STEAMER WRECKED.
WOMEN PENNED IN DECK-
HOUSE
(Received Last Night, 11.20 o'rljek )
OTTAWA, April 11. The steamer Iroquois, engaged in the coastal trade between Victoria (8.C.) and Vancouver, has been wrecked. Eighteen lives have been lost. ■ The vessel foundered at the mouth of the port, within the view of hundreds of people. A launch started to the rescue, but its machinery failed, and it was unable, to reach the drowning people. Many who were afloat on the upper works of the steamer dropped off one. by one. Several floated ashore on the wreckage. ! The captain, several passengers, and l five of tho crew escaped in a lifeboat. Tho disastei was due to the shifting of the cargo. Numbers of women, penned lit the deckhouse, added to the eoufusio i by their screams. They sank with tho vessel.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 5
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137STEAMER WRECKED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 5
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