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Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette
Monday, June 26, 1950


                            TWO SHIPS COLLIDE
                              ON LAKE HURON.
                              
              DETROIT, June 25 (AP) - The Great Lakes pass-
            enger ship City of Cleveland collided with a
            Norwegian freighter on Lake Huron in a heavy
            fog early today.
              Reports from the excursion liner said one
            man was killed, two are missing and four in-
            jured, one critcally.
              The crash occurred five and one-half miles
            off Harbor Beach, in the so-called Thumb area
            of Michigan, east of Saginaw bay. The ship
            was on a charter cruise carrying about 75 mem-
            bers of the Benton Harbor, Mich., Chamber of
            Commerce. It was due at Detroit this morning,
            after which it was to go to Buffalo.
              Details of the crash were reported from the
            City of Cleveland by NELSON FOULKES, a staff
            reporter for the Benton Harbor News Palladium,
            who is a member of the chamber of commerce.
              FOULKES reported the passenger ship was
            rammed by the freighter Ravnesjel about 6 a.m.
            while most of the passengers were asleep.
              He reports the freighter smashed a large
            hole in the side of the passenger ship, along
            a line of cabins occupied by the dead, miss-
            ing and injured.
              Killed in the collision was ALVIN J. BOYD,
            Benton Harbor police chief. Missing and be-
            lieved drowned are FRED SKELLEY, Benton Har-
            bor automobile dealer, and LOUIS PATATUCCI
            of South Bend, Ind.
              All of the injured are fron Benton Harbor.
              They are MERWYN STOUCK, former mayor, whose
            condition was said to be critical; THOMAS
            DEWHIRST, former baseball star of the House
            of David; RICHARD LYBROOK, automobile dealer,
            and THOMAS SPOONER, an oil salesman.
              DEWHIRST is the son of the late JUDGE A. T.
            DEWHIRST, former head of the House of David
            at Benton Harbor.
              The City of Cleveland which left Benton
            Harbor Friday is a 4,568 ton ship 390 feet
            long, owned by the Detroit and Cleveland
            Navigation Co. of Detroit.
            
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