SHIP SUNK

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1929, Page 5

SHIP SUNK

: ONE HUNDRED ABOARD ! 1 V/ . ' _ (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29. The coastwise steamer San Juan was sunk in a collision with an oil tanker thirty miles south of here. She carried- 55 passengers and a crew of 45. • ; Many have been picked up. The Joss of life is riot yet ascertained. '. . ' , *' ■ / SAN JUAN RAMMED. SOME OF CREW MISSING. (Received this day at ,9.25 a.m.) VANCOUVER,, August 30. The steamer San Juan, the captain of which.is Adolphe. Asplund, was ram-' med by the tanker Dodd, south of Hall' Moon Bay, twelve miles from an isolated mountainous shore. The tanker saved twenty-seven,. but was badly injured. itself, and had to leave for the shore. , A lumber earner reported saving,ten .'others, The fate of the remainder is unknown, for they had to leap for their lives as the ship listed. Many'who were asleep went down with the ship. The San Juan was an old boat. Captain Asplund, aged 65, who had retired, took command olf the San Juan when the owners asked him to , substitute for. the usual commander, who was on vacation in London. 1 74 LIVES REPORTED LOST. (Received this day at 10.80. a.m.) ' SAN FRANCISCO, August 30. Revised figures to-day reported sixty-five passengers and forty-five of a; crew were aboard the San Juan. Early estimates show forty were saved. Later, the reported loss of life was estimated at seventy-four. The San Juan foundered five minutes after the crash in a dense fog.