Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-01-10
IH|R7Y-S|X ARE MISSING.
With Ten Known Dead, Victims
of Walla Walla Wreck May
Number Forty-Six.
SEARCH FOR MISSING RATS FRul1LEss.


Effort to Fix Identity of French Bark
Which Collided with the Walla
Walla Has Thus lrar been Unsuc-
cessful-This Boat May Too Have
Been Lost.
San Francisco, Jan. Cit is not yet
known how many persons perished IN
the wreck of the steamer Walla Walla, |
which was run into and sunk by an i
unknown French bark off Cape Mem
docino. The most conservative state
ment places the number OF dead at
ten and includes 26 in the list OF miss
ing. Another estimate is that no less
than 70 persons are yet unaceounted
for.
The List of Dead.
Those believed to be dead are:
Mrs. Herman Kotzschamar, wife OF
Lieut.. Kotzschamar; Mrs. M. Reynolds.
stewardess; Mrs. H. Erickson and three
children; Louis H. Druby, OF San FRAN
cisco; E. L. huffman, purser: William
Bertel, fireman; John Wilson. also known
as Hans P Anderson. auartermaster
Long List of Mtssing.
The list OF missing, whose fate is
still in doubt, includes the following:
H. Erickson, laborer; Dr. S. F. Allen and
wife, ]. L. Field, ]. A. Gray, Charles Nef,
Seattle; w. BUTLER, d. Jones. j. Brown, F.
Demar. C. Gleanson, M. c. Marsh. @.
Nicholson, M. Hanselman. Chief omcer
Peter Nilsen, Second Mate Frederick Lupp.
Third Mate John Hughes, Fourth Mate
c. Brown, Chief Engineer George H. Cros-
by, Second Assistant Engineer B. F. Pot
ter, Steward John Cornell, Boatswain A.
Holmes R. Nelson, M Hare, ]. Booney, M.
Callaghan, Santiago Murillo, pantryman;
Frank Reardon, porter: John Shiel, p.
Naucett, Frank Rhode, waiter; Edgar
Reiss, waiter; ]. Holloway, T. B. Williams.
waiter; j. o. johnson, George Morrison.
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 We're picked up and land
ed at Eureka by the steam schooner
Dispatch, 90 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-
s,,rr hot CHI !, IN
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 ves-
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, IS days out from Hobart, Tas-
mania, for Portland.
The bark les Adelphes, 81 days from
Madagascar u apdh dthhfez, 'i the Europe
bound for England with cargo OF
wheat, and the Francois Copee. which
1erJ 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
filled, 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 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 sea, on such 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
Tugs Continue to 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 boa,
McCulloch, from San Francisco, is of
this coast on the same errand. Those
of the survivors who have arrived here
are being taken care of. Many of then
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 thi.
port. The Pomona will arrive in Sal
Francisco on Sunday.
Seven of Missing Land Safely,
| Eureka, Cal, Jan. 6.-Word has JUS
reached here that lifeboat from tn,
wrecked steamer Walla Walla, contain
ing seven passengers, has landed safel,
in Big Freshwater lagoon, Is mile!
north Of Trinidad. A stage has beef
dispatched from Trinidad to retur,
with the survivors.
A Promotion.
Washington, Jan. &C. Howard
Buckler, of Baltimore, Md, formerl,
chief clerk to the third assistan
postmaster general, has been ap
pointed chief of the finance division
of the post Office department. Har