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Sent To The Bottom

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
June
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Alpes a, June 3.- The steel steamer Corsica collided with an unknown schooner 15 miles ofE Thunder Bay island on Lake HurĂ³n at daybreak Friday morning in a fog. The schooner was cut in two and went to the bottom instantly. Her entire crew was lost. The Corsica had no time to wait for the rescue of any survivors who might be floating around in the mass of wreckage, as her bow was stove in and water was pouring into her hold. She was run oa the shore in Thunder bay just below Ossineke. The bows are all crushed in for a considerable distance and twenty-four big steel plates are loosened. Detroit, June 5. - There novv reinains but !:ttle doubt that the schooner sunk by co ' i Ision with the steamer Corsica in Lake iluron early Friday morning was the Corsican, of this city, as no other schooner is now missing. The Corsican carried a crew of five men, but their names are not known here.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News