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Show SUNK 6 ICEBERG STEAMER YUCATAN GOES DOWN IN ICY STRAIT, BUT NO LIVES WERE LOST. .'assengors and Crew Camped on Desolate Island, But Steamer Was Soon Sent From Juneau to Rescue Res-cue the Castteaways. Juneau, Alaska The Alaska Steamship Steam-ship company's stool steamship Yucatan, Yuca-tan, bound from Valdoz for Seattlo, with slxty-flvo passengers, struck nn Icoborg in Icy strait at 9:30 o'clock Thursday morning and sank eight minutes later In six fathoms of water. Thore was no loss of llfo nnd no person was Injured. Tho shipwrecked passengers nnd crew wont Into camp on Chlhagof Island, nnd woro brought horo by the Htonmshlp Georgia, which lert Juneau for tho purposo soon nfter nows of l ho wreck wns received. Tho Btenmshlp was iMiund for Gypsum, Gyp-sum, on Chlagor Island, to tnko on 11 quantity of gypsum. When Icy strait was reached tho water was smooth, but thero woro great Holds of Ice and I ho snow wns falling so heavily that It wns possible to see only a short dls-lanco dls-lanco ahead. Suddenly nn Icoborg loomed up abend and tho steamship rammed Into It, tearing a great holo In the sldo of tho vessel, Into which water poured. Full steam abend was ordered and tho Yucntan was headed for Chlhagof Island, where sho was beached at a point whoro there Is six fathoms of water at high tldo. Tho boats were lowered nnd all en bonrd were taken i to shoro without mlshnp or confusion, j tho ten women passengers being re-' movod first. Food and bedding nnd tho United States mall wero also taken tak-en ashore. |