The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1902, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRA CISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4. 190% s MEAGER NEWS AECEIVED IN TH CITY FILLS THE FAIENDS AND FAMIES OF PASSENGERS AND CREW OF THE WALLA WALLA WITH DREADFUL ANXIETY FEAR FELT FOR THOSE. ON VESSEL - Meager News Is Re- ceived by the Company, Goodal, Perking & 0o, Unable 10 Give IHWH. IGHT upon the heels of a ferry-boat sinking, 2 railroad wreck and a fa- 1al street car collision eomes the news of the wreck of the steamship Walla Walla. At the best the in- ion received in this city yes- afternoon from telegraphic sources was meager and most unsatisfy- ing. | tself was enveloped in a fog when the report first ar- x Crowds gathered around the bulle- tin boards, eager for news that could not furnished. Men whose friends sailed last Wednesday on the ill-fated ship be- d the of the Pacific Coast ny or kept hallooing rough a telephone trumpet in order to The tension of IrrinnA REYNOLDS office he facts and details of the wreck received here told but a small | i e entire story. | , president of the Pacific ship Company, first learned 1 ’1: of the Walla Walia wheu his office, shortly after 9§ sterday morning. He was then elegram from the company’s reka_containing the simple e Walla Walla had been sunk iron ship and that ers of the crew had arrived at Eu- | | | was much concerned over | | ‘Our information,” he said, ly meager, and it is impossible yw many lives were lost ght first-class and ass passengers, and crew, making a total board.” Of Captain Hall, s only of commendation. t t sec There Were twenty-elg o & SECOND ASST ENGINEER BT POTTER. first sea misfortune,” he said, tmost confidence in him.” yn as a mariner and tion in_his voca- ely chief officer of master of the Coos Bay and | being invested with Walla Walla. His vas the command- her voyage north when roke down and drifted for days in bad weather, finally landing on the Alaska coast miles out of her route. Drube, for the past two vears, ducted a_ barber shop at 708 McAll street 8nd a month ago sold out to Jacob Holcenberg, having determined to try h fortune in Seattle. Mrs. Drube wa taking lunch with her son Herman yesterday afternoon when Elmer, the second son, rushed in w ing and broke the news of the disas to the family. The unhappy woman's vlarmed and sought the assistance of GRIEF COMES INTO HOMES OF THE LOST ZLouis Herman Drube and Len Han- | selmann of This City Are Among Those Not Ac- counted For. Herman Drube, who resided at y avenue with his wife and three | not in the boat that reached | whateyer comfort was under such circumstances. The passenger lst*of the Walla Walla bears the names of A. Kotzschnur and wife, who were bound for Tacoma. Th! is belleved to be an error, the name proh- possible ond assistant engineer of the internal rev- | enue cutter Manning, now stationed at | Tacoma. Inquiry at the office of the United States revenue cutter service last night devel- oped that Kotzschmar was appointed to the service in 1895 and that he was grant- ed a leave of absence several weeks ago. He came to this city with his wife and for some time has been staying at Sausa- jito. His leave was about to expire Tie e + @ | he determined to retyrn to his post on t e . | Walla Walla. The couple are counted Stops (e Cough | among the missing. And works off the Laxatt Bromo | Lennte M. Hanselmann, drummer for cold. ne_ Tableis cure a cold In one day, No Pay. Price 25 cents. the Cleveland Faucet Company, 202 Eliis No w. street, i8 