captain Herman NeIson Nel Nel- fon son arid and members of the crew of ot the i Willis L. L King declared a hea heavy fog hung over the lake at the time of the accident |