The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1913, Page 1

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WE 73 MTL maar es eer, — 7S Mm VOLUME NO. 151. 15, These men are part of the surviving crew of the steamship State of California, which struck a reef and sank in Gambier bay, Alaska, at 8:29 last Sunday morning. They are shown gathered in front of the offices of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Appearing in the picture, left to right, are the following men: E. Sachey, coal passer; J. Gomes, coal passer; A. Fernander, fireman; A. Agras, fireman; R. Rios, chief x] the fact that not one man of the entire group had time to save with new clothes. The steamer Jefferson arrived in Seattle at 2 o'clock this morning with these men and the remaincer of the crew ; R. Beivo, coal passer; F. Perer, coal passer; N. Rodriquis, fireman; I. Reyes, coal passer; J. Garcia, fireman; M. Garcia, fireman; took; G. Guarte, messman. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1913. any personal effects. ONE CENT. ON NEV The Seattle Star AND be TRAINS WH STANDS, \\ HOME EDITION. S. Reguieva, coal MMM {| An example of the rapidity with which the liner foundered is shown in where their measurements were taken for the purpose of outfitting them passer; J. Mecceiva, coal EN PASSENGERS TELL STORY OF WREC Boalt Boards Northwestern at Port Townsend and Talks to Survivors BY FRED L. BOALT The steamer Northwestern arrived in port at a rope trailing from a life boat, and we were saved. TRIED TO HELP OLD LADY Survivors Tell How “Sparks” Perkins, ! break in two at the social cabin. Then, with a plunge. ing down with her many of those she disappeared beneath the surface, draw- who had come to the surface after . . . tes “Just after the crash I tried to help Mra, Reardon, a beautiful old going do’ ith the bow 12:30 today, bringing, in addition to her regular pas- jagy i: poor health. Her daughter was with her. Mrs. Reardon became First Wireless 0 erator, Died a Hero sel matished to Keep myself upon’the surface. All about me there sengers and crew, 16 passengers and 18 members of taint and her daughter would not leave her side. It was then that my Pp ’ was wreckage. Near me the pilot house came up after the last plunge ‘the of the St te of Calif ia, wr i ed in G m- husband dragged me toward the lifeboat, and I did not see mother and of the boat. The eboat that had escaped the falling smokestack ‘bier bay, Admiralty inlet, Sunday. } The Northwestern also brought down from the daughter again till we were in the water 1 saw them sink—the old woman and the fair young daughter— clasped tn each other's arms.” Calling for Aid as Vessel Went Down In the three minutes given him of life between the time the Chamberiain left him there, repeating the “S. O. 8." cali— and mast did duty in gathering in were swimming about or who had age. as quickly as possible those who managed to reach pieces of wreck- ; As) ; F now North the bodies of 10 of the victims of the disaster. EW DIE BY DROWNING State of California struck and the word that goes out over the ee eee M : said in bis opinion comparatively few of the victims | her final plunge to the bottom sea when a ship is in distres: Mrs. Belle Vinnedge- Drake, a trained ~_ ae Med but wete killed by failing masts and rigging and by | In 156 feet of water, Daniel C. It wae 8:29 a. m. when the | N E BRI rienced news per De: i 3 o being crushed in the wreckag erkins, of Oakland, Cal., wire- striking o fe ship warner 5 ee woman, of = Moines, Ia., w' The pass rs are unanimous in saying that, in the short tim less operator, added another Perkins. Three minutes later . . . was making the trip for pleasure, with her brother, A. porwoon tte shock and the sinking of the abip the officers and crew of | Mame to the list of the heroes the vessel's mast, wrested t. Cann went down with the ship He came up with a por. Ed. . * State of California showed great coolness and courag who have gone down Into the from its fastenings by the list- e bridge ne had stood upon the stricken vessel, giv- P. Vinnedge, of igewick, Wash., gave me a word The chief ste aed who mana: «Ape » of a “fe <4 ocean's depths. ing of the ship, crashed down 8, bef sank, so he stood upon his plece of wreckage picture of her experience as soon as I boarded the pjenring i: when it capsized and refilled it No matter that his efforts upon the little operating room, continued’ in command, 1 do not know how long it was before t Stewarde Mar . er, herself a powe were in vain—that the cry for a great wave came up and gas boats came from the cannery t may have been but a few mo- steamer at Port Townsend. to ory aor li 1 ; paved uccor fall reach ese waehed acroes the pl wher ments. It may have been an h “ * ” . “ € of a ad woman who in a ® alled to reach a pase. 8 8 e place e ‘On Saturday night,” said Mrs. Drake, “we stay- gyicied her und en Mra, Tracer at ‘ ing ship or wireless station—he Perkins had been, and then reer iste Know, however, that many of those who came to the curface me ‘ unconscious, the other woma as gone did his duty and in doing it the ship went down, carrying after the giant wave had washed them from the bow were gone before . ed up late sa af brother and I, and some friends we . 