PROBABLY AN OLD WRECK.
Wreckage Coming Ashore--No Vessel Missing Lately.
Quantities of wreckage from some foundered vessel have been discovered along the shore this week at points extending all the way from North Point north of Alpena to below Tawas. The after part of a cabin and a portion of a deck was picked up by the Sturgeon Pointe patrol which Capt. Henderson states must have been in the water for some time, and the measurements correspond with those of the D. M. Wilson, lately sunk off Alpena.
Portions of the deck of a vessel were found on the beach at Tawas and a board bearing the name E. B. Ward was cast up on Thunder Bay Island. From this it was supposed that the steamer Ward of the Crescent line had foundered in last week's big storm, but a telegram announced the safe arrival of the Ward at the Soo.
The Detroit Journal interviewed leading vesselmen and the opinion seemed to be that all this wreckage came from the steamer D. N. Wilson, which foundered Oct. 27 off Thunder Bay. She went down in 42 feet of water and such a sea as raged last week would break her upper works loose and the wind was right to scatter the wreckage along the shore.