The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-13
Etc.
LOSS OF THE SAGINAW.

The Wreck-FittIng Out the GiS-yerrible
Snnerings the WRy-rhe Disaster Co the
Boat-Loss OF Iltfo when the Boat Laadea.
The NY. Herald correspondent at San Francisco
sends the following additional particulars rela-
tive to the Saginaws loss:- snsaE
SAN Francisco, Jan. 12.-The United States
steamer Saginaw, Commander Sicard, went
ashore on Ocean Island at quarter of three
A. NJ. on the 28th of October. She had left
Midway Island on the day previous, taking with
her the contractors party of ninety-three men,
who were ut work attempting to deepen the
channel but who had abandoned 1t, deciding
the operation TO be entirely impractcable. All
hands were got on shore safely, and a consi1-
cradle amount of provisions was also landed.
The steamer went to pieces on the 14th of No
vember. rrh
The captains gig was prepared to go to Homo
lulu for assistance, and was manned by the fol-
lowing volunteers: s:-Lieutenant Talbot Peter
Francis, quartermaster; John Andrews, James
Muir, and William Halford. The gig left Ocean
Island on the 18th of November. After 1--WE days
out the crew experienced the most terrible suf-
feriDgs from want of fire and food and from
sickness On Sunday morning, December 18,
they sighted the land, and in attempting to
enter Hanalai the boat capsized. Andrews and
Francis were washed away and never seen after
wards.
Lieutenant Talbot, after cliuging to the boat
for short time, was also washed off and
drowned Muir was kept In the boat and was
a raving maniac. Another sea righted the boat
but unfortunately it was again capsized. Hal
ford and Muir succeeded in landing at Kahili,
about five miles from Hanalai. Muir soon after
died. Halford succeeded in procuring clothes
and feod from the natives, after he had secured
all the papers, chronometer and other instru-
ments from the boat. The bodies of Lieutenant
Talbot and Francis were washed ashore and
were buried at Hanalai
Halford left Kahili ON the schooner Wanona
e.ember 90 arriving at Honolulu on the 9th,
and Immediately related the circumstances of
the steamers loss to the United States Minister,
who at once chartered a schooner and des-
patched her with provisions to Ocean Island
Upon the matter being laid before the Govern
ment by the United States Minister, and on his
intercession, the Hawaiian steamer Kelonea was
Immediately despatched
Ocean Island, upon which the Saginaw was
wrecked, lies about ffty-tive miles west by
north from Midway Island, and has no connec-
tion with the French Frigate Shoals, which are
distant from it fully six hundred miles in a
southeasterly direction. From Ocean Island to
the nearest of the Sandwich Islands is about one
thous and miles.
Hanalai, where the boat was capsized, is a
small harbor on the north side of the Island of
Kanai one of the westernmost of the Sandwich
group, and Kahili, where Halford and Muir sue
ceeded in getting on shore, is point on the
same island about five miles to the eastward OF
Hanalai.
The knowledge that over ninety men, In addi-
ton TO the regular complement of officers and
crew of the Saginaw, were on board, renders
the possibility of the survivors suffering much
from hunger before relieved more probate
They have, however, succeeded in landing con
siderable provisions, and with proper economy
= and the possibility of catching birds and fish
they will be able to subsist for long time.
There is hope that if the steamship China calls
been able to let her know of the disaster. II
such is the case the whole party are doubtless
safe on board of her, and we may hear of them
first by way of China.