Show GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS Wireless Operator Goes Down to Death on Wrecked Steamer Alter Al-ter Sounding Call for Aid Seattle One man a wireless telegraph tele-graph operator gave his life that more than 200 might be saved Friday Fri-day morning when George W EC cles of Seattle according to meager detail In wireless dispatches went down with the Alaska Steamship com panys steamer Ohio while sounding the CQD for aid His calls for help brought the steamer King Fisher Humnoldt and Rupert City to the rooks of Steep Point in Hlshklsh Narrows British Columbia and all but himself the purser quartermaster a soldier and one steerage passenger were saved The Ohio went down within thirty minutes after It struck The boats were i lowered at once j + lt r tho bIg vessel BtrnckAnd the women and children taken off first The soldier and steerage passenger were killed by the upsetting of a boat during the rescue of the passengers passen-gers Operator Bccles who was a big man worked valiantly In rescue work and is reported to have been drowned while so engaged Purser Stephens also Is said to have given his life that the passengers and other members of tho crow might be saved |