The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 29, 1904, Page 2

q THE SA N FRANCISCO CALL TREMENDOUS SEAS CAPSIZE THE BOAT AND NINE DROWN HAD FEAR OF A TRIP BY WATER ——— Miss Steiner Preferred to Return to Her Home by Railroad. Young Woman Yielded Reluctantly to Brother’s Persuasion. Miss Maud Steiner had been a resi- s f San Fran co for about a year @ k t house at 711 Van Ness avenue teiner, a siu- er, Joseph & ir college. She e and her brother J He has been studying C engineering. He formerly at- hop Scott Military Acad- her and sister decided to 2 their parents’ home at Cle Kittitass County, Washington, property in Washington. ner was averse to taking the - and strongly expressed her preference for the journey home by Her brother, however, favored trip by boat and she finally con- of 114 Golden terday: Steiner will be her asso- eat pleas- highl . WALLULU FACES GALE T0 RESCUE THE GRACE DOLLAR ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 28-Had not Captain Reed of the bar tug Wallula ed a mountainous sea to save her steam schooner Grace Dollar would ow be h beach and the eboard her would probably have cen snuffed out in the storm. With roken engines the rescued vessel had worked her wa up the coast vnder sail and arrived off the mouth of n n n h 1 the Columbia River last night. The sea upon the bar was terrible, but the Wai- plunged eight miles through the { and.brought the crippled steamer ito safety. Had the Dollar remained outside t ight she would surely have been wrecked, because she would not mind her helm and could not have kept L3 A E. M. Olsen of the Dollar er leaving Hoaquim with a go we tied up at Westport, Jumber < Wash.. on account of the weather until Wednesday; then we put to sea. At noon on Thursday our engines broke down off Heceta Head. We made sail nd started north. Yesterday we sight- the British bark Thistle, and later | the collier Wellington, bound | were only four miles away, signals. Although I continuously the steamship id no aftention. By this time the weather was very heavy. Coming in the bar I thought the tug would | over be lost. The seas smashed in her sk lights and iron doors. I am glad to get through so well. The Grace Dollar lost | part the starboard deck load and ke her foreboom.” e | PLAN OF CAMPAIGN : TO BE FOLLOWED | BY THE JAPANESE | ~ 25— The Matin pub- | fon which it declares to attacks at Port Arthur were to the execution of the h follows: The investment f Port Arthur; the renewal of the at- tack by land and sea until the place is the occupation of Korea and the erection of fortifications there. Ja- then await offensive opera- e part of the Russians. In the Japanese will not ven- Manchuria, but will await ersaries in Korea. Mouravieff Amoursky, who was recalled from Paris when he was reduced military attache at the Russian em- bassy because of reflections cast upon the French army, has written a letter to the Gaulois in ich he says the war in the Far East will be terrible but short. It will be a prelude to other wars between the white and yellow in this war un- for Russia, but have some dis- ur and Chemuipo affairs. Arth “As to the role of the various pow , With the exception of brave Angl axons on the two sispheres. These two powers will attempt “to compass siyly ‘all possible injury to Russia, but without daring to icipate in the struggle. rmany has everything to gain by ing her friendly neutrality for and when peace is concluded not be forgotten in connection with the ¢ pensation in the extreme Orient. The interest of all the coun- tries of Europe lies in putting them- selves as much as possible upon the will Russian side. The Czar is worthy of the highest admiration agd he the prayers and the good wishes of all his people. With calmness and with sim- plicity and with immense faith in the All Powerful, he instills with his per- sonality and his words confidence in all classes: he furthermore unites the entire country in a single and great effort.” The Spanish Embassador, Senor Leon Castillo, in the course of an inter- view on the new Franco-Spanish arbi- tration treaty to-day explained the re- nt reports of Spain’s military and naval mobilization. He said: “1 was particularly glad to see this’ treaty signed, for pledges of peace are particularly precious during the course of a conflict. In the present Spain’s only care has been to take measures which will properly safe- guard her mneutrality if through any possibility it may be menaced. While such a menace is improbable, yet we adopt the same safeguards as the rest of the world. My Government has sent several battalions to the Balaeric isl- ands, Algeciras, Ceuta and the Canar- - jes—in short, to all strategic points in Spanish territory. But it is sheer folly to attribute ulterior motives to those measures of precaution.” ——— e English Officer Passes Away. LONDON, Feb. 28.