THE PRINCESS SOPHIA WRECK
• NOT A SINGLE SUHVIVCfc... ',J COAST STREWN WITII CORPSES. 'jj Vanvouvcr, Oct. 28. . ifjl The shores around Lincoln Island, off -| Alaska, -where the Princess Sofia was . wrecked are strewn with corpses- Whole ' families have been wiped out. The dis- -,'.1 aster was due to a combination of rough ( aea and a snowstorm. Craft that got j alongside before the steamer sank were unable to reach the victims owing to J the terrific sea running across the reef. • i No trace has been found of a single sur- ..■•j vivor. —Aus. N.Z. Cable As'm. * ' New York, Oct. 28. The New York World's correspondent '■ j at Dawson states that some of tlio bestknown residents of the Klondyke. lost their lives on the Princess Sofia. .More than a million dollars' worth, of gold : was lost when the ship foundered.—Aus. -V; N.Z. Cable Assn. *
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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144THE PRINCESS SOPHIA WRECK Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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