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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 192/ WINTER'S FIRST BLIZZARD BRINGS WIDE DEVASTATION Helping The Tourist From All Parts of the Province Come Tales of Damage and Loss HURRICANE HAVOCS AND THE WEST. Port Maitland.---The effects of the hich must be added the loss of their 60-mile-an-hour wind and snow blizzard Thursday night: Damage has been done to the new Welland Ship Canal, numerous construction companies, the Government elevator, and the Maple Leaf Milling Co. Streets i blocked by Port Dover.--The local fishermen; poor season fishing, to I nets now in the lake, which will easily amount to $20,000. A tonservative estimate of the total losses here is $130,000. Guelph, Ont.--Guelph got a real throughout the Aftermath of the Storm-News of Our Inland Seas PROPOSED NEW HIGHWAY TO PEACE BRIDGE taste of winter Wednesday and Thurs- broken trees and telegraph poles, A direct route, as the crow flies, from Hamilton to the Peace bridge, is day when a wild snow storm blew up while the entire Lake Erie water front what the backers of the proposed new mountain highway wish. Besides heavy^ale wWch had raU^oueh- ** **? haS.SUff<fd ^eat d«»-j rellering No. 8 highway, from Niagara Fails to Hamilton, the next road shown at the O.A.C. the gale reached its windows amashed, trees twisted off highest velocity just before 9 o'clock and barns and other buiIdlrg8 dam-in the morning, when it was traveling aged ia a digest of Thursday's storm at 45 miles an hour. The temperature news from all parts of Western 0ir^ dropped from 51 degrees Wednesday tario> Perhaps the heaviest individual night to 13 degrees Thursday. )osg was the deatruction of the Lon-Detroit.--Thursday's storm, one of don airport on Lambeth Highway of the worst in years, threw up waves tbe Waco airpiane) owned by S. j. 10 feet high in the river and dis- Noland, of Kalamazoo, Mich. The ma-rupbed ferry service between Windsor chine was forced to land in London and Detroit. One of the ferry boats, a couple of dayg ag0 because of dam. with 1,000 Windsor people on board, age to a strut Repairs were made smashed a gangplank while landing at Wednesday, but the ground was too Detroit early Thursday, after 500 heavy for a take_off and the ship wa„ passengers had been placed on shore. ; securely anchored awaiting better IN THE EAST. I weather. The gale tore the plane Camp'bellford, Ont.--During the loose from her moorings, however, and j terrific wind storm early Thursday rolled it several hundred yards dovfTI] regulation size skat- the field, stripping off both wings,' Crews of Agawa and Altodoc Have Been Saved--Saskatoon is Reported Missing While Lambton and x Martian A^re Agound HEROISM PLENTIFUL The annals of shipping o Lakes proabbly hold no mi account of perils bravely faced for the !1 sake of sailors in wrecked vessels than' ing rink ally blo< saring completion \ i to the ground, ivy. No other sern >rted in the district. liter- crushing the fuselage and damaging j fishermen who he loss the under-carriage so badly that only j steamer Agawa after she had been is dam- the motor can be salvaged. The plane j three davs agTOUnd two miles from valued at $8,000. I , . - ' . , D tj„^;h^„ t.„ „ „ .„ishore in Michael s Bay. He -- A.I«houe> (•■■■ :.• not Hamilton.--There was some wire * eovi'n<-to the fact that there trouble . and several windows were Struggling with their yawl over pping of any account at this shattered. Officials of insurance com-1 eight miles of terrible roads and then " the year, considerable loss Panies reported that many claims for j launching bravely into perilous waters sed i,i property, while the small amounts had been filed, bul • .-panies, including the tele- was impossible to give an estimate d telegraph companies, faced *a total loss. I shelter and given medical attendance. the Great Canada Steamship Line, which was e stirring due upbound Friday night. Anxiety if felt for her. I Word had been received that the steamer Lambton, Captain Living-that of five fearless Manitoulin Island stone, was reported ashore, with wheel 1! Telephone lines. A 43-mile-an-hour jet Ottawa and the district Thursray a amage to telephone . Many homes in the vithout electricity dv i breaking Nor NORTH ALSO SUFFER -The first to reach the and rudder gone, the ship buckled the centre as a result of jumping across a shoal near Parisienne Island, and that the two ship's boats and the crow were gone, so that it was thought the crew, consisting of 21 men, were trying to row to the mainland or to ____row to Sault Ste. Marie. Parisienne the.fishermen battled their way to the! Island has only a light keeper'3 house •ander freighter and brought back | otherwise it is a desert rock-bound sick member of the imprisoned here he was rushed to GREAT LAKES SHIPPING FEELS BRUNT OF STORM Several Steamers in Distress, Two Reported Aground But Life Loss Appears To Be Light NO RELIEF IN SIGHT Sault Ste. Marie.