The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-11-19
AARINE DISASTERS.
LOSS OF THE PACIFIC.


The following dispatch has been received
at San Francisco:
SEATTLE, w. T., Nov. Z.
The Daily Dispatch has received the fol-
lowing special dispatch from Fort Town
send This morning the American ship Mes
senger, Capt. J. 7. Gilkey, arrived, nine days
from San Francisco, and reports picking up,
twenty miles south OF Cape Flattery, part OF
the pilothsuse and Henry L. Jelly, only sur.
vivor Of the steamship Pacific, which sailed
from Victoria at nine o'clock Thursday
morning, and foundered forty miles south OF
Flattery at eight o'clock Thursday evening.
Jelly fiosted on the pilot-house fr m eight
o'clock Thursday evening 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 reaching part Of the Pilot-house. The
other man subsequently died from exposure,
and was cut loose by Mr.. Jelly.
The following is a list Of passengers, four
teen Of the first ones mentioned, together
with ten or twelve in the storage, being from
Puget Sound, and the balance from ,ictoria I:
J. IIellmute and wife, Mrs. Mahon and
child, ii. c. Vector, G. 7. Vening, Fred. D..
Hard, c. B. Davidson and wife, A. Robbins,
T. Allison, o. MePherson, VIM. Maxwell,
b. Wood, John Tarbell, VIM. Ammiss, NJ.
Wilson, W. Purday. Il. Long, John q. Todd,
aid, J. Condor, G. Chisholm, r. Frazer, J.
s. Webster, the IIurlbert a Rockwell
troupe, Mr.. Garesche, Miss A. Reynolds,
Miss +. Palmer, Mrs. Worte, Mrs.
Lawson, Ed. ii. Hotter, James Len.
ming, Mrs. S. Stiles and child, ID. Mcintyre,
c. b. Fairbanks, Capt. and Mrs. Parson, A.
B. Oway, W. J. Ferry, J. I. Johnston, 7.
Smith, John Coehrane, s. p. Moody, 7. J.
! Terrell, NJ. NJ. Summers, j. Cahill, J. Wat
| son, VIM. Well, James II. Webbs, VIM. Pol.
ley, Col. Vaudeville, wife and child, X. Hud'
son, II. Cline, u. z. Atkins, Thos. Beverly,
X. l.. Aysell, W. Waldron, Joha Lee, G.
Gribbell, Geo. Morton, J. Mccormick, John
sampson, Isaac webbs, p, Chapman and
/ forty more in the steerage.
The Pacific was wooden, s.de-wheel
steamer, of about nine hundred tons, built
| in 1851, by W. ii. Brown, New York, nearly
rebuilt here by the Pacific Mail Company
/ two years ago, docked and surveyed trip be.
fore last, and given certificate Of value OF
about 100000. The cargo was
hops and oats, worth about twenty-five
ship is forty-seyen thousand Ave hundred
dollars, divided nearly equally among the
Freeman's Fund, Union State Investment
Commercial, Swiss Lloyds, and New Orlean,
Mutual companies.
Capt. Howell has the reputation Of being
an efficient officer.
The ships complement was as follows
Master, J. ID. Howell first officer, A. N
McDonough; second, A. Wells; third, J
N. Lewis Purser, o. Hite, jr.i freight
clerk, \. II. Bigley chief engineer, 4. Hous
ton assistant, ID. NJ. Bassett; viisrs, Tbos
Lestrange and J. DugoD, jr. carpenter, X
Erickson watehman, Henry Norris stew
ard, J. Martin second steward, Charles II
Jackson; steerage steward, :. McNichol
first cook, J. NJ. Holdsworth; second, =
Miles; third, {. II. Whiting; bake rhos
Mulloy; Porter, X. T. Nehemiah stew
ardess, Hannah Muir.
There were also i've iremen, tour Goa
passers, ten seamen, two messEsn, tw'
pantrymen, and eight walters.
A recent dispatch 10 the Merchants ~
change, San Francisco, from Port Io~nsen'
says the United States revenue steame
Oliver Wslcott, at three O'Clock Mondel
morning, November =, picked up one OF th'
crew OF the Pacific on a raft thirty miles in
side the straits Of fuea. lie says Captain
Howell was drowned from the SAME raft, AM
that the Pacific Was struck by . vessel unde