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Show Blockage Causes Big Loss. Salt Ste Marie. Mich., Aug. 15. Wrecking outfits with extra crew worked today to dear the passage o-v the St. Mary's river, blocked last nigh by the sinking of the big ore schoone, Maida. It will probably be four days a-the a-the inside before the channel Is fref from the obstruction. About 250 boat? laden with ore and merchandise, grair. anil coal, are aff-vted by the blockad-, and the actual loss of time will mean from $100,000 to $200. W0 to the beat ovnrs atone. |