Aground in Juan de Fuca Strait but Refloated Vietoria,-B. C., Oot. 13.
The Canedian Pacific liner the Empress of Canada, from Scotland to Vancouver via the Panama Canal, ran on the rocks"in Homers Bay, strait of Juan de Fuca, last evening daring a heavy for.
'The passengers have been safely landed, but the ship is hard aground, The' strait of Juan de Fuca, which is 83 miles in length and 12 miles wide, separates Vancouver Island from the state of Washington, The local C.P.R, office has no information than Is contained in the above message. The Strai do Fuca is a treacherous mers been in difficulties at various times, the locality being notorious for fogs and awkward currents-—Reuter.
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