The record-union., 1894-11-03
SANK FROM SIGHT.
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF a
SAILING VESSEL.
Believed to be the Missing Ship
Ivanhoe-Story Told by
Schooner Captain
snecIal to the REcoRp-ux1or.

! Special TO the REC0RD-UNI0y
SEATTLE (Wash.), Nov. 1.-The lumber
schooner Fanny Dutard, Captain Peter
son, arrived at Port Blakeley yesterday
and reported that the missing Ivanhoe,
with L. j. Grant eX-Minister TO Bolivia,
and crew oftwenty men on board, prob
ably sank on the afternoon of September
9Th.
''We left Port Blakeley," said Captain
Peterson, son September 26th last, bound
for Santa Barbara with lumber. We
sailed out under light wind and arrived
at the Cape on the 18th, where we found
strong southeast wind blowing. We
saw tug towing out a ship that same
evening and drop her off the Cape. That
| night it rained very heavily, and there
was siXty-mile wind coming over the
sea. About II O'Clock, l think it was,
that same night, we saw a ship to lee
ward.
1T continued blowing heavy from the
southeast all night and kept on until
about ii o'clock the morning of the 30th,
when it moderated. The ship was in
company with US, but too far away for us
to make out her name or what was her
cargo. She appeared to have terrible
list TO starboard. About 1890 O'Clock /
was on the port tack and the other vessel
was on a Starboard tack, and distant, /
| think, about four miles. She apparently
hove to with lower topsails. We could
see that something was wrong with her
for her list was in the wrong direction. l
was not concerned much about her, for |
expected we would run nearer together
soon, and having been up most of the
night before 1 went below at l o'clock
and turned in.
Twenty minutes later. or. as nearly as
] can tell now, at 1:20 O'Clock, my first
mate, Harry Staunton, came below, and,
calling me, said that the ship had dis
appeared. / fastened out on the deck at
once, and the horizon was as clear as
though the ship had disappeared by
magic. l kept the schooner off for
twenty minutes to see If any of the ships
boats appeared on the water or if any
wreckage of any kind could be sighted.
We could see nothing of this kind, so |
went 10 work and hove the schooner to
again under dou uble-reefed sails, but while
we were in the vicinity we could see
nothing of any boats or wreckage. The
latitude we were in, as shown by the
schooner's log, was 47.53 N, longitude
127.1 W., Cape Flattery bearing northeast
one-half east. distant ninety-seven
miles"
1t appears Captain Peterson bad not
heard that the Ivanhoe was overdue and
probably lost until be got back to Port
Blakeley. When hearing it spoken of he
at once connected her with the ship he
SAW lOuuuOT aI sea.
HOPES FOR THE IvANHoE's SAFETY.
SAN Francisco. Nov. 2.-P. B. Corn
wall, President OF the Black Diamond
Coal Company, and principal owner of
the coal ship Iyanhoe, still entertains
considerable hopes for her safety, despite
what others think to the contrary. When
interviewed to-day concerning the story
told by Captain Peterson of the schooner
! Fanny Dutard, Mr.. Cornwall said it did
not in the least alter his opinion.
From time to time" said he, "wreck-
age has been picked up along the coast
north of San Francisco and reported as
being part of the 1vanhoe. Afterward L
have had 1t carefully examined, and have
found that not a bit OF it came from the
vessel. Not long ago the British ship
Elginshire put into one of the northern
ports, and her Captain reported that he
had passed quantity of wreckage,
among 1t ships mast and a portion of a
skylight. Both were painted yellow, and
as it was reported the Ivanhoe's masts
were painted that color the conclusion
was at once arrived at that this wreckage
must belong to our vessel, and that she
| had gone to pieces at sea. Now, as a
matter of fact, the 1vanhoe's maSts were
not painted at all. The spars, however,
were painted black, because she was car
rying coal, and light color would soon
become smeared by the dust from her
dirty cargo. The truth is, not the slight
est evidence has been found to confirm
the stories of the vessels loss: and l do
not believe that she is lost. My opinion
! is that the Iyanhoe lost some OF her sails
and spars in the storm which she proba-
bly, encountered shortly after she left Sc
attic, on September 9th, and that she
became disabled. / have enough con-
udence, however, in her safety to believe
that she is now somewhere in the ocean
| making slow headway for this port, and
| VIII arrive safely before long,"