A FERRY DISASTER.
THIRTY LIVES LOST.
AN EXCITING RESCUE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyrisht-
deceived September 11, 5.5 p.m.)
New York, September 10. WiHiLE the car ferry Pere Marquette was crossing Lake Michigan in a gale loaded with freight cars some of the cars broke loose and ripped a hole in the vessel's side.
The fferry was then a long distance from land, and wireless communication was at once established to get aid from the shore.
The freight cars were dropped into the sea in an effort to lighten the sinking vessel. The Pere Marquette's own lifeboat saved 45 of those on board, and other lifeboats arrived and aided in the rescue.
One of the lifeboats from the shore crashed against the ferry boat's lifeboat and this resulted in two being drowned. In all 30 lives were lost.
Lake Michigan, the third in size of the five great fresh water lakes of North America, is 335 miles long and from 50 to 88 miles broad.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14472, 12 September 1910, Page 5
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