The San Francisco call., 1898-06-02
Thirty-Four Lives Lost iD q Disaster Near Cape
 ldttery.
Members of PriDce Luigi's Pros- pecting Party Among the
 Missing.

were warm In their praise of the work done by Captain Crockett at the time of the laundering of the vessel. Cap- 1 tain Crockett gives the following ac- count of the wreck:
 "We were lying to to mend our fore | sail. A moderate gale was blowing 1 and the seas were running high had gone to bed and was sound asleep when the watchman awakened me with l the announcement that something was wrong. I arose at once and found the vessel leaking. A hurried investiga- tion showed that she would soon sink and I at once notified the passengers of the situation. Most of them were asleep underneath the deck. A scene of confusion then took place, and it is impossible to give any detailed account of the events that followed. The dark ness added to the confusion.
 The Jane Gray carried two life boats and two launches at once or dered the boats lowered. The first life boat was swamped. The launch Ken noma. belonging to the Ingraham party, was successfully lowered.
 At this time the Jane Gray was almost under water. A heavy sea struck her, throwing her on her beam. There was no time to launch other boats. The water. was over her matches and every one: below was certainly drowned. Those on deck hurriedly got into the launch. A sack of prunes and one of turnips was hastily taken from I the ships stores, and these were the only food we had until we reached Van couver Island.
 F. AS the launch drifted away from the almost submerged schooner we saw eight or ten. men standing on the lee rail, clinging to the rigging. Soon they disappeared from sight. Two of them,
 Job Johnson and c. J. Reilly, kept 1 af1oat by clinging to bundles of boat ] lumber. Two hours afterward they I were picked up by our launch, making twenty-seven in all we had with us. :: ] "It is barely possible that there will l be four more survivors. Just before l the Jane Gray disappeared under the waves we thought we saw the second ] launch that. was on board with four forms near it. They were so indis-
 tinct that we were not sure. They seemed to: be getting into the launch. We saw nothing of them when daylight came We improvised sail and pad l dies, and after drifting thirty l hours in the launch finally landed in side of Rugged Point, I-ynquot Sound, on Vancouver Island, eighty miles from the scene of the wreck.
 | "A fire was built on the beach and we made a meal of roasted mussels. I've had had no food since the night be- fore the disaster, excepting the sack of Eprunes and turnips that we threw into I the launch. We got our drinking water by spreading out tarpaulin in the driving rain. An Indian who | chanced to come along informed us that the village of Kynquot was but six l miles away. We went there and found 1.-the sealing schooner Favorite becalmed and arrangements were made to carry our party to Victoria. We reached there this morning in time to catch the steamer for Seattle"
 | The best-known survivor of the Jane I Gray expedition Is Major E. S. Ingra-
 ham, who as a result of trip made year ago to Mount St. Elias with Prince I Luigi of Italy received $10,000 from the
 Italian nobleman to fit out an expedi-
 ton to the Kotzebue Sound country. But for the launch which the Ingraham party had aboard the Jane Gray not
 soul could possibly have been saved.
 Major Ingraham said tonight:
 Strange and horrible as 1t may seem fman.- of those perished did not Eknow the vessel was foundered. There I was no noise, no excitement. The un- conscious: ones simply dropped off into eternity. It was all over in ten min utes Those who. did not know of the approaching disaster had been deathly sick from the time tEe vessel left Cape EFlattery. They died in their hunks and I to many of the-.- destruction must have seemed a relief.
 Twenty seven of the passengers and crew crowded into my little launch and escaped Two of the survivors-the last to leave the Jane GraY-were found by
 us floating on bits of wreckage. They saw the schooner take her final plunge into the black waters and told us that l though they were at her side not a. cry came from any of those who perished
 Our launch was kept then headed to
 the wind for twenty-four hours, and then headed toward the east. Finally
 hungry, thirsty, weary, half dead, the j bleak shore of Vancouver Island loom
 ed up in the far beyond. It was land that was enougl- for us. After hours of hard work we were picked up by the sealer Favorite and taken to Victoria
 .I don't know when I will finish tell ing the many incidents of that awful trip or of those which occurred just be- fore the Jane Gray disappeared. W. c. l Gambel, a missionary bound for St.
 Lawrence Island, in Boring Sea, was aboard with his wife and little babe. Tn the midst of 1t all maniacal ideas | took possession of him, and as result