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Show MANY PASSENGERS PERISH WHEN SHIP HITS ROCK Sttamer State of California Goes Down In Gambler Bay, Ninety Mile From Juneau, Alaska. Junean, Alaska. Twenty-five cr more passengers and seven members of the crew of the Pacific Coaat Steamship company'a Iron steamer, State of California, perished at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning In Gambler bay, ninety miles off Juneau, when the vessel struck an uncharted rock and sank In three minutes with many pas-aengera pas-aengera Imprisoned In their state-rooma. state-rooma. The steamer loft Seattle on Wednesday Wed-nesday night for tfkagway and way polnta. Travel to the north Is unusually unus-ually heavy on account of the stampede stam-pede to the Bhusbsnna gold field. The purser lost all of his records, and It la not possible to give a complete list of the missing. The uninjureu survivors, crew snd passenger are being taken to Seatttle on the steamer Jefferson. A great hole was torn In the bottom of the State of California. The vessel and cargo, mall and express, are a total losa. The a ip was valued at $100,000. A number of horaea for use on Shu-ahtnna Shu-ahtnna trail were on the vessel. The steamship Jefferson of the Alaaka Steamship company, southbound, south-bound, beard the wireless call of the sinking steamship and turned back to rescue the survivors who had taken to small boats and life rafta. |
