The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-04
Thrilling Experience of Pas
sengers and Crew
Who Survived the Wreck of the
Walla WaIla.
ESTIMATE OF DEAD.
Number Is Now Placed at 10,
With 90 Missing.
Some Place UnaccOunted For as
High as 81.

San Francisco, Jan. At is not yet
known how many persons perished in
| the wreck of the steamer Walla Walia,
which was run into and sunk by an
unknown French bark off Cape Men
docino. The most conservative state
ment places the number of dead at ten
and includes % in the list of missing.
Another estimate is that no less than
73 persons are yet unaccounted Eor.
Those believed to be dead are:
MRS. HERMAN KOTZSCHMAE wife
of Lieut.. Kotzschmar.
MRS. Nj. REYNOLDS, stewardess.
MRS. H. ERICKSON and three chill
dren.
LOUIS H. DRUBY, of San Francisco.
f. L huffman, purser.
VIM. BERTEI4, fireman.
JOHN WILSON, also known as Hans
p. Anderson, quartermaster.
The list of missing, whose fate is still
in doubt includes the following: IL.
Erickson, laborer; DIR. S. F. Allen and
Neff of Seattle, w. Duhler, d. Jones, j.
Brown. f. Demar, G. Gleason, M. =.
March. G. Nicholson, NJ. Hanselman,
Chief officer Peter Nilsen, Second Mate
Hughes, Fourth Mate c. Brown, Chief
Engineer Geo. H. Crosby, Second AS
sistant Engineer B. F. Potter, Steward
John Cornell, Boatswain A. Holmes, r.
Nelson. n. Haare. J. Rooney. NJ. CaIiag-
han, Santiago MuriIlo, pantry man,
Frank Reardon, porter; John Shiel; p.
Naucett; Frank Rhode, waiter; Edgar
Reiss, waiter; j. Holloway; Il. B. Viii
liams, waiter; ]. o. Johnson George
Morrison.
There are still on the ocean, so far as
known, two rafts. If either of these has
been picked up the number of supposed
victims will be materially decreased
Sixty-two of the passengers and crew
We're picked up and landed at Eureka
by the steam schooner Dispatch, % sur
Vivofs drifted ashore near Trinidad, and
II others were rescued by the tug
Ranger.
Capt Hall, who went down with the
vessel but came to the surface and was
saved, thinks that some of the missing
may yet be heard FROM The fact that
the bark which caused the disaster did
not stand by to aid the Walla Walla in
dicateS to Seafaring men that she must
have been seriously disa bled, if indeed
she remains afioat. Her identity is not
known. or is it likely to be determined
for some time, as there are several
French vessels answering her descrip-
ton now off the Pacific.
Expert shipping men figure out that
most likely the bark was the Ernest LIE
Gouve, 55 days out from Hobart, TaS-
mania, for Portland.
The bark Les Adelphes, 81 days from
Madagascar and the DuqueSne 120 days
out from Nantez, the Europe bound for
England with a cargo of wheat and the
Francois Copee, which left Astoria on
December g. for Cork, are also mem
toned by mariners in this connection.
The revenue cutter McCulloch has been
dispatched to the scene of the wreck
and is expected, besides searching fer
and aiding the missing survivors, to as
certain all possible facts concerning the
vessel which caused the wreck.
OF the six life rafts launched by the
Walla Walla after the boats had been
filled, three and a portion of another
were found and their occupants rescued
by the schooner Dispatch.
On this little fleet of light craft hard
battles for life were fought. One was
half the time two feet under water. On
another man went mad. His mania
took the form of attempted self-destruc-
drowning himself They can not tell
how, in such a sea, on such a craft
they saved their own lives Yet they
saved them and the life of the mad
twelve persons and every. one was
saved. The man who was driven tenn
porarily insane was Frank Orrego, a
The following named persons reached
Trinidad in safety after a most perilous
trip in one of the boats:
M. c. Morehouse, stationary engineer,
H. S. Marshall, chief cook of the
Walla WaIla.
w. T. Smith. passenger of Los An
geles.
VIM. Sheehan, fireman of San Fran
cisco.
]. McCallum, San Francisco.
VIM. O'Leary, sailor, San Francisco.
neer, San Francisco.
A. Spear.
r. Mckee.
Fred McClement-
II. Kotzschmar, Jr.
o. Swanson.
Dan Larsen.
Charles Dawson, passenger.
F. Alexander, coal handler.
A Johnson, mess man.
H H. Weaver, passenger, was badly
hurt and is not expected to live.
The people of Trinidad had not learn
ed of the calamity and the appearance
we'll as their tale of peril and suffering
came as shock to the people of that
section and they received them with
open hands. One of the survivors, Will
liam O'Leary, says that the boat saw
the unknown French bark and came
within 300 yards of it, but could not
attract the attention of any on board
NO NEWS FROM THE MISSING
Eureka, Cal, Jan. AT 10 O'Clock
this morning nothing has been heard
from any of the missing people from
the steamer Walla Walla- Tugboats arc
cruising up and down the coast look
United States dispatch boat Mccullough
the same errand. Those of the sur
vivors who have arrived here are being
taken care of. Many of them will go
to San Francisco the steamer Po-
mona, one of the steamships of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship company plying
between San Francisco and this port.
The Pomona will arrive in San Fran
cisco on Sunday.