The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-02
A FEARFUL TRAGEDY AT SEA
THIRTY-FOUR PERSONS BOUND
 FOR ALASKA ARE DROWNED.

Grey Which Sprung Leak in Mod- crate Gale While Lying-to to Mend a SaiI-NIen Asleep Below Decks-A1 ProspectOrs Except Two.
 Seattle, Wash, June 1.-The schooner Jane Grey, which sailed from Seattle for Kotzebue sound on May 19, with siXty-one persons on board, foundered Sunday, May 22, about ninety miles west of Cape Flattery at 2 o'clock in the morning, while lying-to in a moder- ate gale under foresail. Then minutes after the alarm was given she lay at the bottom of the ocean with thirty four of her passengers. The remainder succeeded in embarking in launch and reached this city this afternoon. Among the survivors are J. H. Coutre and G. G. Riley of Hartford, Conn.
 The Jane Grey's passengers were prospectors with the exception of Rev. F. c. Gambrel, a missionary, who with his wife and child was on his way to St. Lawrence island, in the Boring sea. He refused to place his wife and child on board the launch, saying: "The ves- sel is doomed and we will die together" Among the prospectors was a party of sixteen headed by Major 1ngraham, who was outftted by Prince Luigi of Italy, for two years prospecting trip in Alaska. But of his party the only survivors are Major Ingraham, l.. M. Lessey, G. H. Packard and G. H. Pennington. The survivors suffered a great deal, their only food being a sack | of turnips.
 | The news of the disaster and the ex- | pected arrival of the survivors from | Victoria caused a large crowd to gath | CT at the dock here. Carriages were waiting and when the City of Kingston landed the survivors they were all car- ried to their rooms or to the residences of friends. The few that could be seen had not. recovered from the shock and could not give good account of the
 
 for the vessels springing a leak and sinking so suddenly. They were warm in their praise of the work done by | Captain Crockett at the time of the l laundering of the vessel. Captain | Crockett gives the following account of the wreck:
 | We were lying-to to mend our fore sail. A moderate gale was blowing and | the seas were running high. l had | gone to bed and was sound asleep | when the watchman awakened me with the announcement that something was wrong. I arose at once and found the vessel leaking. A hurried investigation 1 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 con- fusion then took place and it is impos- sible to give any detailed account of | the events that followed. The dark ness added to the confusion. The Jane Grey carried two life-boats and two | launches. I at once ordered the boats | lowered. The first life-boat was | swamped. The launch Kennoma be- longing to the Ingraham party was successfully lowered. At this time the Jane Grey was almost under water. A heavy sea struck her, throwing her on beam. There was no time to launch other boats The water was over her hatches and every one below was cer- tainly drowned. Those on deck, how ever, got in the launch. A sack of ! prunes and one of turnips was hur- riedly taken from the ships stores and this was the only food we had till we reached Vancouver. Island.
 "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, John Johnson and c. Reilly, kept af1oat by clinging to bundles of boat lumber. l Two hours after they were picked up by our launch, making twenty-seven in all we had with us. It is just bare ly possible that there will be four more survivors Before the Jane Grey dis appeared under the waves we thought we saw the second launch that was on board with four forms near it. They were so indistinct that we were not sure They seemed to be getting into
 
 paddles and after drifting thirty hours in the launch, finally landed inside of Rugge Point, Kinquot Sound, on Van- couver island, eighty miles from the scene of the wreck. A fire was built on the beach and we made a meal of roasted mussels. We had eaten noth- ing since the night before the disaster excepting the sack of prunes and tur- nips. We got our drinking water by spreading out tarpaulin in the driv- ing rain. An Indian who chanced tc come alongside us told us that the viii lage was but six miles. We went there : and made arrangements to carry oul , party to Victoria. We reached there just in time to catch a steamer fol Seattle.
 The Jane Grey was built in Bath, Me. in 1887. She was owned and operated by McDougall & Southwick. of this city. Outside the miners outfits sht carried no cargo.
 TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AT SEA Passengers and Crew of Schooner