The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-05
TEN LIVES WERE LOST
Steamer Chilkat Foundered on
Humboldt Bar.
STRUCK BY A BIG SEA
Carried Away the Wheel and Smashed
the Upper Works-Feil Into the
Trough of the Sea and
Turned Turtle.

Eureka. Cal. April 4.--One Of the
worst wrecks, considered from the
standpoint of loss of life. on Humb oldt
bar took place to-day. The little
steamer ChilSat, with 10 souls on board,
left Eureka at 10 o'clock Before noon
she was upside down on the bar, and
10 of her human freight We're 10 more.
OF the 19 on the vessel, IS comprised the
officers and crew and six We're rassen-
gers. Of the passengers two We're saved
and four lost. and of the crew seven
We're saved and six lost. The saved
passengers were H. Smith OF Scotia.
Cal, and w. c. Morser of Oakland. Cal.
He had been working near Ferndale for
several months. The lost pass ,ngers
are M. o. Buzan, Peter Fry, E. OBren
and E. J. Boland. Buzan was a light
rope performer and it is supposed that
his home was in San Francisco. Fry
was manager OF creamery at Fern
dale and was a we'll known citizen OF
this county. E. O'Brien was going to
San Francisco to fill a situation. L. J.
Boland was a printer. The members CT
the crew saved were: Peter Jenson,
mate; William Backwood. chief eagi-
neer; Clyde LiGhtner. first assistant en-
gineer: T. c. Bohall. steward; William
Grip, fireman. Peter Hansen, fireman5
William Black. seaman.
The names of all the seamen lest are
not yet known. The drowned include.
however. the captain. F. B. Andarson9
the second officer. name unknown: e.
Capoll, a cook, and A. Johnson, sea-
man.
Captain F. B. Anderson was niaster
| g
Francisco. He had a wife. but no chill
dren. OF the people saved six got away
in boat and were picked up by the
steamer North Fork. which had passed
out Just ahead of the Chilkat. They
We're carried on to San Francisco and
will reach there tomorrow. The ether
three washed ashore on wreckage. They
were taken out of the water by the
men at the life saving station and are
! now in this city. They are: Mate Jen-
sen. Fireman Hanson and passenger
| Morser. From them the cause of the
| wreck was learned.
| The Chilkat was almost over the bar
when big sea struck her forward, car
| ried away the wheel house and the
wheel, disabling her steering gear and
| sma shing her upper works generally
The captain called for a block to try
| a temporary steering gear. but befora
| anything could be done the helpless
! boat fell into the trough Of the sea and
the men came piing up from below
with the information that the water
| had poured down below and put out
| the fires. The ship was entirely help
less and another breaker went over her.
| Everybody got up on the hurricana
| deck and an attempt was made to get
the small boats clear. The breakers
! followed each other fast. and the fourth
| and fifth ones struck the ship In such a
| tp fI1r
! believed the men rescued by the North
| Fork managed to get one of the small
boats adrift after the steamer went
| over Morser says he saw no boat
launched. that there was not time be-
fore they We're all in the water Morser
| tells a graphic tale of the buffeting he
! received.
The Chlkat was loaded with shingles,
| lumber and butter. The water was
covered with this wreckage, and Tins
| and time again MorSer was knocked
from the plank to which he was cling
ing. His watch was stopped at ll:24.
indicating that was the exact time the
Chilkat went over. There was plenty
of water where the vessel was wrecked.
After turning turtle. she drifted north-
erly and finally struck the beach about
a mile and a half from the spot of the
accident. She now lies couple of hun
dred yards off shore in the middle OF
| the breakers, with only the top OF ner
hull showing. She is breaking up raps
idly.
San Francisco, April 4.-The Ghilkat.
which was wrecked at Eureka to-day.
was a screw stea mstip. built in Astoria.
in 1890 for the North Pacific Steamship
company of this city. She was 105 feet
long, 90 feet beam and her net tonnage
was 2O6. For the past few years she
has been under command of CAPTAIN
Anderson and was engaged in the coast
trade, both for passengers and freight.
Killed in an Explosion.