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186 mile gale when she left Lorain for Cleveland, in spite of which, however, she made the. run between these ports in 2 hours and 14 minutes, the dis- THE MaRING REVIEW tance being approximately 30 miles, the engines averaging about 140 R. P. M. On her arrival at Cleveland her fire pumps were tested in the harbor \ July, 1909 in the presence of representatives from the fire department and the guaran- teed capacity and pressure were easily attained. * Accident at Sault Ste. Marie HE MARINE REVIEW had occasion recently to note that in the 54 years of operation Of' the. (canals at..the Soo, there has never been a serious acci- dent. We have now to chronicle prob- ably the most serious disaster which could possibly happen to a lock canal, and the results are such as to inspire only renewed confidence in the _ prac- tically certain freedom from accident in canal operation. When we consider the number: of lockages that have _lockages ; wide at the gates. The Canadian lock is 900 ft. long and 60 ft. wide through gates and chamber. An idea of the work done in the operation of these canals may be gath- ered from the fact that the canal records show that the Poe lock has locked 93 vessels in one day with 36 and the Canaaian lock has locked 56 vessels in one day with 34 lockages. The accident on Wednesday, about' noon The Assini- occurred Jane. 9. placement of the Crescent City being probably nearly double that of the Assiniboia. The mean difference of level between upper and lower ap- proaches on the day of the accident was 19.5 ft. The Gilchrist Transporta- tion Co.'s steamer Perry G. Walker, 436 ft. x 51 ft, bound up, loaded with coal, was approaching the lock from below but had not yet made fast be- low the lock as customary. Either through some error of judgment as to speed on .the part of her master,. or Hic. 1. V 1nw taken place at the Soo, the fact that similar accidents are not more fre- quent is simply marveious. The three locks in the canal at the Sault Ste. 'Marie are of the following dimen- sions: The oldest, known as 'the Weitzel lock, on the American side, opened in 1881, is 515 ft. between gates, 80 ft. wide in the chamber and 60 ft. wide at the gates. The Poe lock, opened in 1896, is 800 ft. long, 100 ft. wide in the chamber and 80 ft, boia, a Canadian Pacific Ry. passenger steamer, had entered the Canadian lock bound down and made taee her position, of course, being close to the lower gates. The Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s steamer Crescent City. a. bulk freighter, carrying about 7,000 tons of iron ore, was entering the lock and had not entirely' cleared the upper gates which were thus necessarily open, The steamers are respectively 346 ft. x 43 ft..and 426 ft. x 48 ft. the dis- Photos copyrighted 1909 by Young, Lord & Rhoades. FROM Lower Env or Locx, Taken Apout FirreeN MINuTES AFTER THE ACCIDENT. some misunderstanding of engine sig- nals, she was driven into the south gate of the lock at en estimated speed of between five and six miles per hour. The forcing inward of one gate even slightly, removed from the other the support afforded by the mitered ends, and the head of water behind it imme- diately carried it stream, fol- lowed, of course, immediately by the other. It is not at all probable that the gates were damaged to any extent d own