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ICE FLOES PACK WELLAND CANAL—The Stadacona making its way through the ice-packed Welland canal, which was jammed by floes from Lake Erie from beyond the lake breakwater to the gates of lock 8 by a shift in the wind last Friday And It Happened Just A Few Days Ago 5**"" Cooling thoughts for Toronto while her temperature flirts with the^ i gray eighties. They are reproductions of pictures taken *y Captain C. E. i Kennedy, of the Tree Line's "Teakbay," on his first trip from Kingston j to Fort William, At the left are four ships breaking; through the ice on ! Lake Superior near Fort William on May 3; top richt, five of the SO ships j ! jammed in the ice off Port Colborne on April 27; lower right, another! scene just outside Port Colborne on April 27. HARBOR IS ENTERED BY FIRST FREIGHTER Midland, May 7.—First freighter! of the season to enter Midland Harbor, the S.S. Gleneagles, with Capt. Dave Burke of Sarnia in charge, docked at the Century Coal dock yesterday to unload 10,000 tons of coal, which was taken on at Ashtabula and Fairpprt, Ohio. It will be Thursday noon before the cargo is unloaded. The ship made good time, and although ice was sighted on the upward trip, it did not cause inconvenience. Tug Sinks After Launching And Man Nearly Drowned Special to The Mail and Empire. Wallaceburg, May 12.—When the tug "Henry Stokes," owned by Capt. J. Earl McQueen of Amherstburg, which has been' undergoing repairs nt the Wallaceburg Sand and Gravel Company shipyards here, was being launched this afternoon, she sank stern foremost in approximately 24 feet of water in the Sydenham River. It is understood salvaging of the vessel, which is completely submerged, will start immediately, The Henry Stokes, prior to acquisition by the Dominion Sugar Company a few years ago for hauling sugar-beet scows, was named th» "Brook" and was owned by the father of the present owner. After a few years' service on the Thames River, she was sold by the company to Captain McQueen, the present owner. When acquired by the sugar company, she was named after the company's chief agriculturist. Walter McQjieen, brother of th« owner, who has been superintending the repairs and who was unable to swim, had a narrow escape from drowning. He was standing on th» tug as she slid down the ways, .He was rescued by workers In a boat.;