Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-18
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
WRECK OF THE BARK ATLANTIC
NEAR THE CLIFF HOUSE.
A Rotten Hulk, Not Fit to be on the
Ocean-Thirty Lives Lost,
and Eight Saved.
[san Francisco Bulletin, December nth.

[san Francisco Bulletin December 17th.J
a terrible disaster occurred within a mile
and half OF the Cliff House about 3
o'clock this morning. At that hour the
whaling bark Atlantic, which sailed yes
terday on whaling cruise to the south Pa
cifc went ashore and became total loss
She had on board a crew. of forty men, of
whom thirty were drowned, although there
| is life-Saving station within a short dis
lance of the wreck. Captain Warren, the
mate and eight seamen were saved.
The hull of the vessel was thrown high
| on the beach by the heavy sea which was
running, and was badly broken up. All of
her spars had gone by the board, and
pieces of the wreck were strewn along
the beach for three or four miles. There
was no wind, and the consequence was
that the vessel, which pulled her an
Choir, was drifted upon the sand, where
she was soon pounded nearly in pieces.
The crew of the life-saving station did all
in its power to save life, and would have
saved more men than escaped death had it
not been for the rotten condition of the
vessel, which went to pieces almost as soon
| as she struck the beach. Only one body of
those drowned had been recovered up to
noon.
Out of crew of forty men, all told, only
ten escaped with their lives. The dead
body of one man was recovered, but tie
remaining twenty-nine are as yet unac-
| counted for.
When the men Of the Life-saving corps
got TO work, several men were found strug-
Cling amongst the wreckage and these
were quickly taken to the boat-house, and
resuscitated. One unfortunate fellow,
though, could not be revived, although
three hours were spent in the endeavor
By daylight the Inflated bark was moth
ing but an unrecognizable mass, and por-
lions of the vessel were strewn for fully
three miles up and down the beach.
THE STORY OF THE CAPTAIN.
The Captain of the Atlantic, T. P. War
rem, related the particulars of the disaster
about IS follows 1--WE left Main-street
wharf yesterday forenoon, but it was not
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon that the tug
Sea Witch left us outside the bar. 1t was
very calm at the time scarcely enough
wind blowing to fill our sails. The sea was
running high, with a strong current, and as
the tide was on the ebb it was obvious that
we were drifting back on the bar. I or
dered an anchor lowered, and this being in
sufficient to hold the vessel, we lowered an
other. We staid here for several hours,
with the swell constantly sweeping our
decks, and frequently dashing up into the
rigging. Somehow or other the anchors
would not hold, and we kept dragging
south. Shortly after midnight don't re-
member the time-the vessel struck in the
sand, and from that time on she began to
go to pieces. The fog was so thick you
| couldn't see your hand before your face.
Two boats were Immediately lowered. The
first boat contained first mate Doty, third
mate Perry. and two or three sailors. II
had hardly got clear of the vessel, though,
when it swamped, and its occupants were
lost. the second boat contained second
mate Ring, several sailors and myself. We
were just pushing off when two more men
| jumped in, and our boat swamped. We
chung to the boat and were washed ashore.
STATEMENTS OF OTHERS.
Major Blackenay of the Life. saving Serv-
ice says that had not the anchors of the
vessel been out there would have been a
better opportunity of saving more lives, as
the vessel would not have broken up so
quickly, and could have been hauled upon
the shore.
James H. Daraby, who keeps a saloon on
the ocean beach, states that he had never
seen the sea running so high as it was last
evening since the time when the King
| Phillip was wrecked in the same locality.
John Heenan, hickman, was returning
from the beach with party of four-two
ladies and two gentlemen-this morning at
the time of the wreck. He says they heard
voices on the beach, and drove down.
When the true state of affairs was learned,
he and his passengers at once proceeded to
| lend their assistance, and worked there all
night. The ladies took off their fine cloaks
and wraps, and kindly wrapped them
around the rescued sailors.
THE SURVIVORS.
! The survivors are: Captain T. P. War
rem, James B. King, Antonio Margardio
Andrew w. Look, Louis Tamil. Joseph
Antoine, Manuel Delarosa, I. II. Walling
Edmund Kuhn and John Lambert None
of the surviving sailors knew the full name
of the unfortunate whose body was recov-
cred, knowing him only as French joe"
| 1t is thought that when the tide GIBBS more
bodies will be recovered.
THE CREW OF THE ILI-FATED VESSEL.
AT the Custom house the following names
were obtained as those constituting the
| crew OF the Atlantic: Thomas Z. Warren,
Captain Zenu H. Doty, second mate Jas
! R. Ring, third mate Antoine Perry, fourth
mate Antonio Margarido, Chas Stenber,
Peter Nelson, Joseph Antoine Santos. John
Lambe, Andrew Locke, boatsteerers Jas.
Henderson, cook l.. A. W. Lejune, stew
ard Alfred E. McCracken, carpenter
Edgar Lee, cabin boy John J. Nye, engi-
neer Antoine Consoles, Charlie Indies,
William Thomas, Joseph Anton, Thomas
Ryan, John Gardner, L. E. Kuhn, Charles
Berdan, Patrick Lavelle, w. Langield las
sistant engineer), Charles Farsburg, Jose
| Belloc John Belloc, John Anthony, Ed
ward Tracy, ]. E. Carroll, John Moore W.
Finn, Tom Brown, Peter Miller, Joseph
Stedely, W. r. Colbert, L. n Walling, NJ.
De la Rose E. J. Brown, William Harri--
gan, G. NJ. Ketanos, Charles H. Chesterton,
G. NJ. Kelanos (steward), Louis Tahiti
The Atlantic is owned by j. & w. R.
Wing, and is from New Bedford, Mass.
She was over thirty years old, and was
very rotten. Coroner O'Donnell, who was
on the scene all the morning, declared it to
be public calamity that such vessels
are permitted to go to sea.