The San Francisco call., 1898-06-02

lives snuffed out. When the water started to rush over the decks he was with us. His wife and babe were be- low. We had been referring to the lat ter as our mascot and as big wave swept over the deck and we saw that if we were to escape at all it must be at once, one of the boys cried; ;.
 Save the child
 For a minute we forgot all else and from a dozen-yes, two dozen-throats came cries of Yes, save the babe; we can't lose the mascot The mission ary made wild dash into the cabin, On the way he met one of the boys and cried out, The ship Is doomed; we will all die together! With that, this man, changed in second from a hu- man being of good mental faculties to a maniac, rushed into his stateroom, shut the door, locked it, refused even upon pleading to open it, and when the Jane Gray went down to her doom the Alaska missionary, his wife and his child-'our mascot'-breathed their last.
 There is absolutely no hope for the men left on the schooner when our launch drifted away. There was an- other launch belonging to an Italian party on the Jane Gray Some of the party entered the launch, but a. great wave came along, dashed the little boat with it's cargo of humanity up against the mainmast, and as the schooner took hnr 1oc ehn the bottom by the splintered launch Many of those who perished were strong, husky young men, who would have made a brave fight for life had it not been for the fact that they were i'll in their bunks"
 Clayton H. Packard, one of the best known mining and newspaper men in Snohomish County, this State, was one of the survivors. He joined Major In graham's expedition as mining ex- pert. To The Call correspondent he gave the following story of his experi- ences:
 Trouble began for the sixty-three persons on the old whaler Jane Gray on Friday morning. Even before we got out of the Straits, the forward cabin was awash. Every time her bow went into the swell gallons of water swept over the deck and a great deal of it found it's way into the forward cabin through the hawse holes. The schooner was kept on her course on Friday and Saturday, for the storm was not a heavy one. After eating breakfast on Friday morning we did not have another meal after getting out of the Straits.
 Shortly before o'clock on Sunday morning I heard the mate, who was standing watch, call out All hands on deck He had noticed that the vessel was keeling over On reaching the deck l noticed a dozen men in the rig ging. l saw that it was useless to try to right the vessel. Water was rush ing into the aftercabin through a com panionway in a perfect stream. I tried to launch a dory that was lying on top of the deck but in lowering the fore sail the sailors covered the dory with bang.
 Major Ingraham and others were working with the fastenings of the steam launch Kennormax. Our boat finally floated off with several men in 1t. When it came back to the schooner we caught hold of it and the men be- gan to file in. As it floated away from the vessel on wave Major Ingraha iii fell into the sea. He swan back to the schooner and was hanging on to the side when the launch came back. It caught the major and crushed him quite badly.
 Mate John Hansen behaved with great bravery. He threw a number of boxes of provisions into the launch from the deck of the schooner With every rock of the boat the main boom would sweep over us. Once 1t caught Hansen on the head and nearly knocked him overheard.
 The schooner was settling fast and We pulled the men into the boat as fast as we could. Finally we drifted out, and with but. two poles to work with We could not go back for any more men. There were twenty-five in, the boat at the time.. An hour and a half after the schooner sank we picked up Job Johnstone*of Long Island, N. Y, who had managed: to~keep afioat by clinging to one of the overturned boats.
 "I can give absolutely no hope that any one. else was saved " from the wreck. The Italian launch undoubt- edly went down. If it did not the men in 1t Were without water and pro- visions and would have little chance. I do not attempt to explain the cause of the Jane Gray laundering. We were given to understand she was a very stanch clipper whaler, yet after passing through no storm at all her seams opened and she sank almost without warning. There was not life pre- server or life raft aboard" @
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