The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-21
TWENTY-THREE LIVES LOST
DETAILS OF WRECK OF BRITISH
 SHIP AT1LANT4.

only Three Sailors survivo-VcsseI
 Went Ashore Under Full Sail and in
 Less Than Half an Hour Her Hull
 Broke in Two-Sailor's Brave Act
 Cheered by His Comrades Captain
 Lost His Reckoning.
 Aquina, Oregon, Nov. 2o.-Additiona1 particulars of the wreck of the British ship Atalanta, Captain Charles Mo- Bride, from Tacoma to Cape Town, Thursday morning, five miles south of Alsea, were brought hero to-day by a correspondent of the Associated Press. Twenty-three lives were lost, including all the officers of the ship, and only, three sailors survive to tell the terrible story of the wreck. The survivors are Francis McMahon, native of Belfast, Ireland, aged eighteen, John Webber of Tarrytown, N. Y, and George Frazer of Philadelphia. The lost: Captain Charles Mcbride; - Hunter first mate; N. c. Huston, second mate, all of Greenock, Scotland; David Steward of Liverpool, Aleck Beck, w. E. Croger, M. o. Pilkington, Joe Vassa, Wil- liamson, T. Lewis, Michael Gallagher, David Green, Pedro Gregory, John Marks, John Smith, Hamilton, ------ Richardson.
 The unknown are two cooks, carpen- ter, sailmaker, second mate and one sailor. The body of Jacobson was re- covered and buried yesterday. Wed- nesday morning the ship stood off on the starboard tack, the course being southeast one-half east until Wednes- day night about 12 o'clock. She kept backing off, steering southeast by east and running under full sail, when sud- denly the lookout sang out, Breakers ahead!'
 Almost at the same time the Ship struck with a tremendous crash. She arose again on the heavy ground swell, lurched forward struck again, was car- ried further by the seas, struck a third time and commenced settling at once. The seas by this time were washing completely over the vessel and the decks were quickly cleared of every- thing movable. The crew had taken to the rigging, most of them to the mig zenmast. Within half an hour after striking the hull broke in two. The mainmast fell and this started the mig zenmast, in which nearly all the crew { had taken refuge. At this moment George Frazer, sailor, plunged over- o1.I %o %oJr 1,sr by swimming to being carried over by the tottering mizzenmast. He and two others got hold of the main hatch and held on for few minutes, when he was told that the port life-boat was near him. He swan to the boat and succeeded in climbing into it. his ship mates in the rigging giving him three cheers. After helping McMahon and Webber into the boat they soon drifted on shore. Frazer in telling the story of the wreck said
 "The first time knew the first mate called me and said the ship was on the beach. The other men sang out "All hands lay aft, we are going to wear ship. The second mate shouted, clear away the boats; that's our only chance.' The second mate and myself jumped on the boat skids to clear away the port boat. I shouted out for some one to give me a hand at the mizzen rigging. As soon as reached the poop was swept off my feat but grasped a. stanchion when the sea spent it's force. When the sea calned ran for the mig zen and climbed into it. finally got into the port rigging when the ship broke in two. Shortly after that the main mast went by the board. then took to the water and swan to the main hatch which foated close to the ship. I stayed on the hatch about twenty minutes. The sea was throwing wreckage up, hurling me over the hatch. The men in the rigging were watching me and told me the boat was coming I swan to the boat and got one arm over the gunwale, the crew in the rigging cheering me all the time. I crawled into the boat, which was full of water, and looking around saw Web- Der on the other side. McMahon was among the wreckage and we hauled him into the boat. We had no oars and soon drifted clear of the wreck. I looked toward the wreck to see if could see anybody, but only one man was visitble on the port. The boat was soon washed ashore
 McMahon said: "The only reason I can think of fo rthe disaster is that the captain had lost his reckoning for three days previous. It was an awful sight to see the chief officer in the rigging crying and praying for help"