The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-14
ELEVEN sEAMEN PERISH.
Captain IsaacSon's Name In
Cluded in the List of
the Dead.
THE KODIAK ALSO WRECKED.
1t Is Thought the Tug Mogul Will
Go to Pieces on the
Rocks.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, May 13.-
The schooner George w. Prescott, twelve
DAYS from Kodiak Island, Alaska arrived
tonight with further particulars confirm
ing the loss of the schooner c. G. White of
San Francisco.
Captain Isaacson and ten men were
drowned and frozen to death. The names
of two OF the dead are known-Henry
Ledger and hunter named Long Charley.
First Officer Chris Swendson reached
Kodiak alive, with his limbs so badly
frozen that surgeon was compelled to
amputate them. Seventeen of the crew
were saved, all of whom were more or less
frost-bitten, necessitating the amputation
of many limbs. The schooner Prescott
left Kodiak hurriedly without getting a
list of the dead.
The story of the disaster was correctly
told in the CALL dispatches last week, ex-
cept that the White was wrecked in the
early morning of April IA, instead of at
night. A line was made fast between the
vessel and the shore. Three men were
previously washed overheard by the
heavy seas. BY means of the rope fifteen
of the crew reached the beach, where eight
of them died of starvation and exposure.
Four days later a party of natives came
along and took the living to Wood Island,
where they secured surgical treatment.
Additional news confirms the total loss
of the schooner Kodiak in the same gale.
The Italian bark Cavour, forty-seven
days from Callao, Peru, arrived to-day and
reports that when she sailed the Govern
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temporary armistice, awaiting the result
of the general election. The leaders of
both sides had agreed to abide by the re-
suit. Some very hard fighting had been
going on for weeks, resulting slightly in
favor of the Government forces. At Lima
over 1900 persons were slain. The number
killed during the present instruction is
estimated at about 5000.
Owing to the war business is paralyzed
and the country in a deplorable condition.
Further news from Cape Flattery to-
nightsays the tug Mogul is in a preoarious
condition on the rocks two miles inside
the cape. She is well up among the jagged
rocks, having gone ashore during high
water.
The steamer Willapa arrived from South
western Alaska tonight, having on board
number of miners who were going to the
Yukon mines, but on reaching the divide
of the Chilcat Mountains became dis
couraged and are returning home. Some
Of them owing, to the glistening snow,
went blind. Already provisions are be-
coming scarce, and the miners anticipate
great hardship on reaching the mines.
Sealing men are greatly elated over the
instructions received by the Collector of
Customs at Victoria from Ottawa to the
effect that the British patrol feet will be
withdrawn from Bering Sea this summer.
They reason that this action means that
Canadian sealers will be given silent en-
couragement to encroach upon prohibited
sealing grounds. Four revenue cutters
will be powerless to protect the vast terri
tory over which sealing is prohibited. In
this event American vessels, as usual, will
be the greatest sufferers, as their Govern
ment will insist upon strict compliance
with the regulations while the British seal
ers will be permitted to clandestinely hunt
seals in any portion of the sea.
The British warship Nymph is now in
the north, but will be ordered to return to
Esquimalt at the first opportunity. The
British Government this year also allows
its sealing vessels to hunt seals with fire.
arms, while American crafts are restricted
to the use of spears.
Local sealers reason that the United
States Government cannot consistently
allow such discrimination and will there
fore modify the regulations so as to afford
them the same privileges as the British
vessels.