The herald., 1897-11-20
Steamer Truckees Will Not
a.
I. Sail Again
THE PASSENGERS TAKEN Off
,rHE DISABLED VESSEL LEFT TO
4. HER FATE
Other Steamers Reach Port With
r. Stories Of Danger in Wednes-.
days Tremendous Storm
Associated Press Special wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
- MARSHFIELD, Ore, Nov. 19.-The
gUmpqua light house wagon arrived at
Empire City about o'clock this after
,poon bringing Captain w. F. Daniels
and the crew of the wrecked steamer
sTruckee, who were rescued by the life
saving crew at o'clock yesterday af-
.ternoon. r.
\ Captain Daniels reports that when out
about twelve hours Tillamook leak was
discovered and when off the Umpqua
river he became convinced that to save
the lives of his passengers and crew he
would have to attempt to take the YES
sci in over the Umpqua bar. The wind
was blowing a southwest gale and the
sea running mountain high. He could
not keep up a stitch of canvas and con-
sequently his vessel was thrown upon
the north spit. The Truckee has forced
her way over the spit and now hes in
side. She will be total loss, but Capt.
Daniels thinks that her machinery may
be saved. There were eight passengers
aboard, one gentleman, two ladies and
i've children under five years of age.
II. SAFE IN PORT
l.. ASTORIA, Ore, Nov. 19.-The Q. R. q
n. steamship State of California ar
rived in the harbor about 8 o'clock this
morning, two days late from San Fran
cisco. Some anxiety had been felt here
concerning the safety of the State of
California owing to the hurricane which
hash blowing here for the past three
days. -
4 To an Associated Press reporter this
morning, in recounting his experiences,
Captain Green of the State of California
said: ~ 'ft a'
y 1--WE left San Francisco on Monday
morning, on time. and the sea was as
smooth as glass. We had good weather
all the way until off Cape Mendocino
There we struck gale or hurricane and
our, ship ploughed along through heavy
seas until 3 O'Clock on Wednesday morn
ing when we came abreast of lightship
Eo.s67, fourteen miles off the mouth of
the Columbia river. sigDaled the
,lightship and shortly afterwards she
blew three whistles at the regular inter-
walls of fog~horn practice. About 3
o'clock her lights suddenly went out save
q slight glimmer on one of them like the
Pickering of an ordinary electric lamp
which was burning out. Then all was
dark. The seas were running mountains
high and the. wind was hurricane rath-
.er than gale. 1t was all one could do
to stay on thesbridge. We tried our best
to keep near the hghtshp, hoping to
sight her again and hove to. under our
mainsail, keeping our head to sea and
remaining as near as possible to where
thought the lightship should be. When
daylight came. there was no lightship in
sight. We cruised about all day Wednes-
day and Thursday, hoping. to get sight
of the lightship again.
",rhe weather was still terrific, and we
had no opportunity of coming into port
until o'clock this morning. We re-
manned all the time within a few miles
of where the lightship had been.
1--WE did not suffer particularly. 1t
was rough. to be sure, but belowsdecks all
was comfortable and snug"
THE LIGHT WAS OUT
ASTORIA; Ore, Nov. 19.-The beach
would have been the resting place of
lightship No. 67 had she not been
equipped with steam propelling power
During the tremendous gale Wednes-
day morning she was sighted by the
steamer State of California at o'clock
AT 2:50 the big steel cable on her an
chor snapped in two and the lightship
was adrift in the storm and headed for
the beach. Capt. Mastroff Immediately
ordered his signal lights extingushed
and put up sailing lights, and in less
than twenty minutes had the engines
running. He managed to get about and
put to sea. This accounts for the-State
of California not being able to find her
again. The lightship went ns far as
Gray's harbor and turned back. at once
to the Columbia river when the gale
abated. arriving off the mouth Of the
river early this morning and started to
steam into the harbor. -
A HARD STRUGGLE ~
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19.-The
steamer Umatilla, from Puget Sound ar
rived here this afternoon bearing evil
dences of hard struggle with the seas.
The captains cabins had been flooded
and the pilot house was shattered, but
no serious damage was done. Captain
j. c. Hunter was on the bridge for thir-
ty-six hours. He says that the Umatilla
passed q steam schooner on Wednesday
29S miles south of Cape Flattery. He
thought she was the Truckee. The seas
were breaking clear over, and she
seemed to be getting the worst of the
struggle.
DAMAGE ASHORE
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. ia sudden
fall in temperature has checked the
melting snow in the mountains, thus
averting danger Of serious floods. Very
little damage has been done so far, al
though in some of the rivers emptying
into the sound the water almost reached
the mark of the big food Of year ago,
in which many lives were lost and much
damage done to property. The indica-
-tions tonight are that the temperature
will remain low, and as a consequence
the waters will recede.
The Great Northern road is still tied
up by the washout between Index and
Sultan, and no trains went out or came
in today. AS a result no eastern mail