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Show EIGHTEEN MEN DROWNED WHEN B0AT1APSIZED German Bark Mlml Turned Turtls When Hauled off Beach at North 8plt, Or. Day City, Ore., April 7. Eighteen men were drowned as the result of tho capsizing Sunday morning of trie German bark Mlmi? whlcn had Just been hauled off " the' boac.i.nt North spit, Nehaldm bay, wero sho hi.d been Blnco Feb. 13, when sho wont ashore. After futllo efforts for nearly 24 hours against a heavy wind hnd cca tho Hfo saving crow from Garibaldi station succeeded at 5 o'clock this morning in saving Cap. Charles Fisher of Portland, presiaent of the FlBher Engineering corporation Cap. Westphal, master of the Mlml, and two sailors. Russell Blackman .secretary of tho Fisher Engineering corporation W. E. Kocn, a contracting plumber of Portland, nnd J. E. Holyfleld, superintendent sup-erintendent of the Brighton mill at Brighton, Or, aro among tnoso who woro drowned. They were aboard tho , Mlml directing the efforts to haul her off the spit. The survivors said that only seven men were left on board the Mlml af-tor af-tor sho turned turtle. A cabin boy and a sailor lashed themselves to the mast, where their dead bodies now hang. No bodies havo been recovered. |