The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-10-30
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CANADIAN q IFIC STEAMER "a
DRAGGEl 9 ROSS REEF IN A
STORM 8 NK IN CANAL.
NONE ON b ID: SAVED, q
s WIRELESS MESSAGE SAYS
MOST OF THE 26s PASSENGERS
WERE RETURNING TO STATES
AND CANADA FROM YUKON
TERRITORY, s.

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and forty-three persons, most of them
outbound Alaskan residents Of the
Yukon territory, lost their lives when
the Canadian Pacific; Steamship COM
pany's passenger;steamer Princess So
phia was battered last Thursday by
storm and dragged across Vanderbilt
reef. and dropped to the bottom Of
Lynn canal, an arm Of the inside pas
sage not far south Of Skagway, Alas
ka.
"No survivors," read a wireless mes
sage today from Jeneau, Alaska. s
Shipping men tonight said the loss
of the Sophia with all on board was
the worst marine disaster in the hs-
tory of the Pacific coast.
Passenger List Not Available. ;%
The vessel, 1920 tons gross, has
been playing in Western Canadian
and Southeastern Alaska waters.
Lists of passengers and details Of
the wreck was not available tonight.
E The vessel, it was thought, was carss
rying a capacity load of passengere.
nearly all Northerners, who hao italk.tt
en- the last steamboat up the YulkolllIs
river before the ice formed and had;
boarded the Sophia at Skagway. j j
The passengers were = among the
hundreds who left Alaska this fall rs;
spend the winter in the states land
Canada. They had come as fan u
White Horse by river boat and there
had boarded trains for the Alaskan
port. .5a M
Wednesday the heavily loaded So
riae. .llefk $SkaesnySfer Vancouver and
Victoria Not many htbdulrs out it ran
into one Of the first snowstoms Of the
year. Early Thursday, in the dark
storm, it ran hard aground on the
Vanderbilt reef. s:z,-,, -.
Distress calls were sent out and the
United States lighthouse tender Ce-
dar, the United States government
steamer Peterson. and several small
boats went to it's assistance.
When daylight came it was found
the boat was resting easy end the
weather was calm and IL was decided
not to remove the PASSENGERS. - W 9
Word was sent to Vancouver md the
wrecking steamer. Fees md the ca
madam Pacific railway 1ler Prin-
cess Alice were sent norf swreck-'
er to puse the Sophia and
the Alice to get it's pa1ss $
: Pounded Against a ~.
The storm sprang up Yesterday and
the wind whipped sdow the le1k mar.
row Lynn canal With hurricane force.
The Sophia, in :the@path Of the gale
was pounded against the rocks. s!:
On account Of the danger of strand-
ing, the nearby ships did not dare 10:
near it. Lifeboats were impossible,
although the shore was not: many,
yards away. ';&
Last night the. gale increased. III
fury, lifted the steamer up, dragged il;
across the reef and sent it to the bot
tom Of the canal. .5
Fate Told BY Wireless.
The only definite word from the
north regarding the wreck came today
when the Canadian wireless service
at victoria picked up the following
message from the United States wire.
less stationat Juneau. =
princess Sophia driven across reef
last night. No survivors. Seventy
five in crew, 26s passengers. EEvery-
thing possible was! done. Terrible
weather. prevailed =
Captain +. l. Locke was in charge
of the vessel. =. =