The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1902, Page 4

JANUARY 6, 1902. ; THRILLING TALES OF RESCUE BY SURVIVORS S - | FIRS. R. 5. EDGAR OF SAN JOSE, WHO WAS INJURED IN THE WALLA WALLA WRECK, AWAITING REMOVAL FROM STEAMER POTONA. | WOMAN TELLS OF FIVE MRS R. S. EDGAR SAYS CAPTAIN SAYS LEN M. HANSELMAN HOURS OF AGONY AT SEA HALL’S ORDERS WERE DISOBEVYED PLUNGED TO HIS DEATH Deliberately Completes Her Toilet After. Being|Occupants of a Life Boat Vote on the Course to Be Pursued and Rescue| Theodore Haight Positive Man Reported Missing Warned That the Walla Walla Comes After Much Mental ‘Anguish and Intense Physical Jumped From Steamer’s Rail as Is Sinking. Suffering Have Wracked Men and Women. She Sank. e 3 ; - RE HA: n- | was below an £ he : RE. J. L. TIMMONS is one of | given dry clothing. I attired myself in IKE many another of the passen- | ness and severity and howled as though | and give their clothing, but every one of Hé:e]OeEO‘ o Las A | et ot -3 g R A e gveralls ahd a m SostshR ant Ao gers on the Walla Walla Mrs. R. | fiendishly mocking the thunderous sea. {he gurvivors was placed in bed. the Tated Walla Walla, Is positive | Nim and went down the ladder. & mor L’t_!((kmg to nurse some of the exhaustes | S. Edgar was awake at the time The Lights Disappear. b%g);e%l:;;z:;‘g: )Smd lt::?nwvivlzl‘mee»ér . th;( Vg "Len”‘ M ‘;lanse' | above me trod on my fingers as they “Too much . praise cannot be given to | of the terrific and De"‘?"“{)"g The lights were now lost entirely. The | forgotten, After the rescue she kept on man of this city, who is reported Ded. e 10> Ind el tham Captain Johnson of the Dispatch and td crash; Indeed she had arisen but | hoat had lost its course in the mist and | the: search ‘the rest of thn day, picking among the missing, jump into Walla Walla 1 saw Hanesiaas 0 reka, who did all in their a moment before to look from | there was nothing to do but to await the up rafts and boats and poor, exhausted, the water and drown, just as p from the steamer’s rail and plunge gdminister to our comfort. The her window. There was no fog | coming of the day. The sailors gave sonfe | semi-consclous souls. g3 - nge ¢ of of which my husband is | a member, rd of my distress ang as- | (€N, though the early part of the night | Slight hope by the declaration that they ione Captain Hall, - headlc into the wat It was 4 o'clock in the afterncon when | the vessel went to the bottom. Mr. Halght | heaciong the spot Tor two sisted 4me in ing sort i a | Steamer sank. I watched the Spot for twe d o ; there had been a mist, It was alternately | efo ton miles from ehore, but how sqon | a small raft was sighted bearing four | IS traveling salesman for the Californja | Steamer sankc I wate I do not think that and oy OrSUitoo, behaved like a hero, but the look- | clear and misty and ralny. That much | (Pat gleam of brightness yas dispelled | men. The excitement was too great, the | Ink Company and was on his way to Se- he came to the surface. - We Aroy et thought w had struck a rock. | out man on the Walla Walla came in for | Mrs. Edgar Is sare of bulybeyond doubt, | Srder o jasd e R i Tae s e LTI HAT Diated reseney | 4ttle on business. He returned yesterday | then and I could see no more. 7y o 0 4 unfavor: iticts; y ; = 2 . ; v n the exhausted rescue en- | ‘““There were fifteen ‘ 1 arose opening my room door | Unfavorable criticism from the paseen.| she asserts, a miniite preceding the occur- | distance of twoaky wilas 1o get. sataly | Litense find rest, and when the Dispatcn | OF theé Pomona and went to bk sl g £ L B LT ST Tt on ot saw the receding the breacn | Eers for not giving the right %n:)?g(e};{ rence it was clear, quite clear. And that | Within the bar. Twenty miles' Tide over | neared the raft they were mostly e cn ot o o gl S aine Warday nearly capsized several times. We passeq she had Stea ¢ heguld | rested 1 swill join my husband in Dawson, | Point may be of inestimable importance in T Tromiatny o ok ARETY LDl St o, rae aowie ffi;s‘z"ffij‘;g}i “I had retired to my berth and the im- | a drifting raft, empty, and securing it R gty o i B 7 for which place I had started. future investigation. gver them and mercilessly drenching and | was reached, and to the relief and happi. | Pact of the two vessels evidently woke me | transferred seven people to it, leaving us that her bow was very high. Mrs. Timmins is registered at the Lick No sooner had she realized that possibly battering them! o AR askes gentleman standing near me | a Irs. J. L. Timmons—Middle of the p ness of all those people they ide; up. I realized that something was wrong there was danger from the collision than | At last the night clouds passed and the | their captaln, Andrew L. Hall jofincd | and hastily put on a few clothes and ran George, the captain’s gervant, dashed in |SUn peeped from apertured in the leaden Swan was one of gur orethought in_secur- d