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+ bPSESESEEEEOD | . FPFEETEESHESEFEOEEEESESTEEEEEEE++4445444400604 F | * oes -- eee [we = = Sl = . . am |} MANY STEAMERS IN TROUBLE. [v2 - --------" The seasou of navigation of 1006 de la gloeiog with a terrible Sagres - for los--s and. disasters on the 3 great lakes, the list already exveed- see ing the average of many Yeurs pus-.}" For several weeks those whose iol S ha: compelled them to be op the; water have had trying times indecd. |**? Th. weather Bas ofen most anfav- |p" orable for osarigativno, the wink, | storms aod severe weather all zo-}' log to make the life of the mari- rs ners as-uncomfortable and disagrec-'° abe as possible. .While the grea. |" | majority of the steamers have BUC" Ho eceded in safely reaching thet win) ter ports others Pave not been BO lee fortunate, sod this has also been | St true of upwredse of seventy peop-e |*° whose lives have been claimed ax |e rol by the waters. The list of |PoI isesters include the loss of Ue sat steamer Resolute at the eotrunce Of ivr fToren*o harbur, when six lives were y iost ; the' foundering of the fittie{?*° steamer Jones, with a loss of tupe | ward. of thirty-iive lives; the los) of the steamer Theano, and on.) **t Thursday dagcht last the wreck of! cer the Northero Navigation Company '- tor steamer Monarch, particulars of ;eO which appear el-ewhere. pore Storm after storm have followed | * fast on the trail of the wmariner;, and each claimed a list of ace -| dents apd losses. The great storm. of Thursday sight and Friday tas:, | which appoars to have beep yenera. | _ over ihe lake=, Wis fe exception, | ** By it several well-known steamers'... were wrecked or stranded. FA. The list ioeclude:s the Monarch,, & wrecked .on Isle Royale, and the |bla liwocaien steamer Uvisgyre, formerly ov the U. & Osecola, which went a-jdwue khore at Burie Bay, near. Mich'p.- par voten. the Ireland which stranded Que near the Apostle l-land ane from) which the crew escujedd with gach | PE) difficult,' reaching hore greatly frosthitten. The steamer Tonic, the freighter att wirchased by the Northern Navigi- Alt) tion Co. during the past stuminer,, wo iwent ashore while lying in ehelter! T at Whitefish Point, but fortunate.» | will on Sunday, without serious damage. 'covi The Dominion Transpertation Co".! M) [kteamer Caribou wre picked up off! P.al the enat em of Manitoulin Island) ter, by the steamer City of Midland in} Mi in dienbled conditjon and towed [ntu Bat bypnitowanine where she wus left to/of 1 await her sister ship, the Maniton.) Mel The rudder of the Caribou was in- freis jureal, shale rea pat | The Midiand was reported on Mon-! Mi intty to be fast in the ice a few her milex from Little Current and tole Mis without conl. The steamer, how-iretu ever, has since been released amilup t tomlay is in port. Map 4 oO te rx