The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-25
Captain and One Sailor Only Sur
viyOrs of the Caspar.
TWO HEROIC swEDEs
AT THE RISK OF LIFE, EFFECT
THE RESCUE.
Reef Upon Which the Caspar Struck
Has Been Long Considered Dan
gerous By Mariners, and Scores of
Accidents to Ships Have Occurred
There in the Past.

Po:nt Arena. Cal. Oct A.-Cfose Under
the rocky cliffs where she met her doom
Ees, bottom upward the torn and bait
tered hull of the Inflated steam schooner
CaSpar, wrecked cary yesterday m01m-
ing Cn q rri5acilaTOus reef. OF tine crew Of
10 There remain but two known Survivors,
CaCEd-n AntMTdsen and Sailor Chris
Larsen.
a boat from the steamer Alcazar was
observed from shore TO uaioe tn Two dark,
could not discern Wlhsthsr Two men or
merely some ships fittings had been thus
picked up, although it was Thought one
object resegnbled the body of a safiCr,
brA- Wt1sthar dead or awe cannot Yet b.
aiscsutAlned- 1lIe AIcazar * lying off
Greenwood, beng unable 10 make land
tGlg uu ACCOUNT of the heavy sea run
ming.
So far but one body has been found.
1t was cast up On rlle rocks a mile from
ble scene of the wreck. and Coroner Acls-
lee sdbsequt entity brought the remains TO
POINT Aresl's, where uley were identified
as those of Chief Eagta5'ar George Gpper-
man. An inquest VIII be held here to-
morrow kelp abou7ds where the <Nrech
occurred, and she fG1.ck SEA is likely TO
prevent bodies from beng washed ashore
for several days. Meanwhile, a sharp
lookout is being kepc for foajt1nS c'orpses.
WHERE THE CAelPAR STRUCK
The wrecked steamer has been stripped
by continuous poUldldg against une rocks,
of TnasrcS and decks, and che keel is bat
tered as if by a mighty tIdmgneF- Tne
C3SDar struck The Cs5f inside the whist
ring byou. only q fsW yards from uha-
dUlger signal. After capsiztng, rl1e ship
was carried over tr1e rocks 20 the s9oTe.
nearly a mile distant, by the force of the
heavy waves. Ial4S reef mas lGng been
considered a dangerous foe by GILL mari
DsFs, several vessels having struck on 1t
in the past few years. 1t IS a Narrow
projection running far out into she OCEAN.
The steamer Po.glt Arena once went over
il, damaging her considerably The Alca-
Ear also struck IL years ago, besides
scores of ether veSSsls. but NONE vera
ever wrecked. the 0c'aA1 t99PsGang 10 De
calm. The CdsIar m 1t als0 haVe es-
capped destruction. but unfortunately
tl'saVy we've cast her Gown with suc4
10 the wheel and was dashed againsl the
reef and caps.zed.
NO HELP CAME
When the crew were thrown 1ato TIRE
raging water, cries of distress We're ut
tered by the men but no help came. For
many hours ta1y chung 10 floating TIM
beTs until exhausted they fell one by ona
into Watery graves The alarm was NOT
given in the toWl of Point Arena until IL
O'Clock. ten hours after the disaster UT-
Fortunately all tine beats here had only
the, day before been dashed to pieces By
the sudden storm, and Elt-le could be
Done toward succOr.ng '1le helpless crew.
II was the Efe-SaVlng station shat was
needed. a night patrol no doubt Wotild
have seen The distressed steamer, End ev-
cry rcaY could have been saved.
AT 1880, men were stlA seen clinging 70
tfle foatilg climbers, bur no boats being
obtainaole, they finally sank
TWO HEROES.
Adolph Petersen and HsCrry Anderson.
two laiIoriag men took their lives in their
hands and in a river boat braved the ssa-
1t was only by u miracle that they
reacl1sd and rescued Captain Anfind5en
and Sailor Larsen. Wll5a these rescl6rs
g sgted cart seafarinS rnsn conceded kwo
nI,Fe deaGhs. but tl1ey bTayeIy and sue
cessfuIly performed their mission. At this
time GMo additional nlen were seen struS-
CLING in the water, but before 4he rescue
tcat dJuld react1 them, they, 100, had dis
appeared.
Many bltter comments ara heard at the
failure to establish 4 InuCl-needed ltfa-
tllvtlg slualttpn here. Such a precautiou-
AIRY measure would tend 70 minimize these
frequent nautical disasters.