People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — ELEVEN LIVES LOST. [ARTICLE]

ELEVEN LIVES LOST.

CANADIAN STEAMER SINKS IN LAKE HURON. The Africa Goes Down with AU oa Board —Her Boats Discovered with No Sign of Life —Complete List of Those on the Steamer. Stokes Bay, Ont., Oct. 10. —Reports indicate that the steamer Africa, of Owen Sound, is lost with all on board. Following is a complete list: CAPTAIN H. P. LARSEN, Toronto. MATE WILLIAM ANDERSON, Owen Sound. CHIEF ENGINEER HAY, Toronto. SECOND ENGINEER EDWARD FOREST, Toronto. WILLIAM MANN, Toronto. JOHN KING, Oakville. MISS LEE, cook, Toronto. TWO FIREMEN. TWO DECK HANDS, names unknown. The Africa and the schooner Severn, of Toronto, were on Lake Huron, bound up with coal from Owen Sound last Monday night. When twenty miles off Cove island light, both boats were making bad weather in the heavy northwester raging, and the steamer let go of her consort. When last seen, from the Severn, the Africa was rolling heavily, and suddenly disappeared from view. The Severn finally fetched up on the beach five miles north of Loyal island. She became a total loss. The crew were saved by some fishermen after being in the rigging twenty hours. The Africa’s lifeboat and life preservers were picked up on the island.