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Show LINER BRINGS IN I PKE SURVIVORS i I ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE REFUGEES, RE-FUGEES, REACH CANADIAN PORT j Canadian Red Cross Takes Charge of Many of Those Injured; Doctors I and Nurses Meet Steamer Victoria, P. C. The steamer President Presi-dent Jeffcrs.in. carrying the first sur" vivors of the Yokohama earthquake, warped into its dock at Victoria, first port of call on the American Continent, Con-tinent, shortly after 7:30 o'clock Saturday. Sat-urday. Previously at the Canadian government gov-ernment quarantine station at William Wil-liam Head, thii-ty-threo British mid Canadian passengers a number of them suffering from broken arms and legs, bruises and shock, and others oth-ers destitute, had been taken from, the vessel to remain under the care of the Canadian Red Cross as long as necessary. Doctors and nurses met them at the station and escorted them to shore. The Jefferson carried 155 refugees, representing thirteen nationalities. To many of them the arrival on American shores was the occasion of reunion with friends and relatives. To others it meant mercy a long wait until "things adjust themselves and we can get back to Japan. There were few cases of seriously Injured aboard. Mrs. Myrtle McAllister McAl-lister of S:in Francisco had been oaught in the wreckage about the limbs. Mrs. Don Tinling, formerly Miss Lara Cyr of Los Angeles, had also been caught in the wreckage of here home and was unable to walk as the result ot severe bruises, nor 10 month old baby ,who on arrivaT at Victoria, had completed its third voyage across the Pacific, was unharmed. un-harmed. Other injured included Mrs. Louise Saboretta of Victoria, who was not seriously hurt ; Gaston Da Bearne, son of Prince De Bearne, counsellor of the French embassy at Tokio ; Richard Haskin, of New York City, and H. M. Starr, also or New York. |