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Show HOWLING GALE SWEEPS LAI I; Toronto. Ont.. Aug. 3. Lake Onta- 1 rio was whipped today by a howling , . gale, the worst in twelve years. r . The steamer Chippewa, afte'r being i out two hours, came back to Toronto with a big hole In her side, battered J. in by heavy seas. The Garden City, from Toronto to Port'Dalhousle. Onta- . g rlo. had eight feet of her upper works washed away after being out an hour ' and a half, and came back to port. H The Cayuga, having on board a num- .OH ber of recruits for the camp at Nl- H agara, battled four hours with the f (I waves before she could make a lnnd- ' Ing. 1 During the night heavy seas washed i C. II. Bastors overboard from a I launch on which he, his wife and I three others had started for Whitby. Jl 2S miles away. He was drowned. Jl After a night of helpless drifting be- vM fore the gale the others were res- fj H cued. II I J Indiana. Pa., Aug. 3. Wading in M water at times up to their necks, 450 ll miners escaped early today from the H H Sample Hun mine, near here, after I kfl being Imprisoned for several hours. I II It is believed that no lives were lost. fmfl although the census of those employ- IJI 9M ed In thu shaft has not yet been com- Hj I pleted. U I During the night over the water- H shed so swelled a little stream near J i m the opening that a great volume of I " 'water poured Into the mine. Exit I I by the usual way was cut off and L I the men made their way to an air- 1 ' I shaft and climbed to safety. Some I M of the men waded in water for almost JH a mile. H Punxsutaney. Pa.. Aug. 3. One life ffM was lost and many thousands of dol- , ; lars of damage was done last night in tH this section by a series of storms :H which flooded streams, washed away IH bridges, damaged railroad and inter- H urban lines and harvest 'fields. Ralph M Raphlnsky. a boy. was swept from1 a , JjjH bridge here and drowned. fj |