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Show I ABANDON HOPE FOR SURVIVORS i American Tender Reports No Sign of Life From Lost Canadian Steamer. Two Northern Territories t s Lose Many Familiar Faces by Catastrophe. t t WHITE HORSE, Y. T., Oct. 27. J A dispatch from the dominion telegraphs tele-graphs department at Juneau late tonight said that the "bodies of 150 ' rvictims of the steamship Princess 1 e Sophia disaster had been recovered. - SEATTLE, Oct. 27. "No sign of life. I No hope for any survivors," read a wireless wire-less message received today at the Ca- nadian Pacific's Vancouver, B. C, office from the United States lighthouse tender J Cedar, which tried unsuccessfully to aid the Princess Sophia before she went down I and which has been leading the search i for survivors and bodies. i The Cedar's message said nine bodies, 1 eight of them women, were found today. ' A wireless from the Cedar last night told 1 of the finding of another body, that of a woman. So far, no bodies have been Identified, according to the message. Four of the bodies found today were on one of the Sophia's collapsible life-J life-J boats. Yesterday four empty lifeboats from the Sophia were found on a beach. Passengers Were Calm. Marine men here interpreted the finding find-ing of the women's bodies and the raft and lifeboats to mean that the Sophia's officers and crew endeavored to get the passengers off, probably just before the ship went down. A few hours before the sinking. Captain F. L. Locke, master j tf the Sophia, wirelessed that the passengers passen-gers were calm. He said nothing of intending in-tending to take to the boats. More than fifteen beats, small and large, were at the scene of the WTeck today, according to Juneau, Alaska, cable , dispatches to tho Associated Press. In addition to the Cedar, the United States j steamer Peterson, the gasoline schooner j King and a dozen or so small gas boats were scouring the waters. Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Alaska probably arrived today at the scene of the wreck. A Juneau dispatch filed at nltdnight last night said the governor expected ex-pected to board the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Alice when she touched Juneau today on her way to the canal. Sister Ship Sent. The Alice, a sister ship of the lost vessel, was hurriedly dispatched north from Vancouver Thursday when word came that the Sophia grounded early-Thursday early-Thursday on the Vanderbilt reef in the eanal during a snow squall while bound south through the Inside passage with a i I capacity load of Alaskans and Yukon territory ter-ritory residents bound out to spend the winter in the states and Canada. At first it was thought the Sophia would rest easy on the reef until the Alice could arrive Sunday to take off the passengers. Barely bad the Alice started on her rescue mission before a violent storm canw-nfr The windV raced with hurricane hurri-cane force down the long, narrow canal, and waves thirty feet high pounded the Sophia against the rocks, making it Impossible Im-possible for the several vessels which bad answered her distress, call to get in close to help. Friday night the gale Increased until it lifted the Sophia up. dragged her across the reef and dropped her to the bottom of the black Icy waters. At daybreak I Saturday tho near-by vessels saw only the Sophia's mast3 Jutting from the surface. sur-face. Not a soul survived, tho Cedar wirelessed yesterday. Death came quickly quick-ly to all aboard, despite the fact the shore was but a few yards away. Many Familiar Faces. Loss of the Sophia. It was said here, was the worst marine disaster in the history of the Pacific coast. In the sinking sink-ing of the boat, with all aboard, the two northern territories lost many of their familiar faces, among them men who were identified with the pioneer days of the northland and with some of tho great gold discoveries. Among these were "William StoOurse of Seattle and Dawson, Daw-son, who hoisted the first bucket of gold gravel on tho fabulously rich Klondyke Mrs. K. Beaton, said to have been the first white woman In the Idltarod country of Alaska, and Walter Barnes, one of the wealthiest Klondyke hydraulic operators. Whole families, were wiped out In the disaster and officers of several steam-Doats steam-Doats plying on the Yukon river for years were also lost. These men, with the majority of the other passengers, were making their customary winter Journey to the outside. Gaps in Ranks. Big gaps were broken In the ranks of Yukon river steam host men by the loss on the Princess Sophia of eighty-four employees of the White Pass & Yukon Hallway company, which operates a summer sum-mer line of boaU on the big northern wa- terway. The company tonight pnued a list of Its men atoard the Hophla. Thraa river captains and three chief engineers were included. The others were engineer, firemen, oilers, deck hand and waiters. Ten of the company's com-pany's boats were represented. Most of the men were Canadians. All the men were bound south to spend the winter outside. Three were accompanied accom-panied t,y their wives. The three captains were ('.. L. Bloom -qulst, Vancouver, B. C, mauler steamer Dawson; J. C. Green, HcatUe, master ataaraar Yukon, and j. p, Dotiglaa, Myths, AJbarta. master steamer Mastlin, The chief engineers were Josapn Baa tine, Portland Ore,, engineer Men mer Yukon; H. C, Haws, Vancouver, engineer tftaanier Caaca, and J. It. 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