STEAMER ASHORE
PANIC AMONG PASSENGERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. VANCOUVER, July 7. Tho steamer Santa Rosa, with 290 passengers, is aground. All the passengers are safe. There was a panic when tho vessel struck, and many women and children wanted to jump overboard. FOUR LIVES LOST. PROBABLY A TOTAL WRECK. (Received July 9, 5.5 pjn.) NEW YORK, July 8. The second officer and three of the crew of the wrecked steamer Santa Rosa were drowned while attempting to put a lino ashore. Tho passengers were rescued. The vessel will probably become a total wreck. ADD INDUSTRIAL WAR— Follow Demonstration by Dock Wives (Received July 10, 0.25 a_m.) NEW YORK, July 9. It is reported that fourteen sailors lost their lives in atempting to get ashore from the Santa Rosa wreck. Tho Santa Itosa is an iron screw steamer of 2417 tons gross/ built at Philadelphia, in 1834, owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, and registered at San Francisco.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 1
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