—Sir Arthur Palmer, formerly commander in chief of the army in India, died to-day, aged 64 years e ub their home here last Theodore Steiner, the well to do_man owning | ually bright | lying a wreck upon the bleak | lives of seventeen | to the effect that the recent | the colonel continues, “it will be | crisis | IMEN I 10O KEEP N ENGINE ROOM REMAIN AT POSTS IN TERRIFIC HEAT THEIR PUMPS GOING Continued From Page 1, Columns 2 a nd 3. 4:30 o'clock in the morning. In the engine-room, pumps. a mass of flame. “glory hold” to the main deck. were found, one half way through a MAKE BRAVE BATTLE the alleyways leading along the saloon deck to the dining hall. In the darkness which comes just before the dawn a woman stepped into the dimly lighted dining-room at the after end of the saloon deck and asked the night watchman- for a glass of water. When she returned to the door of her room a gust of flame and smoke swept out. A few fled in their night clothes from their staterooms. sounded and the vessel was brought to a stop. fast filling with smoke, Others of the crew manned two lines of hose and crept through That was later men and women The fire alarm was moments men stood by the It was Through the flames and smoke wreaths eight or ten of the crew en- tered a hole beneath the floor of the dining hall and crawled from the Three lost their way and crawled to the cockpit, where they were burned to death. ~Hours afterward their bodies hawse hole leaning down over the water, which the man had tried vainly to reach. AGAINST GREAT ODDS. Called from his berth by his second officer Captain Cousins ran to the upper deck a pajamas. In thi ment after the fire was discovered. s scant attire he stayed in the wind and rain for four hours | and directed the fight to save the lives of his crew and passengers. Cousins reached the bridge, the flames were rolling through the dining hall skylight and billowed up for a distance of thirty feet. He was clad only in his When They lit the sea for miles. An ugly, choppy sea was running, and a fifteen-mile gale blew from . the southwest. To this the ship was headed. On the forward decks half clad men and women crowded. Among these the officers and crew went, distributing life preservers and giving words of cheer and hope. During that time other members of the crew were fighting the flames, while the men in the engine room stood at their posts, stifled with smoke and enduring the heat which was almost unbearable in spite | of the wet clothes with which they had covered their faces. It seemed as though no earthly power could save the vessel 2 Captain Cousins consulted with Captairl 1. N. Hibbard of the Northern Commercial Company, an old navigator, who was among the passengers. dren. foam gleamed red from the firelight, struck it. ship, sinking into a trough, seemed to drop upon it and brush it. ment later the passengers who had occupied the boat were struggling in It is a significant incident in this story of marine dis- | the angry waters. | aster that the women and children from this | but two of the passengers aboard lost their lives. down with it were members of the Queen’s cre The other three boats tossed up and down upon the lumpy sea. passengers saw plainly by the glare of the flames the faces of those who had remained aboard the Queen. In these small boats the women and than half-ciad and many with nothing on e | | children, none more had left behind. It was as hard a battle as men ever waged against fire. hose lines lay flat on their faces in the narrow alle) or close to the railings of the deck above, pouring the water onto the mass of flames which seemed to evaporate it before it left the nozzles. During all this time the men in the engine room and in the stoke hole steaming cloths and remained at their posts. At times it seemed as though they must leave or succumb to the heat, gasped behind | They agreed on launching the lifeboats. ward