Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-24 | Page 2 | Treasure Vessel's Salvaging Nears

TREASURE VESSELS VESSEL'S SALVAGING NEARS Ship to Be Dragged Ashore Ashor by August Augus 1 JUNEAU Alaska J July ly 24 The W-The fr The Th secret fate tate of or a golden fortune aboard the vessel essel Islander wre wrecked ked near nearly 33 years ago with a reputed in Klondike gold du dust aboard will be wrung from her rust rusty hulk soon it was waI said today by sa salvagers sale sal engaged in an unprecedented marine task here By B the first of or Au August the battered barnacle crusted craft will have been bee dragged ashore from waters vaters f fee Thet et deep and divers and and w workmen can ca can seek the safes sates guarded by the bones of 70 men which are believed t to cont contain in gold shipped to the states from the rich diggings o of the grea great Klondike gold rush It was August 14 1901 when th the Islander pride of the Canadian P Pacific Pa Pa- eWe fleet toi bore a gay party of ot miner who had struck it rich and consignment of gold old toward th the states and smashed into inlo an iceberg in Stevens passage S Today the divers saw the result result- the bow shattered o of f. f the decks crushed in by the tremendous pressure pressure pres- pres sure of or depths the funnel great to toppled top top- pled over the whole covered wi with rust and barnacles She hangs mostly under water suspended sus sus- by great cables between iv two salvage ships and even now tiow dive divers cannot solve the mystery of the va vanished van van- gold dust