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Show MORE DEATHS BY THE LATE STORM Twenty-one Lives Lost When Vessel Goes Down Off Long Point, Canada. Cleveland, O., Oct 22. Storm-swept Storm-swept Lake Erie today gave up another an-other fragment of the' story of its "black Friday" another vessel pounded to pieces in the stinging gale and grinding waves, carrying 21 men to their deaths. Tho last vessel is their dca.3. Tho last vessel is the Duluth-owued whaleback James B. Colgate. Its lone survivor, adrift for 30 hours on a raft, brought the story ashore. Half dead, he was carried off a rescue ship at Conneaut, Ohio, this afternoon. He is Captain Walter Grnshaw of this city, master of the Colgate, which went down at 10 o'clock Friday Fri-day night off Long Point, Canada, opposite op-posite Erie. Every one of the crew of 21 perished, per-ished, nineteen of them sucked down to death, the instant the big steel boat foundered In the storm and two added to iuo roll when, exhausted, they were washed off the raft that carried thei.r captain. The ferry steamer Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 picked up the captain off Rondeau, Canada, opposite Cleveland. Six men were lost when the steamer steam-er Flier Sank In Lake iSrie on Friuay, only captain Mattlson being saved. Earlier the steamer Marshal F. Butters But-ters foundered, but Its crew of thirteen thir-teen men were saved. Grashaw, who had been master of the Colgate for only two weeks. He Is in a hospital at Conneaut In a critical crit-ical condition. His wife Is at his bedside. bed-side. Captain Grashaw could bo seen by bis rescuers prostrate on the raft, I numbed hands wrapped around the ropes twined across it, his body lashing lash-ing in the waves. Captain Grashaw's story follows: 'we were passing Long Point about 6 or 7 o'clock Friday night when trouble began. The boat sprang a leak forward. Wo wero all aft at the time and immediately we could feel her tipping and settling at the head. "Every man worked for his life then but it was no use. By 10 o'clock tho storm had Increased so tha. the Colgate didn't have a chance. The gale was terrific, rains driving and the waves pounded. We got tho life raft ready Just as the boat was so far down that her decks wore awash. "When she sank everybody jumped Into the water. I went down and when I came up by some chance my hand touched the raic. I grabbed It and pulled myself on it Just as Second Sec-ond Engineer Harry Ossmann and a coal passer reached it. What hap-T"n?d hap-T"n?d to tne others I don't know. I never saw them agai... ic.r ::iust have been sucked right down with the ship. "Then our awful fight began something I'll never forget. Twice tho raft turned completely over and we were washed loose, but we managed man-aged to regain our holds. I must have been unconscious half the time, for now I can t remember distinguishing distinguish-ing night from day while the storm went on and our rait plunged with us, never once in sight of a ship that migh rescue us until this morning. "First the coal-passer was washed away. Then hours later Ossmann, totally exhausted, was washed to his death. How I managed to keep on the raft I don't know. Time and again it turned over with me. Each time I had to fight my way on top again." The Colgate was built in 1892, 3300 gross tons, 30S feet long, 3S feet beam and 24 feet deep. She was fully insured. Among the members of his crew was Wheelman John Buckley, 33, of Garfieia, Utah. Port Huron, Mich., Oct. 22. Ti.e bodies of two men, believed to have been members of the barge D. L. Filer, Fil-er, which foundered In Lake Erie Friday Fri-day night with a loss of six lives, were washed ashore below Amherst-burg, Amherst-burg, Ontario, about 20 miles down the Detroit river, today They have not been identified. |
