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January, 1910 of her wreckage was found floating about the lake. Of course, the most sensational ac- cident of the year 'was the forcing open of the lower gate of the Cana- dian lock at' Sault Ste. Marie by the steamer Perry G, Walker, of the Gil- christ Transportation Co.'s fleet about noon on Wednesday, June 9. The Walker, bound up loaded with coal, was approaching the lock from _ be- low but had not yet made fast below the lock as customary. Through some error of judgment or misunderstand- ing of signals she was. driven into the south. gate of "the Jock at an estimated speed of between five and TAE MARINE REVIEW chor, which proved to be unfortunate, as will be seen. The Crescent City was, as stated, just entering the lock chamber and was -consequently im- mediately over the upper sill. The water dropping out of the chamber lowered her bow so that the current rushing in through the restricted passage along her sides washed over her forward deck; but gathering head- way rapidly she shot over the sill and settling into the chamber, submerged momentarily, her after deck, and was then shot through the chamber and down. stream. where Assiniboia, the latter's stem cutting a serious: gash in the Crescent City's six miles per hour. The forcing in- port bow. Both the Walker and the ward of. one gate even slightly re- Assiniboia took the ground and the moved from the other the..support Crescent City crossed to the Amer- afforded' by the mitered erdsand ican side and was beached. The VESSELS «LOST...DURING THE SEASON OF (1909: : ; Carrying Capacity Name of Where lost Gross. Tons - Vessel * Cause Steamers Aurania Foundered Whitehsh Bay, Lake = Simerionr jsy.0 cs cece re ad 3,218 Benton Fire River «GRouge: x: Machin. (etic at eee ier ue ees 304 City of Green Bay Hire Saginaw. Bay 29 ca oe cise oe on ee es ieee es 258 Clarion Tire Ofte "Sotitheast Shoals dake rie. oo fee es Ald Cowle, John LB. Collision Off Whitefish Point, Lakéx Superiore: i CR 4,731 Falcon Stranded South Lox Island, Lake Michigans iia Ss Gesns yee 865, lint Trire Off: North Pomt, Lake: Sapertave.. inca aoe 823 Hinton, Francis Stranded bake: aMIGHIBaIi ies Ves eae eC: ear en i 417 lron Age lire BYR Qe hiecd MM mene ee Aven rn a mrp ies rng og eh dla Meyer, I*. A, Cut by Tce Lake Wrieseol VP ott -Colbotie - eott ness. ic tees 1,264 Monteagle lire Miu. rake, St. Matys saRiviers voici: sr ae gee 27 3 Ottawa Foundered Olt Passage Island, ake esupenoniyr.. 266i eee oe Pridgeon, John Jr. Storm Off Cleveland; Wake mlbries ss. cies ecto ee Te eee hel73 Richardson, W. C. Foundered ake rie; olf. Bullalo. 05 ceca tt ech tetas cee ci 3,818 Rome Tire Sty. Maty's: River ca. see eae we sakes pe. ee ae 1,847 Russia Storm "Neat: Detour, St... Marys fver si... eee ee 1,501 Samoa Tare: Osceola Lake, Toreliy Mallee aise AG ees oe 1,096 Shores, Adella Storm ake scSupemton 200s Seriictes creo eres Se eye tropes aad 734 Stone, George Storm Ofte. Pott: Pelee, Wake) Wiese vec tge ee ke ee vu 'Vecumseh lire Goderich, Og tie os eee ei eee oe algae rey oie ---- 'Yempest No. a Ie Parry Sot Outta. occa ye yas ue Meer ee ame 369 Lhew, Wack. Collision Off? "fhinnders Bay <-Tslaidscs aye iis cos ee 206 Ward, Ieber lleavy Ice Siraits: © Of: Mackinac ie is sw cds Palettes oe ete ns ne 1,343 Schooners Gebhart Lire GeOneian ayes ce create eels Sie teres osc 354 Maxwell, Ic. B. Stranded eae Ie oes ess eae has ceo cant ne eee Bee Nester, George Storm sake (Superior: oon. .iGa. eae sities oie etl cere ee 790 "Schuette, John Collision Lowet® "Detroit: River. 