Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-18

volved in it. But, the horror of the sit
ua ion is immeasurably heightened by
the reflection that the destruction OF
of life could have been lesseped il not
entirely prevented. The vessel was sent
TO sen in a condition that invited disaster.
She WAS 50 rotten that her timbers could
be pulled apart with the hand, and when
she struck she went to pieces like an
earthern dish. This is case for the
sternest investigation. Whoever was
responsible for sending these illfated
men TO their graves, should meet the
full punishment that too lenlent law
permits, and the official who allowed
floating coffin to pass inspection should
not be overlooked.
THE LIST OF SAVED
Is as follows: Capt. Thomas Warren, j.
C. Carroll, James Ring, Andrew w.
Look, Louis Tahiti. Edmund Kuhn, AN
tonic Margadio, John Lonbo. Joseph
Antonio, Manuel de la Anton, Perry Z.
Steuber, Peter Nelson, James Hender-
son, l.. A. w. Lejune. Alfred S. Il. Nc
Crocker, Edgar Lea, John J. Nye, An
tone Gonsales. Charles Indies, William
Thomas, Joseph Antoine, Thomas Ryan,
John Gardner, Charles Berdan, Patrick
Larelle, w. Mansfield, Charles Forsberg,
Jose Belloo, John Anthony, Edward
Tracy, j. C. Carroll, John Moore, W..
Finn. Tom Brown, Peter Miller, Joseph
Stedely, VIM. j. Colbert, E. j. Brown,
VIM. Harrington, G. M. Ketanos, Chas.
II. Chesterton.
j. Ring, the second officer of the At
l,,t;o ,a,I. IN n'olnnl T no- in N, u
bunk, when the captain called me and
said he was going to drop anchor. We
were then half q mile from shore in n
dead calm, with heavy swell. At IL
o'clock the second anchor was dropped.
aud l went back to my bunk. | was
sound asleep, when l was awakened by
thud which hoisted me out of the
bunk and sent me spinning around on
the floor. was badly Jared, and the
vessel was all the while quiyering like a
building during the earthquake. Just
as | got on deck the vessel struck bot
tom again, and heavy swell swept the
deck, knocking oil several men. The
scene was terrible one to witness, but
the men held on with a death-grip to
ropes, spars or anything they could get
hold Of" Ring then graphically de-
scribed how both boats which left the
vessel were swamped, his battle with
the waves aad his rescue. He con-
cIuded: 81 have seen brave men, but
Captain Warren beats any of them. |
never saw a vessel break up SO in my
life. The timbers cracked and were
torn to pieces as though they were paper
instead of wood"
Andrew M. Look, another of the sur.
vivors, said: II was on board the ship
with several Others at the time the life.
saving crew fred line out to us, but it
was no use. The idea of sending line
out to men when in that kind of a fix
with great sea running all over them!
Why in the devil didn't they get out
their life boat and do something"
L. ii. Walling, another of the surviv.
ors, was badly injured in the groin.
He stated that he went to bed between
10 and III o'clock last night, at which
time, although the vessel was still drag
ging its anchor, everything was sup.
posed to be all right. He said: sit
was about ! o'clock, l should judge,
when heard the rattling of the anchor
chains, and little while after the ves-
sci struck. l rushed up on deck, but
was knocked down by heavy breaker,
which had just broken oveI the vessel
l regained my feet and jumped into the
boat, which they were lowering at the
time, but the boat swamped before she
had proceeded length from the vessel,
and l was thrown into the boiling
sea. Somebody caught hold of
me, AMI, although | struggled with
all my might to get away, l COLD not
do it and gave myself up as goner.
We both sank to the bottom and then
the poor fellow-I don't know who it
was-released his grasp and l arose to
the surface. After being tossed about
for some time. was finally cast upon
the shore, where somebody picked me
up and carried me out of reach of the
waves"
Adolph Sutro was round at an early
hour and sent down a quantity of un-
derclothing for the wrecked sailors, be-
sides giving members of the crew IS
each. John Heenan, a hackman, was
from the beach with party
of four--two ladies and two gentlemen
this morning at the time of the wreck.
He says the heard voices on the beach
and drove down. When the true state
of affairs was learned, he and his pas
sengers at once proceeded to lend their
assistance, and worked there ell night.
The ladies' took off their fine cloaks and
kindly wrapped them around the rescued
sailors.
Up to midnight no increase had been
made to the single corpse of last night,
which was taken to the morgue during
the day, nor were any more men discov-
cred to have survived the catastrophe.