Forty Year old Tug Belonging to the Lumber Company Sinks in Fifty Feet of Water
Lutefisk Goes to the Bottom.
The good ship Lutefisk, operated by the Crookston Lumber company as a herder of stray logs, went to the bottom of the lake in about fifteen feet of water this morning. The Lutefisk was lying alongside of the company’s boom with the engine quiet. The men noticed that the north wind was pushing the boat up on the boom but before the engine could be started to back her off, the boom tipped her up and the water came in over the side flooding the engine room and filling the hold. The boat will be raised. (Bemidji Pioneer, May 11, 1912)
Lake Bemidji had its second marine disaster of the present season on Saturday morning by the sinking of the Lutefiske. The tug boat, owned and operated for the past several years by the Crookston Lumber Company. The boat had just left the dock to begin the summer’s season. While proceeding on its usual work on the log boom of the Crookston Company at the south end of Lake Bemidji, the strong north wind swept its prow up onto the logs, and before the crew could prevent it, another huge wave dashed into the fire box of the engine and filled the stern of the boat. Captain Hanson and his crew only abandoned ship after all hope of saving it had disappeared. The boat went down in fifty feet of water. (Bemidji Sentinel, May 17, 1912)