The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-17
PRINCEDAVIDMARRIED ON WALLA WALLA n
ONE RESCUED ENGINEER ON
THE HYADES.
First Assistant Reed Goes Down With
Last Boat But Lives to Tell the
Tale.

Aboard the steamship Haydes is one
of the officers Of the Walla Walla
who went down in her off the Califor-
mia coast as a result of the collision
with the French bark Max. His name
is j. A. Reed and he is the first as
sistant engineer of the Hyades a sim
liar position to which he occupied on
the Walla Walla when that vessel
sank. That Reed ever lived to relate
the story Of the wreck seems miracu-
lous for he was on the steamship when
she sank and was carried under the
water by the suction.
'I was on watch in the engine ROOM"
said Reed this morning, when the
French bark struck us. One would
naturally think that such a collision
would throw persons off their feet but
it did not. 1t was not very severe.
knew that a collision of some kind had
occurred but 1 did not think that Ii
was so serious. Almost Immediately
came the order to stop the engines and
shortly after, the chief engineer order
ed us to turn the water out of the port
tanks in order to right the vessel which
was listing to port. We put also the
pumps to work.
81 went up on deck to see how things
were getting along and to look at the
hole in the vessel The bark struck us
by the second hatch and the bulShead
aft of that was evidently injured and
gave way, causing the vessel to Ill
rapidly and eventually, sink. When 1
went on the deck the first time, there
was nothing to be seen of the bark.
1 do not believe that the bark was
showing her lights for there were three
men on the lookout on the Walla
Walla, and it does not seem probable
! that they would have missed seeing
! them if they had been displayed. Had
the bark but stood by and given help,
nobody on the Walla Walla would
( have been lost. The third assistant
engineer took command of a boat and
rowed after the bark for fully four
miles, yelling and trying in every way
to attract the attention of that vessel
but no attention was apparently paid
I to him.
"Only the highest credit is due Cap
tain Hall and his officers in saving the
/ lives of the passengers and others
aboard the Walla Walla Captain
! Hall gave orders to launch the life
| boats and RATS as soon as he realized
/ the danger and they were gotten into
/ the water in remarkably fast time.
! cone reason that there was as large
a list of lost as there appears to be
was because many of the crew and
! passengers refused to leave the vessel
They did not want to get into the life
boats and seemed to think that the
| steamer would not sink. Some of those
| lost however were drowned by the
boats and RATS upsetting after being
/ launched.
I'VE remained in the engine room
until the main deck was awash an6
then the chief and the rest of us raT
up on the hurricane deck, for the yes.
sci was sinking. on the bow were
/ standing the mate, first and seCOnC
| officers and a number of others of tn,
/ ships men. I was on the hurricane
deck with some others and Captain
Hall was, I think, about midships
Suddenly, the vessel gave a list t.
starboard then she righted herself an,
took a dip, bow on on an even keel
under the water We had left thu
pumps working and the syren blowinl
when we came out Of the engine room
I, and they We're working when the boa
sank
when we saw that the vessel wa
p going to sink, some of us got into
; boat which was on the deck but whei
e we went under the water threw me out
) I was carried down about twenty fee
, but this terrible force of the suction
was not apparent. I think that it take
a vessel some time to sink to the bot
! tom after she goes entirely under tn
surface and, in my opinion, she goe
down slowly. In any event I soon ros
to the surface and got onto one of tn
RATS with eleven others. There wa
2 enough wreckage floating about afte
p she sank, to have supported hundred
of people.
1--WE were on the raft from earl
Thursday morning, until that after
, noon when the steamer Dispatch pick
ed us up. The captain of the Dispatc
T also deserves praise for the way +
] which he and his crew worked, tryin
, to rescue the people from the Wall
'Walla."