SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 9.--The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company's steamer Premier was struck by the steam collier Williamette, in a dense fog off Whidby Island, about ten miles south of Port Townsend, yesterday afternoon. Four persons were killed and drowned, and seventeen badly wounded.
    The steam tug Goliah arrived here this morning with three of the dead, all of the wounded, and other passengers, after having spent several hours in an attempt to save from the wreck the body of an unknown passenger wedged in the wreck. The dead are:
    JOHANNES MOHE, of Tacoma.
    FRANK C. WWYNKOOP, son of D. J. Wynkoop, Tacoma.
    JOHN RANKIN, of Seattle.
    Unknown passenger, a man about forty years of age, still in the wreck.
    Unknown passenger, jumped overboard and was drowned.
    The injured are:
    GUS DAVIS, watchman, steamer Premier, ribs broken, seriously injured internally.
    THOMAS FORAN, Seattle, left leg broken at knee, arm hurt.
    W. H. PHILLIPS, Helena, both legs slightly crushed, ribs broken.
    D. J. WYNKOOP, Tacoma, cut about left eye, bruised.
    Mrs. D. J. WYNKOOP, Tacoma, hip bruised.
    C. S. GILBERT, traveling man, St. Paul, Minn., bruised and cut, not serious.
    Mrs. WILCOX, Quilcine, Wash., wrist and elbow sprained.
    E. W. VEST, St. Louis, Mo., badly bruised knee and arm.
    JOHN LYSLE, freight clerk of the Premier, nose cut, not serious.
    JACK LEVY, of the steamer Premier, badly cut and bruised. Had a miraculous escape from death.
    Mrs. IDA SUTTER, Sturgis, Dak., bruised.
    Mrs. GEORGE W. MILLER, Tacoma, injured slightly.
    E. L. LEE, Pontiac, Wash., slightly hurt.
    A. F. LINDBERG, injured internally.
    ALBAN LEIDHOLDT, waiter Premier, left arm broken and leg bruised.
    FRANCIS HUGHERT, Tacoma, slightly hurt.
    JACOB NELSON, Port Townsend, arm, chest, and legs hurt, not seriously.
    The Premier left Port Townsend about 1:30 yesterday for Seattle in a heavy fog, blowing her whistle continuously. When off Point No Point another whistle sounded close by, and almost immediately afterward a terrific crash was heard. The fore cabin of the Premier was smashed to splinters, and the prow of the Williamette was found jammed right into the bow of the Premier.
    The Williamette was laden with coal, and was on her way from Seattle to San Francisco. There were a number of men in the Premier's cabin, one of whom was killed, together with a boy. A steward, who was in the saloon eating his dinner, was instantly killed. Several other passengers were jammed in the debris, some of them seriously wounded and all more or less bruised.
    The prow of the Williamette was so deeply imbedded into the Premier that the passengers scrambled over broken woodwork and onto the collier. The women were handed up first, followed by the wounded, as fast as they could be moved. Men with broken limbs, and both men and women with bleeding faces and bodies, were helped up. It was soon seen to be impossible to draw off the Williamette without sinking the Premier, so Capt. Anderson determined to forge ahead, driving before him the steamer spiked on his bow. He forced her back on the beach, and was so tightly wedged that he could not back off without dragging the Premier with him.
    The tug Goliah, towing out a schooner, was hailed, and she took off the passengers, bearing them to Seattle, where they arrived about midnight. The receding tide left both stranded and still interlocked. It was feared that the bow of the Williamette was partly stove in. The whole affair was over in a few moments and the passengers were quickly recovered from their momentary shock and fright.
    One man, whose name was unknown, was crazed with fear and immediately sprang overboard.

Source:

Unknown, "Fatal Collision of Ships, The Canadian Pacific's Premier Struck by the Williamette," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Monday, 10 October, 1892, p. 1.