On Lake Michigan, a Chicago tugboat explodes and kills most of its night crew

Just before midnight, as she was preparing to take on a tow for the schooner Traveller just outside the port of Chicago, the tug Crawford had its boiler suddenly explode.  Three of the four men aboard were killed instantly while a fourth, a deck hand, was blown overboard and survived. The brand new tug, which had been launched only a few weeks before, sank in twenty-five feet of water and was a complete loss. (By John Osborne)