The Alaska citizen., 1913-08-25
HORRIBLE STEAMBOAT
 DISASTER

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 JUNEAU Aug. 1S.-The steam, ship State of California. Captain r. II. Cam, master. encountered an un. chartcd rock in Gambler bay yes terday while enr0ute to Skagway from Seattle, and IS now total wreck at the bottom of the bay. GOV cred by thirty fafhoms If water.
 Ten of the passengers were drowned. and 21 are still missing. One hundred and fifteen were saved. Of the m ssing, seven are members ot the crew
 Of the ten bod.es recovered. nine are women and four are unidentified The names of the known dead are: Mrs Al Birnbaum. wife of the Ruby merchant. who was enroute to Join her husband; Mrs. E. C. Ward and Miss Lila Ward, wife and daughter of Nice-President Ward of i the Pacific Coast Steamship com Pany owner of the vessel; Mrs. Stel- 1 Ia Keardan. Clara Nanderlass Joan 1 Na;derlass. Among the misl,ing passengers are: Lesl Q Hobaj. May i Dixon. Mrs. (. F. Sp.tzell and child, 1 Lillian Norman. Nick Pittulas. Ben Wade. Anna Cassidy. w. A. nw ger Minctte Harlan Blanche Fridd. Alice Johnson. Hattie Reardan. Miss Will son, J. Holman The members Of the crew still missing are: C. Anderson, fourth officer; D. C. Perkins, Wire less operator; N Lawson, quarter master: l.. MazZone. able seaman
 r. Smith. waiter; J. Clark, waiter and E. Madisan.
 l The accident happened as the ves- sel was leaving Gambler bay after 1 having discharged quantity of eannery supplies. The rock was struck al SEQ. and in three min utes the ship had disappeared. many of those missing il is presumed. be ing caught in the.r s,atero ms. l The cannery tender Admiralty. with Pilot Crockett in charge. ef- i feeted the rescue of many of the i passengers. and then started for l Juneau with the bodies of nine of l the dead passengers Miss Lila 1 Ward daughter of the epresident of the company. who was injured Ahen the crash came, also was talk an on board the tender. and was 1 transferred to the Jefferson. which Vas met going uth The injured girl died before reaching Juneau. The Jefferson steamed with all pos sible haste to the scene Of the wreck, reaching there at o'clock yesterday afternoon. and returning to this city last night with 46 passengers and G. Of the crew. One other passenger and three additional members of the crew arrived an honr later on the Admiralty. Four of the crew re ma ned at the scene of the wreck
 while one was sent t Petersburg
 The Jefferson made sound nes where the California went down, and ascertained the depth to be 20 fath- oms The wrecked vessel was brok- en in several places and sank so rapidly that the deck and all of he upper works , ere lifted off the ship by the rush of compressed air and water. Not a sign of the wreck was in 'eht when the Jefferson ar rived on the scene.
 Had the accident happened two h urs earlier the loss of life un- ioubtedly would have been much greater for all of the passengers would have been in their berths. Gambler bay Is small indenture n Admiralty island, which lies in Stephens passage in the Alexander archipelago, about sixty miles south of Juneau The bay has long been regarded as one of the most danger ous points on the coast, the entrance to the small enclosure being es- pecially hazardous.
 The State f California is the sec ond vessel to be lost by the Pacific Coast Steamship company this year the first being the Curacao. which vent on the rocks during the early part of the summer The California vas heavily laden with Alaska freight, none of which. it is thought. can be salyed.
 JUNEAU, Aug. 19-As nearly as can be f'gnrtd this morning, the number of lives lost in the wreck of the steamship State of California, which faundered Sunday morning in Gambler bay Is between 2S and g.. The lists show 67 passengers and a crew cf 76 at the time the vessel went down, of which number 115 were saved, leaving a loss of 2S. There is some discrepancy, however. between the names on the made-up lists and the names appearing among the saved. so that t is impossible 10 state exactly the number of lost. It is believed that the final count will show at least 30.
 No additional bodies have been re- already reported, seven have been identified, as follows Mrs. AL Birnbaum wife of the Ruby mer- chant Mrs. E. c. Ward and Miss Lila Ward, wife and daughter of the vice-president and ass stant manager of the Pacific Coast Steamhip con- pany, of Seattle; John Nanderlass and Mrs Nanderlass of Austin Tex as; Mrs. s. B. R;ordan, address un- known; Miss Blanche Fridd, of Valley City, N. D. The three uni identified bodies are those of women.
 The following passengers are miss ng: Mrs. C. F. Sputhill and 4-year- old daughter, bound for Skagway; Miss Lillie s. Norman, for Skagway; J. H. Holman. of Cornwall, England, and Frank Fuller enroute from Prince Rupert to Juneau; K. Gusta- vens. bound from Wrangell to Jun eau, The following missing passen- gers were tourists: Leslie F. Hobro, a clerk in the employ of the Pacific