Show ISLANDER I GOT OOT WHAT AT ATTE I THE TE FLO FLOSIE SIE MISSED Narrow Escape From Erom the Submerged Iceberg C fN J THE TlE TRACK 0 FATAL CHANGING OB 01 G ll QU QUART S vr t lj i Au 21 n ate te Ke Xe r sor steamer Island Islander er e r this tIde filed d with lai 10 f gent agent of the Dominion marine rles I s department d a for tor formal I mid mal ma rep the disaster upon which an alt l win be held This report reports is ia i s practically pra ti b a request for aa ast inquiry an and A cuttIna no neW neV details b beyond yond I the en exact et spot where ere the Ute ship Who down and An t estimate of the loss lOBS ol ot life JUt and the number saved He es cc esI I t that the number num el lost lust was fottY tw two twe and the thO number Dumber saved eased 14 The Theat exalt at spot it t f tle the w eck Is as I Point Paint HUda and ad a quarter allies s les ee I W b hi j S S quart Sr c Some e in dt has been manifested in m inthe the course was followed on the i fatal morning and in this connection conne I It is worthy of ot the pilot to fol followed lowed the identical course coune upon which I she che sailed lied on the previous trip A eom com comparison parison Instituted In the log of Cap Captain CapI tair tain Foote on the prior trip shows I that there Utere was no deviation whatever what ver The rhe quartermaster a moment before i the collision had put peLt his wb w el over ovel one ORe point as on scanning the anal nal m It ItI I front he h saw that such a step would I bring brine his ship into more mor of a mid channel 1 track than by following that thai I upon upen which he W tP sailing galling where whereby whereby by he would hav in closer do er to the ther i cape Had the ier held on her herway herway herI r way W for fol three minutes min longer louger Jo ger she would I have probably cleared cl the obstacle t which sent her forte Olty fai deep In connection with this same matter t an interesting Was 8 told by one S of the passengers by the captain of o f th he steamer Flossie which 1 subsequently sub rescued the survivors He Re says that the Flossie passed pa over ova r the same waters as that in which the t Islander was wrecked early in the af at afternoon afternoon preceding the catastrophe They were looking for large bergs when suddenly they saw right ahead i a one with Its surface a 1 I little more m r han flush with the th surface C of o the sea The course of the Flossie t was altered just in tune time to save her he heI r from fro contact with the submerged submerge I mountain One of ot the officers afterwards re ic remarked remarked marked to the captain what a llou S thing it lying right in the C i track of the Skagway liners and pre predicted preC that it would bring them then C to 0 grief Hardly discernible In day daylight daylight daye light It would wo ld be absolutely invisible e at night Jt It la is the opinion of northern navi navigators navigators gators that the berg which caused the tie a destruction of the Islander wa was was probably probably proba ably the same as seen by the officers officer o a of the Flossie as these hure hulte ice moun mountains mountains talus often linger in tJ P i ne locality V for tor days drifting backward and for forward forward forward ward with the tides |