Maritime History of the Great Lakes

J. W. Hall Scrapbook, 1876-, p. 37

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// '{ '/ S' THE LATE CAPTAIST JOHN C. GRAHAM, Some ten days ago Capt. G-raham fell from his buggy near Port Dalhousie, and received injuries that proved fatal. He died at St. Catharines on the oth Inst., and was buried there yesterday. Capt. Graham was born in Argylfidhire, Scotland, December,'1823. He came to Canada when seveu years old, and at the a#e of lifteen became a sailor. He was sailing till 1866. In 1853 he had joined the iirm of Norris & Neelor in the ownership of several veasels, iiud left a good deal of vessel and other property to the survivor^ of the family. Tiiosu are bis aired mother, his wife, and three sons and three daughters. A .St. Catharines contemporary says:—" The community has never known a more honourable man. He never shrank from a known duty. The deepest mourners at his bier, next to his own family, win he his e-iily associates in tbe business .struggles of iifc—those who knew him longest and had the best opportunity to ap» pMClate his worth." DOA1* BHORMGB, Masters of vessels are so used to the habit of consignees in making out shortages against, them on coal cargoes, that they have ceased to say anything about it, unless the shortage be excessive in its extent. Capt. Shaw thinks the shortage on his cargo, in the Proctor, on her late trip here", was excessive. Ho had 375 tons, net, on his bill of lading : and on getting it weighed oilfc he was 13 tons short. He got 25 cents a ton from Oswego to Toronto, sot-hat hi'!-T1u"s wafi $3 '25. Now, It is not exactly the amount he loses, but he does not see why lie should lose at all; for he delivers all he got put on board. And ho Bays it is a strange tiling that vessels going to Hamilton with coal do scarcely know s what it is to havj a ;:h::rta<,c bill against fchsin be something wrong with the Toronto scales-else, he thinks. THE SVOff BIRD. There must or something A report of the ciww where Capt. Beard, of the Snow Bird, was up before the Police Magistrate, appeared in The (.LouEof yesterday. In that report it was stated "Mr. Helliwell. Deputy Harbour Master, was in Court for the prosecution, and said the Coniiiniasioafers had passed a regulation that any master of a vessel neglecting to go to the office and pay the due;; on his arrival would be fined $20. Fbe Magistrate aid not appear to set much weight on this regulation." Concerning which the following note has been received from Mr. Baldwin, the Harbour Master :— " Toronto, 5th July, 1882. " To the Marine Editor of The Globe. " Re Snow Bird. *^SiRf—In yaur report of this case you have given the public a wrong impression, - In tbe first place, it was not a resolution but abj»-l&w which was broken : and, secondly, it was "not " optional with thePodice Magistrate whether he would fine or not if tbe case was proven. He could remit the costs. The Harbour Master had no desire to press the matter, ai*d only wonted, to show Capt. Beard and others the trouble they would get into if they aid not attend to the rules aiid regulations. " Yours, "M. B." Advices from Bay City state that Captain 'Prowdy, of the haive Ajax, has been missing since Wednesday. He seems ed in good spirits when he left his wife on Wednesday. It is feared he has been foully dealt -with. The steamship Ouoko has eelipse<l tbe City of Rome and City of Cleveland in carrying iron ore. Her cargo from Escanaba, on her present trip dowin, is 2,574 tons on fifteen feet of water. This is the largest cargo of iron ore ever carried by any vessel on the lakes' The Onoko has carried in tonnage a larger cargo of grain t,hau this, and the prop Commodore once had a cargo of 2.60J tons. I Judge Blodgett entered a decree against the Bteaflabftrge Buckeye yesterday, in the suit of tho oana . j >at Muntauk, tor $5,770.10. It was a collision case. The Buckeye is owned by E. & C. Elured, of Chicago, and has just completed a re-buiM. Her rating is A 2, and the Lloyda value her at $20,000. By collision in Lake Srfc. Clair yesterday the tujr J. R C/iark was sunk bjy the propeller Scotia, of the Ucommercial Line. The crew were saved. The Clark measures 80 toms. Sue was built at Detroit in I860, rated B 1, and was valued at about $10,000. Meisell, of Detroit, is cue owner. She ia probably insured. Home again. The barges Hale, Church, and Iv-juing are in port, coal loaded, to*ed by the steamharge Burlington. The BurWugton is a stranger iieie. Bhe measures -UW tons. She-was built at Buffalo by D. O. Connor in 1857* baa. been freauently repaired, aud rates B 1J YV. Jenkiusou, of Port Huron, is her owm-r. The schooner H. P. Baldwin, which was sunk at Cleveland, has been floated and taken into the harbor. She will be repaired and fitted out again. The Baldwin measures 500 tons, was built at Detroit by J. M. Jones, in 1866, and belonged to the late II. S. Halsted, of Chicago. She ------fiTir inpnl r-J i rrrnrfl rrri nr Auderson's body, but ^iouiid. Anderson wit ASHOK2-TWO LIVES LOST. Muskegon, Mich., July 8.