Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-19
TWENTY.FOURLOST
THE BRITISH SHIP ATALANTA GOES
ASHORE on OREGON COAST.
FOG HID THE LIGHTHOUSE
ONLY THREE OF THE CREW OF
TWENTY-SEVEN ESCAPED.
AtaIanta Was Loaded with Wheat,
From Tacoma to south Africa,
and Was Racing
Wager TO the Cape of
Good Hope.
FOG HID THE LIGHTHOUSE
ONLY THREE OF THE CREW OIL
TWENTY-SENEN ESCAPED.

YAQUINA, ORE, Nov. lS.-Thc British
ship Ataianta, Captain Charles Mcbride,
from Tacoma to South Africa, with wheat.
was wrecked off AIsca bay, sixteen miles
south of Yaquina bay. yesterday morning.
She carried a crew of twenty-seven men
and all We're drowned but three. The
ships mastS have been blown away, the
decks swept clean and the vessel has
broken in two amidships.
The Ataianta sailed from Tacoma last
Saturday with Il cargo of 1,S5% tons of
wheat for Cape Town, and her skipper had
made a wager with the masters of the
ships Earl of Dalhousie and lnberhorne
in u race to the Cape of Good Hope. The
logbook at the life saving station shows
that Thursday morning between midnight
and o'clock the Cape Foul Weather
lighthouse was concealed hy fog and heavy
sheets of rain. The Atalanta was sailing
at a high speed Thursday when she went
on the bar. A few rocks in the trough of
the waves, attended by a heavy settling of
the bottom, caused her timbers to give be-
fore the men could reach the hatchway.
The jar of running oR snapped the masts
off as though they had been matches. The
masts and rigging went over the side in Il
tangled mess like forest before Il gale.
The breakers swept the afterdecks and
pounded in the cabins. Those who es-
capped We're on deck at the moment of the
crash and began to launch lifeboat.
While they We're working with the davits.
wave passed over the ship, tore the life
boat loose and set 1t afloat. 1t was full of
water and the oars We're gone. Several
We're in the boat at the time of its re-
lease. All but two We're washed overheard.
These two picked up a third. then in the
surf. For three hours or more they We're
buffeted about until the storm washed
them up on dry land.
One of the survivors stated that the cap
tain steered close into Cape Foul Weather
and, not seeing the lighthouse. supposed
the vessel to be some distance from shore.
This caused him to continue his southeast
tack too long.
AT 3 o'clock to-day the Atalanta lay about
a mile off shore in field of furious break
ers. Every swell passed over her works.
Each hour a section of the vessel was seen
to fall away. and the timbers fioated to-
ward the shore. strong and steady
Southwestern bore the wreckage rapidly to
the beach. 1t was this power that enabled
the three sailors who survived to escape in
a lifeboat filled with water, partly dis
abled with wreckage and without oars.
The life saving crew. although notified
of the wreck soon after it occurred yester-
day. We're unable TO reach the scene until
this morning.
TACOMA, WASH, Nov. 1S.-The ship At
Atlanta, lost off the coast of Oregon to-day.
is supposed TO be the British ship of that
name which left here last Saturday with
$500 worth of wheat for Delagoa Bay:
Captain Charles Mcbride. of Greenock.
Scotland. where he has wife. The ship
left here with twenty-seven men. the only
names of these on record here being those
of the captain and the following. who
joined the vessel at this port as seamen:
D. F. Green. A. B., 81 Chapel place. Duh
lin: ]. Webber, A. B., 123 Forty-second
street New York: S. a. Jacobson, A. g.,
Stockholm: ]. Smith, Finsbury: G.. Covalis,
Callao: j. Tones, Valparaiso; y. Sorenson.
Bergen: G. Fraser, 800 Monroe street. Phil
adephia: r. Codd. a Flanders street Liv-
erpool: J. Marks, BriShtwood addition, In
dianapolis.
She was built in 1885, owned by n Hill.
of Scotland and worth probably so GoN. She
WAS fleet and was built for troop or
passenger carrier from Great Britain to the
colonies of John Bull.