among the missing. He was Cure. grief was so intense that the sons were | kindly neighbors to come and give her | ably being Herman Kotzschmar Jr., see- | lector and bookkeeper. [ ost | him. | Walla Walla's passenger list, mercial traveler for C. wholesale dealer in linens. Field sailed on his_regular business trips. could. husband is not drowned. an accident quickly. |N ow and 38 years of age. vears, respectively, old. in Victoria, B. C. con- | connected with the Olympic Club for a | number of years in the capacity of col- | He is an unmar- ried man and resided with his ‘brother’s family at 1809 O'Farrell street. P sen, who lived at 263 Collingwood | street with his wife and two little | daughters, is belleved to be among the His' wife has heard nothing from George L. Field, whose name is on the is a | ried and his wife_is prostrated at their | home, 2250 Buena Vista avenue, Alameda. the Walla Walla on Wednesday bound for Seattle on one oI Not a word had reached Mrs. Field at | a late hour last night concerning her hus- band. The suspense was very trying. The wife kept up her courage as long as s “I feel sure,” she said, “that my He must have | been among the saved, for heewas strong and active and could get around in such Mrs. Minna Reynolds, stewardess of the Walla Walla, until a year ago made her home in Alameda with the family of A. N. Vogel, 2163 Clinton avenue.- Shi v She leaves three children, two girls, aged 11 and 12 and a son, 10 years They are now in a private school e was a CHIEF OFFICER P.NLLSEN | | com- a | | | | | | - =T o — [y — | - — = o —— e — - — BORE A OO0 i | PASSENGER LIST AND THE ROSTER OF OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE FOR VICTORIA. Mrs. J. Johnson. 2. F. Adams. L.'M. Hanselman. Vrs. Hastings. W. Duhler. . Nevins. FOR VANCOUV Brown and wife. r«. R. S. Edgar. . B. Moore. FOR ALASKA. C. R. West. A. B. Maclellan. FOR SEATTLE. A. Meydenbauer. J. Roberts. F. | Miss G. Cadien. | = Miss R. E. Peters Miss Williams. Haight. D. Stern and wife. OFFICERS AND CREW. F. L. Smith. . W. P. Sanderson. Captain A, L. Hall. = Chief Officer P. Nilsen. . C. Marsh. 3 C. Devmmpes. Second Ofiicer F. Lupp. D. Larson. Third Officer George Haldoon. g e R i . PN Fourth Officer Cecil Brown. | children. Purser E, L. Nuttman. 3. Brows. Chief Engineer Geo. H. Crosby. | First Assistant Engineer J. A. | D. Jones. A s it Second Assistant B. F. Potter. ¥. DeMar. 3 Third Assistant C. Brown. - ol Stewardess Mrs. M. Reynolds. 21 Freight Clerk D. Hogan. . F. Spencer. e n D. Boynan. Assistan reight Clerk H. Haughmont. M. Papernc . Helgeson. John Wilson. J. W. Etteshank. John English. MeC. Lingan. N. Somers. J. Thornton. Y M. Nilson. E. Johnson. H. Weaver. FOR TACOMA, John Gilbert. T. W. Stream, wife and mother. ¥, Allen and wife, A. Johnson. C. Machio. C. Johnson, P. Harold. W. B. Dorland. ¥, Haughmont. James Nagle. A. Orremo. R. Wood J. McCallam. M. Manning. John Flannagan. P. Noonan. W. Kelleher. W. Bartel. J. Roony. G. Gore. A. R. Murphy. D. Gallagher. E. Alexander. D. Patton. W. Goldsmith. Peler Schofield. M. Hariey. M. Callnhan. J. Connell. George Shivers. H. Harries. S. Williamson, ¥, S. Marshall, F. Larrabaster. S. Murillo. . Searle. rani Reardon. Henry Rehm. John Shefl. . Molloway. - Chapman. . Gibson. 