River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-01-09


zen and includes &c in the list of miss
ing. Another estimate is that nc less
than 70 persons are yet unaccounted
for.
The List of Dead.
Those believed to be dead are:
Mrs Herman Kotzschamar, wife OF
Lieut.. Kotzschamar; Mrs. NJ. Reynolds,
stewardess; Mrs. H. Erickson and three
children; Louis Fl. Druby, of San Fran
cisco; E. j.. huffman purser; William
Bertel, fireman; John Wilson, also known
as Hans p. Anderson, quartermaster.
Long List of Missing.
The list of missing, whose fate is
still in doubt, includes the following:
H Erickson, laborer; DR.. S. F. Allen and
wife, j. L. Field, J. A. Gray, Charles Nen'
Seattle; w. BUTLER, d. Jones, j. Brown, +.
Demar, G.. Gleanson, NJ. G. Marsh, G.
Nicholson, M. Hanselman, Chief officer
Peter Nilsen, Second Mate Frederick Lupp,
Third Mate John Hughes, Fourth Mate
G.. Brown, Chief Engineer George III. Cros-
by, Second Assistant Engineer B. f. Pot
ter, Steward John Council, Boatswain A.
Holmes, r. Nelson, M. Hare, j. Booney, M.
C9'iaghan, Santiago Murillo, pantryman;
Frank ReardOn, porter; John Shiel, 7.
Naucett, Frank Rhode, waiter; Edgar
Reiss, waiter; J. Holloway, r. B. Williams,
waiter w. JOuHSOH, 0GOISB VhOII
Two Rats Still Adrift.
There are still on the ocean, SO far
as known, two RATS. If either of these
has been picked up, the number of sup
posed victims will be materially de-
creased. Sixty-two of the passengers
and crew were picked up and land
ed at Eureka by the steam schooner
Dispatch, % survivors drifted ashore
near Trinidad and II others were res
cued 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.
Other Boat May Have Sunk.
The fact that the bark which caused
the disaster did not stand by to aid
the Walla Walla indicated to sea-far-
ing men that she must have seriously
disabled, 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 yes
sells answering her description now
off the Pacific.
Fixing Identity of Bark.
Expert shipping men figure out that
most likely the bark was the Ernest lie
Gouve, So days out from Hobart, Tas-
mania, for Portland.
The bark les Adelphes, 81 days from
Madagascar, and the Duquesne, 1875
days out from Nantez, the Europe,
bound for England with cargo of
wheat, and the Francois Copee, which
left Astoria on December % for Cork,
are also mentioned by mariners in this
connection. The revenue cutter Nc
Culloch has been dispatched to the
scene of the wreck and is expected, be-
sides searching for and aiding the
missing survivors, to ascertain all pos
sible facts concerning the vessel which
caused the wreck.
Of the six life RATS launched by the
Walla Walla after the boats had been
filed, three and portion of another
were found and their occupants res
cued by the schooner Dispatch.
Hard Battles for Life.
On this little feet of light craft hard
battles for life were fought. One was
half the time two feet under water.
On another a man went mad. His
mania took the form of attempted self
destruction. His companions kept him
from drowning himself. They cannot
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
man too. On still another raft were
IL persons, and every one was saved
The man who was driven temporarily
insane was Frank Orrego, fireman.
Tugs Continue 40 Search.
Eureka, CAL, Jan. 6.-At ten o'clock
Saturday morning nothing had been
heard from any of the missing people
from the steamer Walla Walla. Tug
boats are cruising up and down the
coast, looking for possible survivors,
and the United States dispatch boat
McCulloch, from San Francisco. is off
this coast on the same errand. Those
of the survivors who have arrived here
are being taken care of. Many of them
will go to San Francisco on the steam
er Pomona, one of the steamships of
the Pacific Coast Steamship company
plying between San Francisco and this
port. The Pomona will arrive in San
Francisco on Sunday.
Seven of Missing Land Safely.
Eureka, CAL, Jan. 6.-Word has just
reached here that lifeboat from the
wrecked steamer Walla Walla, contain
ing seven passengers, has landed safely
in Big Freshwater lagoon, Is miles
north of Trinidad. A stage has been
dispatched from Trinidad to return
with the survivors.
Promotion.
Washington, Jan. &C. Howard
Bucller, of Baltimore, Nd, formerly