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Show ICEBERGS THREATEN TO DESTROY A VESSEL Seattle, Wash.. Feb. 23 Reports received here from the north eay that the men who are standing by the wreck of the Alaska Steamship company's com-pany's steel steamer Yucatan, which was wrecked on a reef at the entranca to Mud Bay, Alaska, last week, are engaged ln a continuous battle with huge icebergs to keep the beached vessel from complete destruction. With the exception of tho forward house, the Yuratau Is entirely submerged sub-merged at high tide. Capt. W. S. Porter Por-ter an-l the men who are with him are living lu tho forward house pending pend-ing the arrival of the wrecking steamship steam-ship Santa Crux. . . . |