8. Willlams. J. 0. Johnyo ‘H. L. Furma: George Morris: ILL-STARRED WALLA WALLA "‘“"—————-l- ~ REPUTATION Collier at First, Then Rebuilt to Cay Pagqqggrs. HE Walla Walla had done much coast service in her day. She was built a collley in 1381 at Chester, Pa., by John Roach & Son for the Pa- | cific Coast Steamship Company. For eeven years she fiaed betweer: Puget Sound ports and this city, and was then converfed at the Union Iron ‘Works into a passenger steamer. The al- terations™cost $175,000. As a collier the Walla Walla met with a single accident, running ashore once in the Sound. As a passenger boat she rode i the seas safely until the awful disaster ————— e ADVERTISEMENTS. ' Rheumatism What is the use of telling the rheumatic | that he feels ay l’ his joints were being dis- located ? © He knows fhat his sufferings are very much like the tortures of the rack. What he wante to know is what will per- manently cure his disease. That, according to thousands of grateful testimonials, s | Hood’s Sarsaparilla' | It promptly neutralizes the acid in the blood on which the disease depends, com= pletely eliminates it, and strengthens the system against its return. Try Hood’s. | of Thursday morning. She was licensed to carry 469 passengers, and had ten life- boats and five life rafts. As a passenger | steamer she was unusually comfortable, | well arranged and much favored by ocean | traffickers. | The owners value the lost vessel.at $250,- | 000, and will reccver part in insurance. | She was en route to Seattle and carried a | cargo consigned to British Columbia. The value of the cargo, apportioned according to destination, was as follow: To British Columbia, $7361; to Montreal, | $7834; to Melbourne, $1860; to Curlew, Wash., | $1723; to"Nelson, §2483. i The carge included produce and mer- | chandise as followa: 74,130 1bs malt, 7375 Ibs raisins, 4475 Ibs but- ter, 1000 feet lumber, 15 pkgs arms and ammu. nition, 25 cs paste, 20,014 Ibs oil cake, 2064 1bs oil cake meal, 5 cs canned fruit, 5000 lbs evaporated fruit, 199 pkgs fresh fruit, 39 pkgs fresh vegetables, 46 bdls fron, 19 bdls steel, 14 kegs rivets, 217 Ibs ham: cyls ammonia, 1'_'50 1bs_tobacco, 10 cs honey, 10 pkgs drugs, | 27 plgs Jubricating ofl, 280 Ibe’shrimps, 30 Ibs | millstuffs, 20 bdls wire, § pkgs varnish, 1 cs — + | ' 3 THE ILL-FATED STEAMSHIP AND PART OF HER STAFF OF OFFICERS, SOME OF WHOM ARE MISSING AND PROBABLY LOST, AND THE STEWARDESS, WHO ALSO IS NOT AMONG THOSE. REPORTED AS SURVIVORS OF THE DISASTER, ) St 2 — ary goods, 102 gals wine, 2105 pigs of lead and 12950 1bs’ hops. ek e STEAMSHIP GOES DOWN WATH WHISTLE BLOWING Engineer Remains at His Post and Signals Sound as Walla Walla . Sinks Beneath the Sea. EUREKA, Jan. 3—One engineer, at least, perished at his post on the Walla | Walla, and the wrecked vessel went down with her whistles blowing. According to rescued passengers, shortly before the Walla Walla_began to settle a series of blasts came from the whistle. That some man was still at his post is certain, for the blasts varied in length, showing that some man was at the whistle cord and intended them as signals. Just as the Walla Walla plunged downward there were two short blasts and one long one, the latter ending only when the vessel dis- A. B. Maclellan, San Francisco. Mrs. C. Hastings, Victoria. Joseph Roberts, San Francisco. Miss Gertrude A. Cadien, San Francisco. Mrs. R. S. Edgar, San Jose. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller, attle. Mirs. J. L. Timmons, Dawson. C. F. Swan. Mrs. A. T, Shovan. Daniel Boynan. Miss Willinms, Vietori Charles R. West, San Franeisco. ‘W. P. Sanderson, San Francisco. F. W. Daly, Everett, Wash. Se- Captain’ Andrew L. Hall. J. A. Reed, first assistant engi- neer. - Charles Brown, third assistant engineer. D. Hogan, cler H. Hadghmont, xecond clerk. George Shivers, second steward. P. Harold, water tender. Jamex Nagle, oiler. F. Haughmont, oiler. M. Manning, fireman. P. G. Good, fireman. McC. Lingan, quartermaster. J. Thornton, sailor. 