Show VESSEL IN ICE PACK I NEAR EAR NOME CITY MAY HAVE BEEN CRUSHED SEATTLE Wash June 21 Purser Purser Shaw of the steamer Nome City which here last night from the North says r We Ve reached Nome June after a hard passage Until May our I I northward jo journey was all right but when seventy seventy miles from fron Nome we were ca caught in the Ice pack For nearly a month we drifted about until finally our captain took ad advantage antage of an opening through the thc pack k and reached ed the shore at Nome City On June id we saw the Portland far to the westward of us tightly Incased in a 1 pack ack of Ice She was then drifting northward through Behring straits Subsequently the revenue cutter started in pursuit and no further news was received The Portland was formerly named the Republic She was built at Bath Me Ie In 1895 1893 is feet long 36 feet beam 20 feet hold |