The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-11-03
NEWS OF THE IVANHOE
Probable Fate of the Missing
Vessel.
WENT DOWN WITH ALL ON BOARD
The Ship Was Seen in Fierce Gale in
Distress, and Then Suddenly
Disappeared.

SEATTLE, Nov. 2-The lumber schooner
Fanny Dutard, Captain Peterson, arrived
at Port Blakely yesterday. She reports
that the missing Ivanhoe, with F. j.
Grant, ex-minister to Bolivia, on board,
probably sank on the afternoon of Sep
tember 80.
''We left Port Blakely," said Captain
Peterson, con September 26 last, bound
for Santa Barbara with lumber. We
sailed out under light wind and arrived
at the cape on the 30th, where we found
a strong southeast wind blowing. We
saw tug tow out ship that same
evening and drop her off the cape. That
night it rained very heavily, and there
was about 60-mile- -an-hour wind COM
ing up over the ocean. About II o'clock
1 think it was, that same night we saw a
ship to leeward of US. It continued
blowing heavy from the southeast all
night, and kept on till about IL O'Clock
of the morning of the 30th, when it
moderated. A ship was in company
with us, but too far away for us to make
out her name or what her cargo. She
appeared to have a terrible list to star
board. At about II 80 O'Clock was on
the port tack and the other vessel was
on the starboard tack, distant. 1 think,
about four miles. She was apparently
hove to with lower topsails. We could
see that something was wrong with her,
for her list was in the wrong direction, I
was not concerned much about her, for I
expected we would run nearer together
soon, and, having been up most of the
night before, went below about O'Clock
and turned in. Twenty minutes later,
or, as nearly as I can tell now, at 20
minutes past 1 O'Clock, my first mate,
Harry Staunton, came below, and, call
ing mGsysaid that the ship had disap-
peared. I hastened on deck at once.
The horizon was clear, and the ship had
disappeared as if by magic. After look
ing for her from the deck without seeing
her, ran up into the rigging and swept
the horrizen in the direction the vessel
had before occupied, but there was not g
sign of her presence visible. I then kept
the schooner off for 20 minutes to see i
any ships boats appeared on the water
or If any wreckage of any kind could bt
sighted. We could see nothing of thil
kind, SO 1 went to work and hove the
schooner to again in double-reeted sails
but while we were in the vicinity We
could see nothing of any boats or wreck.
age. The latitude we were in, as showr
by the schooner's log, was 47 :53, longi
tude 127 :01 west, Cape Flattery bearing
NE, 11aE., and distance 95 miles,
1t appears that Captain Peterson hac
not heard that the Ivanhoe was overdue
and probably lost, until he got back tC
Port Blakeley, when hearing it spoker
of, he at once connected her with the
ship he saw founder at sea. The Fanny
Dutard, instead of towing, sailed ou
and did not reach the cape till the Goth
one day later than the day the Ivanhoe
is reported to have been cast off by the
tug Tice. A storm is reported to have
risen the evening of the 28th off thu
cape, and the Ivanhoe must have beer
unable to make any headway against i
and remained close reefed not far of
the cape.
Captain Peterson had no means O
knowing if the vessel he saw on tn,
afternoon and night of the 29th was the
same that was near him on the mornins
of the 30th, but the presumption is tha
it was one and the same ship, and tha
ship must have been the Ivanhoe. She
was full-rigged vessel, without distin
gushing features.