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Show bbbbmbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbB WRECKED J REEF ALASKAN STEAMER A TOTAL LOSS, BUT PASSENGERS REACH SHORE. Six Members of Crew Perish In At tempt to Obtain Relief for Passengers Pas-sengers Who Are Picked Up by Passing Ship. Seattle. A cable dispatch from Se-ward Se-ward AIiiBka, says: The Alaska Steamship company's steamship Far-allon Far-allon Is a total wreck on a roof near Iliamnn bny, and six members of her crew are believed to have perished In an attempt to obtain relief for the passengers. pas-sengers. Tho passengers and members mem-bers of the crow arrived here Sunday aboard the steamship Victoria, by which they were rescued February 3, after spending nearly a month encamped en-camped in weather frequently 40 degrees de-grees below zero. The Farallon ran to her doom on January 5, during a blinding snowstorm. snow-storm. The passengers and crew managed to get ashore and went Into camp, some supplies nnd clothing bo-Ing bo-Ing taken ashore. On January 7 tho second mnto and five sailors started In n small boat for Kodlak, where they expected to connect con-nect with one of the other vessels of the Alaska Steamship company. Since then these men have not been heard from, nnd there is practically no hope that they are alive. |