side of the ship soon after the outbreak of the fire. small craft were lowered from their davits, loaded with women and chil- As the last boat struck the water a great sea, on whose crest the their night clothing, shivered before the biting wind All of the craft stood by watching the conflict waged by those whom they These had been taken to the lee- Four of these At the same moment the A mo- were all rescued and The others who went boat Their sa and drenching seas. Those with the of the saloon deck but leaving fires or pumps meant to leave the vessel and the lives of those on before the fight began to tell. board to the mercy of the flames or the hungry ocean. Then the woodenwork had crumbled away, It was four hours and the flames had nothing more to feed on unless they went onward against the streams of ‘water. DISCOVER BODIES OF DEAD They began slowly to show signs of subsiding. SEAMEN IN COCKPIT. At R:30 o’clock Captain Cousins signaled with three blasts of the steam- ship’s whistle. the ship. These passengers were all half dead from exposure. The small boats returned and those aboard were taken on One of them, Mrs. E. Adams, died in spite of all that could be done for her. It was just six hours from the outbreak of the fire before the Queen was again under her own steam and headed for this, her home port. During this voyage men made their way into what had been the dining hall and picked their way among jets of steam and wreaths of smoke, under bent iron girders, still hot, until they reached the cockpit. over and There they found the bodies,of the three men who had lost their way coming out from the “glory hold.* & Several hours later, up a terrific thunder storm. timber. had exploded. as the vessel was off Cape Flattery, there came One boit, louder than any other, seemed to strike the Again men and women rushed to the deck, thinking the boilers whose accompanying peal was ip and she shook in every At Port Townsend the bodies of the three members of the crew who had been burned to death were put | was brought to Seattle, ashore. The body of Mrs. Adams Thousands lined the wharves when the Queerf steamed into the harbor of her home port. Only once before had o many watched for her coming—the day when she brought home the men of Washington who had fought in the Philippines. Slowly she steamed up the bay to-day, slackened until she seemed to come to a dead stop, then finally circled about the revenue cutter, which lay at one of the city buoys, and made her way into thc slip. And when her passengers filed down the gangplank to meet those whose anxious faces were turned to theirs each stopped to grasp the hand of the captain who had brought him safe to port, and to thank him. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Possibly crossed wires started it. 2 stateroom 50 or 5 | who were burned to death. are upon the port side of the saloon All of the erew shipped from San Francisco. M. Somers, H. Douglas and — Raymond are the members of the crew Mrs. E. Adams it seemed to break from either Both staterooms deck aft. Neither was occupied. died _from exposure. Miss Steiner was drowned when the lifeboat was capsized. ¥+ DEATH CLAIMS EDWIN ABELL OF BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 23.—Edwin Franklin Abell, presidenft of the A. S. Abell Company, publishers of the Sun, died to-day, aged 64. Abell was born in Baltimore and was the oldest of twelve children of the late Arunah 8. Abell, founder of the Sun, and by his death the last of the founder's sons has passed away. Abell entered the counting room of the Sun office at the age of 16. Al- though always identified with the pub- lishing of the Sun, he had given his attention more closely to the manage- ment of his father’s estate and not un- til the death of George W. Abell did he assume direct control of the pa- per. Since the death of his brother he has been the directing head of the paper. Mr. Abell had been noted throughout his lifetime for his char- itable deeds. Walter W. Abell, son of the deceased, who has been in practical charge of the Sun for the past few years, will continue to conduct it. { 01d Age Causgs Death. | ALAMEDA, Feb. #8.