The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-10
GREAT GALES IN
The SOUTH SEAS
Many Shipping Disasters and
Numerous People Killed.
LOSS OF A GERMAN VESSEL
AWFUL sUFFERINGs OF THE
SHIPWRECKED SAILORS.
7 1IcToRIA. B. G.. July 9.-The steam

VICTORIA, p. c., July 9.-The steam
v er Miowera. which arrived this
morning. brought details of many
shipping disasters which occurred OF
the Australian coast and South Sea as
a result of tremendous gales which
ragged during June. Brief facts have
been cabled of the loss of the German
bark Edith. with Captain Erteu and
eleven men en- route from Puget sound
10 Port Pirie, with lumber, and of the
dismastIng of the German bark c. II.
Watjen, both of which vessels were
/ long overdue. The Edith struck a reef
! off New Caledonia and her crew left in
two boats, one with Captain ErteH and
eleven men anG the other with the
mate. Mr. Kruger, and eight men. The
captains boat was not seen after they
left the vessel IT was prOvisiOned for
fourteen days. The other boat was at
sea for eight days and the shipwrecked
men suffered great privatiOns before
. they were rescued After leaving the
wreck the survivors made for the Solo
mon islands. Fierce contrary winds
and heavy seas then arose, inficting
great suneTings on them. On the eighth
day they sighted the G. II. Watien,
/ from New York to Yokohama, with a
cargo of 100000 cases Of kerosene. The
, vessel had been caught in a furious
cyclone. which rendered her almost a.
complete wreck, her masts. spars, rud-
der and other gear having been COM
pletely lost. OF her cargo no less than
10000 cases Of Kerosene had been jet
| tisoned in order to relieve her. For
another seVenty-SiX days the compan-
ions in suffering partly drifted and
partly sailed with the assistance Of
jury masts. which they had rugged,
finally finding themselves at Yale
island. off the coast Of New Guinea,
whence the Edith's crew were taken to
Australia. while the Watjen's people
remained with their vessel hoping to
get her to Australia for repairs. The
Edith broke in halves after striking the
reef. The G. H. Watien had lost all
masts. rigging. rudder. three boats and
bulwarks on the starboard side. It
was not known whether she would be
condemned or not Another wreck re-
ported was that of the Lotus, a Nor
wegian bark. which ran on a reef in the
Fiji group and was a total loss. The
crew were saved and taken to Aus
tralia.
The American schooner Resolute from
Gray's Harbor for Sydney with lumber
had most narrow escape she beng Dut
two cables lengths from the rocks, when
her anchors held after dragging during
the hurricane. A tug which went TO her
assistance parted its hawsers. and the
master. fearing that the ResOlute must
be lost. signaled to the life saving sta
ti0ns 10 get life boats ready.
The bark Norma. lying at New Castle
ready to load coal for San Francisco. also
dragged during the gales. and had
close call from leaving her bones on the
oyster banks off New Castle.
The steam collier IllarOtt went ashore
on the Australian coast after the pro-
peller stripped, the vessel drifting help
lessIV on the beach. The crew was saved.
The French bark Admiral Cecille- which
was damaged on a reef off New Gale
donia and was cast adrift by the steam
met heavy weather after towing LOCO
miles. also had a narrow escape She
was found i'm a disabled condition eight
miles off Sydney and towed to that port.
The German bark MOana from BuenOS
Ayres for Sydney with wheat was on
her beam end for sixteen hours during
the gale. and the West Lothian from Ia
coma for Sydney with wheat and flour
lost MANY sails and was severely DAM
aged about her decks, the heavy seas
sweeping everything movable from her
The American bark Abbey Palmer was
long overdue from sydney for New Castle
and il was feared she had been lost,
but she was sighted all well after the
The Castor from Portland, Ore. also
suffered. her decks being continually
flooded
The James DrummOnd from Fairhaven
had her bOwsprit carried away and was
otherwise damaged as a result of being
bUffetted by the storms.