The Arizona sentinel., 1899-11-11
Col. StOcker and Surveying Party Supposed to Be Drowned in
 the Gulf of California.

ESt iAiSO LO uiiId SCoGClQdE ollN 1C
 lieved the anxiety felt here foffthei
 safety which had been occasioned b.
 the report, which was spread througl
 the town yesterday and the day before
 that they had been drowned in tn
 Gulf of California, but they brough
 no news of Col. H. J. Stocker and hi
 three companions who, one week ag'
 today. were reported t1 have gon'
 down to a watery grave.
 The fate of Col. StGcker and hi
 three companions David Unrah, Ma nuel Martinez and Charles Tyson is therefore, still unknown, but from thc facts at hand we are forced, agains our will, to believe them drowned.
 The facts as we get them are to tht effect that Col. Stocker left Yuma or the fifth of last month to join the surveying party down the valley. H( stayed with them, personally superin tending the surveying of the line O tue Gulf of California & Yuma Raj Road until all but al out fifteen miles had been completed, It then became necessary to remove their supply camp down to San George bay, a distance ol about fifteen miles from where 1t was then located. Stocker, Martinez, Un- rah and Tyson put all of the provi sions and camp equipage in their boat. an old rikety concern, and, on the 27th of October, bidding their com- panions on land to meet them at the camping place agreed upon some tif- teen miles below, at San George bay, with a wave of the hand and 8 hearty good bye, jumped aboard and pushed of. As the boys ashore tramped along down the coast they saw the boat with its precious burden sailing along and all seemed well, when, to the dismay of all strong north-easter suddenly sprung up and the white caps began to roll. At this time the boat was about two miles out and was ust rounding Rocky Point" a long point of rocks jutting out into the gulf. It was seen to apparently go around the point and was then lost to the view of the anxious friend on land. Since that moment neither Stocker nor his companions afoat, nor the boat, has ever been seen or heard of.
 The party ashore Quickened their pace and went on down to where they could scan the sea below the point, but no glimpse of the boat or it's crew could they get. They continued to San George bay, still thinking that possibly their missing comrads might have arrived there in safety; but their hopes sank low within them as they looked out upon the angry waters and only the mad waves met their disap- pointed vision. After looking in vain for some sign2 of their friends they awoke to a realization of their own condition. They were there in strange and unhabited land, without food of any kind, so, taking last look for the missing men, they began their weary march back to where they might get something with which to satisfy their hunger. All in all they were two days and nights without food of any kind. On the way one of them became almost crazed and, reaching for revolver, would have ended his life, had not his companions prevented him, by force, from SO doing.
 The party reached Yuma last satur- day and left the same night for Los Angeles. On the way home they met Capt. Smith and Brandt who were going down to inspect the road, as surveyed, and told them of the prob able fate of the unfortunate men.
 The Captain and MT. Brandt hurried down, in hopes cf finding Stocker and the other three men. They went as far as they could with 8 wagon and then sent runner on down the coast, who returned to them without gaining any further information than that all ready possessed and being unable to investigate further they returned to Yuma, arriving here yesterday.
 The Captain thinks it possible that Stocker may have been driven further south than he expected to be, and that returning to San George bay and finding his companions gone, went out to Altar, fifteen miles from San George and there joined the party at work building Q railroad from that place to San George bay. If this be true, Stocker and the other three missing men are sound and we'll and we will know it in about five or six days more.
 All of the facts surrounding the case have been submitted to MT. Eduardo Andrada, of Yuma, who is thoroughly familiar with every inch of the Gulf, and he gives it as his opinion that the men are safe and that we will hear