—Lacking but | three years of reaching the hundredth |anniversary of her birthday, Mrs. | Deborah Fennel Wood passed to her | inal rest last night at the home of*her | daughter, Mrs. J. M. Dutcher, 1113 | Paru street. Death was due to ex- | treme weakness incidental to advanced | age. a‘;n Deborah F. Wood came to Cali- | fornia forty-two years ago and took up her first residence near what is now i Bloomfield, in Sonoma County. She was an active member of the Metho- dist Episcepal church and up to a few years ago devoted much of her time and energy to religious work. At her funeral services, which were held at her daughter's home this afternoon, Rev. E. P. Dennett of the First Metho- dist Episcopal Church of this city, as- sisted by the Rev. E. R. Dille of the First )(’e’thodlut Episcopal Church of Oakland, officiated. The remains will be forwarded to Bloomfield, where in- terment will take place Wednesday. Mrs. Wood was the grandmother of Mrs. J. C. Fossing, Mrs. John Nobman Jr., Mrs. B. E. Combs and Mrs. M. J. Bassett. —_—— - Death of Old Californian. OAKLAND, Feb. 28.—Carlos Hi- guera, 60 years old, a native Califor- nian, died yesterday at Pleasanton, his body being found in bed. Higuera MURDER ENDS A CHRISTENING to The Call. Special Dispa FRESNO, Feb. 28.-—Jose Partelli was shot and instantly killed at a christen- | ing here to-night. Peter Pasqual and Jose and Peter Ferretti attended the christening and, making too much noise, were told by Partelli to leave. | They went out muttering threats of | vengeance. Partelli followed them to the sidewalk, where one of them sud-| denly drew a revolver and shot him through the heart. The men fled and the infuriated guests at the christening followed, finally capturing Joe Ferretti, who would have been roughly handled but for the arrival of the police. Ferretti asserted that Pasqual did the shooting. A report was brought that one of the men was hiding in a nearby house. The officers approached it, calling upon the man to surrender. Instead of complying, he opened the door and ghot twice at Officer Farnum, who returned the fire. The policemen | then rushed into the house and cap- tured th* man, whose name is Joe Renne. He was not seen at the chris- tening and is not believed to be the murderer. Pasqual and Peter Ferretti are still at large. e e e ok kR e was a laborer. Coroner Mehrmann will hold an inquest Tuesday. oty s = Hooper of Dartmouth Is Dead. HANOVER, N. H,, Feb. 28.—Henry J. Hooper, '97, Dartmouth’'s famous football center, died to-day, aged 20 vears, following an attack of appendi- citis, for which an operation was per- formed Thursday last. —_—— Yucatan Millionaire Dies. CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 28.—Eulogio Darte, one the wealthiest of Yuca- tan's multimillionaires, is dead. He' left a fortune of $8,000,000. IR e, Sir Edward Walker Dies. LONDON, Feb. 28.—Sir Edward Walker, founder and commanding officer of the corps of commissionaires, is dead, aged 81 years. —_——— }oOmnOoldinOmmy. il Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. W. Grove's signature 1 on box. 25¢. * LIST OF OFFICERS AND PASSENGERS ON % : ILL FATED VESSEL PASSENGERS. FIRST CABIN. T. C. McRae Mrs. J. C. Percival W, J. Hyfield and two_children A. H. Ferguson and Ii. B, McKay wife Mre. Boles and G. P. Winters daughter L. C. Hold A. C. Taylor and Mre. Langfelt wife re. Langfelt and 3v. K. James and daughter Iwite A B, Sapiro | Mrs. M. E. McMullen Miss Freckam Miss M. Cooper W 4 Montgomery, Miss 'E. Rothwell and wife | Mrs. H. Willlams L. Charles | Miss Peckenpaugh T. Ryan ! Mrs. L. M. Crosby Gardhouse and E. Alexander J. Lieshauer . Thurston 8 B. Shaw M. Johnson Miss S. M. Emery . M. Shields Mrs, E. S. Jones H. G. Bygate H. Hosey Hall C. 0. Blaine I C. Calbreath Thomas_Burns Miss A M, Steiner | J. H. Smith Mrs. Eliza’ Adams C. S. de Succa and J. Steiner wife T, Walker Mrs, Toerschler A. Strachan | Charles Jensen and H, L. Adams |wife W. C. Allen Miss Gordo W. MeLeod | Mrs. Sumnér 1. M. Hibbar | A. Brown and wife COND CLASS. F. Bowman | James Corbett G. Tornsier W. 8. Corbett T. W. Condroy A ety " G. W. Walters 8’ Kavaskevich H. C. Sorenson G. Gavelovieh F. Thompson | M Melovich McQualg | A’ H. Palmer Mott G. Donlan C. R. Neusbaum | E A Mitnington T. M. Whelpton | 7. Hendrickson J..J . Seiter E. Svarour C. Weaver Victor Hill T, J. Chaplin N. Stimmel R. P. Duling 7 Walthall 3. Stoop T, J.A. Britton S. C. Hagedorn 2 X V. €. M. Thompson 3. Lawson T Newberrs A. Holson v ‘arlson A. Reesman C. tamson L. Theodor W. Humphrey Parbos T, Bulich M. Lozar P, Popovich J. A. McRae J. Jones