Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-24
GIVEN UP FOR LOST,
THE DORA RETURNS.
Little Alaskan Steamer Was Mis-
sing for Upwards Of Fifty
-Four Days.
1000 MILES OUT OF COURSE.
She Was Blown out Ia Sea In u
Fierce Gale ON New
Years Eve.

Seattle, Feb, GA special 10 the Post
Intelligencer from Port Angeles, Wash.
says
The little Alaskan steamer Dora, of
the Northwestern steamship company's
line. which has been missing for up
wards of 81 days and was given up
for lost, with all on board, limped Into
port here this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock,
having gone more than 1000 miles out
OF her course, and after one of the most
remarkable experiences on record OF
the Pacific ocean. The Dora was blown
out TO sea I'm fierce gale from the
eve, and had since been buffeted about
In mid-ocean by storms with no coal
on board. She made port with sail.
All on board wcer well and had plenty
to eat
The Dora, which plies In the coast
Mise trade along the southern coast of
Alaska, from Valdez to Unalaska, left
Valdez on her regular trip TO the west
on Nov. 2S, laden with freight for the
towns and trading posts along the
Aleutians and with three passengers
aboard.
The last port made without mishap
was Kodiak, where she arrived on Dec.
rs. Cold Bay was left on Dec. 30, in
the teeth OF a northwest gale, which
heightened as night came on and drove
the little vessel far out TO sea to the
southwark, despite her attempt to reach
Chignik, her next port Of call.
The fnl1 and tho Ice
forming about her hull so clogged and
impeded her Roadway that some of
her machinery refused 10 work and
she was left helpless in the gale.
There was on board the vessel only
coal enough for "a hours and after her
machinery was put In condition again
and the gale had subsidized, she had not
steam enough to make her destination.
Thus crippled, the little vessel was buff
feted around by storm after storm and
driven to point In the middle Pacific
ocean, estimated by her master as
about 1000 miles southwest of this coast
and about opposite San Francisco,
With such sail as he had aboard Capt.
Moore began working his way toward
Seattle, but he met head winds and
storms week after week For the past
10 days the Dora beat about within
three or four hundred miles Of Cape
Flattery unable to make her way In,
Finally, with fair winds, she made the
strait, passing the cape last night
about midnight.
The Dora had cargo OF foodstuffs
aboard, without which all hands would
have suffered starvation. AS II was,
the provisions ran low, and while there
was plenty of flour and salt pork left,
other necessities were entirely gone.
The nearest to real hardships endured
WAS the lack OF fresh water, the only
supply being such rain as could be
caught in canvass and I'm buckets, tubs
and pans set whenever there was n
drip about the cabins or decks. In this
way enough was secured for cooking
and all other purposes and Capt. Moore
says that he never knew as little rain
IN the north Pacific at this time of year
before.
The health of all on board continued
good throughout and no mishap OF any
kind occurred.
Capt. Moore was master OF the Dora
and w. f.. Springstun OF Valdez, pur-
ser. The latters family reside at that
place.
The three passengers who made the
eventful trip were Mr. II, Moses OF
Spokane and MIR H. II. McGaspen OF
Unalaska and little Bobby Gould, a
holf native boy bound from Valdez to
Unga.
After taking aboard three tons OF