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Show 20 VICTIMS OE ILL-FATED SHIP VICTORIA, April 12. Revision of' the irst of- dead and saved in the steamer Iroqnois disaster leads" td the' belief that only-" 20 persons' per'sheM when tho little" boat chpslzed last Monday Margaret McFarland, who was 'saved, claims ownorbhlp of articles arti-cles nearlng'the name of Miss Mar-garot Mar-garot Barton, thus removing, the latter lat-ter name from the list of dead. There were 35 persons on the Iroquois, when the- gale h,eelctL.her over- Ten wore saved, nine bodies have been recovered recover-ed and eleven bodies nre still In the sea. The coroner's inquest Is continuing today. Especial attention Is being paid to the conduct of Captain A- A. Sears, who rowed ashore in a life boat, whllo passengers were clinging to bits of wroackage. Sears wont to a farm house and dried his clothes and. according ac-cording to testimony, made no effort to rescue survivors Indians In their canoes went out In the rough water at the risk of their lives and brought in shipwrecked people still afloat. |