The age-herald., 1902-01-06
She is Being ToWed Into Pot by Steamer Acme and
 Revenue Gutter
NUMBER OF MISSING AND DEAD NOW PLACED AT AZ The Rev. Henry Erickson Who Los All He Family Is Now Lying In
 Hospital Physical and
 Mental Wreck

San Francisco, January E-Ths French
 bark Max. which coIlided with the steam
 ship walla walla early Thursday morn
 ing, Is being lowed to this city in badly
 disabled condition. The steamer George
 W. Elder. from Portland. reports that she
 passed the Max this morning in tow of
 the steamer Acme and the United States
 revenue cutter McCuIloch. eighteen miles
 northwest of Point Rays. The Max's bow
 spirit was carried away, and hsr bow was stove in both above and below the water line. Her water-tight compartments alone were keeping her aftoat-
 Ninety-two survivors of the Waiia Wal | la arrived here today from Eureka on the steamer Pomona There Is stin some dis l crepancy in the lists of dead and missing. The number ranges from thirty-seven to forty-seven. This discrepancy is due to the fact that several passengers boarded | the vessel just as she was leaving port. Others who were travelling second-class gave assumed names Tn order to hide their identity. By striking out what are possible duplicates, the number of lost
 stands at forty-two, classed as follows: Known dead nine.
 Missing passengers. thirteen; crew twenty.
 One Life Raft Lostls3 | One life raft is unaccoyknt ed for, and it | Is feared all the missirg are lost.
 Rev. Henry Erickson. who was among the six survivors brought to this city by
 the steamer Nome City last night is at
 St. Mary's Hospital, physical and al-
 most mental wreck. His wife and three children are among the dead and missing. The Erickson family, excepting the | mother, were second-class passengers.
 When the crash came they were awak- l ened and all got on the upper deck to- | gether. Mrs. Erickson and the two young | children became separated from their l father and the elder brother. What their | fate was is not known, but it is presumed | they were drowned when the vessel went l down. Erickson and his son clung to- | gether and were pitched into the water 1 clear of the sinking steamer. They fioated | around for some time and finally were l picked up by, the life raft, on which were
 & number of the officers of the Walla l Walla-
 It was almest daybreak when they were | found and they were in an exhausted l condition. Father and son were pulled | on the light structure. but the boy was too weak to stand the exposure Died Tn Ills Fathers Anns. A few hours later he died in his fa- | ther's arms, and after the heart broken | parent had bowed his head in silent pray 1 CT over the corpse if his son, the body | was consigned to the waves as tenderly l as 1t was possible under the circum- | stances. After the body of the boy had | gone overheard, the father became more and more Respondent. Despite the ad- | vice of his companions time and time again he filled his hands with water l and drank 1t down. This added to his
 misery and his companions feared he would be next to succumb. The sea was running high and dashing over the raft.
 but all clung on through the long hours | of the day and the long hours of the night. They hoped against hope until the | Nome City picked them up. The Rev. MT. Erickson was the first to be lifted | aboard. He was at once placed in bed l and as carefully tended as circum- stances would permit It is thought he | will recover from the terrible physical
 effects of the exposure unless he sue | cumbs under his grief
 Never Saw Suoh Panlo.
 Cecil Brown fourth officer of the walla
 Walla, who was one of the six picked
 up by the Nome City, describing the
 down, said:
 'I never saw such panic Men and | women were running about the decks
 wild with fright and it was almost im- possible to get them to obey directions. T have been in several ship wrecks. l but I never saw people before who were | so opposed to being saved. They wanted
 to stay with the ship to the last minute,
 And our efforts in getting the boats load | ed and lowered accordingly met with a | great deal of difficulty.
 My place was in one of the boats and 1 but for the stupidity or knavery of a | sailor, I would have been there. This T n. | in the boat not to cast off until I gave | the word. While was busy helping pas | sengers off this sailor pushed off and left l me. l saw his boat after daylight. She | had eight people aboard and the sailor | who had disobeyed my orders was direct | ing her movements. They had rigged up blanket for a sail and slid by us with | a good wind at their backs. That sailor | had the audacity to wave his hand to us | He would not take us on board. although l there was plenty of room for us in the 1 boat He sailed past us and left us to our | fate in the middle of the ocean. Drifting on Raft.
 'The raft on which We were drifting when the Nome City picked us up was an ordinary ships raft, sixteen feet | square. It afforded us absolutely no pro- | tection from the cold nor from the waves | which frequently swept over us. Most of l the time the raft was under water. Our | clothes were drenched and yesterday | morning they were almost frozen stiff | Several times we attempted to propel our | raft toward the shore but our efforts failed. We finally gave up trying to row | and allowed ourselves to drift In the hope 1 of being picked up by some passing boat l We saw mum Der of vessels passing dur | ing the s6 hours that we were adrift, but -------,,---~->,---