berger, John McLeod, W. A. Foster,
Alex McLeod, W. H. McDonald, Wal
ter Barnes, Mrs. C. J. Vifqutan, Mrs.
W. J. O’Brien and five children, E.
J. Johnson and wife, Mrs. Anna
Lenez, Geo. J. Baker, A. Campbell,
M. Steward, W. L. Idget, A. S. Win
kler, Mrs. J. Alexander, James Hag
gerty, P. Vint, C. E. Kilway, Capt.
J. P. Douglas, Mrs. W. S. Carr, Geo.
Hewey, H. Strain, J. W. Brown. D.
King, Geo. Shimada, J. J. Flanagan,
Mrs. M. Vary, Miss E. Vary, Arthur
Johnson, Sam Sorenson, P. Trucco,
Thomas J. Collins, J. King. Leo
Ryan, J. S. Smith, wife and two
children, C. S. Verrill, C. L. Queen,
W. Barton, N. McLeod and wife, H.
F. Robinson.
L. Heiner, Elmer Stltzel. Nlnto
Climento, H. Wrigle, R. Meston, C.
Nelson, Wm. Staples, Sam Brown, C.
C. Salt, J. L. Clay, Thomas Wishart,
M. Mover, P. McCaskey, O. H. Strupp,
C. C. Falres, E. A. Wendt, A. J.
Smith, N. Dobe, C. A. Paddock. C.
W Shiarlin and K. Tcuvi.
ONE JUNEAU MAN LOST
The only man from Gastlneau Channel
who was lost on the Princess Sophia was
John Fraser Pugh, collector ot customs for
Alaska. He is survived by his mother,
wife and daughter, and his sister, Mrs.
Robt. W. Jennings. The body of Mr.
Pugh was recovered Wednesday at Tree
Point, Douglas Island, and the burial
took place under the auspices of the Ma
sonic lodge.
FORMERLY HERE
Two Japanese boys who formerly work
ed at Treadwell were drowned in the
wreck. Their names appear on the pas
senger list and are George Shimada, for
merly a side-room cook at the Mexican
boarding house, and K. Tsuvl, who was a
waiter there. They both left here several
years ago and have been in the interior
of Alaska.
LETTER WHITEN BY SOLDIER TO
MOTHER, DAY AFTER WRECK
A letter written by Private A. W. Mc
Queen, Signal Corps, to his mother on
Friday, gives some of the details as fol:
lows:
“In the Lynn Canal off Skagway,
“10-26-18.
"Dear Mamma:
"The man who wrote 'On a Slow Train
Through Arkansas,’ could write a true
story of a ‘Slow Trip Through Alaska’ if
he had been with a party of a few soldiers.
We were sure making a slow trip. We
were on a Government steamer from Fort
Gibbon to Whitehorse and had no pilot
who knew the river, so had to tie up
nights, and at that got stuck on six sand
bars. We were nineteen days on that 11
day trip up the Yukon.
"Then at Skagway the stampede of peo
ple out of the Interior had got ahead of
us and we had to miss three boats and
only got on this one by good luck. Now,
this ship, the Princess Sophia, Is on a
rock and when we can get away Is a
question.
“It’s storming now, about a fifty-mile
wind, and we can only see a couple of
hundred yards on acount of the snow and
spray. At 3 a. m. yesterday she struck
a rock submereged at high tide, and for
awhile there was some excitement, but no
panic. Two women fainted and one of
them got herseif into a black evening
dress and didn’t worry over who saw her
putting it on. Some of the men, too, kept
life preservers on for an hour or so and
seemed to think there was no chance for
us. But we pased through the first real
danger point at high tide at 6 a. m.,
wnen it was tnougnt sne migni pounu
her bottom out cn the rocks and every
body settled down to wait for help. We
had three tug boats here in the afternoon
but the weather was too rough to trans
fer any passengers. The most critical
time, nobody but the ship’s officers, we
soldiers and a tew sailors amongst the
crew and passengers were told about it.
was at low tide at noon when the captain
and the chief officer figured she was
caught on the starboard bow and would
hang there while she settled on the port
side and astern. They were afraid she
would turn turtle, but the bow pounded
around and slipped until she settled into
a groove, well supported forward on both
sides. The wind ana tne sea irom Denina
pounded and pushed her until she is now,
thirty hours after, on the rock clear back
to the middle and we can’t get off.
"She is a double bottom boat and her
Inner hull is not penetrated, so here we
stick. She pounds some on a rising tide
and it is slow writing, but our only incon
venience is, so far, lack of water. The
main steam pipe got twisted off and we
were without lights last night, and have
run out of soft sugar. But the pipe Is
llxed so we are getting heat and lights now
and we still have lump sugar and water
for drinking.
"A lighthouse tender, big enough to
hold all the four hundred passengers, and
one big launch are standing by. And as
this storm quits we will be taken off and
make another lap to Juneau. I suppose
after three or four days there, we can go
to Seattle, Rfter I reckon we will be quar
antined, as there as six cases of Influ
enza aboard. The decks are all Icy, and