Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-06
|WALLA WALLA
WRECK VICTIMS
|1,o,s Who Perlshed at Sea Num-
Dor Forty-fve'
|r.vE OF THE MISSING ONES
,.,,, drowned story ola survive
vsoncb Bark Max suffered
mueh In the collision

San Francisco, Jan. 5'--The Frenon
mark Max, which was IN oo'l's'on
'r,h tbe steamer Wollo Walla' ar
.,.ad here at 9 o'clock tonight in tow
., he steamer Acme and the reye-
rue cutter McCunoch,
rho officers Of the Max claim that
oil their lights were burning They
y" ,be lights Of the Walla Wal'a'
Thev assert that the Walla WaIa
trle5 10 cross their bow and that the
colllslon occurred through no fault Ok
the Max, ,,,
a reason for not standing by ana
,oaJerlng assistance they sal that ~
,S ,"oI lmnossible owing to the badly dls-
WA condition OF the Max Iheys
SaS all thew could do TO take care Oh
~ IN luck has followed the
Man since she was built TWO years
~ .sS" IN France ON her maiden Tip
aeia in the South Pacific stripped the
saorl NJ her steel masts and her rig
ging The vessel sought reIuge III
near port and new masts ana rlss!ns
we're set In place. Then she staIteu
,or home, but again the hoodoo fol@
iCwsd As she finished her trip she
yas caught I'm the sweeps OF mighty
gale and stripped Of her masts' rope
and sail This time the Max narrowly
escaped final disaster
WRECK SURVIVORS,
Ninety.two survivors of the W9lla
Valla arrived here today from Eu-
reka on the steamer Pomona There
ia stll some discrepancy in the lists OF
dead and missing The number ranges
from thIrty.seven TO forty-seyen. rms
dlsorenancy Is due to the fact That sew
oral Messengers boarded the vessel just
as she was leaving port Others, VINO
were travelling secOnd-class, gave as"
suned names IN order to hide their
identify r A.,
Nv striking out what are possible du,
pllcates. the number Of lost stands az
iorty.two. classed as follows known
dead. nine, missing, passengers thir-
teen crew. twenty. one llfe-raft Is nn-
accounted for. and II Is feared that all
the missing are lost
Rev. Henry Erickson, who was among
the six survivors brought to this city
BY the steamer Nome city last night,
lies at ST Mary's hospital a physical
and almost a mental wreck. His wife
and three children are among the dead
and missing
The Erickson family excepting the
mother, We're seCOnd-Class passengers.
When the crash came they We're awak-
eued and all got on the upper deck to-
gether Mrs Erickson and the two
younger children got separated from
their father and elder brother. What
their fate was Is not known. but 1t Is
presumed they were drowned when the
vessel went down
Erickson and his son chung together
and were pitched into the water clear
Of the sinking steamer They floated
around for some time and finally were
picked up by the life-raft, on which
We're a number Of the officers Of the
Wala Wala. II was almost day
break when they were found, and they
were In an exhausted condition. Faith
er and son were pulled on the light
structure, but the boy was too weak to
stand the exposure
a few hours later he died In his
fathers arms, and after the heart
broken parent had bowed his head in
llent prayer over the corpse OF his son,
the body was consigned to the waves
as tenderly as II was possible under the
circumstances, After the body of the
boy had gone overheard the father be-
came more and more Respondent. De.
spite the advice Of his companions, time
AMI time again he filed his hands with
water and drank IL down. This added
20 ms misery and his companions
ieaTel mat ne would be the next to
Succumb
Inc sea was running high and dash.
ing over the raft but all clung on
shaClously through the long hours of
lne DAY and the longer hours of the
nlgnt They hoped against hope until
ule Nome CITY picked them up. The
heV' MT, Erickson was the first to be
iileu aboard, He was at once placed
N ped and as carefully tended as cir.
t.unsiances would permit. 1t IL thought
ue VIII recover from the terrible effects
under his grief. '''
STORY OF A SURVIVOR.
Sah Francisco, Jan, 5,-Cecll Brown,