—Tlie steambarge Hilton, from Milwaukee, got ashore twelve miles north of this port Friday night, and so remained until 6 o'clock this morning. After daylight the small boat was lowered, and live men went out to drop an anchor for the purpose of helping the boat off the beach, but the sea was so heavy that in lowering the anchor the boat was capsized, and all were thrown into the water. The captain and two others cluag to the boat, but Peter Anderson and Dennis Cooney went un'der and were drowned. The Hilton arrived herewith ' ' " body, but Cogney's could not be erson wijl be_ourjod tv-iny.p--«- 35 years, fcieman on the tug Wheeler, drowned this noon on Lake Michigan. The were all below eating dinner when the cook aroused Winkler from his sleep fur his dinner, and uuon getting un Winkler went on deck to wash. It is supposed that when drawing a bucket of water he fell overboard, as the bucket was seen afterward when the captain went on deck from dinner. The tug was about one mile from the harbor waiting for vessels* The body has not been recovered. yjr V Such engagements as there were for grain to Buffalo were at 2c wheat or corn, indicating; that the regular'lines of propellers (owned by the railroads) really regulate lake freights. This has been an open secret for a long time. They not only regulate grain freights, but, hog to the last, they Have of late gone into coal caiTyim and have kept rates on coal much lower tha they would otherwise be. Tiring of taking grai from Chicago to Buffalo at 1c, these propeile lines resolved to hold for 2c, ana 2a is now th figure. On corn to Midland the rate is J.J40, and out! wheat to Kingston 4c. To Ogdcns burg on corn] '(for American vessels at least) the iiigurc is 41se. Following arc aii the engagement's reported on Saturday; f FROPKLXEK PIICENIX, CAPT, B. G, SWftBT, ISM eler' this LAUNCH. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Bay City, Mich., June 29.—The prop Osceola. for Wood's Lake Superior Line, built at Wh< & Crane's yard, at this port, was launched afternoon about 4" o'clock. Dimensions over all. 195 feet; keel, 182 feet; beam, 33 feet; hold, 13 feet 6 inches. She will have a compound engine, low pressure forty inches,and high pressure, twenty-three, with a stroke of thircvArx inches. The boiler will be sixteen feet longbv nine, shell. Her estimated cost is $70,000. She will be taken to Detroit to receive her machinery Iff 11 ie I SAILOSS DEOWNEB. Special Telegram to The InterOceau. Cheboygan, Mich, June 5.—Two men naimed Misheler and Dave Plant, mate and fireman of the tug Peck, were drowned at Lake Geiorge, Sault Itiver, on the 1st. They saw a bear swimming across to the mainland, and endeavored to lower a boat from the tug, to give chase, when the boat capsizsd, and both were drowned- At last accounts divers were searching for their bodies. Deteoit, Mich., June 5.—Charles C. Howe, a watchman on the steamer City of Rome, was drowned in Lake Erie this morning, being washed overboard. He lived at Toledo. East lit Hi 1 Saginaw for Mason, Corning & _ Co., was r_ r,, _Z- THE WELLAND CANAL ELQi Poet Dalhousie, Ont., July 8.-Navigation In both till 01.1 and the enlarged Welland Canals lias beam blocked sincel last eiemiur. The trouble in the now canal is caused by it! (joreriiuient nenvr loaded with stone sinking in lock six. In tne e d c,v;.al a le.uae at lock four .cannot b.e swung until n.pu. Jr v.as expected the damage would hawe been repair. ed, and the .'.cow removed this eroninfr, but mo far this has no-. I.een accomplished. The following vessojls are detained licie awaitini passage up the Canute :—Schrs Antelcpo, L 8 Hammond, Nevada. SfceambargM Erin and Niagara. Barges Maggie ana Fortune. There are alms a Snumbor of veaaala in ^be canals bound down, which are delayed by th* same cause. THE SAM COOK ASHOEE, Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Beockyllxe, Ont., July 3.