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Show ;. DEATH TOLL OF ! GREAT STORM Lakes Shores Strewn With Wreckage More Than Three Score Lives Lost. MANY HEROIC RESCUERS Intense Suffering From Cold and Hunger Impossible to Estimate Total Loss. Chicago. Ill, Nov. II,' The shores of Lakes Superior, Huron and Erie were strewn last night with the wreckage wreck-age of a three days' gale and snon storm which cost the Uvea of prob ably throo-score persons, turned bottom bot-tom up In mid lake a 300 teet steel I vessel with Its crew wrecked or grounded numerous other craft and caused a property loss as yet uneflti-mated, uneflti-mated, but which will run Into millions milli-ons The full details of the storm which swept from the westernmost end of Lake Superior to the eastern shore of Lake Erie, became known only when survivors began arriving In various ports with tales of hardships and he role rescues seldom equalled on the lakes. On land, the storm hit hardest it Cleveland. Ohio, where five persons were killed and ten others lost and where $2,000,000 damage was caused to property. The deufh toll With I many ports unreported, Is told thus I Twenty five or forty men probabh : drowned In the overturning of a freighter found floating In Lake Hu ron Five bodies washed ashore at St. Joseph, on the Canadian side of Lake Huron (four had belts marked "Wflj ford,' and one wore a belt marked "London.") Three bodies washed ashore on i he west shore of Lake Huron Two bodies washed ashore opposite the position of the overturned boat Six members of a light ship drown ed In Lake Erie near Buffalo. N V Seven bodies washed ashore at Kettle Point, Iake Huron, and aev en bodlos rolling on the deck9 of n ship wrecked there Numerous Narrow Escapes The escapes from death were nuni erous After the storm Friday had blown away the forward part oJ the ship. Captain J V. Duddle6on of the steamer. L. C Waldo, navigated by a small inaccurate compass, ran h!s vessel on a reef The crew suffered intense cold and hunger until their rescue yesterday. The crew of the Turret Chief, when the ship struck the rocks in Lake Su perlor, were forced to go ashore scan Impossible to Estimate Loss. It was impossible even to estimafe the total loss to vessels totnllj wreck ed or damaged b grounding Ship pers In Detroit estimated the loss in lAke Huron and the Detroit and St " ! I Clnir rivers alone to be several bun dred thouiand dollar. Three of the I wrecked steamers Increase the loss hv $". 00ft. while the scores of small , ei craft driven ashore In l.nke Superl i or and Lake Erie will send the total much higher The more important ', mishaps to vessels were UnldenMti.- I . 000 foot steel freighter floating bottom up In Lake Huron, few miles north of i'orf Huron. Built In Canada, cargo probably was flax; I'nited States life 1 saving crew found vessel in such po ' sltlon as io have mari It nlmos' I DO-! DO-! possible fr rn of the crew of twen-j twen-j ty-flve or forty to have BflCapcd. Light ship number S2 in Lake Erie off Port Albino fifteen miles west of , Buffalo, with crew of six believed , lost. Steamer L C. Waldo, of Bay Transportation Trans-portation company. Detroit, Mich . I torn to pieces by storm P'rlday mid ! night and pounded against rocks on j Cull Rock. Mnnltou Island. Vessel valued at $800,000 Steamer Turret Chief of the Mer chants Mutual Line of Ontario went to pieces on th rocks, six miles east of Keweenaw Point in Lake Superior , before daylight Saturday, bound for I un-f Arthur Ontarln Rloun fift" miles out of course to the south shore, crew of seventeen rescued, loss ?100. 000 Unidentified vessel wrecked on rocks at Augus Point, Isle Royale, Iake Superior. Among the frai' craft jeopardized, but saed. was the Santa Maria, a ro-productlon ro-productlon of Columbus caravel which Is bound from Chicago to San Fran cisco It was driven Into a mud bank, near Erie. Pa. On board Is what is cherished as the original an chor which Columbus carried to Am erica The vessels reached ground with slight or no damage numbered morel than thirty Reports from all points I last night indicated the storm had ended |