By Telegraph to the Times.
    SEATTLE (Wash.,) Oct. 8.--[By the Associated Press.] The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company's steamer Premier was struck by the steam collier Willamette in a dense fog off Whidby Island, a few miles south of Port Townsend, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Four persons perished and seventeen were badly wounded.
    The steam tug Goliah arrived here at 12:30 a. m. with three of the dead, all of the wounded and the other passengers, after having spent several hours in an attempt to save from the wreck the body of an unknown passenger wedged there.
    The dead are: Johannas Moe of Tacoma, age 40, motorman on the electric line; Frank C. Wynkoop, 13 years old, son of D. J. Wynkoop of Tacoma; John Rankin, a waiter of Seattle, aged 25; an unknown passenger, a man about 40, in the wreck. An unknown passenger jumped overboard and was drowned.

Source:

Unknown, "A Steamer Sunk, Four Persons Perish and Many are Injured," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Saturday, 9 October 1892, p. 4.