V. Edstrom P. Ciano J. Johnson J. Rabee W. J, Stewart +B. Johngon H. Buckley M. Trhart D. I Maguire w. 8. Afshi L K. ®aba FROM SOUTHERN ' CALIFORNIA. (Transferred Passengers.) K. J. Ward E Long 3. Barten | B. S. Warren, wife J_ K. Newcomb land’ three children W, B. Terry OFFICERS OF TH CAPTAIN N. E. COUSINS—Commander. GEORGE H. ZEH—First officer. MARK REES—Second mate. YWNLLIAM JACKSON—Third mate. E. H. BLUHM-Fourth mate. Captain Cousins has been in the em- ploy of the’company since 1878 and has had command of the Queen since Jan- uary 5, 1903. - George H. Zeh, first officer of the steamer, has been in the empioy of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for many years and has on several oc- casions displayed great courage in rescuing passengers. About a year ago, when Zeh was third officer of the Corona, he jumped overboard at sea to save the life of a passenger named McCreath, who had fallen overboard. Owing to the heavy seas and winds Zeh was unable to save McCreath. Zeh was unconscious when he was picked up by the lifeboat. Peter Nuhn, the unfortunate fire- man, was 57 years of age and a veteran in the service of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. He resided on Harrison street, between First and Second, and a wife and five adult chil- dren survive him. To his shipmates he had frequently said that he was not destined to die at sea, his belief evi- dently being based upon the fact that he had miraculously escaped injury when one of the boilers of the Queen exploded at Portland, about a dozen vears ago. He was a native of Ger- many. B BOATS CAPSIZE .IN HEAVY SEAS, ADDING TO THE ROLL OF DEAD PORT TOWNSEND, Feb. 28.—The steamer Queen after landing some of her passengers and dead here contin- led her journey to Seattle. The pas- sengers say that when Captain Cou- sins, commender of the vessel, discov- ered the extent of the fire, which em- braced practically all the rear portion of the vessel, he at once ordered the lifeboats launched. Four filled with women and chil- dren and suffiCient men to man them were dropped over from the windward of the vessel, each containing about/ sixteen people. The first boat capsized almost as soon as it touched the wa- ter by getting under the-stern of the ship. All the passengers in this boat were rescued by the other small boats with the exgeption of a Miss Steiner, a first-class passenger, who was drawn under the ship when the boat cap- sized. The second boat capsized while being lowered. There were no passen- gers in this at the time, but the crew of four men who were aboard were spilled out and lost. A third voat filled about half a mile from the Queen, and all but four of its passengers and crew were rescued by the other small craft in the vicinity. The lifeboats were floated safely and two rafts that were thrown over to pick up any who might be thrown in the water remained in the vicinity of the burning vessel and within view of it while the fire was being fought by the crew and those among the male passen- gers that remained on board. The bodies of the men who died in the cockpit were not found until after the fire had been extinguished. The list of dead is as follows: FIRST GABIN. MISS MAUD STEINER, Cle-Elum, Wash.; drowned by capsizing of a small boat. £ MRS. ELIZA ADAMS, Seattle, 80 years old; died from exposure three hours after the discovery of the fire. SECOND CLASS. D. E. NEWBERRY, drowned. H./BUCKLEY, drowned. SCKHANDS. A. NILSON, drowned. J. NELSON, drowned. B. FRUTAS, drowned. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. PETER NUHN and M. FLYNN, drowned. WAITZRS. W. HEINEMAN and RAYMOND, drowned. M. SOMERS, H. DOUGLAS and A. DONNELLY. burned and suffocated. — el e CRAZY NEGRO OFPENS IN A MAIL CAR Kills One Clerk and Wounds Another and Bloodhounds Are on His Trail. 2 BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Feb. 29.