Lake Vessel Wrecked, 7 Drowned

Calumet Mich. Dec. 1- Eleven of a crew of 20 were drowned when the Canadian coaler. Maplehurst foundered in a gale near here. None of the bodies have been recovered.

Calumet Mich. Dec. 1. Captain Nazon Bernard and six members of the crew of the Canadian steamer Maplehurst, lost their lives early today when the ship broke up a mile west of Portage Lake Canal during a heavy gale.

Nine others of the crew were rescued one at a time jumping from the bridge into a lifeboat.

Besides Captain Bernard the dead included Chief Engineer (?) of Kingston, Ont and First Mate Frank Smith of Brewer Mills, Ont. Names of the others were not obtainable this forenoon.

Those Rescued

The rescued were second engineer William Fauve, Jean Duval and Henry Duval, all of St Votique, Ont. Frank Rodrique, Caiteau Du Lac, Ont. Frank Marshall, R. Marshall and Thomas Down all of Montreal and H. Burch and Harry Murray of Kingston, Ont.

According to the coast guard service Captain Bernard and the six others lost their lives because they declined to jump from the bridge.

The rescue was effected in the teeth of hurricane proportions.

The lifeboat ran alongside the ship time and again only to be washed back. The men were taken off one at a time, jumping from the bridge to the lifeboat.

The Maplehurst 200 feet long with an iron hull was bound from Lorain, Ohio to Port Arthur with 1,000 tons of coal. She sank in 25 feet of water and this afternoon only her funnels are visible above the surface.

Captain stays with ship.

Calumet, Mich. Dec. 1. The captain elected to stay by his ship, while the other men who were lost either decided to remain with the captain, or were afraid to make the perilous leap from the bridge to the life savers boat.

The rescue by the coast guards was effected in a gale of hurricane proportions. Fifteen times the little boat, buffeted by the heavy seas, was run alongside of the vessel only to be washed back. Each of the first nine times. Six more times when the lifesavers boat raced past the vessel, the guards shouted to the remainder of the crew to jump, but they refused to take the chance, and were lost.

Vessels take shelter

Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Dec. 1 With a 35 to 40 mile gale blowing at the Sault 48 mile at Whitefish Point and 46 miles at Marquette, most of the vessels on Lake Superior took shelter and while three of four passed up since midnight headed up the lake one was still lying above the American Sault locks. Two vessels were reported to be lying at Detour waiting for the storm to abate, though the wind has fallen considerably since last night. Nine vessels have passed through her downbound since midnight.