Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-03-02

Pilots story.
Francisco Feb. 23.-Captain Fred
~ W Jordan, the pilot of the Rio, was
s'.s I'D nv an Italian fishing boat owned
se'e -T,oaorick Castrini, and was brought
Nra;oo,s station about 10 a. m. Along
All him was japanese and Philip Nus
10 was taken up to the room occupied
!, .he customs officials and told the fol-
lowing story:
"11o anchored inside about o'clock last
I'M The weather was thick and | lett
s ars that when the weather cleared we
should go farther in. :,
al A. nj. the fog .n.ed. We could
tho Cliff house and the North End
,ight and told the mate to heave short.
.3tpr we started heaving short the wind
aa,,o in from the northeast and the fog
sat,led thick, and / told the mate to stop
hooving. Then the captain came up and
said: 49,,
aqet her 90. We can go ahead"
cantain Jordan made this statement to
Contain Freeman and his friends, who
orowded around him. To Captain Free
man he said "Ain't l in - OF
6xi"
cantain Freeman put his arms about
,bo nilot and said: Don't talk about it.
you are here and that is all we care"
CAPTAIN Jordan tnen continued his
story: "You see, my watch stopped at 20
hn uaaaal atrupk |
ordered all the boats out. The first boat
ont was that of the doctor. 1T was half
filed with water no sooner than she
struck the water. l got a ladder and
paced a woman on it and we began to
descend She had boy with her, child
Of about years. She gave him to me. L
held him in my arms and the little fellow
had his arms around my neck. The woman
and were about half way down the lad
der when the Rio gave a tremendous
pitch. was flung off the ladder. l saw
nothing then of the woman or the boy. l
went down with the ship about 80 feet.
| worked my way up to the surface and
rot hold of some wreckage. / had sense
enough left to turn on my back and drift
with the wreckage. Then / came across
what seemed to me the top of house,
With Chinaman on it.. He helped me
to Chamber on to the roof and with him L
drifted out toward the north heads.
81 was then rescued by the fishing
boat. can not say who the woman was.
believe she had a husband, but he was
not on deck when we left. | saw nothing
either of the woman or the boy after L was
flung off the ladder into the water"
Did you see Captain Ward2' 81 saw
nothing of him after we struck. l be-
lieve he is lost"
LATER.
San Francisco, Feb 24.-So far as can
be ascertaned from obtainable data, l28
lives we're lost in the wreck of the Pacific
Mail Steamship company's steamer Rio de
Janeiro. Some fishermen early this morn
ing found packet containing the papers
. Of Purser Rooney. Among them was the
passenger list and bunch of passenger
tickets, and as there were names on the
list whose cancelled passenger tickets did
not appear among the recovered, it is as
sumed that they laid over either at Ioko-
hama, Kobe on Honolulu. That they were
not on the vessel at the time she went
down is certain.
The list of passengers as given out by
the company and compiled from the pa
terS of the purser is as follows:
From Hong Kong (cabin) -William
Castle and wife (laid over somewhere Ell
rOute), W. Klonz (laid over somewhere en-
toutel, Consul General R, Wildman, wife,
boy and infant, Mrs. Katie Nichols (maid
q Mrs. Wildman) and native servant, J.
A Carpenter (saved), H. F. Seymour,
ms. Z. X. Mcintosh (laid over en- route),
Ms. X. West (saved).
European steerage-E. c. Howell, F. B.
/ Lee.
from Shanghai (cabin) Charles Dow
al, Miss G. Leherin (saved), A. Hart and
sne' Edward Secretan, Captain Hecht
isaved).
from Nagasaki (cabin) Russell Harp
T tsaved).
FROM Kobe, (steerage) Mr.. Teumura.
from Yokohama (cabin)-H- Grips
@atneson, Mrs. H. S. Olcott (laid over en-
,Su'e). Steerage-F. Sito, X. Sawaji, z.
"a rsnlada (saved), Mr.. Tkawamura, Mrs.
lAa Hamasaki, Miss Haki Azebi, Miss
narsa Hamasaki.
] from Honolulu (cabin)-Mrs. S. w.
~sAeheld and daughter, w. A. Wood
pu,n and wife, w. A. Henshaw, Miss L.
] - oeau, Mr.. Okawaharu, wife and SER