—One postal clerk was shot to death and an- other faially wounded by a crazy negro who boarded the Alabama Great Southern train No. 2 a-chort distan e out of Meridian, Miss., early this morning. A posse with bloodhouncs is on the trail of the negro } | 3 | { | i | | _tending the debarking of the wo- | drill. SMELL OF SMOKE AROUSES ONE OF THE CABIN PASSENGERS AND * HE SOUNDS AN ALARM OF FIRE Contiued from Page 1, Column 1. to be seen licking their way up from below. Appreciating the| gravity of the situation, I lost no time in dressing and offering my assistance to Captain Cousins.' I first hurried to his room and found it empty. I then ran to the deck, where, in the thick of the crew already working heroic- afly to lay the pipe lines to the fire, was the captain in command. He was attired only in his paja- mas, and, though I shivered with the cold, the gallant master of the Queen gave no heed to the biting wind and the cold spray which it threw on the deck. He was care- | fully and coolly directing not only the work of the fire fighters, but | also of that.portion of his crew which was lowering the after boats. These boats, but for the| prompt attention of the captain, would have been soon consumed, thus reducing our chances of es- cape should it become necessary to abandon the ship. In a mo- ment several of the boats were in the water and under Captain Cousins’ direction they proceeded around to the lee of the steamer. lying some distance off to render aid should any one either fall or be compelled to jump overboard. | “My proff%r of assistance was gratefully accepted and I felt flat- tered when Captain Cousins del- egated to me the task of superin- men and children, it being deemed best for their safety that thev leave the ship prior to the final abandonment, should such g a | were whistled back after the fire| { guishing the fire.” course be necessary. Not a single boat was damaged in this danger- ous operation and all left the side successfully. The fact that two of the hoats were lost when they was out could not have been pre- vented by any human agency, for the waves simply swept them| under the after guard and they were capsized. No small part of | the heroism was exhibited at the | moment when the majority of| those in the water were rescued. | It was in this accident that Miss | Steiner lost her life.” “First Officer Zeh proved him- self not only a seaman of the| highest order, but also a fireman | of ability, for he directed the| playing of the hpse in such effec-| tive manner that the flames were| subdued sooner than might other- | wise have been the case. Chief Engineer McCreedy and First As- sistant Anderson are entitled to much credit, for in the face of! | death in the fire they remained at | their posts and kept the monster | pumps in operation until the word | came down that the fire was ex-| tinguished. In the general direc- | tion of matters aboard Captain | Cousins was ably assisted by Cap- tain Bruce McKay, a regular em-| ploye of the company, who acts as pilot in the summer months | aboard the Nome st®amer Valen- cia. He was a passenger upon the | Queen. experience aft stood him in hand and he was of invaluable assist- ance in launching the boats and assisting in the work of extin- Captain McKay's long | Continued ¥From Page 1, Columns 4 and 5. g Captain Describe de Zadc e —— s Brave Battle. “At 4:30 o'clock Saturday morning,” said he, “when we were thirty miled to the westward of Tillamook light, on the coast ef Oregon, on our way to this port, Second Officer Reece report- ed to me that the ship was on fire. Reece was on the bridge. 1 hastened from my stateroom, not taking time to dress, and rung the fire alarm. Getting all hands on deck we started to fight the fire, which was located in the after saloon of the saloon deck. When I came on deck less than half a minute after being notified, attired in my pa- jamas, the flameg were shooting thirty feet high out of the saloon skylight. No time was lost by the crew in getting water upon the flames, which seemed to gather headway until the entire aiter part of the ship was a seething mass. ‘When it seemed it would be impossible to keep the fire under control I gave orders to clear away the boats, to| swing them out and lower them to the rails. ““The boats upon the weather or port side I had lowered into the water. There were three men in each and [ ordered them to take the boats around to the lee side and await orders. Then I began to fill up the boats upon the starboard side with women and chil- dren. At this time it looked impossible to save the ship. The veisel was in | flames and the fire gaining headway in spite of our efforts, “Finally the starboard boats were lowered into the water. The last one | over got under the guard and was | smashed in, upsetting later. 