The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-04
CAPTAIN HALLS BRAVERY.
Rescued Family of Seven Who Were
 Fastened in a Room.

| Fastened in e Room. Eureka. Cal. Jan. 3.-Georse Reise, oi | San Francisco. a passenger, gave the fol | lowing account of the accident: "It was 4:1O when the French vessel | hit the Walla Walla in the bow Al | were asleep. The weather was clear I the sea was rolling high. The passen- gers all rushed out of their state rooms l Captain Hall went down into the steer, age and found family of seven fastened | in a room. Two girls of F and IA years were fastened between timbers. The | girls were released and the family as- sisted out of their berths. All prepared | to leave the vessel. The captain said | she would sink. Life boats and rafts | were lowered to the boats.
 "The vessel did not sink until 4:45 giv- I ing the crew and passengers thirty-five | minutes to leave the steamer. Sixty three persons were lowered. the life say l ing boats then being filled. The excite | ment grew intense among the remain l ing passengers. Men and boys huriediy | jumped off the steamer. Several did not leave until she started to sink. "The officers were cool and collected, doing everything possible to save the pas sengers. No one knows the caties of the collision. but the second officer. and he is missing. As soon as the large Y bow she withdrew leaving the passengers at the mercy of the high sea and lending no assistance whatever.
 "We were drifting here and there, six ty-three in the life boats and rafts. for four or five hours. The boat l was in
 had twelve survivors. including two la dies. A lady gave me a red shirt to sig nal the steamer Dispatch. We were rec ognized and soon rescued. The officers,
 learning of the wreck, searched for oth-
 CTS. She had aboard sixty-three passen-
 gers. The Dispatch was bound from San
 Francisco to Seattle, but pulled into this
 port to land the rescued passengers. Cap
 tain Hall. with the first mate, was saved,
 the remaining officers being lost.
 "The Walla Walla was partly submerg-
 ed, both boilers exploding and sending
 pieces of the vessel in every direction
 The tug boat Bauhner arrived here at 70
 a. m with fourteen more passengers
 picked up along the coast Among those
 saved were six women. A southwestern
 wind had drfted them fifty miles up the
 coast from where the wreck occurred.
 The sea becoming rough, it was danger
 ous for them to land. compelling them
 to remain at sea. Captain Hall is at the
 Hotel Eureka severely injured. Two life
 saving. boats and one raft are yet unac-
 counted for"
 The following Is an incomplete list of
 For Seattle-A. H. Sell, Mrs. Timmons,
 Miss Williams, Mrs. Neydenbauer, ].
 Robertshout J. Miller and wife; F.
 Haight, Miss G. Cadiena. D. Stein and
 wife; w. P. Henderson, A. Neydenbauer,
 Miss E. F. Peters. E. L. Smith, F. w: Stephens anw wife, Dr. R. F. Allen and wife.
 Second class-James Cannon, F. Dewer,
 c. Closson, G. Hagelman. c. Larson. For Vancouvef-D. M. Brown midwife
 Mrs. H. L. Edgar; for Alaska, c; F. West. A. D. Mcclellan; for Victoria, Mrs.
 Hastings, w. D. Duhler. B. Nevins,; for
 tacoma. NJ. c. Moran. P. Wettershank quartermaster; Me. Linghan, P. c. Mis-
 sen. II. H. Harris. steerage steward;
 Mrs. A. l.. Shevam. Ed Marshall. cook; D. Woolhouse, passenger; John McCul- lom, fireman Charles Brown, third en- gineer: William Shinn, coal passer. It Is impossible so far to obtain the names of those supposed to be lost. From what can be gathered the following are be- lieved to have been drowned: John Will | son, quartermaster; Mir. Dooley, passen- ger; William Bartell.
 Later information states that four lives | were lost in making the landing at Trim | idad, but 1t is impossible to ascertain | the names until the arrival of the sur vivora from the place.