The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-23
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
It Cost the Lives of Forty Pas
sengers and Sailors.
THE HELEN ALMY WRECKED
The Derelict Found Bottom Up ut the
Mouth OF the Golden Gate-Sh0
Left San Francisco Sun
day for Alaska

San Francisco. March 22.-Upon the
arrival Of the Pacific Coast Steam
ship company's steamer Santa Rosa
from San Diego to-day the news was
received here of another horrible acci-
dent, Indirectly attributable to the
Alaskan gold excitement. which Is be-
lieved to have cost the lives of 10
passengers and sailors.
Captain Alexander of the Santa Rosa
reported that early this morning while
nine miles of Point Bonita. at the
mouth of the Gold Gate. he sighted q
derelict. bottom up. The tug Sea
Witch was Immediately dispatched to
the point indicated. and found the der
eiict to be the bark Helen w. Almy.
Captain Hogan. which sailed hence for
Copper river points with q passengers
ana a crew OF 13 on Sunday last.
The bark lay upon her starboard side
with her stern low in the water. her
deck hamper badly wrecked and sew
eral planks OF her hull washed loose
by the seas which broke over her.
While there We're no signs Of boats
among the wreckage. IL Is not believed
that her passengers and crew escaped
by putting off from the vessel in them,
as there has been a very neavy sea for
several days past. Furthermore, no
word has been received from the sur
vivors, IL any exist. although the dere-
lict was sighted within 10 miles OF this
port. and fully A. hours have passed
since the wreck occurred.
According to the tug boat men. there
was a pretty stiff breeze when the
Almy sailed out of the Golden Gate on
Sunday last. and by night it was blow
ing a gale. She left here under top
sails. and when last seen was standing
out for an otfing. There was a heavy
sea running. and IL is supposed that
some time during the night she was
struck by a squall and turned turtle.
The following Is a list of her passen-
gers and crew:
Passengers-A. Alverson, David An
derson. A. Il. Beach. ID. Cinotto. Theo-
dore Creber. r. =. Currier. Oscar Djer-
sander. Fred Frank. julius Gill. J. T..
Gotsky. Gus Jourmer. NJ. r. Lemley.
John Levick. william McCray. r. Nc
Nichols, James Ronald. T. Reason,
James Il. Saxon. John ? Smell. william
sheldon. c. B. Spike. Charles r. SMALL
wood. John Vance. Adofph Waldo. John
Walker. John westwick. and AN un-
known man.
The crew.. J. Hogan. captain: v.
r. Crantz. chief mate. native of Bos-
ton. IS years: +. Mackie. second mate.
California, IS years; John Higgins.
'ophs oV ytdtcs W. -
Hopkins. steward. Illinois. 40 years; Ira
Cook. cabin boy. Connecticut. 40 years:
Fred Cromwell, apprentice. 20 years.
Pennsylvania. Seamen: +. Bronson.
United States. 40 years; j. r. Under
wood. Jersey. "A years; Charles d.
Leach, Connecticut. "A years: Ernest
ITALIAN. England. % years: william
McKeon. New York. % years: Antoine
Nicols. Australia. 20 years.
The Helen w. Almy was once a
South Sea trader and was quite famous
for her many adventures among the
reefs. Her commander was Captain
Luttrell. and he operated her in the
interest of John Wightman. who re-
tanned an interest i'm her when she en-
tered the Alaskan trade. The vessel
was i'm good condition for an old vessel
and perfectly seaworthy. She was on
the drv dock some days before being
put on the berth. and her owners spent
$4,000 in repairing her. She had tenn
porary house on deck.
When the Almy left port she had 1eS
tons of ballast in her. She carried be-
sides the provisions of the passengers
and their outfits. She was a vessel OF
only about $50 tons. and was therefore
ballasted sufficiently to make her