Show J tr 4 S i 0 1 ONE OE AND D TEU PEOPlE PERISH Il IN J Ship Star of Bengal BenDal Caught In Storm Torn From Hold of Protecting Tugs and Destroyed hundred and Alaska ono One Ono ten tea out of a total of persons aboard the cannery ship Star of Bengal Bengal Ben Den the vessel gal galero were ero drowned whop when was torn from the hold of protecting tugs and dashed ashore at Helm Point at the tho southeast end of Coronation Coronation CoroS Coro Cora nation Island bland Tho The terrible tragedy S occurred on September 14 and the news was brought by tho tug Hattie Gage Captain Farrer Fanner which carried tho the survivors twenty seven In all aU Tho The survivors before leaving Coronation Island burled buried tho bodies of ot fifteen white men on the beach Captain Wagner of the tho bark Star of S Bengal Dengal which was wrecked on Coronation Coronation Coro Core nation Island with a loss of or lives was unconscious for an hour after ho he was rescued He Ho charges the captains of the tho tugs Kyak and Hattie Hattle Gage Oage who cut loose from him with rank cowardice Unable to speak above a a whisper Captain Wagner wrote wro-to the following When the tugs cut the tow line we wo were lying In ten fathoms of water and for four hours hoped for help from tho the tugs We burned blue lights but the tugs would not come In Had t. t they ey done so every evory man aboard could have havo been saved I will send both tug captains to tho the penitentiary if possible le for their cowardice The Tho survivors of the tho wreck number twenty Tho The ship broke in three pieces and Is a complete loss 1 |