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Show II! DROWNED AFTER IIS LIKE I STEAMER SIS Freighter Goes to Bottom With Many of Crew After Collision SAL'LT STE MARIE. Mich.. Aug. : 21 The lives of twenty-nine persons. . one of them a woman, are believed to 1 have been lost last night when the steamer Superloi City, a freighter, sank four and one-half mllej north-I north-I east of White Fish i'oint. in l,ake Superior after colliding with the steamer Willis L King. I Ol Jl SA ED. j Four members of the crow, including includ-ing Captain Edward Sawyer, of 1-IblOn, 1-IblOn, Mich., wen Saved. Names of the missing could not be- learned today nj all records of the boat were loat. I Tho missing woman was the Wife of I 'the second engineer. j Captain Sawyer would make no Statement except that the night was: 'ciear Walter Rlchter, boatswain, one of I th survivors, brought here bv tiie I Turner, is In 1 hospital, seriously injured. in-jured. 9TOR1 Ot CRASH. 1 "'The captain's alarm signal rang! Just two minutes before the crash." ,said Rlchter, Ii we had had two.1 minutes more no live would have befii lost. The King struck us Just' a:t of midships 611 the port side and j the impact took away the entin stern Several boats were torn uway while the men were attempting to launch I I them.' Rlchter reached a floating hatch cover and later was rescued by the; Turner. . Rlchtcr's home la In Lorain, Ohio. J other survivors were Gal Lehne, Of 1 Chicago, second mate, and Peter Ja-cobson, Ja-cobson, of Cleveland, wheelsman. CLEVELAND, Aug. 21. officials of the Pittsburgh Steamship company, owners of the steamer CitJ of Superior, Super-ior, sunk In collision in Lake Super-! ior last night, had received no word at 11 o'clock today of the safety of' 28 members of tho crew of 32 and ' expressed grave fears that they were' d rowned Press reports said four members of the crew had been saved. |