'This boat was in charge of Second Steward Sav- age. The moment the boat capsized the boats on the lee side went to the rescue, “This work was kept up with all — possible vigor. I do not know just how many people there were in the various boats lowered, possibly sixty. The boats were out in the open until 8:30 o'clock, when, believing we had the fire under control, 1 blew three blasts on the whistle, signaling the boats to gather around the ship. Al except those lost by the boats upset- ting alongside the ship were soon on board again. The men in the “glory hold,” when warned of the fire, rushed to the deck, fighting their way through the flames and smoke. “Three of these lost their way and were found later burned and suffocated to death. “At the time the fire was discovered the wind was blowing from the south- west, probably fifteen miles an hour. | There was a nasty, choppy sea run- ning. I have no idea as to the origin or cause of the fire. Not enough to base an opinion on. Both the saloon watch and deck watchmen reported everything O. K. at 4 o'clock. Officer Meyer went down into the saloon at 4:05 and saw neither fire nor smoke. It seemed to have burst into a full- fledged fire with great suddenness. “It was a vicious fire, and but for the heroic work of the crew and passengers in fighting it, the ship and all on board would have been lost, My crew behaved admirably. They could not have done better. And too much cannot be said in praise of the splendid ser- vices of the passengers. I feel most grateful to them for the assistance they rendered. There was no disorder and very little excitement. It was a hard fight,/and I am well nigh worn out. T have had no Sleep since the fire, and I am pretty near due.” QUEEN’S EFFICIENT FIRE DRILL KEPT THE SHIP AFLOAT Captain Thomas Wallace, the super- intendent of the operating department of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany, was at his office very soon after the announcement of the disaster to the Queen. With the other officials pres- ent, he expresscd himself as pleased to know that after her terrible experience off Tillamook lighthouse, her com- manding officer was able to cope with the flames that threatened destruction and to finally bring her into port. He greatly deplored the loss of life that had occurred and thought that her sal- vation was due to~the efficiency and skill of the officers in fighting the flames. The fire drills of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company have always been attended and scarried out with great care and precision. Every ship is obliged to have a drill cnce a week, and these drils are all reported and and these drills are all reported and manager’s office at San Francisco. In- dependent of the general report made by the officers of the different steam- ships of this company, a private report is frequently filed by a secret inspector. Captain Wallace said: “We not only carry out the law to the letter regard- ing fire drills at sea, but we go further and choose for our method what is known as the regulation man-of-war In the case of the Queen, from the records here we see that she had a full and complete fire drill cn Feb, 17, and also on the 20th. She carries in addition to 800 feet of hose, 25 pyro- cide fire extinguishers. No vessel that floats 1s better equipped for fire emer- gency than the Queen. Captain Cous- ins is one of our most valued officers. He has been in our employ for twenty- six years. He has been in command of the Queen since January, 1903. While we have no particulars excepting the meager report of the fire and the at- tempt of Captain Cousins to run the steamer over the Columbia River bar ¥ BREAKS STATEROOM WINDOWS TO AWAKEN OTHER PASSENGERS PORT TOWNSEND, Feb. 28.—A. H. Brown, who occupied stateroom 46 on the lower deck, immediately astern of the dining saloon, is believed to have first discovered the fire, the origin of which is shrouded in mystery, the night watchman and two of the higher of- ficers having passed the place five min- utes before the blaze was discovered. “I was awakened by a smell of smoke,” said Brown, “and immediately opened my stateroom door. - The com- panionway was filled with smoke, and during the moment I stood there it seemed to me that the principal source was a room two doors astern of mine. The smoke rolled from there in vol- umes. