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GROUNDED IN AQUEDUCT
Str. Sharples Fast for 16 Hours.
[Welland Tribune, 8 December 1910]
On Monday evening, owing to the continued easterly winds, the water in the canal was exceptionally low, and the Str. Sharples, drawing 14 feet 2 inches, grounded in the aqueduct. The vessel’s stern swung around, across the channel, largely shutting off the passage of the water, and still further lowering the level below the vessel.
Assistant Supt. Scott of St. Catharines came up on Tuesday, and ordered the water shut off the Cataract and other power companies on the lower levels, the effect of which was to raise the water here sufficiently to float the vessel about noon on Tuesday.
Another steamer, following the Sharples, was also held up by the blockade, for over half-a-day, affording a striking proof of the necessity of canal enlargement.
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