The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-20
Mystery of Disaster That
Wrecked Steamer Dix Still
Remains Unexplained.
VICTIMS WENT DOWN IN
ONE HUNDRED FATH0MS
All Hope of Recovering the
Bodies Has Now Been
Abandoned.

SEATTLE. Nov. l9.-Thc steamer
Dix, Capt Lermort. bound from
Seattle to Port BIalleev with passeu-
gers. sank two miles north of Alkali |
point shortly after o'clock last !
night after having collidcd with the !
steamer Jennie, Capt. p. II. Mason, Of ,
the Alaska company.
Forty passengers and members Of
the crew of th" Dix arc missing aud (
thIrty ty-nine were saved.
The Jennie was not inJuIod in tho |
least, and no member of her crew was
lost
The master of the Dix was saved.
The sound was almost as smooth as
millpond when the collision occurred |
and when the boats had been steaming !
within sight of each other for Il quar- z
ter Of an hour.
Missing.
ALBERT NJ 'DURY, lumber surveyor.
PIGOTT, initials uuknown. ilcr.
&. BOWLER. manager of Nh" store
". BOYLER, his brother, employed
in store.
FRED BOTLET. fler. employee Of
the Port Blakelcy sawmill, Port Blake
ley.
PETER BUZZATTIE, barber
RALPH CLARK. clerk IN store, both
from Port BlakeIcy.
VI Nh hSi ,ve,,S SKANS'2h, ~ ~ sPoSahe.
AoTtol Nhl"ooN ana "ife' for0
n'akeieFo =, r. cow,
intendent of the Port Blakeley Mill
company.
.,,nboro1 y, pnr, pI,Go,ot. ~
c. j. KENNY, hospital steward, Fort
IoIJN HE,TIXc of st p,u, Min,
$50 '',p y. ~. a"i, .,,,, ,nm.
ns'u'et u stoe'toi
D'G' Dr>>1co> s
~ ohN y i7oh, "d,r VI s.ra' e
DIX (aI whSel yi1SS when &c S9li'S'on oGeurfed2,
BAAIlNI!A GARCIA, lately from
NJ anl.Rs rIlpin9;
A. ". WEBSTER, lumber sur
veyor.
: BEl,AlR, tler,
MARTIN HANSEN, caulker.
WILLIAM MAYER caulker,
ALBERT NJ DONALD, lumber sur.
veyor.
SVEN SWANSON.
WILLIAM BRACEFIELD, long.
shoreman.
PETER LARSEN. oiler. Port Blake
lev.
ROLAND PRICE sop Of the most.
master nj PORT RIakelex
Roland from steanor nix
NJ \ STEERS or M RTIN wlfS
and DAUGHTER Family Of I.oonard Mas
anu anu un"SHee. aTns u ,,IsoIna. ,ieoa"'o -Na0
~ lhI. ~ w ~, 80, ..,,nn, p;-
n' uJvN nap' A'ot' '
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ri rnree onlness' t
rive Japanese
No Time to Launch Boats,
collidcd with The Dix, and the impact
was very slight The DIX was struck
abaft Of amidsblpS on the starboard
side, She listed heavily TO port for 2
brief period, righted herself, then sank
stern first
There was hardly time 70 launch
Iife-rafts or boats before she was al
most entirely submerged.
Passengers jumped from the decks
into the water; women screamed, and
officers and men called orders that
could not be hcard ABOVE Ihe aih'
The passengers OF the DlX VINO coula
swim made their way to the, sides OF
the Jennie and were dragged ABOARD
The Jennie was not moved until after
all who had reached her had been
taken aboard Then she crulsed about
picking up several who had managed to
ii was after 10 o'clock before tho
Jennie lef; the scene of the ea'astro-
pho and steamed to the Virginia
Street dock. Seattle, with her tnirty-
nine survivors.
The Jennie. of the Alaska Coast
had finished unloading Mt the
Great Northern docks at Smith 5 CoIe-
and had started for Tacoma shortly be-
fore o oclock, Just about the same
time the Dix left its dock at Port
RiokcIey There were no passengers
on the Jennie. The Dix was making
The last trip of the night, and was we'll
ined with ragscnpers
Wben within about two miles north