Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-15
Photo by ]. Fred payhvs.

N N WEN the news came OF the
|E sinking Of the Red star
steamer Waesland, on the
Hi night Of March 8, just off the
HM coast Of Wales there was
many q person I'm Utah VINO
~ felt like he had lost a good
~ old friend. Not only scores
n those who have been borne over the
,ceara on her gallant deck but those
shos} sons and daughters fathers ana
%ners. wives and sweethearts have
nlaced their lives in her keeping 1t Is
|nc, strange, therefore, MAT there are
,o,py IN Utah who feel they have lost
n true and tried friend. OF the many
hons and daughters Of Utah that she
has taken away some went in obscur-
s,ty and returned with fame extending
BE- white hands to them, Ana sln'e
4 N was the Waesland that carried them
hover that gallant vessel was In q way
.assocIaied with their triumphs ana sue
tfessas and thus another reason is given
|5or the people Of Utah TO cherish the
memory Of the m fated ship. As grace
bully as she glIded through the main
|she glided into the careers of a great
portion Of the people Of this state, and
Because she carried so many precious
Burdens she will be long and gratefully
remembered
WAS EXPECTED,
Her undoing was the fault of n
ireacherous fog which had been hang
jrg over the sea for days, extending the
fght into the day and filling the pas
iengers and crew with apprehension
Biz nameess fear had so grown upon
fone Of the passengers that they say
'hen the ship received the shock that
Ieaed her doom, It was almost as they
bad expected II. Those who read the
press dispatches on the day following
Ne catastrophe will remember that IL
Fas the English steamer Harmonides'
bat went crashing into her sides, amid
lhIps and 40 minutes later the stricken
Jesse was under the surface of the sea-
FEW CASUALTIES.
It Is remarkable that out Of the hun
hreds Of passengers only two lost their
lives They were Edward Dangerfield
y Kansas, who struck his head against
Pie fittings Of one Of the life boats. The
'ther was Elsie Emmett, the 12-year-
Nd daughter Of a Or, Emmett When
jne Of the life boats slipped from It's
iayItIs Miss Emmett was precipitated
INTO the sea, and was drowned before
lelp could reach her. one woman re-
.eiyed a serious injury and only she OF
VI the women and children in that dis
ister was injured II is said that the
lotions Of the crew and the mail pas
engers throughout the awful trial
we're those Of brave and gallant men,
'ho always gave the precedent to the
Women and children. A peculiar cir
was the presence Of a man
~ board the Waesland who was on
nat vessel when It collided with a
'ehooner near Philadelphia, His name
) iurgeson, and he refused to leave
NE sinking ship until the last life boat
vas lowered and as he was entering
y ne and the other occupants of the
DOa' heard cries for help coming from
we snip and on looking over the deck
" 'he doomed vessel, which was rap
wy assuming a level with the waves,
.aey saw two Of the ships crew. one
y me men had been asleep and had
ls' awakened or rather reused. by
ue sensation Of wetness resulting from
Ds water that flooded in on him and
urged over his bunk.
" Is a well known fact that those
'no cross the ocean somehow become
"aehed 10 the vessel that carries
a'lu over as II II were great thing
I NE and they associate It with their
" tunes either for good or IN. Those
w succeed in their quests for fame
knowledge regard the old ship as
Trend that was IN sympathy with
w" mission and OF course used IT'S
1s's'h TO promote their success. But
Use VINO fail miserably, look upon
4. snp as sea monster, into whose
, .'1n's they had fatally placed their
,, ~ ana hopes. But few there are,
an OF the Utah people who have
su with her who win have occasion
o.. o'her than very grateful TO the
a., '''lu' And yet few vessels ever
a.''ed cargoes Of more ambitions
'nan those that came out Of the