The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
MARINE DISASTERS.
LOSS OF THE PACIFIC.

LOSS OF THE PACIFIC.
The following dispatch has been received
at San Francisco:
SEATTLE, w. T., Now.
The Doily Dispatch has received the follow
ing special dispatch from. Pert Townsend:
This morning the American ship Messenger,
Capt. J. T. Gilkey, arrived, nine days from
San Francisco, and reports picking up,
twenty miles south of Cape Flattery, part of
the pilot-house and Henry l.. Jelly, only sur
vivor OF the steamship Pacific, which sailed
from Victoria at lime o'clock Thursday
morning, and foundered forty miles south Of
Flattery at eight o'clock Thursday evening.
o'clock Thursday night until ten o'clock
Saturday morning, when he was picked up
by the Messenger. Several boats were
launched, but all foundered.
Jelly is too low to give full particulars, but
he states he was in boat which swamped,
and with another man, succeeded in reach
ing part of the pilOt-hOuse. The other man
subsequently died from exposure, and was
cut loose by Mr.. Jelly. ~
The following is list of passengers, four
teen of the first ones mentioned, together
from Puget Sound, and the balance from
Victoria: J. Hellmute and wife, Mrs. Mahon
and child, Ii. c. Victor, G. T. Vening, Fred.
d. Hard, c. b. Davidson and wife, A. Rob-
bins, r. Allison, o. Mcpherson, VIM. Max
well, b. Wood, John Tarbell, VIM. Ammiss,
NJ. Wilson, w. Purday, r. Long, John e
Todd, John McLanders, Dock Young, J..
Fitzgerald, J. Condor, G. Chisholm, II.
Frazer, j. s. Webster, the Hurlbert & Rock
well troupe, Mr.. Garesche, Miss A. Reynolds,
Miss F. Palmer, Mrs. Worte, Mrs.
Iaueon I'D IT HoItar Iamee Ion.
ming, Mrs. 3. Stiles and child, ID. Mcintyre,
C. b. Fairbanks, Capt. and Mrs. Parson, A.
B. Oway, W.. j. Ferry, J. +. Johnston, T..
Smith, John Cochrane, s. p. Moody, I. j..
Terrell, M. M. Summers j. Cahill, j. Watson,
VIM. Well, James ii. Webbs, VIM. Policy,
Col. Vaudeville, wife and child, r. Hudson,
II. Cline, +. p. Atkins, Thos. Beverly, Il. l..
Aysell, w. Waldron, John Lee, G. Gribbell,
Geo. Morton, J. Mccormick, John Sampson,
Isaac Webbs, p. Chapman, and forty more in
the steerage.
The Pacific was wooden, side-wheel
steamer, of about nine hundred tons, built
in 1861, by w. II. Brown, New York, nearly
rebuilt here by the Pacific Mail Company
two years ago, locked and surveyed trip be-
fore last, and given a certificate of value of
about one hundred thousand dollars. The
cargo was hops and oats, worth about twenty.
five thousand dollars. The Insurance on the
dollars, divided nearly equally among the
Fireman's Fund, Union State Investment,
Commercial, Swiss Lloyds, and New Orleans
Mutual companies.
Capt. Howell has the reputation Of being
an efficient officer. At
The ships complement was as follows
Master, j. ID. Howell; first officer, A. N.
McDonough second, A. Wells; third, j..
NJ. Lewis; Purfer, 0. Hite, jr.; freight
clerk, s. II. Bigley;, chief engineer, T..
Houston; assistant, d. M. Bassett; oilers,
penter, X. Erickson Waterman, Henry
Norris; steward, j. Martin second steward,
Charles II. Jackson steerage steward, s..
McNichol; first cook, j. M. Holdsworth |;
second, s. Miles; third, c. II. Whiting !;
baker, Thomas Mulloy; Porter, r. Il. Nc
Nemain stewardesss, Hannah Muir.
There were also FIVE fremen, four coal
passers, ten seaamen, two messmen, two
pantrymen, and eight walters.
A recent dispatch to the Merchants Err.
change, San Francisco, from Port Townsend
Oliver Walcott, at three O'clock Monday
morning, November 8, picked up one of the
crew Of the Pacific on raft thirty miles in-
side the straits of Fuca. He says Captain
Howell was drowned from the same raft,
and that the Pacific was struck by vessel
under full sail. He says the steamer Cali
fornia passed in plain sight of the craft while
several were surviving, and other vessels
also passed in their vicinity. Two boats did
get away from the wreck. The Walcott has
also recovered one or two dead bodies. The
steamer Gussie Telfair reports seeing ves-
Esel in distress outside the cape, with the flag
of the Union down, and the bowsprit gone,
which was undoubtedly the vessel colliding
with the Pacific. The steamer Telfair has
recovered three bodies.
REPORTED LOSS OF TWO BRIGs AND THREE
sCHooNERs, WITH ALL ON BOARD.
Intelligence received at Boston leads TO
the belief that the brigs J. w. Spencer and
Toronto, and schooners Moses Patten, Nettie
Chase, and Serene were lost, with all on
board, during the terrible hurricane which
recently caused 50 much damage at Jamael
Navassa, Jamaica, and 81. Jago.
FATE OF UNKNOWN cAsrAwAYs.
The brig Palo Alto, at the port oil New
York, brought Frederick Hoffman and three
sailors of the brig Helen q. Rich, lost Sep
TENDER Is, on Damos Key, off the coast Of
CT bs. Hoffman stated that on the sixth
day after the Rich went ashore he observed
poles standing out from the rocks on key,
two miles away, and with some of the
sailors rowed to the spot, and discovered
the hull OF an iron vessel, nearly submerged,
near their landing place. In a rough, cir.
cular structure, built OF stones, they found
two decomposed bodies of seamen. In
another hut third body was found, and on
the opposite side Of the principal hut was
found third shelter, on which was still
another body, in recumbent position, rest
ing against the wall There was no food
found, and IL was evident the men had died
from starvation.
AN ATLANTIC STEAMER BURNED.
The Steamship City of Waco, of the Nal.
Tory Line, arrived from New York November
8, and was anchored outside with the fleet of
vessels at New Orleans. At one o'clock
next morning she was discovered TO be on
fire. A stroaG northeast wind was blowing
with showers Of rain. The passengers, off,
GERS, and crew took TO the ships open boats
at three o'clock, and passed through the.
feet. The sea was so high that the other
vessels could render them no assistance.
The last seen Of the open boats they were
drifting In westerly direction down the
coast The agents Of the line telegraphed
for list Of her passengers. One Of the
Galveston pilots, who had gone out on her
arrival, was also on board. Carriages were
sent down the beach and q steam tug dis
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