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MAY = JUNE Page 97 Line was down bound with flour - for Buffalo. The PHILADELPHIA was up bound with coal and package freight for Duluth. The night had been fairly clear though there were heavy cloud banks and the wind was blowing fresh. Both boats were making good time. They had heard each other's whist- les but had no idea of any danger until the crash came and all was confusion. The PHILADELPHIA' struck the ALBANY just forward of number 2 gangway, aft of the cabin doors, cutting her way into the ALBANY for a third of her width. The ALBANY was brought alongside and towed for about twenty minutes, but the sea was to heavy to make time that way, so she was dropped in tow astern after her crew had been transferred to the PHILADELPHIA, All steam pos- sible was made during the run to the beach which was about eleven miles away. After half an hour the ALBANY be- gan to sink and she was cut loose and left to her doom. She went down in two hundred feet of water. The PHILADELPHIA ran on but the water began to make so rapidly that the small boats were lowered and manned Eight of the ALBANY's crew and six- teen of the PHILADELPHIA's men went in boat number 1 under the command of the First Mate of the PHILADEL- PHIA. The two captains with fifteen of the ALBANY's crew and six of the PHILADELPHIA's crew got away in the yaw! or number 2 boat. Frequent calls were heard by the men in boat number! for ten minutes after they started, indicating that the men in boat number 2 had clear- ed the wreck all right. Boat num- ber 1 was kept up into the wind and not worked too hard and was grad- ually pushed ashore. The sailors were able to reach Pointe aux Barques Life Saving Station and they notified its captain of yawl number 2. When the surf boat went out, the life saving crew found among the floating wreckage, eleven bodies, some with broken limbs and other- wise injured, but all with life preservers on, The bodies were found floating with heads and feet down. The propellor CITY OF CONCORD assisted in looking for the bodies until noon. Eleven bodies were re- covered and taken aboard and were taken to Tawas. East Tawas, Michigan, November 8, 1893...The bodies of the sailors drowned off the steamers ALBANY and PHILADELPHIA were brought in here by the CITY OF CONCORD. The captain of the CONCORD states that he dis- covered the wreckage of the ALBANY about five o'clock yesterday morn- ing and that of the PHILADELPHIA about half an hour later. He gives as his opinion that at least half of those in the yawl that capsized were rescued. Port Huron, Michigan, November 8, 1893...Capatin A.J. McDonald of the ALBANY and twenty men from the lost steamers arrived here this morning on the narrow gauge. One of the PHILADELPHIA's crew said that he had just come off watch and was smoking a cigarette when the boats collided. They came together with considerable force but not enough to indicate that either boat was running at top speed. The PHILADEL- PHIA was due on her course but the ALBANY was off her's when the lat- ter was struck amidsh:ps. The PHIL- ADELPHIA had excherged signals for passing and had checked her speed twice. The fog was so thick no one could see ahead more than two rods. The PHILADELPHIA could have made shore if she had not stopped to tow the ALBANY and he thinks it was a big half hours tow before' the ALBANY sank. The ALBANY had a stowaway aboard named Joe Church who comes from England, a lad of sixteen. The boy was asleep when the collision oc-