Seven years ago the tug Searchlight of Harbor Beach disappeared just outside the breakwater. With her went the crew of five men. The tragedy was one of the most startling mysteries of the marine world, and filled the pages of the news papers for weeks. Yesterday a fisherman from White Rock startled the community when he announced the finding of a body along the shore near the village. The body was badly decomposed, and floating near it was the smoke stack and cabin of the tug. Fishermen claim it is the stack of the Searchlight, and the report spread like wildfire along the shore.

It is just about seven years ago according to those who remember the dramatic story of the Searchlight, that the little tug joined the list of missing ships. It was a clear day in the fall of the year, and the boat was heading in towards the breakwater when sighted by the lookout in the tower of the life saving station. He turned away for a minute, and when

he looked again the boat had disappeared. That was the last ever seen of the Searchlight. No trace of her was ever found. On her when she disappeared were James Lester, Walter and Harvey Brown, Ed Perkins and a Bay City man. All summer search was made for the missing craft. Two tugs dragged day after day, divers were sent down, and never a trace was found. Weird and many were the tales told to account for her disappearance, and finally the mystery was given up unsolved.

Did the storm of Sunday solve the riddle? Has the sea given back its dead? These are the questions on everyone's lips. White Rock is a good twelve miles from Harbor Beach, and the snow drifts were, up to today, impassable. Before the week is over the truth will be known, and it may be that one of the most tragic mysteries in the history of stormy Lake Huron will be solved.