The record-union., 1898-03-23
All on Board, Forty Persons, Thought TO
Have Been Drowned.
Was the Bark Helen w. Almy,
Bound for Alaska, With TWEEN
ty-seven Passengers and a Crew
of Thirteen-The Dere1ict Found
Floating Bottom Up Off Point
Bonita.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 22-Upon
the arrival of the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company's steamer Santa Rosa
from San Diego to-day, the news was
received here of another horrible &C
cident, indirectly attributable to the
Alaskan gold excitement, which is be-
lieved to have cost the lives of forty
passengers and sailors.
Captain Alexander of the Santa Rosa
reported that early this morning, while
nine miles off Point Bonita, at the
mouth of the Golden Gate, he sighted a
derelict, bottom up The tug Sea Witch
was Immediately dispatched to the
point indicated, and found the derelict
to be the bark Helen w Amy Cap
tain Hogan, which sailed hence for
Copper River points with twenty-seven
passengers and crew of thirteen on
Sunday last.
The bark lay upon her starbOard side,
with her stern low down in the water,
her deck hamper badly wrecked. and
several planks of her hull washed loose
by the seas, which broke over her.
While there were no signs of boats
among the wreckage, it is not believed
that her passengers and crew escaped
as there has been a very heavy sea
for several days past. Furthermore,
no word has been received from the
survivors, if any exist, although the
derelict was sighted within ten miles
of this port and fully forty-eight hours
have passed since the wreck occurred.
According to the tugboat men, there
was a pretty stiff breeze when the AL
my sailed out of the Golden Gate on
Sunday last and by night it was
blowing a gale. She left here under
top sails, and when last seen was
standing out for an offing There was
a heavy sea running, and it is sup
posed that some time during the night
she was struck by a squat and turned
turtle
The following is a list of her passen-
gers and crew:
Passengers: A. Anderson, David An
derson, A. D. Beach, Barna Cinotto,
e. P. Currier. Oscar D. Jersander. Fred
Franks julius GiIli, ]. T. Gotsky. Gus
Jourmer. M. r. Lemley. John Levick,
William McGray, r. Nichols, James
Ronald, T. Eason, James b. Saxon,
John Smell, William Sheldon, c. b.
Spike, Charles r. Smallwood John
Vance, Adolph Waldo, John Walker,
John WestWick and an unknown man.
The crew: w. j. Hogan, Captain; V.
3. CrantZ, chief mate, native of Bos-
ton, 80 years; F. Mackie second mate,
California, 20 years; John Higgins,
cook, Massachusetts, 80 years; w. c.
Hopkins, steward, Illinois, 46 years;
Ira Cook, cabin boy, Connecticut, 40
years; Fred Cromwell, apprentice. 20
years, Pennsylvania. Seamen: p.
Bronson, United States, 40 years; ].
3. Underwood, New Jersey, 81 years;
Charles d. Leach. Connecticut, II
years; Ernest ITALIAN, England %
years; William McKeen, New York, 81
years; Antoine Nicols, Austria 20 years.
The Helen w Amy was once a South
Sea trader, and was quite famous for
her many adventures among the reefs.
Her commander was Captain LuttrelI
and he operated her in the interest of
John Wightman, who retained an in
terest in her when she entered the
Alaska trade
The vessel was in good condition for
an old vessel, and perfectly seaworthy
She was on the dry dock some days
before being put on the berth. and her
owners spent $1,000 in repairing her.
She had a temporary house on deck.
When the Amy left port she had
10 tons of ballast in her She carried
besides the provisions of the passen-
gers and their outfits She was a yes
sci of only about 125 tons, and was
therefore ballasted sufficiently to make
her stiff