Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — LAKE BOAT IS SAVED [ARTICLE]

LAKE BOAT IS SAVED

Tug Green Smashes Way to Kansas in Ice Jam. Chicago, March 15. The crippled steamer Kansas, ice locked and with a great hole in its starboard side, was rescued by the tug Andrew H. Green, which forces ,a passage to the vessel through the lake floes. The Kansas was caught in the ice a mile and a half off the Carter H. Harrison crib. For five hours, the Kansas, which is one of the Northern Michigan Transportation company’s fleet, sent distress signals in vain. Two men of the stricken steamer’s crew made a perilous trip from the boat across the moving floes to the Carter H. Harrison crib to get help. The Alabama and Georgia, steamers of the Goodrich line, were unable to plow through the ice to the Kansas and a third steamer and two tugs sent to its aid had failed to break the ice barrier.