25 oo eve ote ets wales ew ees 269 Spademan, Charles Toundered ake Orie es Se ee ee ss ee ey nae 306 Van Straubenzie Collision OF 2 Dit s luge le i iets aie aetna oe ole 317 Tugs Augusta Fire Port Dalhousie "Oiiteycccere aik se Fee Gosh ya ober seem serio a ne oF Columbus OLDS Gareantias Onte xi eee Om. ire dees clue ere es se ce Wels Ottawa Eire Leake: : Stape rior secs ees ea oe peed tee rete cee ral ote 617 Penelope Dine Wakes Erie a Sa oe taee weuequatens « uhemen Nr etety ene sinit sun 54 Car. erries: 2 "Marquette & Besse- Foundered mer No. 2 Leake Birieses. Sirs os oe se Se een ee a se re oe vee 2,514 the head of water behind it. immedi- ately carried it down, stream, followed of course by the other. The Cana- dian steamer Assiniboia, bound down, was in the lock, made fast, her posi- tion of .course being close to the lower gates. The Pittsburg Steam- ship Co.'s steamer Crescent City, car- rying about 7,000 tons of iron ore, was entering the lock and had not en- tirely cleared the upper gates. The rush of water carried the Walker back along the south wall of the lower approach. The Assiniboia, of course, dropped with the water in the lock, snapping her mooring lines and then carried out of the lock with the rush of water, struck the Walker on the starboard side, forc- ing the latter around parallel with the south canal bank. The captain - of the Assiniboia then let go an an- "consisting unimportant rudder anc Walker's damages were of shoe and slight: damage forward. The Assini- boia had 24 damaged plates. The Crescent City, however, was the worst case of damage that has ever occurred on the lakes. Two hundred frames and all her bottom plates were broken. That she did not actually break in two in passing over the up- per sill is nothing short of marvelous. The steamer John B. Cowle was sunk in collision with the steamer Isaac M. Scott off Whitefish Point on July 12. in 7a: dense fog. Fhe Cowle was struck amidships and sank almost immediately, drowning 15 of her crew. > Among the total losses by fire were the steamer. Benton, steamer City of Green Bay, steamer Monteagle, tug Columbia and steamer Samoa, she fouled the. gate was wrecked, 39 The Monteagle had an especially unfortunate career. She struck a sub- merged crib in Mud lake and sank in 16 ft. of water. After she had been raised and repaired sufficiently for her trip to dry dock she caught fire and became a total loss. The steamer George Stone struck hard on Grubb's reef, near Point Au Pe- lee, on Oct. 23, after having battled with a gale for 24 hours preceding. Fire added to their danger, burning the pilot house to the deck before it was subdued. The Stone broke up gradually. Six members of the crew who attempted: to reach land in a small boat were drowned. Mean- while the Stone's signals of distress were responded to by the steamer Frank M. Osborne, Capt. Fred Du- puic, master. Capt. Dupuie bore down on the lee side of: the Stone, but as she was light it was difficult to hold her against the gale. Capt. Dupuie thereupon dropped both anchors and dragged them until he had pushed the Osborne's nose against the after deck of the Stone. A ladder was then put out and the crew taken off. The last trip of the season was the wildest of all and resulted in greater losses both of life and property than for any month preceding. Especially dramatic was the burning of the old wooden steamer Clarion, of the An: chor line, at Southeast Shoal, Dec. 8, and the wreck of the W. C. Richardson off Buffalo, particulars of which will be found elsewhere in this issue. . It was in this storm that the car ferry Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, operating between Conneaut and Port Stanley, was lost with all on board. Omitting total losses, the more serious and costly accidents included' the stranding of the steamer E. J. Earling on Madeline Island, Lake Su- perior, on May 27; the accident to the Crescent City on June 9 in which she was swept through the Canadian canal at the Sault when the lower entailing a repair bill of about $125,000; the Scott- Cowle collision on July 12, when the steamer Cowle was sunk and the Scott spent two weeks in dry dock, at a cost of about $25,000; the grounding of the steamer Pathfinder on Aug. 8 off Ea- gle river, Lake Superior, when she was rammed by the 'barge Sagamore which she was towing; the collision between the steamer's Senator and Norman B. Ream, the Senator having many plates damaged and many frames broken; the Collingwood- Craig collision in the Detroit river on Aug. 24, when the Collingwood sank owing to the severe injury sus- tained; the collision 'between the