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Show STKAMDOAT CAPSIZEE ELEVEN OF THE CREW AND PAS SENGER3 DROWNED. During a Storm on Lake Michigan Vessels Founders and Twelve Persons Per-sons Oo Down to Watery Grave. A dispatch from Marinette, Wis. says: The passenger steamer Eric L llackley, of Fish Creek, foundered In tireen bsy during a squall, and twelve persona wero drowned. Nino wore rescued. As the Hnckley wont to the Iniitom. those who would and could seined on floating pieces of wreckage, while the women anil three or four of the men, falling to find any object to which to cling, annk In tho sen, so far as Is known. Tho waves wero rolling high nnd several of those who nt 11 ret saved themselves from Immediate death los strenglh snd sank. It was several hours after tho llackley sank before the Sheboygan hovo within hulling dlnnnce. Tho shouts of tho floating men attracted the attention of tho sailors on the Sheboygan, and evory asslstanco waa lent. Tho dark ih-ps made rescue slow, bill the officers of tho flheboygan feel suro that they took aboard every person per-son alloat. Borne of tho porsons who were rescued ssy that It la possible that one or more of (he eleven persona per-sona missing may have escaped death. This vlow Is not given much credenc by the sailors of the Sheboygan. |