The New York Times, December 30, 1900
New York, New York, USA
MAIL STEAMER LOST.
The Tilamook of San Francisco Believed to Have Gone Down.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—A dispatch from Seattle, Washington, says: The steamers Bertha and Dolphin arrived from Southwestern Alaska last night with news tending to sustain the belief that the United States mail steamer Tilamook of San Francisco, so long overdue from Dutch Harbor, is lost, and information to the effect that the steamer City of Topeka, which piled up on the rocks of Sullivan Island, Lynn Canal, three weeks ago, will be floated and saved.