New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-10
valued at 100000. She was built in 1873
at Chester, Pennsylvania.
Loss of the Steamship Pacific and all on


Loss of the steamship Pacific and all on
Board Save One.
SEATTLE, w. T., November THE Daily
Dispatch received the following special
from Port Townsend this morning:
The American ship Messenger, CAPTAIN
Jilkey, arrived, nine days from San Fran
cisco, reports picking up, tweuty miles
house and Henry L. Jelly, the only sur
vivor of the steamer Pacific, which sailed
from Victoria at 9 A. NJ. Thursday, and
fOundered forty miles south of Flattery at
eight O'Clock Thursday evening
Jelly toated on the pilot house from P.
M. Thursday until ten O'Clock on 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.
He states he was in the boat which
swamped, and with another man succeeded
in reaching part of the pilothouse. The
other man subsequently died from exposure
and was cut loose by Jelly.
The following is the list of passengers,
fourteen Of the first ones mentioned, to-
gether with ten or twelve in the steersge
being from Puget Sound, the balance from
Victoria: j. Hellmute and wife, Mrs
Mahon and child, II. c. Victor, G. T.
Mining, Fred c. Hard c. B. Davidson and
wife, A. Robbins. T. Allison, o. Mcpherson,
L.
William Omiss, NJ. Wilson, William Pur
dairy, A. Lang, John G Ladd, John NJ.
Chambers, Dock Young. j. Fi,z yerald.J Con
don. c. Chisholm. A. Fraser, j. s. Webster,
the Hurlburt and Packweil troupe, Gar
resche, Miss A. Reynolds, Mss Balmer,
Miss S. Balmer, Mrs Mertes, Mrs. Lawson,
Edwin H. Halter, james Henning, Mrs. 5.
Stiles and child, c. McIntire, G. B. Fair
banks, Captain and Mrs. Parson, A. B.
Sway, w. j. Perry, Thomas Smith, John
Cochrane, S. P. Moody, T. j. Terrell, M.
Summers, J. Cahll, John Watson William
Wells, j. II. Webbs, William Policy, Col
| onel Vaudeville, wife and child, r. Hud-
son, II. c. Linee, E. P. Atkins, Thomas Bev-
erlev, r. Lasalle, w. Waldrop, John Lee,
G. Gribbell, George Morton, John McCor-
mick, John Sampson, Isaac Webb, l.. Chap
man, and forty in the steerage.
| The ships complement was as fellows:
Master, j. D. Howell; first officer, A. N.
McDonough; second officer, A. Wells; third
| officer, j. w. Lewis; purser, A. Hill, Jr.;
freight clerk, S: H. Bigley; chief engineer,
| I. Houston; assistant, d. NJ. Basse'; oilers,
Thomas Listerage and j. Dugar, Jr; car
penter, r. Erickson; watchman, Henry
Norris; steward, j. Martin; second steward,
| Charles H. Jackson steerage steward S.
| McNichol; first cock, j. NJ. Holdsworth;
second, S. Miles, third, C. H. Whiting;
baker, Thomas Muller; porter, Robert 7.
| sleWdIucss, l1duudu
There were also five tiremep, four coal
passers, ten, seamen, two mess men, two
| pantrymen and eight walters.
| The New Orleans Mutual Insurance Com
pany had a small risk on the Pacific
1t is stated that Captain Jonas ID. Howell,
| of the lost steamer Pacific, was a brother
in.law of Jefferson Davis, and was formerly
an officer of the Confederate navy. He was
young man, but was supposed to be an
| eXperenced navigator
The Sole Survivor.
PORT TOWNSEND, November 9-Jelly, the
supposed sole survivor from the Pacific,
| was brought here by the ship Messenger in
wretched condition. He says the Pacific
collided with some vessel whose lights be
saw. Experienced navigators here think
| she struck a sunken rock.
His Statement.
took passage on the Pacific from Victo-
ria. leaving at fifteen minutes past nine
| O'Clock on Thursday. There were about
200 persons on board.
The steamer was all day against an east
ern gale. The crew were constantly pump
| ing water into the boats to trim the ship.
The boats abait the paddle boxes had nc
oars in them; the other boats had oars. Be.
tween nine and ten o'clock, while in bed
boat had struck rock. The bells struck
stop" hack her" "gO ahead went on
deck; heard voices say, "All right; we have
struck a vessel"
l cav several lights at a distance; they
were colored; went up to the pllothouse
and heard the remark, ''She is making
water fast" The captain came from his
room; he burned five blue lights; the en-.
gines were still working; no one was at the
wheel. l aided number of men, who
tried to launch the long boat, but could
not. There were twenty women in the
boat. heard the boats abaft the paddles
get of, but did not see them.
The steamer listed about an hour after
she struck, SO much, that the port boat was
in the water. l was in that boat and cut il
loose from the davits. The boat filled and
turned over. got on the bottom and helped
| several persons up. Immediately after the
ship broke fore and aft. The smokestack
struck our boat and the steamer sunk.
think about all the women we're in our boat.
Ali were donwned when the boat upset.
This was about ten o'clock. The night
was not dark nor the sea very rough.
left the bottom of the boat with another
man, and climbed to the top OF the pilot
house; pext morning l got some life pre-.
servers floating by. With their ropes
lashed myself and companion to the pilot
| house.
| men, the second two men and q woman;
could not make out the third. My compan
ion died Friday afternoon. saw vessel;
| called and heard the people Of the other
| raft call. The vessel did not come near us
| l saw two other vessels before being picked
up. The Hurlbut & Rockwell troupe were
| aboard.
Loss of the Boston Brig J. w. Spencer,
with all on Board-Fear for the safety
of Companion Vessels.
Boston, November 9.-Intelligence ha.
been received here of the supposed loss Of
the brig j. w. Spencer, of Boston, which
sailed from Navassa September IL, bound
to Charleston, South Carolina. Twenty
four hours after she sailed the terrific hurri.
cane commenced which caused SO much dam
age, and it is feared the brig was lost with
all on board. Her crew consisted of Cap
tain Joseph Thomas, of Ellsworth, Maine
John Albert Dawes, first mate, of Boston;
Alfred r. Wilder, second male, of Penn.
ard; William Broom. Charles Broom, Petel
Peterson, John Perry and A. Adam, sea
men, all of whom shipped in New York.
The Spencer was q good vessel. 3l5 tons
register, was owned in Boston, valued at
$l2 900, and insured for about one third OF
her value. When she sailed she left at the
island the brig Toronto and the schooners
Moses Patten and Nellie Chase, all Of which
put to sea during the hurricane, and none
of which have ever been heard from except
the brig Toronto which was seen drifting
past Jamaica, dismasted and abandoned
The schooner Serene, Captain Jones, o
Baltimore for Wilmington, sailed in com
pauy with the Spencer, and as it is nov
ne arly two months since these sailed, it Ii
doubtful it either of the five vessels O,