Show OFFICERS OF SHIP WERE SOBER Charges Charge of Drunkenness Deni d dby by Islanders s Passengers C I GOOD WORK OF WOMEN 4 TO SAVE SAV LIVES LS MADE ME BY EY TEB T ORE 4 Victoria vi B a C c Aug Ug M Interviews w the t of o the t y ml Islander Is ander a r woe who D reached b here bre last 1 and an failed throw fur further b morning fae to t any fu thor ther light on the t disaster dl and none were able aW abe to give any a additional names The T quartermasters who wh were wee at the Ue who 1 at the ilme Ime corroborate the th state statement mont ment m nt of Pilot Plot Leblane as a to t ice lee having been seen n and ad also al as a to the t condi condition lion tion tn of the weather and they tey reiterate the te statements so s often oft made me of the tho th coolness elne of the officers and a crew cw and an of cf f the tl efforts etor to save the passengers at atthe atthe the th risk of ot the their r own lives Ve Second Mate ate Powell Powel has modified his hl statement that a 8 man on a 8 raft drew drewa dr w wa a revolver and ad threatened him hla ani Captain Foote Fote In his efforts to get them to leave leve the raft rn and he now says ys that the man m simply threatened them and did not draw draW a revolver But the man accused A C Beach Bech a a member of the first Canadian gent has hu come r forward and ad says he hewa was wa the th man who threatened to shoot sho any who attempted to board bard the raft saying in Justification that the raft rt was already overloaded and that he did di not have a life Ufe preserver on while the oth others others ers era did Ha Hs admits admit having tried trie to throw a Chinaman off of the raft rf because bu buh he h was wa rolling from side to side and causing cusing the raft rt to capsize He says Captain Foote was wa sitting on the raft rt smoking a 8 pipe which he had handed him when the raft capsized and he the captain captin swam away to a spar Captain Ferry Ferr one of the quarter quartermasters quartermasters masters muter ways says that when the doors dor of the th bunkers were closed clo to prevent the inflow of water there ther teM were eleven stowaways In there passing pRing coal cl and they were taken down dow In the ship The chief engineer who ordered the bunkers closed co did not know that these thee men were still sti in the bunkers The women the captain says acted splendidly and after atter they reached shore worked to restore those who were brought bought in after them Officers Were Not Drunk Captain Captin Harris Hari formerly a sealing captain and latterly on one of the Yu Yukon Yukon Yukon kon river steamers was coming down as a passenger He was with wih Captain Foote Fot in the dining hall ball hal when the ship struck struck and says that the report that thai tha Captain Foote Fote was wa drunk or that any body by was the worse for liquor is absolutely false He was on the bridge up to 1230 13 with wih Captain Captin Leblanc Leblane and verifies the pilots statements statement as a to the th condition of ot the weather wether When Wen the ship struck he went on the bridge with wih the captain and heard beard hear him give his orders in the coolest possible manner maner When Wen the boats bats were low lowered lowered ered ere Captain Harris Haris went to the port pert portside side Bide as a the second ond mate had not yet t I been called cle and he says sa s that every ev r person who was wa in sight was taking to I the boats he being the last one to t leave lve As A to t what happened on th I starboard side he is unable to t say Every Evry life Ufe that it I was possible to save ave he be says nays was saved save The stew stewards stewards I ards ad did di their thir utmost to t awaken awken i pas passengers as Second Steward Fowler giving I up his life in the effort efort but the cap ca j I tain taia thinks many did not realise rl toe danger and went dow down as a they the i slept Had H Others oth rs presented themselves I there was room rom for them In the th port p I boats bt S Applebaum of Dawson says that he be does do not think all al the passengers were ware W aroused arus and he adds that there was as a alack a alack lack of discipline Andrew Keating and hi two sons eons gns of Los L Angeles and this city were not seen sn after the ship struck and it I is I thought that they the slept through it all aU I The Islander Isle udor der was insured for I but the th company estimate that they I lost by the te disaster and nd besides lose lo their tb best steamer eamer just as business is getting good R I Th Tl The census r the north will have to tobe tob tobe be b the taken wreck over as 8 the list was ws lost in inthe Inthe I I |