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, I at once started for the deck yelling ‘Fire!” at the top of my voice, I broke in every stateroom window I passed to alarm the sleeping passen- gers. Upon the deck forward I met Cap- tain Cousins, in his underclothes, rush- ing aft. The decks were soon filled with people. The confusion was small con- sidering the grave danger. The hose joints were coupled quickly and the fight against the fire, which gained great headway, was commenced.' T have mo idea where the fire originated, nor did I learn the cause. It seemed hut a few minutes before the entire after part of the ship was in flames. I marvel that so few fatalities occurred consid- ering the time of night when the fire broke out. I lost all my personal ef- fects, and so did my wife and two lttie children. Mrs. Brown and the children were provided with a complete outfit of clothes by the company's agent here after the Queen arrived.” . —_— to Astoria, we feel greatly relieved to learn that the loss of life was not greater than that reported. | was changed to that of “Queen.” | added another accident NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS TO VESSEL History of the Ill-Fated Steamer Is Replete With Mishaps. Flames Badly Damage Her on One of Her Early Ocean Trips. et 2 The career of the steamer Queen on this coast has been fraught with num- erous mishaps, but none emtailing loss of life until yesterday. When she first went on the run she was known as the Queen of the Pacific, but having suf- fered much damage by a fire, this name On her inaugural trip from this city to Port Harford a sailor neglected to close a porthole and as she proceeded on her voyage she shipped considerable water. Just as the vessel was nearing Port Harford she was discovered to be in a sinking condition and she was hurried under all speed into the harbor and reached her dock a few minutes before she settled to the bottom. Fortunately the water was not very deep and was easily pumped out and raised to the surface. On one of her first trips to thg sound ports she carried among her cabin passengers a dishazuished party, including Senator Perkins and others, who were going to attenc the formal opening of the Northern Pacifl road. The Queen, on ssing the Co- lumbia River bar, wa enveloped in a dense fog®and her captain, unable to get his bearings, suddenly ized that his vessel had ground on Sandy Island. With a view of lightening her a portion of her cargo was thrown over- board and af a hard struggle she was finally saved, but it was not until many yéars later that her owners were freed from litigation growing out of salvage claimed by the towboats of the north. Ten years ago the Queen came into this port on a foggy day and crashed into the bowsprit of a French bark lying in the stream and before the two vessels could be separated tae Queen had lost the better part of the beautiful glass dome of her cabin and had been bumped and scratched in a manner that necessitated her being laid up for repairs. Three months ago she to her record by running into a British steamer ofl Pert Townsend, but with her usual good luck escaped with little damage. NEWS OF DISASTER SPREADS RAPIDLY THROUGHOUT CITY. The first news of the terrible disas- ter received in this city came in the following message from Port Towns- end and spreading rapidly caused the greatest anxiety among these who had friends or relatives on the steamer: To W. E. Pearce, General Manager Pacifio Coast Steamship Company- caught fire in aftersaloon yess at 4 a. m., thirty miles off entire aftercabin and saioon was under control at 8 a. m. All women and children were loaded n boats and. kept standing by, being taken back as soon as the fire was under control. Strong breeze from southwest and heavy sea. Lost, one lady paesenger by drowning, one from exposure; also lost thres saflors and tw. firemen by drowning. Three walters wara burned to death and two drowned. Ran int lightship off the Columbia River, but bar was 00 rough to cross. 80 ran to Port Townsend and arrived there 10:30 H. L. TI burned and firs m. ALS JR., Agent. B — NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Mrs. Barbara | MacGahan, widow of Janirius Aloysius | MacGahan, the well-known war cor- respondent, died to-day. Since her husband’s death in 1878 Mrs. Mac- Gahan had been a war correspondent { and fiction writer. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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