--The Agawa, with Guard Station has been notified, and 200,000 bushels of grain, sent out her the crew will leave for the scene of last wireless message at noon Thurs- the wreck at 4 o'clock Friday morning day, reporting her holds filled with j it being impossible to leave Thursday water and her hatches torn off. As night, as a severe blizzard with a 50-the message came over the air, the mile gale was raging and the crew wireless suddenly went dead, shroud-, could not see. The steamer's wire-mg the fate of the crew in mystery. ) less evidently failed after reporting The tug Harrison, of Owen Sound, j the predicament, as no further word was known to be standing by, but; has been received, whether she succeeded in taking off Weather bureau reports promsed no the crew of the Agawa, whose break ! relief in the storm area for at least up appeared certain, is not known j another day. here- The Altadoc, formerly the Indus, ia The Agawa was one of a fleet of 34 a steel boat of 856 feet length. Her grain freighters which passed down ! tonnage is given in the Marine Direc-Tuesday.' Nineteen went back after \ tory as 5,500. She is commanded by heading out into lake Huron and I Captain R. D. Simpson, and the chief sought shelter in St. Mary's River. I engineer is John M. Nicholl. The Agawa wandered off her course] According to information received in a blinding blizzard and was hurled j by radio at the local office of the Lake onto a hog's back sand bar some dis- i Carriers' Association, the Altadoc, an tance from the shore near Michael's ; ore carrier, ranv on the rock reef Bay on Manitoulin Island. A call was : Thursday afternoon while attempting sent out for tugs at Detour but the; to reach shelter from the raging seas, giant waves prevented the General i The vessel Thursday night was at the from leaving port. The Harrison, of mercy 0f the gale, which had turned Owen Sound, succeeded in coming; into a howling blizzard. Her radio re-near but could do nothng to help the ceiving outfit is disabled and she is ship, which had already filled with unable to pick up messages from the water. As she struck the bar the coast guard or to give her bearings. Agawa went out five feet forward and I _, , , , , , , . . her stern sank in seven fathoms of L The snowstorm has blocked vision from the shore, and the radio oper- water, flooding her engine room and putting out her fires. ALTADOC AGROUND. ator at Calumet can furnish l tails as to the ship's condition. He, however, expresses the belief that the Detroit, Mich.--The steamer Alta- crew is safe. The temperature is be-doc, of the Paterson Line of Fort low zero. The Coast Guard is now pre-William, is reported aground on Ke- j paring to patrol the shore line to weenaw Point, with the whole crew j watch for any signs of wreckage be-aboard. The Copper Harbor Coast \ ing washed ashore. Ba ;rior c rept down fr< -ict Thu " i bliz 5 Lake That % its grip. A bitinj ir-1 driven before a forty-mile-an-hour led gale piled snow four feet high in the nd business section, bringing traffic to ___pi- a standstill. Some rigs and sleighs' ue to | were overturned by the wind, while | The temperati Saturday night, .day held North I °» S^ ™rnmx the fishermen storm! repeated the trip, and took off four m--the mbers of the waste. The fate of the Lambton's crew will be in doubt till till hope must be abandoned. Owen Sound, Ont.--While seamen on the Agawa were occupying the spotlight of public attention and anxiety last week, a short 30 miles fi In New York Harbor - telephone circuits out of ' zero, as in other parts of the north, taken off, part on Saturday and th* the city were similarly disrupted. In ! but was gradually dropping Thursday j rest !ate ™ Sunday by the United the City of Hull, half the roof of a ! afternoon. States coastguard cutter Crawford, large apartment building was lifted I The storm has not yet interfered j wn*ch is reported to have been hamp-j from its moorings by the wind and | with "railway service to any appre-jered sent crashing to the street below. An ' ciable extent. All trains were report- j £er. automobile buried