9 se rome went to his death. with It Perkins, perhaps crush: the rescuing hands »me. I saw them drown not many feet from had made on board—to see Wrangel Narrows by LAUNCH FOUR LIFE BOATS Perkins was in his cabin ed by the mast, and saved the me before I or other of the vessel's crew could reach them. f moonli: a H 1 in-! ere was t r life boats, and one of these was when the vessel struck The awful suffocation that comes to saw the agony written plainly upon the 3 and heard the agonizing ight. We retired at 3 in the morning, and | in crushed when th ection tires landed watels reeultant shock.was hie call to those who drown, cries as the ached up and gathered them to its depths tended to sleep late. | ‘The manager of the tannery saw the vessel strike, and had presence|| duty Onp of those whe still live "T haye expected that some day, perhaps, a vessel upon |which I worked would be stricken. But I have always felt that when of mind enough to look his watch. Exactly two minutes and a half Not waiting to dress, he hur- tells that, above the noise of - ‘ But so much racket was made taking on and | } between the time the ship struck and when she sank beneath | rled to the wireless room, where the tearing of.the mast from || that time came, chance would give me at least an opportunity to fight arging cargo at the cannery wharf that I wak- r his assistant, Walter Chamber- Its fastenings and the orles of |/for life. But here there was no chance, There was no time. ened . ry one of the anrvivors has a story varying only In detafl from lain, was on duty those who were fearful of the “We were absolutely at the mercy of the sea—playthings of the , or else I would not be alive now to tell you this eady recounted “Get out and jook after your- death that was to come, the deep. That the wrecked vessel is not now a massive coffin for all of . An aged Indian at the cannery told the survivors that {n all the gen. seit,” Perkins called to Cham- crashing sound of the wireless us is almost a miracle ; “Pd ‘ * erations his tribe had lived and fished on Gambier bay his people had berlain, “I'll send the signal.” rose, calling vainly for ald How many there are still down in the deep in their cabins no Finding further sleep impossible, 1 dressed ond Frail IEA: RiGee ed Ob Gacabane Day pent ee Meese brah ba. Uaptara, teak ewe mbnteakt oe went down to breakfast. The meal finished, I went. :jppou the stea from ‘bow to engifie roo encoun ym the floor of the big dining room tables and ; ag r too, have been those », in the confusic out on the middle deck and joined my brother. We PASSENGERS SEE MRS. WARD at, So, are nese Cee wa ao ee ITALLHAPPENEDIN THREE MINUTES, Were going at good speed. The sea was smooth, the |. Severs! passenrors of (ie state tn remember seeing Mrs members of the crew of the State of California re ! 4 e of the assista anager of the ast Ste nip Co. vorted at the offices of the Pacific Coast Steams 5 nis mort weather delightful, when Hately after the ship struck, and who was lost with her daughter. ei ; ; hed par nuraeecits Capt. E. L. MeNobie, Persia ae thar ogee They say she returned to her stateroom to get a heavy wrap, as she # I left the saloon I hurried to the bow of the vessel prea cesta pany, to report to J. J. Morgan, port steward , “The ship struck with a crash, and the rock, rip-| Ping through the bottom, made a sound which it to be a weric She was caught In the and her body was later seen tossing among the did not believe the acct¢ # one stateroom and drowned lowered from been th boats had boats were useless it them to swing free. the port side The ause of the list of the boat, which would not} . he W nd he To each man fn his turn were as given an order for a su submitted various samples of cloth, it of clothes of the material chosen. Caused me to think of a giant tearing cloth. bag sae gt | Permit them to ew ink tree. sible that all I tell you now could have hap-|__ 1 addition, each man was fitted out with shirts, underwear, col- THOUGHT ACCIDENT NOTHING “2 eee | pened wit three minutes, I had hardly reached the deck of the lars, socks, etc., 80 that by tonight the wardrobe of every member of 7 remember I laughed a laugh of annoyance, for I thought there Vessel when the boat seemed to right iteclf a little, and some one| the crew of the California will have been replenished. been a trifl accident which would cause delay. I sald to m called out above all the turmoll and confusion that we were on the "- = # A> brother: ‘Oh, bother!’ but got no further, for the ship was re. MEMBERS OF CREW DESCRIBE | beach and safe | @runkenly this way and that ’ | “Up on the bridge Capt. Cann was calling out his orders. As soon| | 5 “A man rushed past me, his face ike chalk, crying, ‘W! is my as the boat struck he had blown three sharp blasts of the whistle, and Iittle boy? Oh, God! where 1s he?’ And even then I did not guess. | over at the cannery, not far away, men were running about ,preparing : ; 2 bea “My brother d od me to the starboard rail, but at that moment| to put out with the gas boats there NEW YORK, Aug. 22—Former| PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22.—Philt the ship listed to por aaa NARNEGNS Then came one of the most harrowing incidents ever told in} co, ustice Edward E. McCall,|adelphia today stands first “We rushed Hh etd the deck and were trying to climb into a Hfe| ‘There may be a man or woman somewhere among those saved from stories of disasters of the sea. There came another list to port and Soueaah. vt he bt “ ik fie ‘cities aries tp adore eis t, when | was pitched clean over into the water |the wreck of the State of California, in which, it is now estimated, 34 forward. Gathered together on the bow of the boat were the passen fon, Pe accepted the}semaphore for regulating “street “I remember now that I did not know the water was cold died, who can tell chronologically the story of that disaster, but if there gers from the dining cabin and those who had come from their berths. + of Chas. F. Murphy to become | traffic. . SANK AND ROSE AND SANK AGAIN |is, he or she must be of iron nerve and inured aimost beyond belief to = “With them were the members of the crew-—engineers and fire-| ‘Tammany Hall's candidate for the} A device known as the Porter a the perils of the sea. |men, driven from their places down below, waiters, stewards, deck-|yomination for mayor. Ray traffic eamaghore tocar to I sank, rose, clutched at some wreckage, sank again. At last I This morning, at the offices of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., on| hands and officers. Pc . Pere eee ae aught a spar or something. Pier B, there are men who will tell you that they went down Into the This: elirainates: Mayor: Gaynor ss | ayers Hon ete. eee nen ae " 1 ¢ : | ee a Tammany candidate, and he now|Broad and Chestnut sts., where "Now let you the story of that brief space in sounds— tel Sounds that will haunt me always “First there was the crash and then ripping when the ship struck. | me Then silence there rose from ery. I tell you it Volce of many dy! “Some me “I saw ( fing on a piece The ship went down with a rush, but in silence. Then, heaving, troubled water a single plercing, agonized seemed Ii voice, though I know it was the @. one took me aboard. from the bridge th k of re t on the who ha pilot house ain Cann stand heen pite and ca lirect wo 16 SMOKESTACK FALLS IN BOAT valley of the shadow of death and came back—how and why they do} not know, They arrived in Seattle, these survivors of the State of Cal-| ffornia’s crew, at 2 o'clock this morning from Juneau, aboard the steam- | er Jefferson. They are not men who talk of Providence, but there were one or two who seemed to feel that an unseen power somewhere must have raised them from the depths and cast them up for rescuing hands to grapple and to save. STEWARD TELLS OF THE TRAGEDY MAST CRASHES DOWN ON LIFEBOAT “Alongside the vessel were three lifeboats, filled, or partly filled, with passengers, each in charge of members of the crew “As the boat listed down onto two of the into the sea the was Indescribable. lifeboats, men the smokestack and women who were in them “The deck on which we stood quivered and groaned and mast broke breaking them to pieces and epilling and crashed The confusion asserts he will run on an independ- ent ticket, The republicans have endorsed John Purroy Mitchell for the may- oralty nomination. ‘DION'T LAND IT BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 22.