The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-05
FROM THE MI0WERA.
One of the Life Buoys Picked
Up in the Straits.
THE STRATHkEviS liFE6OAT.
Found on the Beach Near Tatoosh
IsIand-Purser Mcdonald aoo It's
Crew Believed To BE Lost.


balA crowd after crowd. showing the
great Interest f6at IS felt n that vessel
fate. The bulletin vas TO the effect tnat
q life buoy from the steamship Mlo"efa
had been picked np in the straits, ana
that on the beach some four o. five niles
south Of Tatoosh island 4 large lie boat
vita the name Strathnevls On IT. haa
been discovered.
Hundreds crowded into the business Of
fee and gazed on TIRE N3o%eTa Ike Du9S
with melancholy misgivinga ana thpres-
elons Of deep concern. r. W hc1if4ii4S'
agent OF the Canadian Pacific & austria
Han steamship company. having neaFa
vague and perhaps much magnihed fh-
NOR walked in in some trepidaticn- " men
he saw the buoy and heard the brief story
OF its recovery. he was notably renewed
THAT doesn't say anything. be sad:
ssIu a storm such as the Iiowera passed
through she would have All her lie pre-
serving apparatus unshfpped and ready
for immediate use one or dozen nhEet
have been swept overheard. or she Hls9l
have fouIed and sent out a man 10 Gear
her. and had then tossed 70 nm t"o OF
anrse life bueys. one Of which vas car
TieJ away.
The p,clx;ng I'D OF THIS buoy carries
no significance whatever. Our company
81 perfectly confident that IN Tea Gays
we snail hear OF tho MtoWeFa having
reached Honolulu. IT.: accounts OF hsV
being sighted tally 80 exactly that theFe
can be no doubt that having lost her
tow, she went on Nfth her journey. %
December Y, Capt. j.. Freldbfrg. OF ihe
schooner Watson. sighted the Miowera
towing the Strathnevia, and at ID CLOCK
the next morning he again saw h>F' uhiF-
fy-seven miles magnetic south py west
from Tatoosh island. headed out In TIE
afternoon Of that day Capt Sorens0n'
OF the schooner Compeer, saw The Ailo-
vera sixty miles southwest of Capt Fiat
fery and heaasd for Honolulu. You see
how the statements Of the two captains
III into each other. and there Is no doubt
that they We're correct, especially "neh
you take into consideration that the
Miowera was forty eight miles OF Cape
FIattery instead o. twelve. as by the
first reports However We have comb
dence that she Is safe. and the ind of
1his buoy does net shake It any
The passengers on the Miowera from
this city are Mr. and Mrs. John II. Garter
and Miss Hollenbeck. and a. 9. Mcleod
and n A. Ingham Of the First Regiment
band and the tlve-yeaT-o daughter or
the Iatter.
The buoy from the Miowera was picked
up by an Indian woman out iishing IN
Neah bay II had driftsd in from the
ocean some time during the night. and
from the time that has elapsed slJce the
Mlowera left may have been lost over
hoard some time after she started on
her way 10 Houolulu.
Tho finding of the life buoy had the
effect Of stimulating tins search that has
been going on for wreokaEe ever since
the strathnevis was towed IN. The storms
and consequent heavy surf. however have
interfered with the search The cor
respondent OF the -iutcllgeucer at
Neah bay writes thai W. J.. Ferguson.
who IS mining on the beach ten miles
south OF Neah bay, picked two pieces OF
Of lot ftf Ks-Fa sff1p a
which contained the lettecs &c. Il. sar-'
and tho other '%-orias"
The strathnevis' Iiieboat.
The large nfeboat referred 20 in the
bulletin was picked up by Indians on
the beach four or five miles south OF
Tatoosh island. 1t bears the uame OF the
Strathncvis. and is in good condition,
with the exception of hole IN its stern.
This Is believed TO be the boat that
Pursor Mcdonald and Third Officer
Barnes of the Strafhncvis. set out in as
volunteers in the endeavor 10 make
landing on Destruction island. Capt. Pat
tie. OF the StnthueVis, said that he
Thought he saw the boat make landing.
but he must have been mistaken. She
probably got close Ia and was dashed
against the rocks by the raging surf
and the two officers with the crew Of
three Japanese sailors thrown overheard
ty the shoFk. There IS nothing in the
able article tn her had been washed away.
y must - remembered. however. that
the StrathNeVls lost several boats. and
this may be one OF those she lost before
she lost the Miowera- II il scarcely prob
able howCvc~. and ITO fact that nothing
has been heard OF THE volunteers Tor SO
long. renders thor fate extremely doubt
fal They lesf the Str&thnevis on De
ceraber e, at O'Clock in fha morning
Had they safely lNnded. ser had any one
Of them landed GA Destruction island.
they mus; have been heard from before
this The island Is only twenty mites be-
low Cape Flattery. and there Is hight
house keeper there. through whom they
could have carried out Their intention Of
signalling q passing vessel
Purser Mcdonald Was man or about
a. years OF age. wei known amonE steam
boat men on the sound. and is tho owner
ar fiae ranch ncsr this city HE came
here from 81 Johns. \ T.. ana had held
several positions on Brush steamers.
from which he hesre hirn rrcommeuLa-
1iens. He was purser on tho boats az
the Washington Steamboat 4 Transport
+ation company W "a Mtrwin. Ctiy az
Seattle and CITY oF quincy. aud vas with
That company Successor. thc Puget
Sound 4 Alaska Steamship Company. un-
I'll 1885. when ne rcsisntd Tor ais present
engagement NTH the Northern Pacific
Steamship company.
Not hp Mcdonald Boat.
Capt pllshu-y. ~ the N.osela holds IN
opinion contradictory 60 fhoer ana believe
the battered StrathueKls hte },aE to Pr tns
one that I'urser NvfNnal4 Ntut aul i0
1le said az She BuH r BASE -ht that tapt.
rattic. ~ the Stfattue>fs. fala sam
that on the 01ornine az nee~nher - nre
90 his quarter boats was Mashed AWAY
from tho davtts ~ a heavy sea That -
course was m e1trtIv empty BOAR 4rt
the Strafhucvis boat p.ckrl ua N4e also
entirely empty 11a& So been as.f b,. Afe-
Donald anj bass party There would t-a.e
hiv have besn saTuettlur So, Goa het There
fore. there .s every probability. saws ear,
Pinsbuvv. that the boat f>uaa is tAe one
Nashel from the StcataueFfs.
1he lG' Puov Ppssr'~ rhem.
A Port Townsend dispatch ~sNs- Iv-
yertenced skipping men ~ tsis p.-t saw
THAT II the Mowers foufelcrsd the uIrht
the hawsers with the S;ratheeAls a.ekt
very little wNe<kaEe. ~ any Wollt come
ashore inside Or Cape f3sttrsy as tu <.r4-
star instances it has been carried rs IRA
coast Or NancouNcr island Unless sa.r.-
shing serious has happened to ths Mo
vrga. Sc ts dtficult - cAp1ssn tte rres.r.,a
O. the life buoy IA the straits Al.a.-s
several vessels have reported sht.r. t..a
Niowe-a. rome cf thcu rre.ruA .o aate
seen her s}}bSCss ie1r So o'-l~h tu r..-
Half the success in