under the debris j ed moving, many slightly behind sche-was badly damaged. I dule. Agawa's crew--the others having beenj the wreck was a smaller d'isaster taken aboard the tug General, which'which cost the life of Louis Desjardin, continued toward Sault Ste. Marie. I fisherman of Tobermory. He, with his The crew of the Altadoc, ashore on two nephews, Frank and John Des-Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior, werej jardin, and Walter Van, left on Wed LONDON SEES "COOK'S ARM ers arriving at Trafalgar Square London, to present to of Lake Huron, and e ii-ck ice. We in city or must realize that we sea-going people on oi A Tragic Finale to Our Jubilee Year The Great Lakes Tragedies Draw Our Country Together in Bonds of Sympathy :.T?d for three' days toi Such anxious days bring our people radio report.? of the conditions sur- together, and as our Jubilee Year roundir.g the ill-fated S.S. Agawa, j draws to its end we are forcibly made the fangs of a reef jutting, aware of the diversity of our endeavor !rom Manitoulin Island, vand the closeness of our sympathi rsisrcif ully by intry Pioneer Nerve Chops Himself Free, Fashions Crutches, and Limps Home With Broken Leg Pembroke, Ont.--Pinioned by he had felled and which in falling broke his leg, Thomas Fitzpatrick, of Morrison Island, chopped himself free with his axe, fashioned rude crutches from a brush pile and limped two miles to his home. After he got home his wife bandaged the leg, and Fitzpatrick set out for the mainland, rowing his wife child across the river. He landed at Lowerton, near Pembroke, and from there was brought to the general hospital, where he is now a patient; truly Lake: Usually we take our "blue water" for granted, but as navigation closes and as winter's relentlessly cruel fingers clutch at the late travelling steamers we are forced to learn little about our inland seas and o fresh water sailors. None of the seven seas can offer tales of greater romance, skill, endi ance or bravery than are enacted year by year by our lake mariners afloat, ane their wives and families ashore. Think of the stoic fortitude of the relatives, of the Agawa or Altadoc crews. Meagre news--n nior and report. Then the storm abates and the cheering word spreads: "All are safe off the Agawa." A half a day passes and then: "The crew of the Altadoc are rescued." All Ontario offered up prayers of thanksgiving with these anxious families, and sympathy goes out to that relations of the crew of the Saskatoon, which apparently has succumbed to the terrific storm, and the Lambton, the crew of which is~missing. Low Bridge. She--'Is it dangrous to drive with le hand?" He--"You bet. More than one fellow is run into a church doing it."-- Cornell Widow. ... ..____ usly by high seas and di formations. The crew of the Oglebay, ashore or Shot Point, ten miles west of Marquette, Mich., were taken safely off an Saturday hv the-coastguard --^ tug. The Martian, hard aground 15 mw from Port Arthur, is reported in t danger and her crew is still aboard. No word has been received in tl Soo of the steamer Saskatoon of the nesday in their small motor launch to take in their nets before the approaching storm. That night their engine stopped and they drifted ashore at Fdtzwilliam Island where the boat turned over. Three managed to cling to the craft until it drifted ashore, but Desjardin was lost in the raging waters. Desjardin was married iS_a.jBcidow_and five children. Will the various hued typewriters and telephones recently introduced, tend to make writings and conversation more colorful? THE MUCH CHASED YACHT "VIDOR' The vessel for wlych ns in the St. Lawrence i of W. C. Durant, the rant was issued for violation of port regula-gave the authorities the slip. R. C. Durant, McMillan's Northland Predicament Tame to "Mounties" AMERICAN EXPEDITION MEETS WITH PRIVATIONS IN AftCTIC TRIP- Donald McMillan, Upper Left, United States explorer, who is reported in difficulties at his winter camp on the North Labrador coast. He is heading an American museum expedition into the Arctic. On the Lower Left is his vessel the "Peary," shown near a menacing iceberg. Upper Right view of the "midnight sun," a common sight in the Arctic. Lower Left is a map showing the route taken by the Canadian vessel Beothicjn her jegula-patrol cruise in 1926. With one post only 11 degrees from the North Pole, dangers now being faced by McMillan are not unusual Mounted Police, who maintain law and order among the Eskimos ana traders in the northland. ia! > the Royal Canadian