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TWENTY LIVES LOST. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Vancouver, September 9. A car ferry at Pere Marquette fo :;i----dered in Lake- Michigan, causing .lie I loss of twenty lives. Thirty persons were rescued. | ■FURTHER PARTICULARS. Received September 11, 5.15 p.m. Ottawa, September 10. 'Freight cars, aboard the Pere Marquette, became loosened during a gale and ripped the vessel's sides. Wireless aidled the rescue. The freight cars were dropped into the lake in an effort to lighten the sinking vessel. The Pere Marquette's own lifeboat saved fortyfive, but one other lifeboat was crashed against the ferry boat, and two people were drowned. THIRTY PEOPLE DROWNED. Received September 12, 1 a.m. Vancouver, September 11. In the sinking of the Pere Marquette, thirty were drowned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 131, 12 September 1910, Page 5
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123CAR FERRY FOUNDERS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 131, 12 September 1910, Page 5
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