—The schooner Sam Cook left here for Cleveland yesterday with ore. When about two and a half miles west of here, in Jones' Narrow, the wind changed suddenly, ana the Cook drifted ashore. Her anchors ¦would not hold, bhe lies in fifteen feet of water. Her forward deck is out of water. Cannot get details as to insurance. ¦ ucheirSaturday. She i« 175-foot keel, 30 feet beam, ami 11 feet in the hold; has three masts, is wire-rigeed, cost about $22,000, and lias capacity for 700,000 feet of lumber. Capt. Johnson wijl sail her, and she loads at once for Buffalo. f 'Alortk.,vesii,Li'lia'a^.'3^ao^ite¥aiiWW ' that has been added to the fleet of Lake Ontario vessels.' She was built'at B^jnte last winter, oak timbers, 57 tons) burthen, and \£% JSyst-class vessel. She is owned and icom«l nianded by Capt. Bern. Borland. He says there is no sail-: vessel comes into Toronto harbour, except the Orriph* : will beat the North*West in Bailing. V' Gardner's new tug-, \V. H. Alley, waVht t Green B;iy last week. She is a hanasome look- !* iu^r crait, ana fitted up in m first-class manner. Bhe is 00 feet m length, IS feet beam, and 9 feeti hold; 81 tons burden, 21x11 engine, steel boiler, j and allowed to run at a pressure "of 130 pounds steam. F. J. Page is in command, who is a well-known and reliable captain throughout bay and lak';s. The machinery for the tug was purchased i in Buffalo. The tug was built at Say City, and'* the corit of the craft was $18,000. She will be ^ furnished with a steam puup, 14-inch stream, and 11-inch wrecking lirles. The tug will be stationed at P nsauivoe, and will be in readiness^ at call. **The wrecking *ug Ilwaukee Republican: _ _.. _ Leviathan, Captain Kiriiand, yesterday returned from Two Kivers Point, where a third unsuccessful attempt was made to rescue the steam-barge Grace Patterson from the treacherous quicksand in which she has embedded herself. Captain Kirtland spent four days in boxing up « the hull, when the the water cleared sufficiently to enable him to see that it would be a useless task to set up pumps, as the abattis formed by the lath in her hold would, prevent the removal of the sand deposited there. Hence, work was suspended, the boxing removed, and the hull abandoned. This effectually settles the fate of tho Grace Patterson." |..... __ J. H. Palmer has sold out his interest in the vessel-broker business to Captain C. E. Benhaifi. The firm will hereafter be known as Palmer 3z Peniiam. His late family affliction and fading health led to Mr. Palmer taking a rest from active business. The schooner King Sisters made the run from Marquette to Cleveland in four days and four hours. Smith's dry-deck was discovered to be on fire last night, but was put out by the tug L. P. Smith. The 2,570 tons of ore wore unloaded from the steamship Onoko at Ashtabula in live days and four hours." The lake shipments of salt from the port of Bay City for this season, beginning April 12, were as follows: ^^^^^^__ Barrels. Barrels. April............ 53,937 July to date.... 25,015 May............. 87,722 ----------- June............ 47,104 Total........213,868 The above salt was shipyped to the following ports in the quantities givem: Barrels. I Barrels. Chicago..........71,672|Toledo...........40,052 Milwaukee......64,107 Huron............ 1,036 Duluth..........29,820]Greien Bay........ 6,281 In addition to the lake s hiprnjmts there has been shipped an average of 4,000 barrels per day by rail since the season opened. CAPTAIN PROWDY MISSING. Bay City, Mich., July 8.—Captain Prowdy, of the barge Ajax, has been missing simce Wednesday. The Ajax has been iving hiere all the season, doing nothing. He seemied in good spirits when he left his wife on Weodnosday. It is feared he has been foully dealt witlh. POOH SAM BAGKNALIL. In the insane branch of the Comnty Court, Thursday morning, appeared Sannuel Bag-nail, well known among' his corapanions as'^j "Sam." A genial, jovial, large-hearted, gen^jA, tlemanly friend, social to a fault. It appears iruiu the evidence that he has been for weeks violently insane, from what cause it is un- I known at present. As he appeared in court "insane day," he was bare-footed, bound in a strait-jacket, and wore that haggard look of the violent insane. He sihouted, and talked wildly^ and at the top of hiis voice, on political matters, a subject, DW tne way, that he was never kndwm to converse on when he was in hia right mind. In the desperate mad-man one would fail to-.recognize Saim BagualL He was devoid of that neatness, tthat gentlemanly deportment, and that gyenial smile which made him fast friends in this city. Sam is a brother-in-law of Captaun Mitchell, formerly of the steamer Metropolis and Grace Grummond. Poor fellow, he first came to our notice when he was clerk on the Metropolis, a position his capabilities eminently fitted him for, and one in which Ihe gave eminent satisfaction. This seems like writing an obituary, bub it is not, tho ugh not far from it. Sam goes to the dungeon 'In tjhe cold, dark cellar of the asylumi for the insane at Jefferson, the cells where the violent are confined, away from the eyes; of visitors, seen only by their keepers, until safe harbor is made on that other shore. &'0'0d-by, Sam, old hoy.