Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1903 — LAKE BOAT AND CREW ARE LOST [ARTICLE]

LAKE BOAT AND CREW ARE LOST

Steamer A. L. Hopkins Given Up as Sunk Amid Ice and Gale. Toledo, 0., special: The steamer A. L. Hopkins, lumber-laden and bound for Toledo from Amherstburg, Ont., has been given up for lost by local vesselmen, as well as by the W. W. Smith company, for which it carried a large consignment of lumber. The Hopkins left Amherstburg Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock. Ordinarily it would have arrived here three hours later. Word from the Monroe pier lighthouse, twenty-two miles out, reports having seen the vessel Tuesday afternoon. The Hopkins was then .struggling against a terrific gale and battling with ice. Finally it turned back in the direction whence it had come. It has not been heard of sines at any port along Lake Erie.