0. Olson, carpenter. J. Baumgarten, deekboy. THOSE KNOWN TO HAVE REACHE AT COAST POINTS NEAR SCENE OF WRECK appeared beneath the sea. —_———— PASSENGERS: Theodore Haight, Los Angel Dr. E. F. Adams, San Franecise Albert Meydenbauer, Lakeport. John Gilbert, San Franecisco, A. H. Sell. Mrs. A. F. Stream, Tacoma. Captain John Gilbert, San Fran- eisco. D. Stern and wife. Mrs. A. Meydenbauer. M Rose Peters, F. M. Smith. T. W. Stream and wife, Tacoma. J. H. Brown and wife. D. Larson, Sam Franeisco. ‘G. Helgeson, ‘ OFFICERS AND CREW: P. Abramson, sailor. 0. Johnson, sailor. - Paul Wissig, deckboy. S. Williamson, bartender, H. L. Freeman, waiter. Chapman, waiter. Searle, waiter. Peters, deckhand. . Machio, deckhand. George Reiss, waiter. E. Gibson, waiter. Henry Rehm, waiter. Frank Larrabasters, waiter. Andrew Orrego, fireman. J. W, Etteshank, quartermaster. H. Harris, steerage steward. Ed Marshall, eook. ETS WORD FROM HALL ON WRECK Sleanship Capain Wires Home Office. Fals Rected Briefly in Telegram From Eureka, LR P BOUT half past 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Pacific Coast Steam- ship Company received the following dispatch from Captain Hall: EUREKA, Cal.. Jan. 8, 1902 anuary 2, 4:35 a. m., wind southeast, h-Jzy. fron bark collided with Walla Walla. No. 2 hatch cut to combings and 3 feet below waterline. Ordered boats and lifs rafts launched. Port boilers blown down. Pumps working wher' ship foundered 4:50 a. m. Ship listed and lurched forward, sinking bow first. Second officer on watch. Officers stood by ship saving passengers until ship went down. Saved: Crew—Captain Hall, - Clerk Hogan, Clerk Haughmont, First Engineer Reed, Sec- ond Steward Shivers, P. Harold, J. Nagle, ¥ Haughmont, M. Mannipg. ¥ Flannagan. Schofield, A. Murphy, D. Patton, P. Woods P Gocd, M. Hurley, A. Orregod, W. Goid smith, P. Noonan, J. Thornton, O. O ‘Abramson, J. Peters, 8. Williamson, H. L. Reiss, E. Gibson, H. Rehin, Harrls, W. Etteshank. Reported Jlanded at Trinidad—Engineer Brown, E. Marshall, C. Warhouse, J. McCullen, W. Shinn, W. O'Leary, W. B. Smith. Passengers here—Mrs. C. Hastings, Williams, A. B. Maclellan, Mrs. R. F. gar, J. Miller and wife, J. Roberts, Mrs. dien, Mrs. J. L. Timmons, C. R. West, W. P. Sanderson, F. W. Daley, Theodore Halght, Dr. E. F. Adams, A. Meydenbauer, J. Gilbert, J. A. Sell, E. Stern and wife, Mrs. Meydenbauer, Miss Peters, F. L. M. Smith, F. W. Stream and wife, Mrs. A. F. Stream, J. H. Brown and wife, Miss Milligan, J. P. Farmlle. Sec- ond_class—C. rsen, G. Helgeson, V. Tara, R. Nevins, W. D. Miiler, H. C. Wiison, C. H. Smith, S. N. Leperine, J. Carmen, F. De Witt. Others reported on beach. BRIDE AND GROOM RESCUED. T. W. Stream of Tacoma and His Wife Are Saved From Wreck. In the list of those who were rescucd from the Walla Walla appear the names of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Stream, a promi- nent young Tacoma business man and his bride, who were, wedded in this city o the 3ist of Deceniber. The bride was Miss Leonore Kelley, daughter of Mrs. J. J. Kelley of 589 Haight street. The young couple were on their way to the groom's home in Tacoma. They were accompanied by the groom's mother, Mrs. A. T, Stream, wife of Captain A. T. Stream of the Tacoma Ship Building Yards. The intelligence that the ship which was earrying the young couple and Mrs. A. T. 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