Arizona republican., 1918-10-28
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SEATTLE, Oct. 27-Rescue boats today swarmed Lynn canal near Skag- way, Alaska. seeking trace of the 34S Alaskans and Yukon territory residents. believed drowned when the Canadian Pacific Railway company's steamer, Princess Sophia. was sent to the bot tom of the canal by a storm Friday night. Wireless reports said ten un- identified bodies had been found up to late today.
 "No sign of life. No hope for any survivors" read a wireless message re- ceived today at the Canadian Pacific's Vancouver, B. C., office, from the United States lighthouse tender Cedar, which tried unsuccessfully to aid the Sophia before she went down, and which has been leading the search for survivors and bodies.
 The Cedar's message said nine bodies, eight of them women, were found to- day A wireless from the Cedar last night told of the finding of another body, that of woman. So far. no bodies have been identified. according to the 1 message.
 Four of the bodies found today were on one of the Sophia's collapsible life boats. Yesterday four empty lifeboats from the Sophia were found on beach.
 Try To Save Women and Children
 Marine men here interpreted the find | ing of the womens bodies and the col | lapsible lifeboats to mean that the So- phia's officers and crew endeavored to get the passengers off, probably just before the ship went down. A few hours before the sinking, Captain F. L. Locke. master of the Sophia. wirelessed 1 that the passengers were calm. He said nothing of intending to take to the boats.
 More than fifteen boats. small and large, were at the scene of the wreck today, according to Juneau. Alaska | cable dispatched to the Associated Press. In addition to the Cedar, the United States steamer Peterson, the gasoline schooner King and Wing. and a dozen or so small gas boats were securing the waters.
 Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Alaska probably arrived today at the scene of the wreck. A Juneau dispatch filed at midnight last night said the governor expected to board the Cana = dian Pacific steamer. Princess Alice when she touched Juneau today on her way to the canal.
 Princess Alice Goes to Help | | ne Alltt. Il SiSleT SnlD or the lOSl vessel was hurriedly dispatched north from Vancouver Thursday, when word came that the Sophia grounded early Thursday on the Vanderbilt reef in the canal during a snowstorm. while bound south through the Inside passage with a capacity load of Alaskans and Yukon territory residents, bound out to spend the winter in the states and Canada
 At first if was thought the Sophia would rest easy on the reef. until the Alice could arrive Sunday to take of the passengers.
 Barely had the Alice started on hei lrescue mission before a violent storm came up. The wind raced with hurri. cane force down the long, narrow cana and waves 90 feet high pounded the | Sophia against the rocks. making il impossible for the several vessel. which had answered her distress cal
 to get in close to help.
 Friday night the gale increased un.
 til it lifted the Sophia up. dragged hel across the reef and dropped her to tn,
 bottom of the black icy waters. A daybreak Saturday. the nearby vessel
 saw only the Sophia's masts juttinl
 from the surface. ''Not sole sur
 vivor." the Cedar wirelessed yesterday f Death came quickly to all aboard. de 1 spite the fact that the shore was but . few wards away
 { Worst Pacific Coast Disaster q The loss of the Sophia. it was sail Q here. was the worst marine disaster il Q the history of the Pacific coast. | | (Coutinued On pare Twal