Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — COLLISION ON THE LAKE [ARTICLE]

COLLISION ON THE LAKE

Albany and Philadelphia, Propellers, Col-lide—Twenty-Four Live* Lost. A dispatch from Sand Beach, Mich., Tuesday, says: The propeller Albany, of the Western Transit Company, loaded with grain, and th* propeller Philadelphia, of the Anchor Line, loaded with coal and general merchandise, collided off Port Auxbarques In a dense fog. Ths Philadelphia towed the Albany an hour, when the Albany sifnk. The Philadelphia went down twenty minutes later. Life-saving crews were out all morning and found boat No. 2 upside down. They picked up eleven bodies with life preservers on, and it Is supposed that the whole crew of twenty-four men ar* drowned, eight of the Albany’s crew and th* balance of the Philadelphia’s crew. The bodies were put on board the steamer Concord bound south. The harbor master at Sand Beach is searching for the rest of th* bodies with the tug Sand Beach.