The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-23
PACIFIC LINER SINKS
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at once hastened to render every assist


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 at once hastened to render every assist
 ance in their power.
 While all this was going on Captair
 Ward was directing the passengers
 and trying to keep them from panic
 He succeeded only partially, as many
 of the terrified people rushed to the
 railings and jumped overheard. Some
 of these were picked up; others were
 rdowned. The Chinese crew, to the
 number of more than hundred, was
 terrorzed. Some of them huddled ir little groups chattering in fear. Others crouched closed to the deck, moaning
 nitifully. Many jumped into the sea
 Captain Ward remained on deck until
 the vessel had settled to such an eX-
 tent that the water was engulfing him Then he went up on the bridge and from there continued to issue his direc- tions, although by this time the con- fusion was so great that few paid any attention to his commands.
 That the steamer sank almost in- stantly after striking is the report of majority of those rescued. Some of the passengers say that she instantly listed forward and that in five minutes she went down, whil eothers declare that she stayed afloat for half an hour after she struck. The confusion occa- stoned by such an incident is intense and it is not surprising to find that there is lack of unanimity as to the length of time the vessel remained above water.
 The wreck lies about three-fourths of a mile south of Fort Point and about thousand yarsd off the rocky shore. The smokestack and a portion of the upper works of the ill-fated steamer are visible.
 There are several conflicting stories concerning the fate of Captain Ward. The steward Of the Rio says that he stood beside the captain when the ves- sel went down. Two others survivors say that they also saw the captain to the last, but Frederick Lindstrom, she of the Rio, emphatically declared that Captain Ward emulated Admiral Tryon of Her British Majesty's ship Victoria in going down to his cabin, where he met his doom behind locked door. IN
 Quarternlaster Officer Lindstrom was one of the first to land at Meiggs wharf this morning and one of the first state lnents that he made was that Captain Ward had gone down with the wrecked steamer.
 According to his story Captain Ward after consulting with Pilot Jordan came down from the bridge. He was stand oIr xxy11n ia upon the rock. ta
 There was a cry of man the boats,' but 1t was apparent that in the midst of the awful confusion systematic ef- fort to save the passengers would be of no avail Everybody was scrambling for his own safety.
 It was at this time that Lindstrom says he saw Captain Ward standing on the forward deck. Suddenly the cap- tain turned and walking hurriedly to his cabin, disappeared behind the doors, which he closed A second later the vessel was plunging to the bottom of the sea-
 Captain Frederick Jordan, the pilot of the Rio, was rescued by an Italian fish ing boat, owned by Frederick Castrini, and was brought tc Meigs station about 10 a. m Along with him was Jap anese and Philip Nussenblack.
 He was taken up to the room occu- I pied by the customs officials and told 1 the following story:
 We anchored inside about o'clock | last night The weather was thick and I left orders that when the weather | cleared we should go in further
 At a. m. the fog lifted. We could | see the Cliff house and the north end fight. and I told the mate to heave ! short. After we started heaving short, he wind came in front the northwest and the fog settled in thick and I told the mate to stop heaving. The captain ,ame up and said, Let her go, we can 90 ahead.'
 You see my watch stopped at 5:40 When the vessel struck I ordered all the boats out. The first boat out was that # the doctor. It was half filled with water no sooner than she struck. I got | ladder and placed woman on 1t and ve began to descend. She had boy with her, a child of about eight years. She gave him to me. I held him in my rms and the little fellow had his arms round my neck. The woman and I were about half way down the ladder when the Rio gave a tremendous pitch. was flung off the ladder I saw noth- n gthen Of the woman or the boy. I vent down with the ship about fifty eet. worked my way up to the sur ace and got hold of some wreckage. I yas then rescued by the fishing boat ! number of others among the rescued old stories of the scenes before and fter the boat went down.
 At the instant the Rio went on the Dcks Andrew Ademi, an Italian fisher- ian, was not great distance away l a small smack Near him was G. lberti another Italian fisherman. Both zen headed for the ship. They came ear enough before the ship went down , hear the voice of some person trough 9 n,eerarhone Tive rrren who elled at them told that the ship was hiking and lost and to stand by with elp, sending word to San Francisco as )on thereafter as they could. Ademi lys the man who yelled through the egraphone to him was remarkably )ol Housewife Wildman, who is pre- lmed to be lost, was well known in lis city. where he resided for num- er of years. H. first came into prom ence locally when he purchased the verland, which he owned and edited (