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  1. The Night They Walked to an Indian Village: A Shipwreck Survivor’s Tale

    After the steamer *Port Gordon* smashed against rocks near Destruction Island, four men survived a nightmare of broken lines and drowning comrades by building a raft from hatches—and then walking ten miles through the brush.

    Mar 7, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerNeah Bay, Clallam CountyDisasters

  2. Two Seattle Shipmates and the Hurricane That Sank a Fleet

    Capt. D. Mullan and cigar-store owner L. S. Borchers, survivors of the 1889 Samoan cyclone, met in Seattle and remembered the Nipsic's escape.

    Feb 4, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerButler Hotel, Seattle, King CountyDisasters

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