—Nautical Herald. DYING- AND DEAD. MAErNE HOSPITAL SCENES—EEPOUT FOB JtJILY The following were admitted to the Marine Hospital in Chicago yesterday: Frank Lipscone, steamship G. L. Colwell; William Kill, schooner Grace Murray; Michael Butler, proneller Chicago; S. Byse, propeller Oiean; I. Siaven, barge Merrimao. Mr. Slaveu was brought here yesterday afternoon from South Chicago in a hack. He has consumption, and had been bleeding Violently from the lungs. From the Custom House he was jolted all the way out to tne hospital. The poor fellow was in a dying condition, and it seemed sinful the ordeal he was made to go through to get to tho Hospital; There should be provision for relief in such cases. If Slayen oould have been given quarters and treatment at South Chicago yesterday his life might have been saved, something that was very doubtful last evening. A seaman named M. M. McLaughlin died at tbe hospital of consumption on Wednesday. The report of the hospital for the month of July is as follows: Out patieuts treated..........................227 Belief furnished..............................3i>8 j Admitted to hospital............ ............. til : Deaths during month................ ....... 3 The names of the seamen who died are as follows : George Johnson, heart disease. William Uollotsoi), consumption. James Nesbit, Bright's disease. ¦ <.— The Port Huron Times of July 31 contains an account of tne finding of the body of Captain Fred A. Colvin, woo was lost from the ill-iated steamer Clayton Belle just sixteen weeks ago. It was found fioathvg in the water by a boy named Brbs, and the Coroner was notified. From papers found in the pockets it was easily identified as tnat of Captain Colvin. Among other things was an Odd FeliOw certificate, and tire body was at once taken ia charge by that fraternity, who enclosed it in a handsome casket and at once sent it to his friends in New Haven. Tiie body reached that village this morning, and tbe members of tho fraternity of Odd Fellows rook charge of the remains and buried them accorti-ing to their ritual.—Oswego Times* 3d, AT AUfflEBSTBTOK*, [Special to The Republican-Sentinel.] Amherstbuk<*, June 4.—The gale from tjie southwest continued with increased fury during last night and still continues from the west. The steamship Tacoina was detained here sever; hours this morning, owing to low Waterton tin* Lime Kilns. They passed the dummy at II o'clock last night ami only arrived here at 7 o'clock this morning. The seas at times would break over the Tacoma's pilot house, thirty-four feet above the water edge. Everything moveable on her was shifting about and cabin doors were washed in. The tug Admiral D. D. Porter had -a very hard passage up. She was compelled, to let go her barges on Pigeon bay. The weather boards at her bow were washed away, ami she shipped sea after sea. Her bulworks were broken away to allow the water to run out. The provisions were in a heap on the pantry floor, barges are old crafts, and uneasiness is felt s So whether they will weather it out. The peller California ran back last night. The I ; Huh Anderson let go the schooner Detour, unable to make any headway on Pigeon |>ay. The following are weather-bound here: Rteamharges V*. Swain, Sheldon ami consort, John M. Osborne, Cleveland, Gratwick and consort, Baldwin aud consorts, Benton and barges; I propeller California; tugs Porter, Andrews, Coul-N ton and Bob Anderson, and schooner Sumatra. The propeller China left this morning. blowing a gaje. > THE OLD TrjIES. »' IS There were several vessel captains gathered VwfrhHj yesterday, and they dropped into the common subject. " ftj have seen duller times than these," said one captain was in Cleveland, I think, that we lay for four weeks at one time, and never bent a sail." There was a pause, aud ihen the captain said, " that was in '45 or '50." At'cer a ittle another captain said, "hut there was not so much xpease then." The first captain said, "Yes. there if** iiore, for