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Show SHIP . d$ DOWN MANY LIS LOST Steamer Cypress Wrecked on Lake Superior and of Entire Crew Only One Escaped. Sole Survivor Is Washed Ashore and is Unabl to Give an Account of the Terrible Accident Foundering Foun-dering Was Probably Due to Sudden Leak. Salt Ste Millie. Mich. Hound down from the head of the lnltes on the second sec-ond trip she bail made since being launched nt Lorain, Ohio, on August IT last, the line steel freighter Cyprus, 440 feet long, and owned by 'he Iick-nwanna Iick-nwanna Transportation company of Cleveland, foundered Saturday night In Lake Superior off Deer Park, taking tak-ing down wltli her twenty-two members mem-bers or the civw. Second Mate C .1. Pitt, washed ashore lashed to a life raft, Is the only person left alive of the ship's people, and Ills condition In so critical that since he wns found on the beach he 1ms only been nblo to gasp out the name of the sunken ship nnd tlio fact Hint twenty-two lies were lost. The indentions are that the foundering was duo to a sudden leak. |