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Show i - ' ; DROPPED INTO SURGING SEA' i i Crew of Doomed Steamer Make Brave Effort to Reach Land,. But Only One Man Is Saved. 1 Marshflold, Ore. Another tragedy of tho sea has been written into tha record of marine disasters on, tho grim north Pacific coast, through tho j loss of tho staunch Iron steamship- h Czarina on tho North Spit of tho Coos t'V Bay bar, with a load of thirty lives. A solitary survivor, Harry Kentzel, first assistant engineer oi the wrecked vessel, is tho only living tes- tlmonlal to the heroic efforts made W by the United States life saving crow ! and citizens of Marshflold to aid tho doomed Bhlp's company. Tho Czarina lett hero Wednesday-afternoon Wednesday-afternoon in tho lace of a storm, j bound for San Francisco. She had braved many a galo, and her commander com-mander apparently saw no reason for delaying her doparturo. In a short. , time, however, tho vessel was seen , to be In, trouble. It is probable that1 ' something went wrong with her rudder, rud-der, as sho seemed to be beyond tho-control tho-control of tho helmsman. Then her 1 anchor was dropped, but it would not hold, nnd with her rudder out of commission and big seas pounding" her, tho inevitable happened,, She-struck She-struck tho spit, and there sho hung. j Tho llfo saving crew made numerous , attempts to fire llfo lines over tho steamer, but all fell short. When i darkness fell virtually all hope that j any of those on board would bo saved was abandoned. Six of 'ho men wero j seen in tho rigging 'Ihursday morn- , lng, but they finally gave up all hope of rescue and sprang into the sea, . Kentzel being tho only one to reach J tho shore. |