The record-union., 1895-05-29
met DEATH IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN.
Mystery Concerning Young YoIo
Physician UnraveIed.
DR.. Albert s. Noe Was One of the Crew
of the Ill.Fated Vessel the
James Allen.

An expectant sweetheart has ceased to
watch for her lover. and there is sad
ness in the house of A. H. Noe of Sacra-
mento, says the San Francisco Bulletin.
for it is definitely known for the first
time that young DR.. Albert s. Noe OF
Woodland, a promising young physician
Of that town and son of the first-named
gentleman, was passenger on the Ill
fated whaling bark, James Allen. which
went down in Arctic seas on May llth OF
last year. All these long months the
elder Mr.. Noe has been expecting to hear
from his son. for it was rumored that he
for the Alaskan mines.
Such was not the case. The young
man remained on the Allen as the ves-
sel's physician, and with fifteen more
unfortunate seamen he put away from
the wrecked bark. The boat and its
crew were never heard OF again, and
strange to say, at the time the wreck OF
the Allen was reported the only mention
made of the missing boat was to the effect
that lit is hoped that the survivors will
turn up all right"
The men were never again heard from,
however. and little Qf anything was
printed about the boat again.
Full particulars have reached Mr.. \ oe
OF Sacramento and people OF this city
concerning his sons connection with the
Allen. The gentleman is now convinced
that his boy really was passenger on The
Allen, and for the first time friends of the
young doctor, and those interested in his
welfare, are informed that he undoubt-
edly remained on board the vessel and
went down with the fifteen missing men.
"A. II. Noe received this information
last week and transmitted it to j. K. Noe,
brother of the young medico, who is at
present residing in Woodland.
Albert y oe is said to have been engaged
| to young lady of Woodland, who has
been vainly hoping that he would return.
The doctor was an old resident OF w OOd-
land and at one time, when his father was
a merchant of that town, he was clerk
| in his parents store.
The missing man, it appears, did not
say much to his Woodland friends about
his intention of going to sea. He had
been studying medicine very hard, and
just before his departure from his home
| town be informed his acquaintance that
| he was going to San Francisco to COM
| mence practice in new field. He came
straight to this city, and after making the
| acc uaintance of Captain Huntley of the
| Allen, he shipped, as the crew supposed,
| as an ordinary seaman, but his friends
| aver that he signed as the physician OF the
| vessel.
Father and brother both received let
| ter from Albert saying that he had Sc
| cured position as assistant surgeon OF
the Allen. and that he had decided 10 go to
sea in the bark. Later word was received
| from him that he was about to leave the
| craft and proceed to the Alaskan mines.
When news was received that the bark
was wrecked, the Noe family supposed
| that Albert was safe ashore.
Months rolled by and Mr. Noe, Sr. be-
came anxious about his son. He had the
water front OF San Francisco secured tol
sailors OF the James Allen, and from
Captain Huntley he learned that Albert
was supposed to have been one of the
| missing boats crew, under command Ol
the first mate, that steered for Ounalasks
| when the Allen was abandoned.
No one could say definitely whether
| this boat ever reacbe ed land or not, for had
it landed at an island and the crew bee1
picked up by passing vessel the chances
were in favor OF year or perhaps q
Longer period of time elapsing before the
survivors could be heard from. The ex-
treme difficulty of communicating with
| the north delayed Mr.. Noes lnVestlga-
ton.
DIR. Noe, according to letter received
| by his father few days ago, is now
actually known to have been a mem bel
of the missing boats crew, and it is also
definitely settled that none of the sixteen
occupants OF the craft were saved, fol
after a thorough search made by the Gov
ernor OF Alaska's officers and two sealing
| schooners not a trace OF the boat could be
found among the northern rocks. The
Indians could give no news OF the ios
| men.
For the first time, too, Sailor Andrews
of the survivors of the wreck thought tC
mention to his skipper that tke boat in
which Noe and his companions took pas
sage was in leaking condition. An.
| other important point: Noe OF the missing g
boats crew was supposed to have been
all English seaman.
Captain Huntley Immediately com.
municated all recent facts to Mr.. Noe
! who in turn last Saturday informed his
second son, the Woodland merchant
that all hopes must be cast aside.
Captain Huntley and the surviving
members of the crew of the James Allen
arrived in this city from Alaska on June
9th last. They were picked up in the
north by the revenue cutter Bear. They
had landed on bleak island and crawled
into a deserted hut, where they were
slowly dying of starvation.
Their life on the island was filled with
horror, and as death seemed to stare al
in the face, Captain Huntley determined
to make q desperate effort to secure helt
for his men.
Accordingly the ships whaleboat, in
which the little party had embarked
was pressed into service again. -Four
volunteers were found and the boat pu
out to sea.
About fourteen men were left on tht
island, and during the Captains absence
two men died. So terrible were thu
sufferings of those who remained tha
they resOrted to cannibalism, ard literally
picked the bones of their dead messmate
clean.
The Rush's crew came to the rescu,
just in time and the poor wretches wer,
saved. The cutter cruised about for
while in search Of the missing boat, II
which young Noe is now known to hav,
been, and finally put into Sitka, wher,
she transferred the shipwrecked sailors t,
the steamer Crescent City.
The James Allen was wrecked on May
IL, 1894, on an unknown rock near Atk
Island, 200 miles west Of the Alaskan
coast.
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