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Show in intensity. Our deepest and most heartfelt heart-felt sympathy goes forth to all sufferers." C. E. Watson and George Randolph, two prominent mining men from eastern Canada, were lost on the Sophia. Watson was the manager of the mining corporation, corpora-tion, and Randolph was a mining expert. ex-pert. 187 Bodies Found. DAWSON. Y. T., Oct. 2S. One hundred hun-dred and eighty-seven bodies have been recovered from the steamer Princess Sophia, So-phia, according to a dispatch from Skag-wav Skag-wav to the Dawson News. The bodies are' all at Juneau and all had on lifebelts. Small boats were reported taking more bodies to Juneau. Colonel R. S. Knight, acting governor of the Yukon, has instructed northwest mounted police officers at White Horse to proceed to Skagway to render any assistance as-sistance possible to the American authorities. Company's Sympathy. VANCOUVER. B. C. Oct. 2. "De tails qf the sacrifices which occurred aboard jie Princess Sophia when she plunged tn'.o tho depths during the raging storm probably never will be known, as thre in no hope of anyone surviving the terrible catastrophe." declared a statement Is-''ed Is-''ed tonight by the Canadian Pacific jgnllwav corntany. - The Prim-ess: Hophls. one of the 0. P. jfc. passenger boats, went to the bottom mf the Lynn canal. Hkagway. Alaska, dnr-feg dnr-feg a storm Friday or Saturday. Aboard fcr were ZiZ persons, none of whom sur-tJved. sur-tJved. "Many of tho bodies picked up were on IJfera fts, according to word received Jyore," the statement continued. "This tn-EcfctSf tn-EcfctSf that a desperate attempt wan made by many to get hwhy from the Sinking ship. Those who left the vessel on the rafts doubtless surcmnbed tQ p.. Jjwustlon and exposure. The storrn which few the end of the Sophia nnd her previous pre-vious loa1 of human freight was terrible |