our men were hired by the month, and were p^:'. Uthe time. But when we did sail we made money. it rasn't like sailing now, going light one way and Rett! n i ©or freights the other." After a little another captain iid "It was easy living then, anyway. The men got $14 d onth, and grub was cheap, and the sailors worked like en loading ihe vessels." Aud instantly a captain spoka, as if an inspiration seized him, "There will not be a sobooner on the lakes In five years from dow." There was a general dissent from this opinion, but no argument fol^ lowed : nor were any reasons given either for or against the old captain's opinion. There war! only the certainty that suuie vessels had been sailing at a small profit, others at Ik very moderate profit, and others at a logs^___ J THE SAM COOK DISASTER. Of the circumstances of the disaster to the line schooner Sam Cook, the Kingston Whig says: "On Sunday morning the schooner Sam Cook cleared from Ogdensburg for Ashtabula with iron ore. She sailed up the river finely. Upon reaching the head of the Marrows the breeze dropped completely, and feariner that she would drift on the shoals, the captain threw out the anchors. It failed to stick on the rocky bottom, however, and in a few moments the Vessel drifted to the reef just at the head of the Harrows. She went on broad side, but the current soon swung her off ag&iu only to place her in more peril. iShe finally drifted down the stream until she went bow on to the shoal between Black Charlie and Picnic Islands, where she racially filled and sank, being deserted about four and a half hours after first striking. The vessel has about sixty feet of water under her stern and is hard on at her bow. Site was fully insured. The vessel lays with the knight-heads forward and her mizzen cross-trees aft out of water. It is donbt-lul if she will be raised, as the expense would equal the value of the cargo." Trie Cook was built by Gobie & Macfarlane, Oswego, came out |n August, 1873, rated A 2, registered 318 tons. and was valued at $12,000. She was recently sold bv Mitchell Bros., of Oswego, to Captain McKee, of Clayton, and Mr. Griffin, of Potsdam. GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVA3STT/. THIttTY YEAKS AS A LIGHTKEEPER. Special Correspondence of The Inter Ocean. FraTsefort, Mich., June 28.—Mr. A. J. Slyfield, of Point; Aux-Bee-Scies lighthouse, has resigned, aaa his son Edward has been appointed his successor. Mr, S, is a veteran iu the lighthouse employ, having been constantly at it for thirty years. He first took the old South Manitou Island light in 1852. It was a very rickety poor concern, aud it is mainly through his efforts and under his supervision that the new tower was built in 1358. While on the island light he, in several instances, assisted in saving lives from wrecks, among them the erews of the brig J. Y. Scammon and schr Wm. Aldrich, in early years. X He took charge of Point Aux-Bec-Scies (Betsy) light twenty-one years ago last September, and has faithfully night after night kept "a light iu the window" for our storm-tossed craft, and it seems to be appreciated by some. The fine propeller Fountain City, Captain Gioson, never i' talis to salute "Point Betsy." Sue has done so tor the past twenty years on her up and Uowu passages from Buffalo to Chicago and return. Old age and failing health have at last ihduced him to resign. We ad unite iu saying, '"Wei! doue, thou good ana faithful servant." . His successor, Ha Slyfield, was born iu and Llways lived between the walls of a light sea- ,$, tlon, and no doubt Will prove a worthy keener. rl t Detroit News; "Captain Howard F. Towle, for many years a well-known vessel-inan on the lakes, arrived with his wife at the Oris wold House day before yesterday, and died there suddenly at 12 o'clock last night. He had bee9 ailing for some time past, but his death was en Detroit, June 27.—The following engagemftDla wetm reported yesterday:— Schr Unadilla, coal, Cleveland to Milwaukee, 70c : schr Brooklyn, coal. Black "River to Mil* tnmfcee, 7ftc : barge C J Farwell, staves, Detroit to Buffalo, -••3. 95. and97 on barrels, hogsheads, and pi^s : schooner ¦ ¦¦, posts, Middle lalaud to Chicago, So each. Buffalo, dune 27.—Canal freights dull and fuuehanged. Vvh^aM; i New York: lumber to New York, i $2 73 per 1.000 rV< i, and §2 13 to Albany ; staves, $1 183 per ; ton vo Xew Vorfe Coal freights steady to-day ; more demand for vessels. which y.re scarce. The late charters reported are prop* I Boston, qoal to Chicago. 