The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-07
LAUNCH WRECKED;
 PASSENGERS PERISH
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launch.
 It was learned late on Saturday night that the launch with Harry de Young and Ed Clausen, which had left Fairbanks the same morn ing, had returned to Cinema and that they had nothing to report.
 MT. F. D. Browne, engineer in charge, got in touch with Fair banks on the phone and offered to cooperate in the search with the available floating equipment of the Alaskan Engineering commission. Captain George Green, of the steamer Reliance, which left Nenana for Fairbanks at about g o'clock Saturday night, was apprised of the disaster and said he would keep a lookout for the drifting launch and also for any signs of the missing passengers.
 , Several launches are reported to have left Fairbanks for the scene of the disaster, among them being the Siwash, Peerless and Victory. Resident Engineer Hawley w. Ster- ling, whose wife was a passenger on the Flyer, came into town about midnight on Saturday, immediately after he had been told of the dis aster and the Commission launch Sunbeam, fully equipped with grap- bling hooks, cable, grub and other necessary equipment for a thorough search, was placed at his disposal by MT. Browne. The Sunbeam sail ed yesterday morning for Hadley's camp with Hawley Sterling, who is in charge of the search party, Tom McKinnon, whose partner Charles Craig with his family was on board the Flyer, J. M. Burrows and Sher- win, who operates the launch. It is certain that Mir. Sterling will leave no stone unturned to find the pass engers if they are still alive, and to locate the launch and ascertain the fate of those on board if they are not found somewhere on the river bank.
 A report was in circulation in town late last night that the steamer Reliance had recovered a grip and bundle of bedding, the grip was said to belong to Mrs. Sterling. Re- ports were also current to the ef- feet that the Flyer had been To- cated in deep water and that the arrival of either the Shusana or Reliance was awaited to raise the launch, but none of these reports could be confirmed up to this morn ing. Further tidings from the several search parties are moment arily expected.
 i LATER NEWS
 i Resident Engineer Hawley W. Sterling arrived at Cinema from 12- mile bar this morning and reports having found note book belonging to George Coleman. A close search along the banks of the river failed to disclose any evidence of anybody landing from the ill-fated Flyer, and it is believed that the bodies are imprisoned in the hull of the boat. Mir. Sterling will return to the scene of operations after brief visit to the bereaved parents of his wife in Fairbanks.
 ;: Wallace Cathcart, who formed one of the search party which set out Saturday evening on the launch Siwash, returned to town this fore. noon. He stated that the Flyer evidently struck somewhere on the Emile bar and drifted down about four miles to the bar near Hadley's : camp. A vigorous search was made of both banks of the river for sev. : eral miles in the immediate neigh borhOod of the suDDoSed scene o1
 the accident, but no traces of any l one were found. The Flyer has moi : been located yet, and efforts to dc
 so are being continued.
 Tom Blaylock and Walter Fisher } left for Hadley's camp with wreck : ing outfit and explosives and vii institute a rigorous search for tht