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ing up. Wireless advices said that several of her plates had opened and that she was taking water. OHIO HARD HIT Three lives were the death toll of the storm in Ohio, and the property damage will reach a million dollars.'! Cleveland has been without light and telephone service ever since Sunday. Thousands are thrown out of em ployment by the closing of the mines, 15,000 miners in Belmont county, Ohio, being on a forced vacation. At Washington, Pa., 30 miles south west of Pittsburgh, the gale swept the snow into drifts fifteen to twen ty feet high and two trains were stalled. One train containing 200 pas sengers has not yet been dug out of the drifts. Erie, Pa. The Santa Maria, one of the Columbus caravels, which be longs to the South Park Board, is re ported to have been blown on a sand bar and is being pounded to pieces. This vessel was built in Spain by the Spanish government for the World's Fair in 1893. Lorain, O. Steamer Crammer was sent ashore here by the storm and is in danger of breaking up. Crew saved. Washington. Revenue cutter Tus carora ordered to proceed from Mil waukee to Manitou Island, Lake Su perior, to rescue steamer stranded during yesterday's gale. The Mor rill was dispatched from Detroit to aid a number of vessels in Lake Erie and Lake Huron. THREE KILLED BY STEAM The steel mills claimed three more victims today when P. F. Mangel, Nick Pazkovich and William Zielke were cooked to death at the plant of the Inland Steel Company plant at Indiana Harbor. The men were down in the base ment of the electric power house when a steam pipe burst. The men were killed almost instantly. 1 WOMAN SOLVES $10,000 MAIL ROBBERY MYSTERY A young wife's story today led to the solution of the mystery surround ing the robbery of $10,000 worth of mail from the Dearborn street station yesterday. The woman was Mrs. Albert Tardy, wife of a mail wagon driver, In whose wagon the mail pouch had been sent to the station. At her home, 2503. W. VanBuren street, she told the follow ing story: "After the postoffice inspectors went away yesterday Al came home. I hardly knew him. He was all dressed up and wore diamonds. "WoW happened you?" I asked. "Did you make a haul?" "I certainly have," was all he'd say then. . I became suspicious. Finally after Jl had questioned him he ad mitted he had cut open one of the registered mail pouches and taken out a lot of letters. I was frightened. He said I shouldnH. be afraid but that he'd get away until the thing blew over. Tnen ne leit tne nouse saying he'd catch a train at the Englewood station at 12:05 this morning." It is said that Tardy has a prison record. James E. Stuart, chief postal inspector, says the man servedu a term in Joliet for driving away with a load of trunks in Chicago. Stuart also claims that he served time in the Missouri state penitentiary. The Tardys have been married eight months. o o FIND STEAMER FLOATING BOTTOM SIDE UP Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 11. The large lake steamer found floating bottom up in Lake Huron, eight miles north of here, was identified by sev eral local vesselmen as the E. A. S. Clark, a 450-foot steel freighter owned by Captain John Mitchell of Cleveland. The Identification is not positive. Tha Clark carried a crew of twenty men and was sailed by Captain John Low. tiajtouumvmeimmMimmmMito