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Las Vegas Daily Optic
Las Vegas, San Miguel County, New Mexico
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Twelve members of the Columbia Exploration Company are believed lost in a wreck on the Kuskowim River, Alaska, on July 2; further details report 18 persons on the steamer Jessie lost in a storm on July 28. News received in Seattle on Aug. 10.
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SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 10.—Twelve members of the Columbia Exploration Company, according to the advices received by the Alaska Commercial Co. at San Francisco, are supposed to have been wrecked July 2nd, in Kuskowim river, Alaska. They are Captain J. F. Murphy, Bowling Green, Ky.; Robert P. Frierson, Gallatin, Tenn.; Wm. T. Payton, Gallatin, Tenn.; Doc. Allen, Kentucky; Eli Knudsen, Genesee, Idaho; Engr. Kusler, Milwaukee; Smallhouse, Louisville, Ky.; E. S. Lines, Seattle; O. A. Airud, Redmond, Wash.; H. Clifford Hare, residence unknown.
The party sailed from here May 31.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 10.—Further details state that there were eighteen persons on the river steamer, Jessie, of the Columbian Exploration Company, which foundered in Kuskowim river, Alaska, during the severe storm July 28. It is thought all were lost. The news of the disaster was brought to the headquarters of the Alaska Commercial Company by Indians.
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Kuskowim River, Alaska
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July 2nd And July 28
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twelve members supposed wrecked july 2nd; eighteen persons on steamer jessie thought all lost july 28 during severe storm
Event Details
Twelve members of Columbia Exploration Company sailed from Seattle May 31, supposed wrecked July 2nd in Kuskowim river per advices to Alaska Commercial Co.; further details: eighteen on river steamer Jessie of Columbian Exploration Company foundered July 28 in severe storm, all lost, news brought by Indians