The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1902, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1902. STEAMSHP WALLA WALLA 15 STRUCK AND SUNK T all. ~ BY UNKNOWN BARK AND MANY LIVES ARE LOGT — SCENE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WALLA WALLA HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE FRENCH BARK Flfty Five of the Passengers and Sea-|; men of the Lost Vessel Are Not Accounted For. Captain and Crew Work Coolly in the Face of Death and Prevent Panic on Sinking Steamship. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. Jan. 3.—The|and plunge of the doomed steam- s ip Walla Walla.| ship, and in that time lifeboats one of the he t known of | and.rafts were lowered and most g between San Francisco and north of the passengers and crew were taken off. In the semi-panic that followed the crash, however, some jumped overboard and were lost. struck and sunk at‘\\hxle disaster overtook two of ck on Thursday morn- tthe small boats and many of their i 5 bark, be-yoccupams were drowned. Other J](\eu to be flying the I"rench\ passengers and seamen, injured la An interval of thirty-five|in the collision or overlooked in minutes elapsed between the time | the excitement, went down with of the collision and the last lurch | the ship. Out . of -an- estimated at the lies During a points, 1 of the Pacific. 4:10 O'c cnown George L. Field of Alameda. J. A. Gray. A. Kotzachnur and wife, - Mrs. Erickson. Charles Neff. / Dr. B. F. Allen and wife! _Mrs. L. Johnson. Chiet Officer P. Nilsen. Chief Engineer Geo. H. Crosby. Second Officer F. Lupp. Third Officer George Haldoon. Fourth Officer Cecil Brown. Purser E. L. Nuttman. Stewardess Mrs. Minna Reynolds, A. Holmes. S. Carlson. Jobhn Wilson.' John English. — total of 144 persons aboard—64 passengers znd 80 in'the crew— 55 have not been accounted for, and of that number at least half are known to have been drowned. The remainder of the missing - -are_on - two life -rafts ! THOSE WHO ARE STILL MISSING AND MAY BE VICTIMS OF WRECK PASSENGERS: L. M. Hanselman. ‘W. B. Moore, M. C. Marsh. H. Erickson and three children. J. Brown. D. Jones. F. McCrimmens. OFFICERS AND CREW: R. Somers. E. Johnson. R. Nelson. M. Haave. A. Johnson. W. B. Dorland. W. J. Bartel. J. Roony. G. Gove. D. Gallagher. J. Callaghan. F. Spencer. i M. Paperne. Drube, Nicholson. Hanson. . Lawson. aparre J. Connell. S. Murillo. Frank Reardon. John Sheil. P. Nausett. F. Rhode. Ed Reiss. I. Halloway. T, B. Williams. J. 0. Johnson. George Morrison. - which may. yet be sea. EIGHT BOATS ARE- LAUNCHED. Eight of.the Walla Walla’s ten boats were launched successfully, two being crushed by wreckage in the water. In-addition,: six rafts - were “thrown: —overboard. rlcked up at Some of the pagsengers and crew refused to go in the boats, believing it safe to remain on the;| ship. Four rafts and four boats, with their chilled occupants, were .picked up by the steam schconer Dispatch, and another in charge ardess, Mrs. ‘of thc thll’d engineer came ashore| children and: Craft That Is Responsible for the Dlsaster Sails Away Without Lending Aid to the Imperiled. lgnores an Appeal for Assistance and Makes No Attempt to Lie to and Lower Her Boats. at Trinidad this morning. Fromwomen went down with the ves- this boat seven were drowned inj sel. ‘Chief Engineer Crosby and making a landing through the Purser E. L. Nuttman are also surf. Another boat, containing | among the drowned. fourteen, was picked up by the| Just how the accident oe- tug Ranger this morning &t 11| | curred may never be known. Sec- o’clock. The remaining twojond Mate F. Lupp was on the boats came ashore to-night at|bridge in charge of the ship at Big Lagoon. They carried fif-|the tirhe, and he is believed to teen persons.. The missing: rafts | have perished. It is claimed that left the Walla Walla in charge of | the French bark displayed fo First Officer Nilson and Second‘l lights and that her proximity to Officer Lupp. the Walla Walla was unknown It is known that t}zc':tew- until she loomed up on’the Reynolds, several two-— unknown Continued on Page Three .-