desc=Carrying 188 passengers, a crew of 88, and a cargo of 1,100 tons of general merchandise on a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska, the 3,488-gross register ton, 343 feet steamer began flooding after she struck a reef in Finlayson Channel on the coast of British Columbia, then sank quickly just before reaching Carter Bay when her boilers exploded after cold seawater reached them.