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Show iJELESS SENT : fRiNTICAPPEAL American Tender Picked Up Last Message From Lost Steamer. JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 30. "Hurry, we are sinking. The water is coming into my ! room. Just time to say bood-bye. For God's sake, come quickly!" I This frantic appeal the last "wireless 1 message from the lost steamer Princess I Rphla rwas received by the United ' States lighthouse tender Cedar about half an hour, it was thought, before a storm 'sent the Sophia to the bottom of Lynn canal, north of here, with all on board. About o-lO perished. "We are coming. Save your juice so you can guide us," the Cedar's operator answered. He thought D. M. Robinson of Vancouver, B. C, operator on the Sophia, nas "ited, and tried in vain to calm Mff Robinson's body was found yester- The Cedar, which had been standing by the Sophia, tried to get through the storm to the doomed vessel, but the high waters wa-ters and winds forced her to put back to safety. "Work of picking up the bodies of the Sophia's victims continued today. An actual count showed 177 bodies have been brought to Juneau. Of these 147 have been identified. Other bodies have been picked up by a fleet of boats at the scene of the wreck. Most of the unidentified were women and children, whose clothing had no pockets to contain letters, cards, or other articles that would have led -to determining determin-ing their identities. Rescue workers last night found the body of Walter J. O'Brien, Canadian Pacific Pa-cific company agent at Dawson, Y. T., who, with his wife and five children, was lost. Clasped in O'Brien's arms was the body of his small son. Other bodies identified iden-tified today were those of John F. Pugh, Juneau collector of customs for the Alaska Alas-ka district, and Charles G. Beadle, purser pur-ser of the Sophia. |