A RECENT WRECK.
OFFICIAL INQUIRY. "TOLD THEM NOT TO BE COWARDS." By.Telecraph—Press Association— Copyriebt Ottawa, April 11. At the official inquiry regarding the loss of the small steamer Iroquois, which was wrecked near Victoria (8.C.) last week, eighteen lives being lost, the captain of the steamer admitted that he went home after landing the lifeboat, and did not wait to search for bodies. Deck hands declared that a number of women passengers had decided to leave the vessel before she started, in consequence of the weather, but that the captain told them not to be cowards. They then returned aboard. All were drowned.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 5
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103A RECENT WRECK. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 5
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