Four Were Drowned

Port Hurón, . ia y 21.- The schooner Williain Shupe, owned and commanded tiy Captain Nelson Li Ule of Port Huton, laden with lumber for Tonawanda, which waterlogged off Port Sanilac, went onto the bar stern first five miles ibove Fort Gratiot light Friday night. The tugs Haight and Thompson made i futile eiïort to reach her during the ( :iight, but owing to the shallovv water in which the vessel lay were unable to render any assistance in the dark. Saturday morning the tug Thompson made another effort to rescue the crew, who were in a wretched condition owing to the terrible exposure through which they had passed. The Thoiupson's yawlboat, manned by Captnin Henry Little, Barney Mills, Angus Kinsr, William Lewis and Dan Lynn, inarine reporter, a volunteer crew of men, started for the ill-fated schooner. The wind was blowing 50 miles an hour and every sea swept the schooner's decks. A line waa paid out frorn the Thompson to the yawl. The yawl had gone but a short diatance when she capsized and the crew was tossed into the boiling sea. Lewis, Little, Mills and Kitig went down to their death, and Lynu was washed in near the shore in an insensible condition and was rescugd by Mark Randall and Charles Conkey who, with the assistance of life lines got hiin ashore in the face of the terrible :sea. Lynn had nearly succumbed when rescued Captain Henry Little, who was with the others drowned. was a nephew of the captain of the Shupe and leaves a wife and two children. Mills. King and Lewis were also inarried men. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the tug Thompson started on her fourth trip ont into Lake Huron to rescue the crew of the schooner Shupe, with the Sand Beach lifesaving crew in their boat in tow. She proceeded up the lake about a mile above the wreek before the lifesavers were cast off. The boat was puiled around to the lee side of the Shupe and the crew taken off in safety. The boat was then pulled to the shore and the deed was done. The crew were all alive, but in a much exhausted condition. They were taken to the neurest farrnhouse. where they are being cared for. They had been exposed to the fury of the storin, drifting about at the inercy of the waves for 48 hours. None of the bodies of the men lost in the attempt to rescue the crew of the Shupe have vet been recovered. The Shupe began breakiug up in a half hour after the lifesavins crew had taken off the crew of the schooner. and now nothing is ieft of her. The relief came none too soon as had it been much delayed none of the shipwrecked crew could have been saved. Captain Little purchased the Shupe from Henry Howard this spring and this was his second trip. For security of a portion of the purchase price he gave a inortgage on his farm. Mr. Howard has returned his notes and discharged the inortgage. The schooner John Wesley. which was reported in distress up the lake, sailed into the river all safe. The gale has practically abated, but the wind still blows very strong.