Passengers :

R. Carr, Mrs H. Lush, Miss Mary Browning, Miss H. DeBeck, Miss L. DeBeck, Mrs. Wm. Bell, G. DeBeck wife and child, Walter Powell, Mrs. M.A. Colingridge, A.S. Pinkham, C.W. Moore, Captain Leonard Smith, Mrs. McKinney and son, Mrs. J. Sutton and child, Mrs. Jessop, Miss L. Cushman, Miss M.A. Cushman, Miss A. Cushman, S.N. Percival, wife and 3 children, J. Lightner, Mrs. Gay and 2 children, D. Turner, W.F. & Co's messanger and 18 others.

Captain Winsor - direct from San Francisco - just one week ,by reason of fog-arrived yesterday afternoon . On Wednesday night, off Cape Flattery came in Collison with a vessel name unknown, sustaining a shock which stripped a little of the steamers stem but did not afterwards see or hear anything of the vessel althoguh keeping a look out for some time. The Delnorte brings 50 passengers and 250 tons of general merchandise for this port and about 180 tons for the sound and Fort Wrangel together. From Capt. Winsor we further learn the fog was so intense at San Francisco when the Del Norte left that on seinging from the wharf the city could not be seen except the strets immediatley ajacent.The only land seen on the trip was Lime Point near San Francisco .The Del Norte would have been in on Thursday evening but so completely was every point of land obscured as she came up the Straits that she was run across the American side of the border an anchored for the night.

"The Del Norte was a 190 foot steam-powered sidewheeler. She left Nanaimo on the morning of October 21, 1868, bound for Victoria with a load of coal. As she started into the pass, the captain became worried about the heavy fog that was building in the strait and decided to back the ship out of the pass because he didn't have enough room to turn her around. The tide caught the stern end of the Del Norte and carried her onto the rocks off Canoe Island. There were a couple of attempts to refloat her, but they failed. A month later, a storm blew in and swept her off the rocks and into deep off Canoe Reef." Piles of coal, her boiler, engine parts and the spokes of one of her side-wheels are still visible in 85 feet of water.

It is again our unpleasant duty to record a marine disaster in our waters which cannot but be regarded as extremely unfortunate to all concerned . From the particulars as given by Mr. Turner Wells and Fargo's Co's Agent who was on board it appears that no blame can attach to anyone. The Del Norte left Nanaimo on her return from the North to Victoria at 7 o'clock last Thursday morning and made for Portier Pass channel which she entered about 9 O'clock on entering the Pass the weather was quite clear but no sooner had she entered than dense fog almost instantaniously enveloped her, so that Captain Winsor not thinking it prudent to proceed and not having room to turn his vessel around commenced backing her out into the Gulf and it was while attempting this that she was carried by the current, not withstanding all eforts to keep her off stern on onto the Canoe reef. On striking there was not too much damage done beyond displacing the rudder and knocking away a portion of her false ? keel, her coal was immediatly put forward to lighten the stern her bow anchoir run out in 18 fathoms of water her cables haw and taut and in this condition she lay snug and comfortable until 2 o'clock the following morning no doubt being entertained up to that time that she would be all right at the next ensueing high tide. Shortly after that time the tide as quite down and the vessels stern was left high and dry, when she suddenly took a sheer over onto her starboard bilge putting forward guards underwater and breaking her stern-post. In the meantime Captain Winsor had commenced building a bulkhead to confine water to the stern, but the tide rising again it rushed through the bottom of the vessel and drove the men out so that nothing more could be done. At daylight the passengers Mr. W.K. Bull and three children, Sgt. Barr, wife and three children were put on shore together with all the ships stores provisions, furniture and personal luggage of the crew. In the interval Capt. Clark of Sir James Douglas received a message at Nanaimo to repair to the wreck which he did at once but was unable to render any assistance and brought no other passenger down than Mr. Turner. On that gentlemen leaving the Del Norte she was making water fast the water being up to the furnace doors, "rest of article cut off"