—E, L, traffic is as heavy as at any cross corners in the world, according to Philadelphia officials. It is sim- flar to those used on ratlroads ex- cept that it 1s operated by the ‘crossing policeman” by hand HUERTA WARNED “l was transferred to lifeboat The smokestack fell across an. “i tw ce Mie boat ci Hoag henge geeie je tenitan’ haw wave all utile Then the sea seemed to rise up about us. A great wave ORMO | ey atinrias’ GF Ae ic], WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Secre- Soot feces the siaok blackened way face and neetel wie trom teed 7 i crashing over the bow, and men and women passengers, officers and | Skeel, attomey: | eg ries as Ce ltary of State Bryan today warned tS foot ‘ . a | P. Knight, a steward, who was on duty In the dining room, prompt-| crew were swept away in a sea of wreckage. I came to the surface |feated for president of the Interna: | provisional President Huerta, Gen, ie riierd hatch ile even dhe hotda, dived hia dOUd. layer Jed by other rescued men who stood about, told perhaps the most com-| with wreckage and human beings all about me tional Association of Rotary Clubs, | Carranza, the rebel leader, and lo- Beart’ nen thee iavae: aed we Hate coweriads to Nalp tem, | Pin ony one. Gamater CO TRS RIAs Sbig anprnies, He coulda’t tell “The vessel was bow down and half-way under, She seemed to|*fter a close contest, by Russell F. | ca) Mexican officials at La Boquil- y were dying under that layer, and we were powerless to help thes i¢ all, but with the aid of fellow-workers in the ateward's department | — = Greiner of Kansas City. L. F. Allen ig” that they ‘would be held per man, Their ries gl pt pect ves aa on wer be vee fresh 7 Bi “| the tale came out In all its terrible detail : was re-elected acting assistant sec-|sonally responsible for the safety . Their fz ut an hed almo J | “We were in the dining room,” said Knight, “serving breakfast to| retary. of Shirley C. Hulse, son-in-law of “We were transferred to sti a third boat. Miss Lillian Ward was | lying tn the bottom, dying. She flashed a faint smile of recognition @ me, for we had become acquainted, then lapsed into unconsctousness. about 40 passengers, It was a splendid morning, and the sea was calm. Suddenly there came a fearful shock, Sideboards and tables were) wrenched from the floor and passengers and waiters thrown down = In- PENNANT, COUPON NO. 48 GUNBOATIS SUNK Lieut, Gov. Reynolds of Pennsyl- vania, who was captured by Mexi- can rebels two weeks ago. No news a . THEY WADED ASHORE ‘ i stantly the boat Iisted sharply to port and ront streams of water pour- Any four coupons clipped from The Star, has been received of Hulse for ten '@ wated ashore, and worked over Miss Ward, who was dying.|ed in through the port holes on the lowered side. | 5 days. We could do nothing. Inatictivly we renched for the port hole glasses, and but a few consecutively numbered, when presented at The STOCKHOLM, Aug. 22.—A 2 ‘ es ag, 7 yd, wife of the Pacific Const Steamship company's| seconds could haye elapsed before all of bts aaa hd Somes. The tee Star office with 15 cents, will entitle you to a HH] grog cruiser rammed and sank a|,,NEWBURGH, N. ¥.. Aug. 22.— ent, ar Hamilton, of Fresno; wer@ also in the life boat | Ing was, how of but momentary benefit pei area . d eank | orald Drake, Wilbur Frost With Ward With a report Ike that of a muffled explosion, every glass in 65-cent Pennant. Michigan Pennants now out. fons Se Real alg ‘ William Dewitt hold the 4 P he Mrs. Floyd told me, “whem the crash|every port hole In the dining saloon broke in as though tt had been Pennants will be sent by mail if 5 cents addi- la? feared. pavarnl "pertons vere | Stound bieyele riding record me, M " sawing away with 4 iat knife at the !'fe boat) made of card! i] . . . Rcheate ’ . . ’ rode from here thirty miles toward tackle when we were pitched overboard It seems remarkablasthat any of us should have escaped. Just as tional for each Pennant is enclosed. Bring or ij drowned New York in ghe aqueduct “When I rose to the surface, | found myself in my husband's arms. | we instinetivel 1 the port foles, so did our sea senae prompt us ff mail to The Seattle Star, 1307 Seventh Avenue, NEW YORK, Aug, 22.—The high| j¢yate-rowstana nek We wore heavy coats, and it was hard swimming. We drifted tarther| to herd the passengers up out of the saloon onto the deck near Union St. Goat of ving was emphasized here|utation of ‘being thoroughiy” heh clase, nd farther away, my husband clutching at fragments of wreckage. “To our credit it should be said that no walter or steward left the | ad when the police found 47 pawn|!t !® not the largest business school tm the city, but it ts Unquestionably the Dest. ‘When o quarter of a mile from the wreck, he managed to get hold of| dining room until every passenger had been driven out, t Wg EE tickets on Miss Surah Thomas, Advertisement,