The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-25

LITTER voyase Of tventy-
" eight days. the schooner Hera,
Capt. William Kessel. has tozved
into tbs port yesterday by the tug Sea
Lion, gDih her 200 passengers in
deplorable condition for lack of ade-
qoate food and 1pafer supplies.
ue1ksned by depripafions and poor
accommodations, and disspirifed by
tyo deaths at sea. She bad been
picked up In the nick of time by boats
sent from, here to her relief.
~ HE Hera with her famished and
desperate little colony aboard was
sighted at $40 o'clock Monday
morning by the United States reve-
nue. cutter Grant and tug Sea Lion.
which had been dispatched to the
rescue The sailing craft was beat
ing hopeiessiy about Ia the teeth OF
the adverse winds that have for several
days blocked her entrance To Puget sound
tsAunf and hunxsr-ridden the passengers
thronged the ships rail TO greet the relief
boats
had been doIed out. and but twentyfour
hours before the smoke Of the Grant had
been discovered On the horizon by eager
iookouts. a downpour OF rain had saved
the 400 men on the Inflated craft from
the horrors OF impending thirst. For
hours they had been on water rations.
and had not the clouds sent help there
would have been great suffering.
The scene presented on the Hera's
decks when buckets, tubs and vessels of
every description had been put on. to
save the precious drops Of moisture can
be better imagined than described.
Two Deaths at Sea.
The two lives that had gone ont during
the Hera's voyage were those Of Joseph
s. Rynn. of Stockton. Cal. and George
J.amonby, All Engiishman, resident Of
sheboygan. Wis II is freely charged
by "A few Of the passengers that their
death was in a measure due To poor food
ard the hardships incident to long sea
voyage on a crowded vessel. with bad
sanitary provisions.
Ryan IL said 10 have been a consump-
tive. He died week ago Monday. The
day before he died he able To adj
dress a letter to a brother William
Ryan. at Pine Grove Cal His mother
and a brother reside ut Stockton. Bank
books found on his person show that de-
ceased had SSea on deposit In the savings
banks OF San Francisco. He also had
several hundred dollars worth az gold
dust His valuahss. as also those Of
Iamonby amounting TO perhaps 5000 or
Sfna I'm native gold and currency, were de-
posted tn this city with the BOSTON Ma
tional bank by Capt Kessel.
Letters found on Lamonhy's person in
dictate that ne was n native OF Kendall,
westmoreiand. England
The condition Of the Hera had been re-
ported in Port Townsend and Seattle by
the Alaska liner Lakme, and the Grant
and Sea Lion had been at once fitted out
with provisions and fresh water and sent
out to the rescue /, was a race between
the two boats a. to which should first sight
the distressed schooner About go o'clock
Monday morning the Grant made out the
Hera foY.y-two miles or Cape FTattery. Iii
their search the tug and revenue cutter
eatted westward. nv. miles apart. from
the Cape. shortly after the Grant the Sea
Lion came upon the scene. ard the CRATE
ful Hers people were soon supplied with
food
While the ylera had beaten farther in
toward the mouth Of The strait and nearer
toward Vancouver island II IS very doubt
fui II she could have Ys.sed the Cape and
down the strait unaitea BEFORE she could
have done So her passengers would nave
been famishea and dead from starvation
Captain. Lif~ Threatened.
The voyage will ne a memorable one -
the passengers, and particularly to capt,
WIN. Kessei. master Of the vessel Several
times his l'fe 81 said 20 have been In dan
ger, and huf for the counsel az cooler
heads he would probably have heen violent
iy handled and perhaps thrown overheard
and drowned
Many Of the passengers are most hitter
in their criticisms Of the charterers 90 the
vessel e. Rsoul puyai and II Fitch
They ehsFse that the Cape Nome agent
dispatched the vessel with provisions 70;
only short In quantits bat inferior In quail
isy.
". II. orr. one OF the passengers. dis
cusssd TIRE subject apparently without
prejudice. saying
''The chief irouhle. - nav notion. Law n
the gluttonous. hrrgiah appetite - some
q, the passengers Thea there mere Ss1H7
hstfstors. desperate characters. IN FAC.
aboard M hlsfre - MY mosinn attachps
e. Cant. Ksssel he 80 everything "a his
power. | arr rot saving - nsach for the
c.sn~terers 81 the sh3p Far the slim sua.
sly ana GH4iitN 81 the tnod AMI t0t manner
~ 80 serving l blame them. THE captain
is not 80 hlat9e They are tha cespousl nla
eDes. u nay rHtton. Then uiaDy ~ th>
crew wege unnt FOR the .ervsce some -
them. tslrk we're working their way
aawn
''l}Wt want 80 rec~at shat some ~ ttls
passenger wese Serv tow order - h,i-
mainly. Thy ~era ssSr-ea4sf 20 ss,aka .rpta-
bic frem tho beginning. au3 e>en - tre
20 tel she captain w3ftCtf cpssrxe 30 should
take e}th hia vessel "