A SERIOUS DISASTER.
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LINER HITS A ROCK. VANCOUVER, Oct,. 26. The Canadian Pacific Company’s steamer Princess .Sophia struck a reef in the Lynn Canal. No fewer than two hundred and sixty-eight passengers and seventy-five of the crew perished. Responding to “ S.O-S.” signals, several vessels approached the Princess Sophia, but were unable to transfer the passengers owing to a gale. Tile Princess Sophia was pounded on the rocks It is not believed that there are any survivors. *■ VANCOUVER, Oct. 27. The Princess Sophia was bound south ward from Skagwav. Nearly all aboard were Alaskans. The ship struck at three o’clock on Thursday morning, but it was impossible to transfer the “passengers, because of a gale which continued until the vessel sank. NOT A SURVIVOR. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Oct. 28. The shores around Lincoln Island, Alaska where the Princess Sophia was wrecked are strewn with corpses. Whole families were wiped out. The disaster was due to a combination of a rough sea and snowstorm. The craft that got alongside.before the steamer sank were unable to reach the victims, owing to the terrific sea running across the reef. No trace has beep found of a single survivor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1918, Page 4
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202A SERIOUS DISASTER. Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1918, Page 4
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