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December, 1913 over to the family and that was the case of a young man whose home was in Norway and who had no relatives in this country. Of the four unidenti- fied bodies recovered from Lake Car- THE MARINE REVIEW the Argus and: one from the Price. They have all been photographed and complete descriptions taken of them. The unidentified body supposed to be from the McGean and four from the vessels, one is not definitely known as coming from a Lake Car- at Goderich. steamer Carruthers have been buried Three bodies from the 443° locally. ; Practically 95 per cent of the sailors employed on the vessels of the Lake Carriers' Association are registered and were it not for the records main- tained by the Welfare Committee, it would have been impossible to carry Chief Engineer Mayberry's Statement 1: am. chief. engineer: of: the steamer Howard M...Hanna jr. We. lett. Lorain on. Sattrday, Nove 8, 1913; at. 10. o'clock im the morning with "a full" carao 'oF coal, about 9,100 tons, bound for Fort » William; Ont: . We passed Port Huron Sunday morning, shortly after 5 o'clock. 1). went on duty Sunday morning about 6. o'clock.: With mein the en- gine room were the second as- sistant engineer, John Cunning- ham, and Joe Dewey; otler..We have three firemen: on the boat and one was on watch. Whenwe passed Port Huron the weather was good and it was also fair and clear when we passed. Har- bor: Beach, at about 11:30, but at that time the wind was blow- ing quite hard; the direction then. being about northwest. Af- ter passing Harbor Beach the wind shifted some and became about north. Before half past one or two o'clock the weather was hazy, but there had been no snow, but about that time, about half past two, it began to snow. The wind continued about north, - sometimes being a little to northeast and other times to northwest. The boat made small headway, : al- though the engines were all right and we had a sufficient supply of coal. About two o'clock I went down in the engine room. I Was running the siphon and pumps to keep the water out. I put up canvases over the dyna- mo so as to keep them running. -- Everything went well until about 6:30. Then the oiler's door was smashed in on the starboard side, and the two engine room doors went in and the windows. At that time. the water was rush- ing in the engine room awfully. About 7:30 the chief engineer's room's windows and doors went in and then it seemed one after the other went in just as they came. Then the cook's room and dining room went. The wood- work was carried away, part com- ing into the engine room and part went overboard. The water kept coming in until we went on- the beach at ten o'clock. Lights didn't. go out until we went on the beach. Engines didn't stop until we went on the beach. The smoke stack bent over before we struck and. (was carried « away about the. time. -we = sirice Throughout the entire storm until we went aground the engines and all the machinery of the boat were working perfectly and we had all necessary fuel. When the ship fetched up about ten o'clock Sunday night she was about 609 to 1,000 ft. northeast of the Port Austin teef light and heading northwest by north. The _ port side of the vessel was on the reef and the starboard side evidently free because we were unable to get bottom by sounding. The waves continued to dash over the vessel. All 'hatches were car- ried away and it was impossible to go from one end of. the ship to: the. other, until about. two o'clock Monday afternoon, when the second assistant engineer went forward and narrowly es- caped drowning in doing = so. Shortly afterwards some of the forward crew came aft; the en- gine room crew stayed in the kitchen and mess room. Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, nine of the crew. went ashore in the only boat of the ship that had not been carried away. 'Tues- day forenoon, about ten o'clock, the Port Austin life saving crew came out to the Hanna; the life saving crew first took six of the Hanna's crew ashore and then came back and took the rest. This accounts for -the 25 men of the Hanna's crew: Monday after- noon when the second assistant went forward and when the for- ward crew came aft it was no- ticed for the first time that the ship had, broken in two at about No...7 hatch; at. first the break seemed to be 3 in., but when we left (the <vessel: on - Tuesday, . it seemed to have increased _ to about 7 or 8 in. And when we left the steamer she was full of water and all the upper works | carried away. Throughout the storm I was in communication with the forward end of the boat and with the captain by telephone which went aground. worked perfectly until after we [atm osure :that the steering gear of the vessel worked all right because the chains pass through the engine room and I could see and hear them working all right. Several times and at different times throughout the storm the captain telephoned me asking me if the engine was working all right and: I informed him that it was and he told me they were trying to hold the vessel into the sea but were unable to do so. I do not know of anything going wrong with the steering gear at all un- til after the vessel fetched up. All there was to. it is that the vessel got into the trough of the sea and could not be worked out. and the heavy wind-and-+sea car- ried her until she went aground. All the men on the engine room crew worked the best I have ever seen men work any- where and every man did his full part even when the water' was coming into the engine room in torrents: Personally [. do. nor know of anything that could have been done that was not done and I lay the disaster altogether to the terrific storm that we en- countered which was the worst I 'have ever' known. in all my years of sailing. About eight o'clock Sunday night the heavy sea coming over the after end of the boat washed away part of the wood work and carried part of the wood work and the steward's wife down the engine room stairs, the steward's wife landing at the foot right be- side me, but so far as I am now advised she was uninjured. We had plenty of steam until the vessel went aground. The fire room crew had _ been in- creased as the storm increased, so we had no trouble on that ac- count, but immediately when the vessel went aground water came into the boiler room and_ the fires were put out. When we left Lorain we had in the coal bunk- ers probably 300 tons, so _ that when the vessel went aground we had probably 250 tons of fuel coal. ee riers' vessel. The body came ashore with a group of bodies from the steamer John A. McGean, but it had on a different life preserver; in fact, different from any life preserver car- ried on any Lake Carriers' vessel. Of the unidentified bodies, two are from Argus, including the young man from Norway, have been buried at Kincar- dine. It was at first planned to as- semble the bodies in one burial plot, but so much interest was aroused over the tragedy in the various towns that it was determined later to bury them on this work of identification with such fidelity and accuracy. The Welfare Committee has already paid death benefits upon all bodies recovered and identified and all other death benefits will be paid as soon as it is stablished that the member of