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Show tiO KNOWN CAUSE FEMOCENT Ludlngton, Mich.. Sept. 10. That yesterday's wreck t Pere Marquette car ferry No. IS and th loss of twenty-nine lives wafi not due to a storm, to overloading or to a breakdown In the vessel's machinery, and that the real cause of the disaster will never be fully determined, is the conclusion reached by General Superintendent W. D Trump of the Pere Marquc-lto railroad, who came hero yesterJay to Investigate the wreck. According to the report sent by Mr. Trump to Pere Marquette headquarters headquar-ters In Detroit today. Captain Russell of car ferry No. 17 was merely asked by Captain Kilty to stand by when he arrived at the scene Captain Kilty evidently not believing the vessel was ln Immediate danger. Captalu Russell, however, observed that No. IS was sinking and lowered his lifeboats before lo. IS went down. According to Mr. Trump, ther were sixty-two people en board No. IS. The sixteen above th? regular crow were 'four employes of (he Chicago Chi-cago Navigation company, v.lih Seymour Sey-mour T. Cochran vice-president- of tin. coniDaiiy. and a corps of cxha scrublers, carpet layers, etc., who were working while the boat rai moving in order to save time Mr. Cochrane wa :-aved, but his l'o.ir employes em-ployes were lost The cnmuarUiient of the engine , roni was then found to contain a considerable con-siderable amount of water, though not enough to disturb the firemen an.l dck hands sleeping there. Pi siren signals were given as the vessel continued con-tinued t- sink, and the lifeboats on the port side were lowered but n t cut a way from the shin. Captain Kilt continuing to head (he steamer for the west shore of Lake Michigan. All of the survivors jumped or wens thrown from tho boat when she sank and were pfekc-d up by boats from tho steamer No. 17. |