DISASTERS AT SEA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 7

DISASTERS AT SEA.

ANOTHER STEAMER ASHQRE. ON VANCOUVER ISLAND. THE PASSENGERS RESCUED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received January 28, 8.10 a.m.) OTTAWA, 27th January. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamer Tees is ashore at Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island. The passengers were rescued. | The- Tees is a steel screw steamer of 679 tons, built in 1893 at Stockton She is fitted with electric light and wireless telegraphy. A local in The Post on Tuesday called attention to the exceptional number of casualties among steamers owned by, the great railway companies.] VESSEL SUNK. TOUCHED GROUND IN A SNOWSTORM. BOATLOAD OF PASSENGERS MISSING. NEW YORK, 27th January. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamer Cottage City (1885 tons gross, built in 1890), while bound from Seattle to Skagway, grounded at Capo Mudge, in British Columbia, in a blinding snowstorm. The passengers escaped in the boats before the vessel sank, and were landed at the lighthouse. One boatload is missing, and it is feared that it has met with disaster. STEAMER EASTERN. ATTEMPT AT REFLOATING FAILS. .VESSEL'S POSITION SERIOUS. (Received January 28, 9.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Another unsuccessful attempt has been made to refloat the steamer Eastern, which is ashore at Salamander Bank. The vessel's position is now more serious. The passengers have landed, and are proceeding on their journey by train. Tons of rice have been jettisoned.