The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-01-16
PER|ALS OF
THE SEA
Story Of Ship Wreck Graphically
Told by San Francisco Call
Loss $50, 000.0 90.

went ashore off the Mendocino county
shore early Friday morning, arrived in
his city yesterday morning on board
the tug Sea Foam, in charge of Captain
Miller, says the San Francisco Call. For
nearly four hours the refugees of the
wrecked vessel were tossed and buffeted
about in a heavy sea before the Sea
Foam doomed up in sight and took them
on board.
Ii was a narrowing experience, one re
pete with thrills and dangerous excite
nlent. The passengers and crew OF the
Kruger were clad only IN scant clotnlns,
having left all their. enects on board tls
children in the open boats. Several times
the dories threatened 10 turn tur.le III
the raging sea, put luck was on the sue
0 fine snlpwrecked crowd and tney man
aged TO weather the storm Till the see
+ cam picked them up at Z o clock yes
,erday morning.
me hruger left Fort Bragg at 4
o clock thursday afternoon in cnarse -
Captain Fred Nordoerg VII a careo Q.
lumber consigned TO Swayne K hoyt Oh
inns city. SnorLly after Iedylns the nors..-
ern port the Kruger encountered leaty
gales and rough seas. Captain Nordpeis
dia not expect any danger and ti.oasnt
MS good snip would pull through as sn>
i.ad lone many times before.
WAen put a Few miles OUTSIDE OF rof.
bragg the Kruger commenced 10 mi m.t1i
water. line seas rose 20 lremead0us
heights and the Wind oiew a terIinc gaze.
Sues anu II nnany go1 So pau tnaI Ca
tain NordDerg was forced u oroer e-.e
men out OF the engine room and trust %
the mercy of the ocean.
The waves rose h4gner every m.na1
and Captain Nordperg, seeing the sItua
uon was dangerous, ordered the tir,e
boats 10 be lowered. Every man on
board donned a lie preseryer, aanser
signals Were put ouI, rockies We're snos
of ana the fognorn starteu.
1t ) o CLOCK IN the morning the situa
tion became desperate. Captain 4Soru
berg saw that the only tnlns TO DO "as
TO bando the ship and take TO tDe
liteboats. The passengers We're lowered
into two boats. Captain Noroerg ana
Captain Hendrickson, his guest. reinaIn
ing on board till they saw all the others
safely in the boats.
Captain Nordber jumped from The ship
into lifeboat No. a distance Oh about
thirty feet. He barely and in the
small boat. Captain EendricKson, seeing
the danger, refused to follow Captain
Nordberg's lead, but waited for several
minutes and finally managed 10 jump
into lifeboat No. l without any difficulty.
with him and kept it blowing continu-
ously 10 attract the attention OF some
stray craft. For nearly four hours the
three boats tossed about the breakers
and were finally picked up by the tug
ed Foam shortly before Z o'clock yester-
day morning.
The Sea Foam, wit the passengers
and crew of the Kruger on board,
cruised around for i've hours. and about
noon sighted the steam schooner Bruins
wick. Together they started for the
Kruger in an effort TO get her in tow.
The seas were still running very high.
and it was with the greatest difficulty
that the Sea Foam managedto get a line
On the waterlogged ship.
But her efforts to move the Kruger
met with no success. The lines snapped
the Brunswick fastened a line to the Sea
Foam in an effort to help her out, but
again the task failed. The boats We're
then reversed, but with no better results
Seeing that there was no chance to get
the Kruger out of ner hopeless position,
the Sea Foam and BrunswicA captains
decided to abandon her and leave her to
the mercy of the seas. When the Sea
Foam leftthe Kruger on Saturday after
noon she was tossing about bottom up.
fast drifting toward the rock shoals and
threatening to either sink or be dashed
to pieces at any minute.
Swayne & Hoyt, agents for the Kruger.
received a telephone message yesterday
afternoon which stated that the Kruger
had gone ashore near Pilots Cove and
was being dashed to pieces on the rocks.
She will be a total loss, as the shore on
that point is very rocky and when once
a boat strikes there she has no chance