New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-02
Straw hats.
THIRTY-FOUR LIVES LOST.
SCHOONER JANE GRAY FOUNDERS WITH
SIXTY ONE PERSONS ON BOARD.
NEARLY oNE-HALF ESCAPED IN A LAUNCH
LISTS OF SAVED AND LOST.

NEARLY oNE-HALF ESCAPED IN LAUNCH
LISTS OF SAVED AND LOST
sea,tl. Wash. Juno THE schooner Jane
GRAY which sailed from Seattle for kotzcbuo
Sound on May 10. with s.xty-one persons on
hoard foundered on Sunday. May %. about ninety
miles west OF Capt Flattory. at o'clock IN the
morning while lyng-to IN moderate gaze uiuer
foresal Ten minutes after tho alarm was gwen
she Law az the bottom Of the ocean with thry-
four Of those on board The remainder succeeueu
In embarking in a launch. and reached this city
this afternoon.
The following IS a list Of tho surviving passen-
gers John Johnson. Springfield r. l.; :. w
wilkinson San Francisco c. Weston, SKo"hesal'
Me- A. c. Kinsbury. Boston, Erninio selia .
Beachctto. Cera, and II. Wachter OF i..a'
Italy; p J. Davenport Harrisburg. Penn Gen
eral Hitler Harrisburg. Penn. j. II. Coutre' ana
G. J. Reilly. Hartford. Conn; W. S Weaver. NUT
raw Penn; George Il Boak. HughesvNie feih-'
c. H. Pennington and C. II. Packard Snoh0h'sh'
Wash. T. O. Ingraham. l.. ". Lcssey. j. b. Black-
we'll Sllas Lovnsood. Charles h Chord anu VI
T. Roberts. Seattle .
The members OF the crew saved were T. Il
Crockett captain. John Hansen. mate. Oh'r'es
Olsen cook Albert Johnson. assistant COOK anu
Charles Carlson. seaman
Those lost are G. c. Atkins Q. Brown slgnor
Bosseta, Italy; W y. Doxey, a. ID. Duh@p'
Dwight Ill h. Frost Signor Gaia. Italy. '. :.
Gambe wife ana cllil, hlSTloN"l' VIZ 49,
Island. In Behring Sea. f. ". Gin'heT. y heue-
luna W H. Gleason, Seattle. jack LINDSAY
- Everett. " 4 Johnson. Seattle. W. !. Lever
ing p C. Little. Seattle. vs. d. MILAN. Seattle .
f. McKolvey. William otter. Horace i"'"''l' -
anon Ohio H. - Ranney. Mexico Cly' EI""l-
Ritter r. c. salisbury. Minnesota {. o. smith
Seattle: V J. Smith Seattle. Il. +. snipe' IT, Sc
attic; Il s Spencer. California. John NJ S'u,sii""'
VcstlGed y J.; T. VI Taylor. California ;. :. Ia!
lor California: Charles Williams c. '" YOUNG
Seattle and ono other name unknown
T. NJ and r 8 Taylor. OF California. were sons
Of s T. Taylor wealthy paper manufactures Va
'1t n enssibe that there may he four or five more
sur irora whose names csNno' marty OF sixteen
Amons the passenscrs was Prince Luiei OF
lay Of '5l, ~y' Who ascended Mount ST Elias
last summe- with Prince luisi ,,oa,a ,,d three
steam launches. ,o-s NTH
The Jane GTay PASSENGERS were Pr rpsPfei0s M ms
e eii 'who' win his wife and child, Was on hS
maS re1sod 10 place his VIE and child on board
ihc iauncn' saying: The vessel is doomed. and we
VA a,nong he prospectors was party o. sixteen;
healed by Major lnerahan, VINO were og'l..r"
Dsc,ine TRIP in Alaska 81 this party the only sur
yiyOrs are Major lngrdham !" VI '"'Ss'S' - -
Packard ana G. u. pcnnington La, ~, ,r,yo,,on
The survivors suffered great dea on pri rr ~
and for thirty hours their only 1000 was .. S'm %
prunes and sack Of iurnips from tlr ohip s'o,'T
Sufficient watec was caught by spreading TAR
paulin IN a rainsfOrm.
The news Of the disaster the expected arrival
OF Inc survivors from Victoria caused a laIsc
crow 10 ga,ne' ana When the city Of Kingston
landed the survivors they were all carried 10 l.elr
rooms or the homes OF TRENDS me II" llH'
couII be seen had not recovered from the shock;
and consequently could no; give 6ocd accom- ol
vessel Swinging q leak ana sinking so suddchly.
They were warm in their praise 81 me Work nYmr
OF the vessel Captain Crockett gives the Hollow
lain fDregIil a
gale was blowing and me seas WIZ ru nn6
high. had s9ne 20 Ded .,mn ~, mas yj,h the an
nOuncement that something was wrong al Use
yestigation showed that she would soon sink. ana
al once Informed the passengers OF tne SITUATION
Most Of them were asleep underneath tnc deck.
"a scene OF confusion then took place ana II
&c impossiblc 10 give any detailed account OF the
events that followed The darkness added to the
The first 'ifeboat was swamped The launch
Konnoma, belonging TO The Ingraham party. was
successfully lowered At this time the Jane Gray
was almost under water heayy sea- struck OK, neT
throwing her on her beams There was no tilne TO
launch other boats The water was over her
drowned Those on deck however, got into The
launch sack Of punes ana one . OF tnrn'pi
this was the only food We had until we reached
Vancouver Island.
submerged schooner we saw eight or ten men
standing the lee rail, clinrns to nc tisslns'
5 fS1m JOHNSON Sg and q Reilly KEPT snoa by Ginning
to bundles of boat lumber Two hours after they
seven in all We had with us It is just barely pos
sble that there Will be four more survivors. Be
fore the Jane Gray disappeared under the waves
we thought We saw the second launch that was on
board with four forms near II. They were so IN
distinct that were not sure. They seemed to be
getting into the launch 80
1--WE lmprovlsed 4 sail and paddles after drift.
ing thirty hours in the launch, and finally landed
inside Of Rugged Point, kynquot Sound. on Van
cOuvcr Island. eighty miles from the scene or the
wreck a fire built the beach ana we
made a meal on roasted mussels. We had eaten
nothing since night before the disaster. excepting
the prunes and turnips, which we threw into the
launch We got drinking water by sprcad-
ing out tarpaulin In the driving rain. An Indian
village OF Kynquot was only SIX miles away. We
went there and found the sealing schooner. Fa-
voriic. bccalmed. and arrangements were made TO
carry party 10 Victoria. We reached there
lust in time to catch the steamer for Seattle"
The Jane Gray "A schooner OF 1000 tons bur-
den She was built I'm Bath. Ne. I'm 1887. She was
owned and operated by McDougall & Southwick
~ this cItv Gui Of The fnners' outfits she