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Show SEVEN KILLED ErI COUJSiON Sailor Victims Asleep When Crash Sends Steamer to Bottom PORTLAND. Ore.. May 29. Seven 6allors were killed and two firemen were injured in the collision last night, in the Columbia river off Altoonah, Wash , between the steamers Welsh Prince and the lowan. according to ic- formation available early today at the naVal radio Station ut North Head ' The steamer lowan was reported to be on her way up the Columbia river, oarly this morning under her own steam 6 II.oKs -.l EEp The sailors who Were Killed wer asleep in the forecastle the Welch Prince, when the collision occurred at 0: r o'clock ia.n night The Welch Prince. Which was bound' down th0 rner. having left hero Sunday collided with the lowan. which was enroute up the river. The Welch Prince went down and thirty feet of her stern was, reported sticking out .f the wat-i. Three injured men were put aboard the tug Onetaka and taken tu Astoria At the point where the collision occurred occur-red the chanel runs close along shore after making a sharp turn from the Oregon to the Washington shore. |