Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-04
NEWSPAPER WOMAN TELLS
 OF STEAMSHIP WRECK
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before knew men could be so brave and unselfish The discipline was perfect and one of the sights will long remember IS Captain Cam as he appeared standing on q piece of wreckage giving directions to his crew in their efforts to pick up the strugglers in the water"
 A. N Floyd, agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, who was a passenger on the State of California, was eating breakfast with his wife at the time the vessel struck
 The other passengers who were in the room at the time became alarmed and made rush for the stairway, although none of them seemed to lose their heads Fl ,yd, not thinking the accident serious, tried to calm the nervous ones. Pilot l Crockett was at the stairway telling them not to become alarmed but to get on the deck. Floyd coulI hear Cantan Cam on the bridge giving orders, and firmly be- leved that nothing endangering the lives of those on board had happened.
 He told Mrs. Floyd to go to her state room and he went to the upper deck. Here be noticed the people getting into the lifeb9ats He assisted in the launching of On eboat, when he was rejoined by his wife
 When the second boat was ready to be launched somebody picked up Mrs. Floyd and bundled her into the boat. She re fused to leave her husband however, and climbed cut of the boat onto the sinking vessel in order to be near her husband.
 It was while Floyd was trying to cut the falls on third boat in order to launch it that the vessel sank. The deck on which he was standing rose as through from the force of an explosion, and he and his wife were flung into the water. His wife could not swim, and sank immediately. Floyd grabbed piece of wreckage and when his wife came up seized her and supported her until a boat came alongside a few minutes later, how long he does not know. Mrs | FlONu WAS tdkel lIto lut bodl GuI TlOSo vas lowed behind until he became exhaust. ed, when he too, was taken into the boat
 Last to Leave Ship
 s. J. Robertson of Oakland Cal, an em- ploye of the Santa Fe railroad, was the last living person to leave the ship. Robert sen helped A. P Vinnedge to place Mrs. Drake in the boat, and then went to the assistance of other women. He went to the other side of the vessel and saw sey- ar2l women with their heads through the windows endeavorIng to escape from their rooms They had evidently locked their doors and in their terror were unable tU unlock them again.
 Robertson endeavored to reach them, and deck. But the vessel sank while he was yet on the deck, carrying him down with it, and he vas nearly drowned before he reached the surface.
 Gee; Back for Money
 Robcrtscns distinction of being the last person aboard the vessel was attained be cause the bridge on which Captain T. H. Cam and Pilot Crockett were standing was blown off by the force of the air when the vessel sank
 Mrs, Al Birnbaum lost her life, it is as serted, by making an attempt to save S2,000 in money which it is said she had in her state room. She went below after it and when she returned it was too late to get boat, and she was on the vessel when 1t sank
 All the women survivors on the North western are suffering from the nervous shock of the wreck. Every time the Nor h. western would blow her whistle they would start and it would take mem all !as ,:.nt to recover their composure.