Six Fatalities.
SIX FATALITIES.
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Terrific Collision Between Steamer Pre-
mier and Willamette.
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 10.--The tug Goliah brings news of a terrific collision between the steam collier Willamette and the Canadian Pacific Navigation company's steamer Premier. Five persons are dead as the result of the accident and almost a score of others are badly hurt. The accident occurred off Whidby Island, about ten miles south of Port Townsend on Saturday afternoon during a thick fog. The vessels were going in opposite directions when the crash came.
The Fatalities.
FRANK C. WYNCOOP of Tacoma.
JOHANNAS MOE of Tacoma.
JOHN RANKIN of Seattle.
GUS DAVIS, watchman, ribs broken, injured internally; will die.
Unknown passenger, man about 40 years.
Unknown passenger, jumped overboard and was drowned.
Source:
Unknown, "Six Fatalities," Greeley Tribune, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, Monday, 13 October, 1892, Page 6.
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