Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — Collision Sinks a Yacht. [ARTICLE]

Collision Sinks a Yacht.

At midnight Saturday night the steamer City of Alpena of the Detroit’and Cleveland line collided with and sunk the sail yacht Hattie V. in Thunder Bay. The boat was manned by John Weber, her owner, and John C. Comfort, cashier of the Alpena (Mich.) National Bank. Both men were thrown into the water, blit managed to find pieces of wreckage to cling to, and were afterward picked up by a boat from the City of Alpena, which had been lowered to their rescue immediately. The yacht sunk at once in fifty feet Of water and will be a total loss. She was valued at SI,OOO. If it is really true that the Tennessee exposition will come out financially ahead we will have to take off our hats to the managers. But it establishes a bad precedent for other gentlemen in the same line of business. New York City is making elaborate preparations for a political tiger hunt, and it isn’t settled, by any means, that the tiger won’t do the hunting. What’s the use of an air line without terminal facilities? Where’s Andree now?