Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1906-01-17
BOAT AND CREW ARE LOST
NO MORE HOPE FOR MEN ON SAM
UEL L. RUSSELL IN HAMP-
TON ROADS.
FIERCE GALE UP COAST
Passengers and Crew of Wrecked
Schooner w. H. Kruger on Cali
fornia Coast Are Rescued.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 15.-Maritime
schooner Samuel L. Russell has gone
to pieces in Hampton Roads and that
Capt Jones and four men are lost
Wreckage Is Found
Tugs coming in report wreckage which
has been identified as being timbers
from the Russell A sixty-mile gale has
been blowing off the coast for several
days.
Kruger's Passengers Safe.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 10
The passengers and crew OF the wrecked
schooner w. H. Kruger, which went
ashore off the Mendocino county shore
Friday, arrived in this city on board the
tug Seafoam
Battle with Waves.
For nearly four hours the refugees
were tossed and buffeted about in life
boats in heavy sea before the Sea-
foam took them aboard. They were
scantily clad, having left all their eff
fects on board the vessel
Rescue Sixty from Cherokee.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. J., Jan. 10
The passengers and crew, sixty in all,
were rescued from the Clyde line steam
er Cherokee Sunday after twenty-four
hours of anxiety and peril. Capt. Ar
chbald, two mates, and the ships car
penter elected to remain aboard the
stranded steamer.
The rescue was made by Capt. Mark
Caste and picked crew in the sloop
yacht Alberta and their experience was
thrilling.
All during the night the life guards of
the three stations watched for slight
moderation of the storm. The life saw
ers deemed it folly to attempt to go to
the steamer in the sea that was running
and it was decided to send two men in
a launch. This was done, and when it
was about to go over the bar at the
mouth of the inlet the launch's machin-
cry became disarranged and it drifted
about helplessly.
Another launch was sent out and
brought back the two men and the dis
abled launch.
Little Sloop Dares Breakers.
Then it was decided that the sloop AL
berta, with Capt. Caste at the helm and
a picked crew, should make an attempt
to reach the Cherokee. The Alberta got
over the inlet bar in safety and pounded
up the coast towards the stranded YES
sci. It's progress was followed by hun
When abreast of the stranded steamer d
small boat was launched and several Of
the crew made the perilous trip to the
steamer.
They found the passengers and most Of
the crew in n terrible state of anxiety.
The women were weeping and the men
were pleading that something be done.
Capt. Archibald and Capt. Caste decided
to make the attempt to transfer the pas
sengers. Though eager to be rescued,
some of the passengers feared to make
the trip in the small boat.
Work of Rescue Thrilling.
The drawer ones volunteered to go
first. and when The others found that the
trip from the steamer to the tossing
sloop was not SO perilOus as it looked
they consented to leave the ship. Only
after nearly two hours work all but the
captain and three of the crew were safe
ly aboard the Alberta.
Among those rescued was Lieut.. II. NJ.
l.. Walker, formerly of the United
States cruiser Yankee, who was returning
to Washington from Puerta Plata. The
other rescued passengers are: Joseph
Train, Walter w. Handley. all of New
AYork; Edward Lapodde Elias Amaris,
Filipa Amaris, Jose Amaris and Anna
Amaris, all of Santo Domingo.
Sleet Storm on the Coast.
Four persons persisted in the sleet
storm which swept over New York and
New Jersey Sunday. Two of them were
electrocuted by contact with fallen cleo
trio light wires. Another was drowned
by the upsetting of a scow in tow of the
tugboat Eugene f. Moran, due to the
parting of a hawser, while the fourth
was swept from the deck Of the tug by
a heavy sea.