he told | Sea was s e. I decided that.I would rious 2 ) ] s ky saved the lifa of at certainly and almost unconsclous. bug | Ut on deck. My first thought was to ses ky st lifa of 4 ded assistance, but te woman. whao wauld her door and warned her to dress. Putting | Cl0uds, and the almost exhausted but|there among them and able to hear theis | If any one about nee. that I _had better | exhaustion. Weé > in io do =0 1 made o com: | ONE DAUGHTER g4 akict and shoes ahs pundied nio tiec | ElL¥a gy basines 8o ba RUE, &8 Che | united: praise of him, their acknowiedg- | Captain Hall cold ma that T hed hucter | drifting ' before wa® wees ile voil en to V1 vy y ! v e c g " placing. my SNV (o -say LEFT TO HIM | mae praps and cloak, when the young | thought to be smoke from & vessel. They | 5o much i being exid of the valo the | Stopped about that time and I started to ed up by the Dispatch g ¥ ;“ Rl ui‘ r!nydmrse ot 1 man, possibly her savior, dragged her to | hardly knew what was best to do, row s | » aced around e deck and without ceremony threw her | on for farawa d or follow, maybe, a | Diasterly. sea the f: lowi ladder. “It is a miracle to me why our raft was he deck 1y manship in the face of dan. | ¢imb down the o, T el which 1 2} ¥ The Re nry Eri ; y it tt will-o'-the. Wisp 1'2"9 a“ rred caxs | ger and death, displayed by the captain Just then I noticed L. M. Hanselman | not dragged down by the suction of 1 r v. Henry ckson, who lost his |literally into a boat that was being low- 3 T u of the officers and crew of the ill-fated beesnj | Standing by the rall. He had on a mackin- | Walla Walla. as we were only eleven feet it e famenry rickson. who lost his |'erea by two officers. Owing to Mrs, Eq. | CH&NSe of opinfons the matter was put to ntime the tieman whom t id I quickly told him to take it away from her when she went dow T ; a vote, and it was decided to row for the | Lhah, OPe %‘;‘;fi;“;n}m;'},‘;“;"efi%gg" dis- | O oa come down the Tadder. e ovi: | lost some: 130 formutas for toe manufac- to returned and informed | Walla Walla plunged into the depths, and | 52F'S traveling alone the officers called | vessel of for wheteoss o orag. 4 harsh note ‘mingling with harmonizeq | 4ently éid not seem to know that a raft | ture of ink besides my persona) baggage. - ton was bad, I sald | whose son,Emil died from exposure on | U0 the Youth, he having been detalled to |, On they steadily rowed, uniil-those ex-| Sounds, @ teitelfetoetoiefituimfefeffeim ettt s @ ; to my satchel and a bunch of | the raft shortly before the father and | &ttend her aboard, to follow the.lady and tousied gnd with handd Dleeding and blis | _Yet,.that note :has been struck, not | Of the wreck. We drifted ail day. and in 1 I had worn the before and | several others were rescued by the steam. | D€ continued one of the party during the hands, but. thelr . efforts, Chorr BLTUBBIS. Fillingly, bat in lluhflgcev”bé Mrs. Edgar, LIGHT PAJAMAS the afiernoon saw the Dispatch. W then ciosed the door and window of my | er Nome City, lived with his family in| & DErilous expestence. ' the | ¥;a8 Tewarded, for still they could see the | WHo declares that had all Captain Halil's statercum. A. B. McClel tied a life | lameda until a few days prior to the e signaled wi : y y her in view, andoaitn treraig ey eBe | been a single life lost. According to that L T rver on me and I went to the star- | departure of the Walla Walla on her las: | crew numbering fourteen. Ere leaving the | wiich was 'dlscovwretd ; tetfia bo:lomp of | lady’s statment, the captain ordered three tion. When we saw the Nome City half of the ship, where 1 was lit-| voyage. The Ericksons resided on Park | sinking vessel time and time again she the boat a jacket ewmct? Mrs. Edgar had |firemen in one boat with directions to re- | o, Shiel, one 6f the six survivors|of a man's shirt was holsted as a signai i into a lifeboat. | street, near Clinton avenue, in that city. | was dashed to its sides, but the sailors, with her, red, too, was hoisted, and soon | Main by thf vtessgl lrmtg t‘he lagiex Jere | Lrought in by the Nome City Saturday | 304 We were at last rescued.” Meins hiles, “bur Some H.our,boat | But one daushter, Miss Hannan, aged 15 | the brave tars. with o final stout ‘and | Hhe signal brousht to ihos oo i oo 0 Midgar deciares, those” seme e | night, was simost himself agadn: yester. Y tare'Ped o launeh & number of the Civred: isong the men a3 to whe waa | Years. is all of Mr. Erickson's family that | SiT0TE Bl landed the boat Ebproaching | 28d crew §*oihe steam schooner Dispateh, | ;e pushed out and never paid attention | day. - He suifered considerably from the | 1o thers was considerable SRty o the most competent to steer. There were | DOW Survives. The lives of the six other | Jous(ain wave. 1t whe o deshorors g T piony un: cogy, dode: yadutag ot Ehise | even to Captain Hall's repeated calling on | sffscts of salt