Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-09
ilIrBR GEN BURNED.
;, PARTICULARS of the Ter
rible Catastrophe.
u,mau Beings Jump Overheard
sud Fiud Watsry Graves

I.omeY UStH =,
@ c;tv and intermediate points
'l's go fre,ghted with 800 sacks o
an y FIVE tons of hag. seven barrels T.s o..
~. ~ ana 10. of castings for the
~. g. Mil Company also three
s' = bsd.room furniture, and consid
~" ,,iscellaneous freight, including
Cd trunks and valises containing
s s','g samples. Her entire oarq'
Drobablg worth $500. She ais
blfCu' ...,,,,,c,ns
.rdFC. Vickery, wife and sister
,p q Bufum, travelling salesman
White. Goldsmith & Co, Of Port
~ Oregon. The Gem carried The
s s named crew: VIM. William
:. c,plain,y. L. Plaskett, engineer
- =, Rowan, George Gowan, f. Rails
=, -. and Maurie Michele, deck-hands
Nab B1ng, COOK.
ALL WENT WELL
M time. The steamer arrived al
r.di.on all right, where she remained
:, ...,ly 8 o'clock, when she continued
10, course. 1T quarter to 4 O'Clock
!. v,s of Apple Tree Cove, steaminp
.l,.gat a good pace, in the face Of a
.rb-aeze when all at once cloud of
10 was seen iasuing from the hay,
a w.. Yen feet aft the boiler. At once
tie alarm Of
"FIagl FTgE !"
s.e GIVEN, and all hands rushed to as
w. IN extiuguishing the flames, but
II nv stroag breeze the fire spread
=, yssidly. and the Captain ordered
" wy b tf iogered. Confusion reiened
Aa,ooe as The flames leaped higher
~ HIGHER. aud tho life boat
-, sgampsd in the lowering SO that
vas utterly useless. Finally the
sn,l boat was lowered, and two deck
isr5: and the China cook jumped into
~ eansizel it. and two OF them were
Sncnpd. Assoon AZ Captain william
~ discovered his boat on fire, he
armed her toward the shore, which
.ssrearlv three miles off, aud ordered all
,e,ible steam, bnt before she had gone
,auarter OF II mile, tho tllier ropes
b5npd of, and she became unmhnage-
III and drifted about NJ will. No help
vs. plgh, and il seemed almost certain
asi all hands must perish.
AN AFFECTING SCENE.
imong tie passengers were r. e.
yItsefy and wife, a young III ,rrieo oou-
ds on their way to Skokomish, where
II. Vickery had been appointed indus
hi tegcher to succeed A. L. Burnell
INTickery was also accompanied by his
ayHr. Wishing To save his own life
md that Of his wife from the terrible
,nes that were Kissing and cracking
baeltb and around them, he jumped
mo the Sound, and looking up ut his
wife said in a tender voice, Come
iey, IN save you." Having all conf
dsnsa in her husband she Jumped over
board hnt tainted ~ ahe struck the
water. The young husband swan &c
her. end they sank amid the waves II
each Others embrace.
By tbs tune the house had fallen in
and things We're getting terri ly hot oi
board. Captain Williamson threw th'
sra0r Oyorboard SO as 10 swing hei
I hEd h tho wind, rs all on board hac
uasled on the bow. Hiss Fanny Wick
s,syOupg lady about Is or 10 year.
oil. attempted many times to JUMP
@'boayd, ~ her brother and sister-in
hE bal done. but WAS prevented by thu
Gr and Mr. Buffum.
Alter an hour of terrible suffering
hon heat and fear, two small boa'i
banned Ivy loggers came To the rescue
Those who stood on the bow OF tn,
hrning steauer, shielding themselves
hon tho fire by chunks of wood or any
king they could get to place between
tsmselves and the flames. Their fears
we're increased by the expectation thai
b boiler would explode, but fortunate
BIT did not.
Soon the steamer Addie came along
hl took the survivors on board, anc
nrted to tow the burning wreck
bout this time the
EvAGGEL
Gne and the waves from her washed
Hsr .he Gem, and all that remained OF
asM.fated steamer sunk forever from
rortal view. The survivors were placed
q boar the Evanpel. and arrived here
Eten O'clock last night.
LIST or THE LOST.
following is Il list of those who jump
nOserboard and drowned: +. G. Wick
q aud wife: l.. Raisbaok. deckhand
sto Gowan, deckhano; All Bung, China
sos
NOTES.
Y L. Plaskett saved himself by
n0wlng a gang plank overload, and
Esng on it.
It Is supposed the fire caught by a
sik from the smoke stack, aliehtinl
l,he hsy.
The Gem is the first steamer ever
nlasd on Puget Sound. She WAS load
WV W. D. Scott & Co, of this city, fol-
y Pn9et Mil Company.
III bufum.t the commercial traveller,
Mall hls samples, valued at $500. and
~ mad his hands badly burned i'll his
uueaVors to save himself and bis fellow
hSengers.
Mss Fanny Nickerv is left without
saaer mother or brother, but she has {
Set in California.
THE STEAMER GEA.
~ built in Michael rierney's yard il
sse'sa Seattle in 1873 for Capt. G.. w
we and was run by him, principal,
sue White River route, till about sil
ss','ls AGO, wien she was sold to JOIN
ssheavy & Co., of Union City. and ht
NJ oeea in service principally oil
aos Canal for that firm. She wa
Sasa at ahou! $1,000.
STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
~, ne Gem and the Josephine we're boil
~ us same year. IN adjoining yard
ssSof1h Seattle, and launched within
m 50 OF each other. They botl
49, from other than their builder
sS' aud We're lost within \ few week
@,a other, and tina disasters oc
~. ~ within few miles of the sam
M and number of lives were los
NC obstruction of both boats.
Na'lo SMoTHEgEp.-One day las
"a lady named Mrs. Muuson, resid
aaar Colfax, was visiting friends i
suty and on starting for home too