The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-15
Went on the Rocks During q Ter
rible Northern Storm.
w. A. BRYANT TELLS THE STORY
with the Aid of . Life Line Those
With Their Lives-kenney Now
Lies in the sand With . Hole In
Her stern, Her Seams Open and
RfxEing Strafned-Ingrahan Safe

Taere no longer need be felt any ankle
~ over the welfare Of Maj Z. $. lngra-
ham and his party Of proSpeeiors. for they
ware left on kotzsbue sound by the
schooner Louise J. kslney. which was
wrecked af,erwart. W. A Bryant. VINO
had charge OF the cargo for the Alaska
Trading Company ard who returned
Tuesday On the cutter Bear. said yesterday
TIA. Maj. Iagraham and one OF his men
got aboard the keaney at Unalakiik.
There were nine of the party taken north
from here. All of them and their freight
were landed at Cape Blossom in kotzeoue
sound .AugGs1 :,
The majors launch and new boiler for
II were also taken Up on the Keaney and
safely put in the water. later being used
with much success in landing supplies.
This was the same launch thar WAS previ-
ously used with such good effect in saw
ing lives from The Jane Grey. Wasn the
kennsy left there four days later he Men
were building boats and getting ready 10
20 up the kowak river 10 prospec.. Mr..
Bryan, says there tHo river steamers
operating on the kowak 2sl miles up 10
PORT Cosmos, and that there were No peo-
pie on the beach there. He heard OF no
indications OF gold worth mentioning, out
ali the prospeclo~s were hopeful. he ~
ports the death by drowning OF uen nAiiie,i
Scott and Miller. who were calsized IN
that swift. stream. Many were selling their
outfits 10 get passage down 10 the states
The first good story OF the wrecking OF
the kenaey was told Icy Mr. Bryant as fol-
lows:
I'VE had discharged the Laplanders at
the reindeer station. left the pros!eotofs
and freieht or kotzepue sound, and had
gone over 10 Point Hope To trade Win
the wha.ers there. II was. however. too
rough TO land and We we're waiting for
a south Wind. Point Hope is the end Of a
sand spit fifteen miles long, extending gu,
into the Arctic in Northwestern Alaska.
and there Is no way Of getting shelter
there except by being on the opposite side
q III. spit from the wind. We We're on the
north side. when the wind came up from
the yrest ard we, therefore went around 10
the south side, thinking Il would blow rom
the northwest and remain In that quartes.
But i veerei 10 the southwest again We
raised our foresan and j.b. and tried 10
sail out. at the same Iine raising our
anchor In doing So the anchor chain
broke and the strong in-curreDt took us
toward shore. We dropped the other an
Choir, but the gale Increased and became
so hard ;ha, it dragged US toward the
beach. This WAS August e.
on the beach at 8 o'clock the next morn
ing When We saw we mus. give up the
kenney was turned head on and we struck
the shore, fair or our bow. But the wind
and fore Of the waves threw us around
broadside. and at noon the boat COM
menced to settle in the sand. BY o'clock
the waves were washing over the deck,
and when We opened the matches We found
them half full. Two hours later every
thing WAS wAter-Soaked and the cargo
ruined. We threw over a lire with buoy
attached TO 1t 10 dr:ls TO the shore, and
George Tuckhed. John Hickman. Peter
Leib. Max i.esb, Cooper and Evans and
other shore whalers pulled ii 10 land and
We saved ourselves by going hand over
hand TO the beach. When We left there
the kenney was lying In the SAND az the
edge Of the water with hole in her stern.
her seams opened and rigging strained.
She can never be fioated and will go 20
pieces In the storms OF this fal! and win
ter The wreck occurred eight miles in
from the head Of the spit on the south
side. ore mile below the white settlement.
We came away on the Bear twenty-four
hours later. Capt. futile ana all the o.
hcers and crew treated Us royalty"
The Seattle Hardware Company had
two-thiras interest In the kenney. ana the
other third was owned by j. \. Bailiar-
geon, the vessel being operated under the
firm name Of the Arctic Trading Cons
pany. She was bull. at Essex, Mass. In
1859. ana ha1 the following dimensions;
Length 95s feet breadth. Z5.i: depth, H.-
feet She was Of 1921 gross ana 1891 net
tonnage. Her official Number was lios "a.
and her sigma, letters X J. She
was on her second trip 70 the Arctic when
lost The Arctic Trading Company bought
her at Gloucester Mass. In the fan OF
i>9s capt. Miner j. Bruce negotiating the
deal The heuney vas Vaiicd AZ $l3oD
ami her cargo AZ s1.Qna. The boat was
insured for $3.50 ana ;he cargo FOR S3.@s,
with companies represented by Calhoun
& 10.