The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25
STEAMER DORA
SAILS INTO PORT
BuffeteC uUUuT ny Storms for Many
Days-Coal Supply Gave
500 $50 Ont
SHIP GIVEN UP AS LOST
VESSEL HAD BEEN MISSING FOR
FlFTY-FoUR DAYS.

Seattle, Feb. pa special to the
Post Intelligence from Port Angeles,
Wash. says:
The little Alaskan steamer Dora, of
the Northwestern Steamship COM
pany's line. which has been missing
for upwards of f1fty-fOur days and
was given up for lost. with all on
board Iimped into port here this after
noon at $3.50 o'clock, having gone more
than 2,008 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
in a fierce gale from the entrance to
Cold Bay on New Years 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
were well and had plenty to eat.
The Dora, which plies in the coast
wise trade along the southern coast of
Alaska, from Valdez to Unalaska, left
Valdez on her regular trip to the west
on Nov. Is, laden with freight for the
towns and trading posts along the
Aleutians and with three passengers on
board.
Coal Gave Out.
The last port made was Kodiak,
where she arrived on Dec. %. Cold
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 port OF call.
The cold was intense. and the ice
forming about her hull so clOgged and
impeded her Roadway that some of
her machinery refused to work and she
was left helpless in the gale.
There was on board the vessel only
coal enough for twenty-four hours,
and after her machinery was put in
condition again and the gale had sub
sided she had not steam enough to
make her destination. Thus crippled,
the little vessel was buffeted about by
storm after storm and driven to a
point in the middle Pacific ocean esti-
mated by her master as about 1000
miles southwest of this coast and about
opposite San Francisco.
With such sail as he had aboard
Captain Moore began working his way
toward Seattle, but he met headwinds
and storms week after week. For the
past ten day the Dora beat about with
in 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
Cargo of Foodstuffs.
The Dora had a cargo of foodstuffs
aboard without which all hands would
: .lad suffered starvation. As ii was
\ lhe provisions ran low. and while there
PAS plenty of -four and salt pork left
cther necessities were entirely gone.
The nearest to real hardships en-
cured was the lack OF fresh water, the
my supply being such rain as could
% caught in canvas and in buckets
- and pans set whenever there was
Ir:p about the cabins or decks. II
8 way enough was secured for cook
~ ana all other purposes and Cap
in Moore says that he never knew al
s:ttIc rain in the North Pacific at this
tire Of the year before.
TIC health of all on board con
tiuued good throughout and no mishaE
Ct any kind occurred
Captain Moore was master of thu
Dora and w. E. Springstum, of Val
DEE. purser. The latter's family reside
st that place.
The three passengers who made TIT
eveutfUl trip were Mr.. II. Moses, o.
Spokane, and Mr.. H. H. McGlaspen o.
UTnaIaska. and little Bobby Gould,
half native boy bound from Valdez t
Unga.
The Dora sailed at o'clock Thu
evening for Seattle. expecting to reacl
there in the morning.