The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-14
THE ANDERsoN's VOYAGE.

THE ANDERSON S VOYAGE.
w. B. Price, of Danville, Ill.,, who
went up on the Eliza Anderson, and who
left the vessel at Dutch harbor, returned
on the Humboldt, and is in this city,
He said:
"The entire trip was one series of mis-
haps. The third day out from D1xon's
entrance bad weather came on, and the
wind blew terrifcally. The waves would
lift the guard up and leap under it.
During the first night afterthe storm be-
gan the rudder chain broke five times.
OF course after this broke there was no
controlling the boat. Every minute it
seemed that it would go over. The pas
sengers were thrown out of their hunks,
and it was possible to stay in bed. The
crew was insufficient to man the pumps,
so the passengers took the pumps in
charge. L myself was placed In charge
up into squads of four men each. Each
squad worked two hours. 1 also did
sounding to see how much water there
was in the hold. We kept this up for
4S hours and during that time the boat
drifted back 100 miles.
"The second day of our trouble the
other boats of the feet were IN sight.
Then the Merwin, which was being
towed by the Holyoke along with the
Bryant and Politofsky, broke loose and
the captain of the Holyoke turned about
with the other two boats in tow and
picked up the Merwin.
NO COAL TO BE HAD.
''The next place we reached was St.
Paul, on Kodiak island. We should
have taken on coal enough there to get
her to Dutch hsrbor, but could not get
it. After leaving st. Paul the sea was
very heavy and we were forced to cruise
along the shore. We got within $50
miles of Dutch harbor when the coal
gave out. We were rigging small boat
to send out for relief when we sighted a
small fishing smack with one man in it.
He told US we could reach an abandoned
cannery about twenty miles distant,
where coal had been lying for five or six
years. We just had about enough coal
to reach that point. All day long the
passengers worked in drizzling rain to
| take on coal.
'tFinallY, on September 4th, we
reached Dutch harbor. Captain Cooper,
of the Northern revenue squadron,
boarded US at Dutch harbor, and seeing
the unseaworthy condition of the An
derson, forbade her 10 go further. 1t
was not necessary for him to go below
deck, but Immediately upon seeing that
we had an insufficient number of life
boats, he gave the order to tie up there.
The passengers of the Anderson, with
the exception of George Scott and my
self, raised $1,000 to charter the schooner
Barinoff, to take the passengers from
there to st. Michaels. The conditions
of the trip. of the Anderson from Dixon e
harbor cannot be pictured too vlvidly''
It was a remarkable statement that
Captain Chilcoot, one of the incorpora-
tors of the company which runs the An
derson, made to Captain Bonifeld, oi
the Humboldt this morning. He said
'We knew the Anderson was unsea-
worthy, especially for an ocean voyage
but we were bound to get her there any.
way. We put her in charge of one o.
the best sea captains on this coast
Captain Powers. If anybody could ge;
her there he could"
THE HUMBoLDT's PASSENGERS.
There were OILY two passengers who
went up on the Humboldt who decided