Evening Journal

LOST WITH THE STEAMER.

Nineteen Men Carried Down With a Burning Boat on Lake Nipissing.

NORTH BAY, Ont., Nov. 9.-Later particulars of the burning of the steamer Frazer on Lake Nipissing have been received here. Nineteen of the crew were lost. The steamer was owned by Davidson, Hay & Co. of Toronto and was bound for Frank's bay with supplies for the lumbermen. She caught fire about three miles from Goose island, and a panic must have ensued, as only seven lives, including the fireman and cook, were saved out of 27 or 28, notwithstanding the fact that the steamer carried the usual supply of lifeboats and life preservers and had a large scow in tow. Captain Carr and Mr. Douglas, the firm's storekeeper at Frank's bay, are among the lost. The fire was witnessed from Frank's bay by Captain Burritt and a young Indian. They immediately put off in their boat to the scene of the accident, but by the time they reached the spot the boat was burned to the water's edge, and the seven survivors had reached the top of the scow. The engine for some unaccountable reason was not stopped, and during all the time the boat was burning she continued to plow through the water. Some of the men struggling in the water managed to climb into a boat which had been launched, but were caught in the steamer's wheel and went down. The hull sank in about 25 feet of water, and all that now marks the spot of the catastrophe is a short piece of the smokestack which appears above the water's edge. The yacht Okimawaka, with Judge Doran and a number of citizens on board, has gone to the scene of the fatal mishap. The list of drowned, so far as known, is as follows: Captain W. Carr, Matthew Brennan, J. Sutherland, Alf Barban, William Storey, Thomas Ashborne, Alexander Douglass, John Haw, Isaac Shaw, John Smalley, Thomas Massey, Thomas Bowes, James McCann and Tom Sherry. The names of five others are not known.