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Show STEAMERCAPSIZED TWENTY LIVES LOST WHEN THE IROQUOIS WENT DOWN JUST AFTER LEAVING PORT. People on Shore Could See Survlvora Clinging to Wreckage, Men and Women Struggling for Their Lives. But In Vain. Victoria, II. ( It Is believed that twenty Uvea were lost when the little, win id mi steamer. Iroquois, plying between be-tween Sidney. Vancouver Island, and the Island of the gulf of Georgia. was (aps'red Bonn after leaving Sidney on Monday. The purser, who had a record of fares collected, is iimnnK the dead, and It Is not likely that the exact nuinlier that perished will ever he known. Fiur passenger and seven lueinliers of 1 ho rrew were saved and four member of tho crew and probably prob-ably slxleen passenger were dron in (!, The Iroquois foundered fifteen minutes after leaving Sidney, ller cargo shifting, she swung over on her port side, circled around 11 if about to make back to port, partly righted again, went on her beam ends, and, apparently tilling wUh water, foundered foun-dered In comparatively shallow water, her engine blowing up and pnrt of her house work remaining unsub-merged. unsub-merged. When the Iroqouls foundered, part of the upper works were left above water, and persona ashore could Bee the survivor, clinging to that portion of the wreck. The swirl of the water sooii 'ire off the house, and the sea wa covered with wreckage, amid which were men and women struggling- for their lives. Of the bodies blch drifted ashore, many were equlppel with life belta. |
