Swept from stem to stern by mountainous, wind-lashed arctic seas, with her weary crew bravely fight jing @ losing battle against a shift. jing deck load of huge logs, the [Shanghai bound Japanese freighter f Yonan Maru, suddenly foundered recently inthe stormy Aleutian Bight in the midst of a frantic call for sid, "according to [details of the disaster which were received here on November 14
Not a man of her crew of fifty remains alive to tell the story of the vessel's despairing fight against Joverwhelming odds. Nevertheless, Jo graphic picture of those tense hours on the doomed ship lean be pieced together from final messages sent out to rescue: ing craft a few hours away, steam. ting with forced draught, to her assistance. When the Dollar liner! President Jefferson, which was the nearest steamer on the broad Pacific to the Yonan Maru, arrived Jog the acone nothing could be found afloat but a few great logs, tossing about, in the barren heaving seat Joined later by the Taigen' Maru fand "Ayaha Maro, which had also received the final calls from the lost vessel, the Dollar liner cruised back and forth until night closed down and" made farther search useless. She then turned. on her: [course and resumed her voyage to Seattle, the passengers" abroad silent and thoughtful in the face of this latest tragedy of the seas.
Carrying 8,000 tons of wheat in her holds. and 1,000,000. "feet logs and lumber on deck, the Yonan Maru, with a crew of fifty officers fand then, early Inst month put out
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