SHIPWRECK IN ALASKA

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1933, Page 6

SHIPWRECK IN ALASKA

BISHOP AND FIVE OTHERS drowned. DUTCH HARBOUR (Alaska) Feb. 13 Thirteen persons, including Bishop Antonin, of Vancouver, 8.C., ranking as Bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, lost their lives, belated reports here state, in a terrific mid-winter storm, in which the sixtyfoot vessel Umnak Native, sank near Uninak Island, in the Aleutians, on •January 24. Three natives were saved, but the others lost included the master, Captain Stankus, his wife and infant 'child. Captain Andrew Nelson, a Russian priest, Mike Tulakoss. It was a small wooden vessel only forty-seven tons capacity, and was making the trip between the trading points. DUTCH HARBOUR (Alaska), February 13. The Steamship Starr rejorted on Monday night that Bishop Antonin Pokrovsky, of the Russian Orthodox Church, was believed to be lost with twelve others in the wreck of the trading vessel Umnak Native. He teas found aliye on Umnak Island. A report says that natives visited the scene of the wreck and found that the Bishop had reached the beach with both his logs severely frozen. No word of the of hers who wore shipwrecked has been received. They are believed to be dead.