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Show DISASTER'S SURVIVORS Water Tender Tells of the Death of Mrs. Riordan of Chicago After-Draft of Sinking Sink-ing Ship Sucked Down Loaded Life Boat Scattl Wash, Aug 22. The Hrsl survivors to reach here from the steamship State of California, which Bank last Sunday in Gambler bay. Alaska, after striking an uncharted rock brought word today of the deatl; of Mrs II C Riordan. of Chicago, 84 years old, and her daughter, Miss Bsteila Riordan. a Chicago high school teacher n K. Baker, a water tender, who rushed on deck as the cabins filled, found boat No. 4 with a few persons In it. among them Mrs. Riordan "The water was Just Up to the boat but in thp excitement il had not been loosened from the fastenings which held ii to the deck' he said. 1 grabbed an axe and cut it I008S, and ;s the steamer sank if floated but the after-draft sucked it down I caught a piece of wreckage and tried to save Mrs CUordan, but she went down before I could reach her." Her body wns recovered, but that of Miss Riordan Is listed among the missing miss-ing Baker was picked up by a launch, oo |