The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-25

TRANSPORT SHERIDAN
SURVIVORS REPORTED FOUND
OFF ALASKA.
San Francisco Post Published Fact Of
Rumor Being Current in That City
Before Ventura Sailed.

The fifth edition Of the San Fran
| cisco Post which was probably the last
! edition of that paper on the afternoon
of January 16 the date when the Ven
tura sailed, has the following statement
regarding the rumor Of the reported loss
of the Sheridan.
"Unfounded rumors have been i'm C.l
culation since yesterday 20 the effect
that the transport Sheridan, which
sailed from here January / for Manila
was probably lost and that life raft
| from the vessel bearing two soldiers
| was washed ashore on the Alaskan
coast. No report Of a raft gO;1g ashore
was received i'm telegraphic advlees "a
the Merchants Exchange or through
any other source, and there appears to
be nothing upon which to base such a
story.
1T is not likely that the Sheridan was
in the track of any storm"
There is still nothing definite regard
ing the alleged loss of the Sheridan
with all hands on board. A late edi-
ttOn of the San Francisco Post of Jan
uary 16, the date when the Ventura
left that port, contains a brief state
ment regarding the report. According
to the statement in the Post, the sur
vivOrs Of the lost boat We're picked up
on a life craft off the Alaskan coast
No official advices had been received in
| the Sheridan however and the Post
ibid not seem to place much reliance in
| the story.
! This explanation of the wreck is far
more plausible than that the vessel had
been lost off the Japanese coast. While
IOf course, the transport would have
had time i'm which to have come near
Ithe Japanes coast and her survivors
been picked up by some of the fast YES
sells from Vancouver or Seattle, it is
far more likely that the men alleged
! to have been saved were found along
the Alaskan coast.
The vessel could have been lost any
time after January l. the date of her
departure from San Francisco, and
there been ample time for survivors to
! have been rescued off the Alaskan
coast prior to January 16. In taking
the Great Circle route, the Sheridan
went considerably north of the San
Francisco degree of latitude and life
rafts could readily have been carried
back to the northeast by the current
Until more details of the alleged
wreck will have been received, it's
causes can be only cOnjectured. The
vessel might have been sunk in just
Isuch a away as the Walla Walla dur
ing the early part of the month. Some
have even indulged in such a flight Of
fancy as to suggest that the Condor
and Sheridan might have come to-
Igether.
1t was hoped that the French cruiser
Protet which arrived this morning from
! San francisco, might bring news of
1.-THE reported wreck but the cruiser left
San Francisco January 16, the date of
the departure of the Ventura, so moth
ling later was learned. The failure of
the transport Fitzpatrick to arrive this
morning from San Francisco has fur
Ither complicated the situation. She
| should have reached Honolulu this
morning as the papers of January 16,
stated that She left San Francisco on
that date. There is a possibility that
the Fitzpatrick might have been sent
out to search for the Sheridan or the
survivors of that transport, if later
news confirming the loss of the Sheri-
dan was received before she sailed.
! Unless the Albion comes along before
next Tuesday, when the Gaelic is due,
the alarming rumor can not be settled
lone way or the other before that time.