Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — ALASKAN VESSEL SINKS [ARTICLE]

ALASKAN VESSEL SINKS

Princess May Strikes Rock and Goes to the Bottom. The big Canadian steamer Princess May, carrying 100 passengers, struc v a rock in Lynn canal north of Juneau and sank. All the passengers and crew reached shore. The vessel struck in a dense fog. There was no panic. The sea was perfectly smooth at the time. The Princess May, which runs regu larly between Skagway and Vancouver left the Alaskan port with 100 passengers and a crew of sixty-eight. Among the passengers were many tourists, who a‘re making the journeythrough the canals of the Alaskan coast and were on the way home.

iA dense' fog settled over the coast and ;the steamer proceeded cautiously under the slow bell, through a sea on which there was scarcely a ripple. Lynn canal .contains a number of islands, low and wooded reefs and hid den rocks on the Sentinel Islands. One of these the steamer struck.