water on nis legs WhICh | setiing ioe Lot Laderad some * iae ten men besides the two women in our | members went out in the disaster. Miss | ment, for every second they expected to wrecked people v crew did mot seem to know just what party, Mrs. C. Hastings and myself. She | Hannah Erickson is employed in the fam- | be dashed to pleces, boat and all. Once » Mrs. Edgar that those same three men | escaped from the vessel in pajamas aud | do. them to return. It is further stated by | were swollen to an abnormal size. Shiel % The officers were calm and cool was seantily attired, and I 1ook great |{ly of Albert B. Wastell, 2198 Central ave. | cléar of the wrecked vessel all hands set- Mrs. Edgar Charges Cowardice. were the first to be picked up by the Dis- pleasure in providing her with some of | . 3 - “L’Y‘:’ )Y close we could see the péople on mountain Waves & breathlesa: affsighing | ObJect 1¥ing in front of them. They kept | 9fders been abeyed there would not have HIS ONLY GARB| geci e : d a h and that they g the g o g 'x"d A Hg °;"°‘;‘h:“:ng"l!;"r; | mrnfizhouflt the ordeal. When voung " $ tled down to work, to do anything, only Whil .. | patch an: 2 S ave news o rafts before he‘lande Ericksen died it was Shiel who threw his s ward | e, Mumads Dhe ViNted Bt MRTV'B 0o rench .tha ahorh At the &taenl BEE |l 9indine the Dispatch the suffer- | FlCH easter to Captain Johnson. Which he was rescued. 2 body from the raft. His father. as soon “As goon us our boat got under way we | HOSPItal yesterday and spent the day | placed Mrs, Edgar, whose duty it was to | o, OWing to the high sea, she roiled and | . The boatswain, declares Mrs. Edgar,| ~When I jumped into the water,” he made for the Mendociio lighthouse. “The | With her father, who is recuperating from | watch out for lights and many a long and H »ea was s0 wut of sight gh that the nd when d . That ] not see any grea k fog which prevai Iso delinquent in that he falled to | said last night, -there were threa raffs | Lis sor . LiZed (e approaching death of : 3 tosted so tha o - | was also delin 3 ed to | sald last night, al s son, rested his face on the knees of | the effects of his terrible experience dur- | weary moment was that anxious lookout knots were"}u;cefiei‘,ou,,g"';‘;ih",‘,ffln ';‘,fd follow. out the captain's direction, which | together.- 1 got on a raft with Lupp and | First Officer Nil: mained in that ing the thirty-six hours that he was blf- | for succor. At last she sighted the kindly | woman and by that means they were | V&S to come astern of the vessel and take | we picked up a young woman about 21| position for houre isfng his head only feted about on an open raft in a heavy | lights from the signal station some dis. | hauled to. sately. the ladies off. “The order was not only | years of age, dressed only in her nighi- through | sea and in freezing weather. tance off.” They took fresh courage and Wi ym: ignored,” says Mrs. Edgar, “but that wn. She was th e that was p A B e b gash & handful of - sa't ith woma ; 2 ored, . 3 at | gown. She was the on s passed | water In his mout We drifted |~ Emil Erickson, who died in his father’s | made directly for them, but now a heavy nly gratitude Mrs. Edgar ex: resses very man was beached at Trinidad and|from raft to raft until placed in the life- | Shiel says that as the ship' went down d after five hours we saw a|arms, was a bright little fellow, and while | mist came between them and safety, en. | Ionmecn ;‘:E tfi:mcei::éogndlgw %?‘?éfi three men were In his boat, but no la- | boat. She was lifted into the boat, but | he saw Third Officer Hughes dressed in rich proved to be the Dis- | his folks lived in Alameda he worked in |tirely obliterating the lights from view Dispatch, and even Jast night she was |dies.’ % three or four men attempted to get in| his oilskins and rubber boots jump over- ) thought once the vessel was | the People's Bazaar store there. The Rev. | and, worse still, the waves suddenly came | wearing a garment which had been given T TR SRR SRR and the boat was capsized. The woman | board and did not see him rise. Shiel de- rawing away from us, but were over- | Mr. Erickson and family were bound for | rolling up like dark, moving mountains 5 her by a hearty, -natured sailor to| The sugar cane is a varlety of grass|was thrown out. I did mot see her again. | clares that he was in such a position th 4 when we heard her whistie that|New Whatcom, where he intended to fol- | and the wind, as if to purposely increase | roplace ihe drlpyp(nggooodngs:haeevor’e( When | whose ‘saccharine properties have been | | ~This left seven of us on the raft, and #ne saw us. We were hauled aboard and ! low his vocation as a minister. the terror of the scene, vented its bitter- | rescued. had Hughes reappeared he would certai Not only did these men offer | developed by cu}uvatlon. 1 we pulled away at daylight from the site ' Iy have seen him.