The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-01-10
FORTY THREE LIVES LOST
STEAMER WALLA WALLA SUNK.
She Went Down in Fifteen Minutes
After She COIIided with French
Bark Mnx-IIad Been Popular
Passenger Boat Between Seattle
ana San Francisco.


ana San Francisco.
A collision at sea between the steam
ship Walla Walla and an unknown
sailing vessel resulted in the sinking
Of the steamship and the probable loss
of at least rs lives. The Walla Walla,
owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship
company, sailed from San Francisco
January 1 for Puget sound ports. She
carried S6 first class passengers, TWEEN
ty-eight second class, and a crew OF
eighty men. When off Cape Mendocino,
on the California coast, about 4:10
Thursday morning, an iron bark, be-
lieved to be French, doomed up in the
haze and crashed into the Walla Wal
las bow. Then the sailing vessel slid
off into the darkness and was seen no
more. All the passengers and crew of
the Walla Walla except a few on watch
were asleep, but were aroused by the
crash. The steerage quarters were in
the bow, and it is believed that some
of the Storage passengers and crew
were crushed to death. A big hole was
was. in the steamers bow, and she sank
in thirty-five minues. The officers and
crew maintained strict discipline and
boats and life RATS were lowered. All
who were not killed in collision got off
except Hall, who went down with his
ship. He was picked up later by one or
the boats, uninjured, with the eXcep
ton of few bruises. There was
chOppy sea running. and the small
boats could not make a landing on the
shore. a few miles distant. They drift.
ed about all day, and finally 65 people
were picked up by the steamer Dis
patch, which took them to Eureka.
Later Reports.
Another boat under command of
Engineer Brown, containing 10 people,
attempted to land at Trinidad and was
swamped.
John Wilkinson, quarrermaster, Will
liam Martel, fireman; L. DUDE, pas
senger, and three unknown men, were
drowned.
Those in the boat who were saved
were Engineer Brown, Fireman John
Mcclellan, Coal Passer William Schinn,
Sailor O'Leary, Chief Cook Marshall
and passengers William B. Smith and
William Morehouse.
The following is the most complete
list obtainable of the passengers, Off
GERS and crew of the wrecked steamer
Walla Walla who are missing. A few
of these have ben reported dead, but no
bodies have yet been recovered.
George l.. Field, ].
Gray, A. Kotzseonu and wife, Mrs.
Erickson, Charles Neff, DR.. B. F. Allen
and wife, Mrs. L. Johnson, L. M. Han
selman, NJ. B. Moore, NJ. c. Marsh, H.
Erickson and three children, ]. Brown,
D. Jones, F. McCrimmens, G. F. Spen-
GER, L. NJ. Paperne. H. c. Smith, L.
DUDE, G. Nicholson, A. Hansen, c. Law
son.
officers and Crew-Chlef officer P.
Nelson, Chief Engineer George H.
Crosby, Second officer F. Lupp, Third
Officer George Haldoon, Fourth Officer
Cecil Brown, Purser e. L. huffman,
Stewardess Mrs. Minna Reynolds
A. Holmes, S. Carlson, John
Wilson, John English R. Somers, E.
Johnson R. Nelson, NJ. Have, A. John
son, w. B. Dorland, w. ]. Bartel, j.
Rooney, G.. Cove, G. Gallagher, j. Cali
CHAN, G. C. Cornell, S. Murillo, Frank
Reardon, John She'll F. Nausett, F..
Nausett, F. Rhode, Ed Reiss, l. Halo
way, T. B. Williams, J. o. Johnson,
George Morrison.
When the Dispatch reached Eureka
this morning with the survivors, tugs
were Immediately sent out for the miss
ing boats. The tug Ranger picked up
one containing eleven passengers, and
three of the crew.
French Bark Max.
The steam collier Washtenaw, at Sc
attic, reports being in company with
the French bark Max off Cape MendO-
elmo January >. The Max reported be-
ing in collision with a large passenger
steamer at o'clock that morning. The