The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-12
THE LATE TERRIBLE DIS
ASTER AT SEA.
275 Persons go Down ON the
FPncifIc.
LOsS OF THE sTEAMER PACIFIC.

4th, founde,ed at sea, forty miles west
of Flattery. The steamer was on her
way to San Francisco with one hundred
and fifty souls on board, all of whom
perished, so far as known, except Mr..
Henry L. Jelley, whose story Of the
dreadful disaster we append below. He
was picked up, after 36 hours Of expos
ure and suffering, about twenty miles
south of Cape Flattery. by the Amcri-
can ship Messenger, Capt. J. F. Gilkey,
lashed to portion OF the pilot house OF
the Pacific.
Following is list of those supposed
to be lost, fourteen of the first names
mentioned, together with ten or twelve
in the steerage, being from Puget Sound,
while the balance were from Victoria !:
j. Helmuth and wife, Mrs. NIahou and
child, II. C. Victor, q. T. Vining, Fred
d. Hard, G. 3. Davidson aud wife 4.
Robbins, T. Allison, o. Mcpherson,
VIM. Maxwell, B, Woods, John Tar
bell, VIM. Ammiss, NJ. Wilson, VIM.
Purpary, a. Lang, John G. Todd, j.
McLanders, Dock Young, J. Fitzgerald,
J. Condor, c. Chisholm, A. Frazer, J.
s. Webster, Hulburt & Rockwell troupe,
F. Garesche, Miss A. Reynolds, Miss.
+. Palmer, Mrs. AIoote, Mrs. Lawson,
James Lenninga, Mrs. S. Styles and
child, D. G. Mcintyre, c. B. Fairbanks,
Capt. and Mrs. Parsons, A. Is. Oaway,
W. J. Ferry, j. F. Johnston, Thos.
Smith, John Cochrane, S. p. Moody,
I. J. FerrelI, NJ. Summers, j. Cahill,
John Watson, VIM Wills, James II.
Webbs, VIM. Policy, Cal. Vaudeville,
wife and child r. Hudson, III. Cline, Z
P. Atkins, Thomas Reverly, r. Layzell,
Edwin III. Policy, w. Waldron, John
Lee, G. Gribbell, Geo. Morton, John
McCormic, John Sampson, Isaac Webb
P. T.. Chapman, and 40 more in the
steerage.
STATEMENT OF HENRY l.. JELLEY
My name is Henry Frederick Jelley.
am native of Ireland, but have lived
for the last nine years in the Dominion
of Canada, and am of the age of p years.
I took cabin passage on board the steam
ship Puci1ic OF which J. ID. Howell was
master, on the morning of Thursday the
4th inst, for voyage 20 San Francisco,
CAL, and on the same morning at about
0:15 the steamer LETT the harbor of Vic
toria, b. G.
There were about 500 people on board
more or less and we steamed all that day
against a head wind, blowing from the
southeast fresh. During the day the
crew were constantly pumping water
into the boats to keep the steamship on
an eye. keel, first on one side and then
OH the other, and she would list &c either
side alternately, as noticed the boats
a..afG the paddle-boxes had no oars in
then. on either side, but the forward
boats lcd oars in them. Between 8 ard
9 o'clock that evening, and while was
i'm the cabin IN bed, heard crash and
felt shock as If we had struck rock, or
something of the kind, and heard some
thing fall as if q lot on rocks had broken
into and fallen in her starGoard bow, and
Immediately heaFd the oeil stfike 70
stop her, and then 70 Dack her ana taen
strike to go ahead. l Went on deck and
there heard voices forward say, "It is
all right; we have only struck yes
scl,7 and looking around saw several
lights some { stance on on our starDoard
beam. l think there were thTee lights,
but | do not think they were coiored
lights, but did not pay much attention
to them. lwent back into the cabin and
was about tc turn IN, when noticed her
taking heavy list to port. and then
thought she was going down and went
on deck. heard some one say she is
making water very fast forward. Wens
,a ,orWafa q. 70 sle pllot-nouse, ana there
heaI1 si'e PuIser ask .lle captain Wiat
Doat ne Wouau take charge OF; dia not
near 1he answer. asked the captain
Il, Il 1nete were no o,oe iignts OF gum
ne told me would hud Dlae lights IN
Gtt0 pfAOl-nOttees ne captain was at