Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-05

be buried to-day, Engineer Grant was buried
yesterday. Nothing can be fsen of the
wreck but the top of the cylinder at low
water. Seven men were lost # toe foreyard
when the mast went overheard.
Captain Hill, of the Fearless, reports that
ne, with the tug, lay in twenty-eight feet of
water, and could hear the men on the wreck
calling to them, but could not render them
any assistance, as they had no boat that
could live in such sea as was running At that
time. They saw a boat put eff from the beach.
but ,t was oapsized before they got to the
wreck, and after being washed ashore the
crew righted the boat and made the attempt
second time, with ike result. The sea was
so heavy that no boat, such as was there.
could do any good. Captain Hill saw ave
men on the foreyard. The nases of the boats
crew that did such heroic deeds in trying to
save the men on the week were Breekman.
Dexter. Parsons, Breen, and one OF the ships
crew. and they deserve great credit for their
brave efforts to save life under the
adverse circumstances in which they were
placed by not having boat that was suitable
for such work in such sea. As Captain Hill
could do nothing to render any assistance
With the tug, he then went into the Umpqus
river, and on the next morning, Thursday,
he started to go to the life saving station at
Cape Gregory for the life-boat end the gun
for throwing lines on board of the wreck, but
when he got out Of the Umpqua river and in
sight of the wreck, the foreusst of the Ta-
CONS, with the men on its foreyard, had gone
overheard and all were lost. as there was
nothing more to be done he returned TO the
Umpqus river and came here this morning
The tug Sol Thomas will bring Csptain
kotts and the survivors here tomorrow The
wreck viii be sold today.
On Wednesday afternoon, when the first
news OF the wreck of the Tacona was received
here, requiring the assistance of q life-boat to
rescue the men then on the wreck, crew Of
eight men volunteered their services. and pro-
cseded that night af.er dark TO the live-saviDg
station at Cape Gregory distance from here
OF pine milsp, where they arrived as about IL
O'Clock that night, and informed the keeper
OF the station Of the wreck, and that
they came as volunteer crew, and
that the steam-tug Escort would be off
the station at daylight TO take them to the
wreck, and they, uEder the direction Of the
kespsr OF the lie station, proceeded TO put
the boat In condition for the trip. and launched
the boat and. with the keeperin charge. vent
about two miles 60 the southwest to practice
the crew III pulling the boat, and then pulled
back to the station and wbep, short time
after, the tug Escort arrived { # the station to
take them TO the wreck, the keeper Of the
station refused to go or allow the men TO take
the boat. Three Of them gos a small boat
from the lighthouse keeper and went off to
the tug Escort, that was waiting 70 take them
to the wreck, and informed Captain Maeee
that the keepsr would not 60 or let the boat
go. His cniy excuse for such conduct was
that he would no. go without an experienced
crew. As the tug would not be able to rem
der any assistance without the 1ifeboat CaI-
tain Msgee then came back to Empire CITY.
Captain Hill, of the tug Fearless, returned
from the wreck to-day, and thinks that if the
lifeboat and the gun for throwing lines had
been at the pace Of the disaster on the day
that the volunteer crew went to the station
for the boat, all those lost on the Inflated Ia.
coma would have been saved.
The Weafher-Questfon of Jurisdiction
Decided.
PORTLAND, February 4th. = The cold
weather continues, and the indications to-
night are that it win hold on for some days,
as the east wind still continues on the upper
Columbia, and the barometer is higher to-
night than it was ever known before. There
is considerable ice in the lower Columbia, but
the Astoria boats get down via Willamette
slough. A boom Of LOCO 900 feet Of logs of
the North Pacific saw mill broke loose to-
day, and were carried down to the Columbia
river, and only small part were recovered.
Judge Deady, in the United States Circuit
Court, in the csse of Sheriff Martin of Una
tilla county, decided yesterday that the
United Ststes Court had jurisdiction in cases
of murder of white men by Indians upon an
Indian reservation. The four India1s charged
with killing Mulheirin were arrested first by
the State autherities, then taken away from
them By the United States MAJ shal. and
were afterwsrd demanded by Sheriff Martin
on an order of Judge Balleray, Of the Sixth
Judicial District. Sheriff Msrtin was ar
7 ested for contempt of Court.