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Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 26 Apr 1906, p. 24

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24 THe Marine REvIEw THE EUGENE ZIMMERMAN, AS SHE APPEARED AFTER HER COLLISION WITH THE SAXONA. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES The new steamer Frank C. Ball carried 9,716 tons .of coal on her maiden trip up the lakes. After. lightering 200 tons of ore, the steamer Malietoa was released apparently uninjured. The steamer building at the yard of. the Polson Iron Works, Toronto, for the Toronto Ferry Co., was launched last week. DETAIL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ZIMMERMAN'S INJURIES. Work has been started at Grand Haven on the con- struction of a wooden tug for the United States Engineers' Department. ' : The barge John Smeaton was released from the Lime Kilns by the steamer Ericsson and the tugs Frank W. and Home Rule after 1,000 tons of her cargo had been lightered, -- - The Cuyahoga river above the Superior street viaduct, Cleveland, is badly in need of dredging, there being only 16 ft. of water. . The steamer J. T. Hutchinson, down bound with grain, struck at the Dyke this week. She was temporarily re- paired at Detroit. Wm. Wharry, wheelsman on the steamer Kensington, was taken from his steamer and is very ill with typhoid fever in the hospital at Port Huron. The barge Manila which was flung on the beach near Two Harbors in the great November storm, will go into dry dock for repairs within a few days, The whaleback barges Bombay and Baroness, bound up with coal in tow of the steamer Bay City ran aground last week on the east bank of Lime Kiln crossing. The freighter Fred C. Mercur was the first to deliver a cargo. of iron ore at Tonawanda this year. She took 1,243 gross tons to the plant of the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co. Capt. Arthur H. Hawgood has been appointed man- ager of the Hawgood Transit Co. and the Wisconsin Transit Co. to succeed his brother, the late Henry A. Hawegood. The steamer Ellwood and barge Constitution held ore cargoes at the head of Lake Superior all winter and the ore was so badly frozen that dynamite had to be used to -get it out. The passenger steamer Frontenac, which last year ran between Lorain and Cleveland has been chartered to run out of Chicago this summer. She will be in command of Capt. A. F. Pitman. The steamer Saxona, which collided with the steamer Eugene Zimmerman in St. Mary's river, reached Buffalo safely and discharged her valuable cargo of flax, which was fortunately uninjured.

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