Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-23
Loss OF rnE ELLa .. THAYER

Advices received by the steamer North
Pacific. yesterday, give the particulars
Of tbs loss Of the bark Ella s. Tsayer,
coal laden, from Tacoma, for San Fran
CISCO. The statement Of the Captain
appears in the Victoria ColORist of the
I'D inst. as follows:
We left Tacoma on December
9th and passed. Cape FIattezy
at u noon. Had heavy weather from
east northeast 10 southwest up to the
18Th. Al 6p. N. gale sprung up FROM
east southeass, and increased and
hauled to south southwest az q. IN on
the 10th, when the gale increased 10 q
hurricane, causing q fearful seq, toe
ship laboring heavily at q. N. The
seas washing over the ship, weshed
away the skyiiRhfs. filed the cabins and
started the fore and after houses from
the deck. and washed one boat over
board, split the long boat in two, and at
about 3 q. N. the ship spfang = leak.
The wafer gained rapidly, gaining on
the pumps about ~ inches per hour
At 1890 D. IN. GOT the ship OF TO run
back. Al 4 D. m. on the 18th, in lati-
tude 1910, longitude 1870, the ship
having about ten feet OF water IN the
hold, thought it prudent to abandOn
her. The crew, consisting Of fifteen, all
told, crowded, with Q few biscuits and
vaser, into the only remaining boat. of
twenty feet, and left the ship sinki
The crew suffered severely from q Q
cold and wet. We rode out q seve 9
gale on the night If the 18th with two
oars and a pieos of canvas for q drag.
On the morning Of the 18th we rugged
two blankets on an oar toy a sail. and
continued to poll TO eastw1 d. On the
the 18Th. at 10 q. m, sighted ship
ahead, pulled alongside and we're taken
on board the German bark Won Moltke
Ths crew were in q very exhausted state
when they came alongside.
In conversation Captain Madison
stated that the vessel vas owned by
Charles A. Eatsoe, Of San Francisco,
sRs built at Bath. Ne. and Was valued
~ $1,000, and was bound for San Fran
sisco with about 17c0 tons of coal. She
was q years old and had been on the
coast two aud Que half years. He said
that the weather was the toughest be
had experienced in the last twenty years
on the coast, aud feared thst all the dis
asters had not been heard from, and
some p obably would never be learned.
The see ran msuntains high, the waves
pilinR iu q Straight wall and thea break
ina over the deck. No vessel could have
ridden through snch gale. when they
took 10 the only bost remaining there
was only tiuse to throw q few biscuits
and six gallons of water in kegs into
her. This gave cut and they were for
thirty six hours without water, and for
twenty four hours without any food.
One sea struck seoond ofiser Henry
Thompson. cutting 9 cash in his scalp
from one side OF the head 10 the other,
through 10 tue bone. The poor fellow
sal in the boas soaked with salt water
for seventy-two hours. and the morning
the bark vas sighted be said to the cap
tain, Il don't thiuk Will live" When
eNrried on baaid the bark be became
delirious. They rowed and sailed 100
miles IN the Teu2h see before they were
picked up. and it was only By the great
est care that they kept afl0at.
They saved nothing bus the clothes
they bad on, sad we're in p table con-
dition when taken on board the German
bark.
Captain and crew SPEAK strongly In
praise Of tlIe generous conduct of Gap
tain Oox aud his family, vhe did every
thing possible TO make them comfoFta-
Die, giving them dry clothing and treat
ting thesa With the utmost kindness.
On their arrival here CAPTAIN Msth
son reported the affair 20 Colonel Stew
ems, the Am rtcan consul. who took the
crew In ch Ese, and they sre now ali
>omfoFtsbly heated At the Colonial.