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LOSSES AND DISASTERS 



The cannery of the Sunny Pomt Packing Co. at Charcoal Point 

 near Ketchikan was destroyed by fire on March 23, 1927, but was 

 rebuilt and ready for operation in June. The loss was reported to be 

 $207,000. The floatmg cannery that had been operated by Libby, 

 McNeill & Libby since 1924 was driven on the rocks near Ketchikan 

 during a heavy storm about the middle of March. The Quiet Har- 

 bor Fish Co.'s power vessel Iowa, valued at $2,000, was burned near 

 Ketchikan, and the seine boat Ruth, operated by P. A. Olson and 

 valued at $1,000, was lost. Other losses of fishing gear, fish, small 

 boats, and buildings in southeastern Alaska amounted to $34,905. 

 One fisherman was drowned and four shoresmen died of disease. 



Fig. 7. — Sluicing salmon from lighter at cannery, southeast Alaska 



In the central district the cannery building of the Northern Light 

 Packing Co. was damaged by ice, the loss being $3,000. Loss from 

 fire on the motor vessel Tokeh Lou, belonging to the same company, 

 amounted to $1,900. On April 20 fire broke out on the Crosby 

 Fisheries' floating salmon cannery Salmon King while it was docked 

 at Seattle, the damage amounting to $5,900. Repairs were made 

 immediately and the vessel returned to Zachar Bay, Kodiak Island, 

 the latter part of June. Losses of a scow, small boats, gear, and 

 fish, having a total value of $3,465, also were reported. Seventeen 

 lives were lost — 4 shoresmen by accident and 6 by disease, 3 fisher- 

 men by drowning, 3 by disease, and 1 by accident. 



In western Alaska Libby, McNeill & Libby's gas boat Nuten, valued 

 at $7,200, was destroyed by fire. Three fishing boats valued at $1,050 

 and gill nets and boat gear valued at $8,217 were lost. Eight shores- 



