Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — DEATH ON BURNING STEAMER. [ARTICLE]

DEATH ON BURNING STEAMER.

Bon Voyage Destroyed on Dake Superior —Five-Women Drowned. The passenger steamer Bon Voyage caught fire in Lake Superior Friday night and was beached near the Portage ship canal. The flames spread so rapidly that it was impossible to launch the boats or life raft. The crew and passengers all escaped, except five-unembers of the Altman family of Laurium —grandmother, mother and three daughters—who were drowned. The fourth daughter. was saved by hanging to a fender. The steamer burned to the water’s edge.