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MAY eJUNE Page 94 FLOUR by CC. He Stem Twelve days after the ore carrier DANIEL J. MORRELL foundered in Lake Huron during the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, the body of one of her deckhands, that of Saverio Grippe of Ashtabula, Ohio, was found washed up on the beach of Inverhuron Point, nine miles north of Kincardine, Ontario. One day later, Howard Trussler of Point Clark picked up a life pre- server and a flare container from the MORRELL which he had found on the beach south of Kincardine, at the mouth of the Pine River. One month later, Alex Ritchie and Constable Bernard Ashton of South- hampton, Ontarfo discovered in the shore ice south of that port, a mattress, a mans shoe, a small sec- tion of a life boat, and an oar. The oar had the name 'DANIEL J. MORRELL! stamped on it. The body of Saverio Grippe, the life preserver, the oar, and the other articles, if of the same ori- gin, had floated east and north a distance of sixty to eighty miles across the breadth of Lake Huron from the mouth of Saginaw Bay. For more than a century the resi- dents along the Canadian shore of Lake Huron, from Bayfield north to Southampton, have been the recipi- ents of manna from the waves, most- ly in the guise of flour. STORY As long ago as September of 1848 close to three hundred barrels of flour and corn meal were salvaged along the Ontario Beaches of Lake Huron. In October of the same year the charred upper works of the pro- pellor GOLIAH were discovered near the mouth of the Pine River. Her mast floated ashore at Kincardine. According to Mansfield,the GOLIAH had cleared the St. Clair River, up bound on Septmber 13, 1848 with a very heavy cargo consisting of 200 kegs of powder, 20,000 bricks, 30, 000 feet of lumber, 40 tons of hay, and 2,000 kegs and barrels of pro- visions and flour consigned to var- ious mining companies along Lake Superior. Three hours later the schooner SPARTA followed the GOLIAH up into Lake Huron within sight of the Michigan shore. Capatin Fuller, master of the SPARTA, reported hearing and distinctly feeling an explosion, though many miles dis- tant. There were no survivors from the GOLIAH Was it the flour from the GOLIAH which washed ashore across the lake and was picked up on_ the Ontario beaches? Probably. At this distance from the event though we have no conclusive evidence, Since 1848 recurring stories of flour washing ashore near Inver- huron have been many and varied. The origin of the flour has always