ALL DROWNED.
WRECK OF THE IRQQUQIS. OFFICIAL ENQUIRY. ADMISSION BY THE CAPTAIN. By Telegraph.— Press Asßociation.— Copyright, (Received April 15, 9.10 a.m.) OTTAWA, 14th Apiil. At the official enquiry regarding tha loss of the small steamer Iroquois, which was wreacked near Victoria (8.C.), last week, eighteen lives being lost, the captain of the steamer admitted that hei went home after landing the lifeboat, and did not wait to search for bodies. Deck hands declared that a number o£ women passengers had decided to leave the vessel before she started, in consequence of the weather, but that the cap-i tain told them not to be cowards. They, then returned aboard. All werq I drowned.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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113ALL DROWNED. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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