Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-23
THE JULIA ANN WRECK.
The Only Vessel Ever Lost with Mormon Emf
grants on Board.
A THRILLING AND PATHETIC TALE
Particulars Furnished by Elder Andrew
Jenson, Assistant Church
Historian.
Salt Lake city, April 20, 1898.

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an article under tho cantion. "a Peril
ous Son yov,go" u,5+,e, bv p,other
Amasa Potion az payson nan oountv
The article gives some interesting de-
tails of tho loss NJ the h,rl, Jnlio Ann.
on which n small comnanv Of Saints
emivratinr from Australia TO Utah had
taken massage. In 1s5b Rut as Elder
Potter obtains some of his information
from the memory of nnother manly. II
is but natural thnt inaccuracies should
occur Permit me. therefore to pre-
sent to your readers I'm brief what,
in my historical researches, / have
CLEANED from the most reliable sources
concerning the unfortunate lula Ann.
xyb,c,, ro,,,r,,o,,,s tho o,i,, ca,o az chin
wreck that mas ever occurred IN the
long history of Latter-day Saint emil
grafton from foreign lands to their
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Hh P'"NSS !" N'iiei 'eN'
Inc American bark Julia Ann, Cap
tain 3. f. Pond. sailed from Sydney,
New soutb Wales. Australia Sent. /.
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ioo'' pouhu ior Saii fIancisco' S'i''
with ot souls on board. Twenty-eight
of that number Including Elders James
Graham ,rd Iohn c I,Id,a,,,., .uo
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American missionaries returning nome.
were Latter-day Saints on their way
to Utah. Elder John Penfold sr had
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Neeh "pPo'i'teu u! iieS'ueh. aus uS'u'
Fafnham to take charge of the com
pany. The bark left the Sydney
uasda q, . o,o,ooi, -, u.,.h tho wind
"' wv" P''i' wan ''e
l.
rough weather was encountered for a
f,.y DAVIS with stronr winds from tho
80. .,.,,-, .,,h,a,, .,,,a.,, ,,,,,.,aar
"'ieA
able sea sickness. Otherwise the Noy-
age was successful until the Bird of
oc,oho,. about q n,ctnc,, ~ M uben the
-, A. sem,
Vessei STRUCK On the leeis oil 'ie .,'o'.g
lsiahus' Captalh iohu' eNptu'ius W
pass pelWeeh Moptid anu t"v seilS
islands, hau SET ths watch IN she iole-
top. inc i9s was move apout . ciosh
pm, anu the pdrk was iouhu 70 pe
nsaklls il4s KNOTS per nour, Shol. is
afterwards ths sea became broken; anu
IN ABOUT an nuur me VtsseI WIN q
tremendous crash uhsheu heau on 70 u
coral reei, She hhinenlateiy swung
around with her oroausiue 70 tns reef
ana the sea niaue u. cothpiete preach
over her at every swell
Directiy aiter she struck, CaPtain
Iohu ordered al the passengers INTO
the atter-cabln. a scene OF luuescrib-
able CONFUSION followed as the seerage
passengers rushed INTO the caoih, ana
several mothers were seen hoidins
thelr unuressed chliuren IN their arms
as they mao snatched them from thelr
siufnDers. In a rev moments the rear
was IN some measure aiiayed by
sailor VINO came 10 the cabin Tor
lght. ana VINO tod the passengers that
aithoush the snip would be lost their
hVes would De saved, as they Were close
TO the reef,
by the ala or the spanker boom ana
the expert swimming OF one OF the
sailors, a rope was carried ashore and
fastened to the reef, by means of which
many succeeded III mating their escape
IN comparative safety from the vessel.
Five however, We're drowned, namely,
sister Eliza Harris and child. Sister
Martha humphreys and her daughter
Mary, and Marion Anderson daughter
OF Andrew Anderson, ten years old.
The noble and heroic disposition Of
Captain Pond was exhibited through
out the whole sad AFFAIR, While the
crew was engaged in getting the pas
sengers ashore, Mr. Owens, the second
mate, was going to carry a bag con-
tanning eight thousand dollars belong
Ing 10 the captain ashore. The captain
ordered him to leave the money and
carry little girl ashore Instead He
did so; the child was saved. but the
money was lost.
Brother John Mccarthy, one of thu
passengers, who furnished the editor of
the Western Standard with graphic
description of the disaster, writes:
81 saw mothers nursing their babies
In the midst of falling masts and
broken spars. while the breakers were
rolling twenty feet high over the
wreak One lady-Slster Harris-pre-
paratory to leaving the ship with her
two children, the eldest of which was
two years old, tied the youngest, a babe
six weeks old to her breast; the YES
sci Immediately afterwards broke in
two across the main hatch. and the
waSers rushing in. engulfed herself
and child amid the struggling waves
and timbers of the wreck.
There was another lady-Sister
Humphreys-who had three children.
When the vessel struck she told her
friends to protect her children and
convey them safely to Great Salt Lake
City, for her earthly career was run,
shortly afterwards she. with one of
her children, was swept by a sea into
the foaming surf and they were seen
no more, There was also a Young
mother of seventeen, who manifested
true courage during the dreadful scene:
her husband took their child and dashed
IL to his back. and struggled to the
reef ON a rope, with his wife close be-
hind him and the three were ,nved nm