The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-19
EIGHT VESSELS ASHORE.

car close 20 the waters edge and kept
pace with the doomed vessel, and the
wind drove her southwark Off the
foot of Harrison street the car was
the life line missed the boat,
by fully thirty feet At Twenty
Eighth street, another shot was fired
with the same result At this point
the tug Spencer, which had plowed its
way through the gigantic waves, man
aged to run up close to the Rainbow
and threw her a line. 1t snapped like
tow, but second held, and four of her
crew of seven men were hauled aboard
the tug. The schooner was now so
close to the breakers that the tug dared
follow her no longer, and steamed
away. The life-saving crew, on their
fiat car, kept even with the boat as
she rolled around and tried again and
again to throw line across her, but
failed every time.
Heroic Action of Will HaviIIe.
At Twenty-fifth street, the sailors cut
loose on a small raft they had made
engineer, was held by line and swan
out to it, when about eighty feet from
the shore.
The lumber from the Rainbow's deck
load was tossing on the waves and the
young fellow, at the risk of being
Drained by some floating planks, was a
long time in reaching the raft. He
finally made his way to its side, and
called the captain, John Pen, to jump
overheard. Pen obeyed. Haville caught
him and the two men were hauled
ashore. A negro named z. ]. Willis
swan out in a like manner and saved
another man. This left but one man on
the raft, and Haville was taken on the
nat car once more and carried two
blocks south, to where it had drifted,
and again swan out and brought off
Jacob knudSon, seaman living in
Racine. Both men were utterly eX-
hausted and were taken to Mercy hos
! pital, where Pen, who is in a critical
condition from chill and exposure, had
preceded them. The vessel drifted
ashore and was ground to pieces.
Fairly Ground to Pieces.
The McClaren was ground to pieces
100 yards from shore.
Her crew, commanded by Captain K.
] Johnston, was saved by the life-saving
crew, the last of them being taken off
] at o'clock. Her mate, Joseph Polan,
was killed by the breaking of a tow
post. His body is still among the tim
/ bers of the vessel.
One Of the most exciting features of
the storm was the Imprisonment of
! twenty-SeVen men, who were working
in the waterworks crib off Lake View,
one mile from shore. Their only shelteS
| was lumber tower erected on the eric
/ and until that was washed away, at
O'Clock this afternoon, the laeS were
/ not believed to be in any danger. 1t
! was close call for them, however,
after that time, as the water went over
| the crib again and again in binding
! sheets. Crowds of people lined the
shore, anXiously awaiting the crib, from
which a distress signal huttered at
various times during the afternoon.
The contractors made frantic efforts to
| get the men away and offered the tug
companies any amount of money to
make rescue but they refused TO make
/ the effort.
/ Danger Signal Out.
At nightfall the men on the crib
hung up a red lantern, which was
burning steadily at midnight, and the
wind is gradually going down. 1t is
believed all of them will be rescued
early tomorrow morning.
The Myrtle, on which the chief loss
/ of life occurred, not a, single man of
her crew Of six escaping, was water
! logged, when she appeared off the
/ harbor in the afternoon. She attempt
ed to anchor but was driven before the
gale and struck the schooner Evening
Star, which, UP to that time, had been
safely riding at anchor. The Myrtle's
( jibboom broke off, and drifting away
from the Evening Star, she struck the
schooner Clifford and her bow was be-
ing stove in. She began to sink rap
idly. She drifted out to sea, her crew
being plainly visible as they were hud-
died together on top Of the cabin. One
was washed away. A heavy wave
broke over her again, and then only
three were visible. One of them
jumped on a plank and f1oated in close
to breakwater, where he lost his hold
and went down. The two men on the
boat went down with her 1t is known
the captain of the Myrtle was named
Wilson, but nothing more is known of
the crew.