6oc : City of Borne* W H Barnum, D Ballentine, and consort, A B Moore, coal to Milwaukee 65c. Schr Young America, coal to Sheboygan, 75c, Prop Roanoke, coal to Duluth, on private terms aaCHfCAcVi, 111.. June 27.—Schooners Huron, Maxwell, H J McRae, and Krie Belle, corn to Midland, at 2 cents. FROM CHICAGO TO"kUKOVJ!........"'"" V^* The Chicago " Inter-Ocean " has made some mistake inja ? shipping article in Fiiday'a issue. Speaking of the loading* there of the Canadian propeller St. Magnus for Montreal, with a cargo of corn, the " Inter-Ocean " says :—"The great vessels on the lakes can now pass through the ufcw Wullaud Canal and reach Montreal without breaking bulk at all." It in true that vessels drawing 14 feet arc expected to get? through the new Welland Canal; but these vessels cannot I get through the St. Lawrence canals drawing more than !* I feet. The smallest of the locks is over 180 feet long, but tha depth of water In the canal reachus what is stated, There is no craft that can take more than 17.00IJ bushels of cargo through the St. Lawrence canals between Kingston and Montreal, Ji they get down the lake with larger cargo they have to lighter at Kingston, and this propeller St. Masrnua will have to transfer nearly half of her cargo to the riverl and ca .'." barges. The deepening of the St. Lawrencei Canals a fill a work for future accomplishment. another" "ho eh oh. "" r r _""" fc'pec'^1 Telegram to The inter Ocean. *^-e Bc'JTH HaviJn, Blich., June 4.—The schoonejr ¦whiii capsized off here last evening came ashore to-day at Packard's 'Pier, three miles'south of harbor, an#*proves to be the Industry, of St. Joseph. The crew consisted of Captain John &££* UtiiiW* attd £&tfie3 iteYWi aU Of wiiom were drowned within a few rods of the shore, , The schooner is a total loss. A board bearing • the name "Belle Eichmond," came ashore this' evening, and it is feared that she too has gone down with her crew. [The hull register contains no such name as Belle Richmond. There is the schooner Richmond and the schooner Kate Richmond. The H. A. Richmond measures 223 tons, was built in 1861, classes Bl, and is owned by H. C, Hall, of Muskegon. Her value is about $i),0GU The schooner J. P. De Coudres went ashore at f. Milwaukee Saturday morning and went to pieces. The crew were saved by the life-saving men, being brought ashore in a life car. The De Coudres measured 146 tons, and was built in 1873, on the-bottom of the old schooner Apple-ton. She was reouiit last winter and was valued at $5,000. Carpenter, Bartholomew, Bleyer & Mason, of Charlevoix, were the owners, and have no insurance. r, 1i|imJi ._ --------. ...f m MORE DROWNINGS. Charles C. Howo, watchman ou the steamship City of Rome, was washed overboard Sunday morning, at 2:30 o'clock, about fifteen miles above Hong Point, Lake Krie. The wind was blowing a gale,t Howe was assisting one of the [ deckhands at the time. The deckhand did not report the accident until a Quarter of an hour afterward, when, of course, it was too late to do anything toward the unfortunate man's rescue. Louis Manickler, mate of the tug E. M. Peck, and David Plarrt, fireman, were drowned in Sault River on June 1. Tho boat capsized near Suirar Island while they were chasing a boar swimming across the river. STEAMER BURNED. Another Canadian steamer nas been burned, ! this time the sleambarge Vanderbilt. The disaster took place off the Manitoulin Islands, aud | she was beached ou Serpent Island. It is stated ; that the thirty passengers and crew were all ! saved. The Vanderbilt was bound for Lake Superior from Midland, Canada. She measured 169 tons. She was built at Chatham, by Mr. Simpson, m 1873, and was owned by Furguson \ and others, of Chatham. She rated A21a aim aiuBK xur Borne ume pas',, uui ms utaiu was eu- ^ i was valued at about $12,000. The hull was tirely unexpected, and at first bifi wife could *4 probably insured; aiso the freight list. laiS?ir«wriMn 2£S %f r? r t VJ™, aieW H for Captain Thomas Wilson and other*, was to be launched^ larva crowd in front of the Gnswoid street sldeL V(*terday afternoon, ^he has been named .the Wallula7 ot the house. Word was sent to Marine ( . . piaee u» Washington Territory, ova the Northern this moraine, aud a number of friends camel Pacific Railroad. Shefsasisfcar boattotheTacoma. The down by boat, reaching Detroit shortly after! Wallula will be commanded by Captahi John Lowe, who noon to-day. The remains will be taken to Al-*^suPerinte gonac at 4 o'clock this afternoon." or construction.

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