The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-11-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The lVanhOe.

SEATTLE. WASH, Nov, 2-The lumber
schooner Fanny Dutdrd, Captain Peter
son, arrived at Port Blakely yesterday.
She reports that the missing IDanhOe,
with F J Grant, ex minister to Bolivia, on
board, probably sank on the afternoon of
September 80.
1--WE left Port B!akely," said Captain
Peterson, "on September 26 last, bound
for Santa Barbara with lumber. We
sailed out under light wind and arrived
at the cape On the 26!h, where we found
a strong southeast wind blowing. We
saw tug tow out ship that same even
ing and drop her off the cape. That
night 1t rained very heavily, and there
was about 60-mile- an hour wind coming
up oyer the ocean. About 12 O'clock, I
think 1t was, that same night we saw a
ship to leeward of US. 1t continued
blowing heavy from the southeast all
night, and kept on till about II O'Clock
of the morning of the Both, when it mod
Grated. A ship was in compa ny with US,
but too far awsv for US to make out her
cargo. She appeared to have a terrible
list to sterboard. At abou. 12 80 O'Clock
was on the port tack and the other
vessel was on the stsrboard tack, distant,
| think, about four miles. She was ap-
parently hove to with lower topsails.
We could see that something was wrong
with her, for her list was in the wrong dI,.
rection. / was not concerned much
about her, for expected we would run
nearer together soon, and, having been
up most of the night before, went be-
low about l o'clock and turned in. |
Twenty minutes later, or, as nearly as / |
can tell now, at 90 minutes past o'clock, |
my first mate, Harry Staunton, came be-
low, and, calling me, SAID, that the ship
had disappeared. I hastened on deck at
once. The horizon was clear, and the
ship had disappeared as if by magic.
After looking for her from the deck
without seeing her, ran up into the rig
ging and swept the borlZon in the direc-
ton the vessel had before occupied, but
there was not sign of her presence vis-
lble. / then kept the schooner off for 90
minutes to see If any 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 to work
and hove the schooner to again in double
reefed sails, but while we were in the
vicinity we could see nothing of any
boats or wreckage. The latitude we
we're in, as shown by the schooner's log,
was 47:53. longitude 127:01 west, Cape
FIattery bearing N. E., 15E., and dis
.ance 90 miles"
1t appears that Captain Peterson had
not heard that the IUanhOe was ovdue,
md probably lost, until be got pack to
Port Blakley, when hearing it spoken of,
le at once connected her with the ship he
Jaw founder at sea. The Fanny Dutard,
instead of towing, sailed out and did not
each the cape till the goth, one day later
han the day the IDDnhOe Is reported to
lave been cast off by tug the Ttce. A
torm is reported to have risen the even
ng of the 2Sth off the cape, and the Igan-
Toe must have been unable to make any
leadway against it and remained close
'eefed not far off the cape. Captain
Peterson had no means of know
ng if the vessel be saw on the afternoon
md night of the 29th was the same that
was pear him on the morning of the 30th,
out the presumption is that 1t was one
md the same ship, that ship must
lave been the IUanltoe. She was a full
.igged vessel. without any distinguish
lble features.