The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-04
Brings Record Of But One Fatal.
ity 10 Mar Her Five-day
Voyage.
TAToosH TowED HER TO PORT
Full story Of Her Accident on the Coos
Bar and Her Subsequent Experiences
Passengers Praise Captain Olsen and
His 0fiicers-0n TO Portland.

Al 1880 o'clock yesterday morning
exactly five days out from Coos Bay,
the steamer Alliance docked at the Gal.
lender pier In this cay. having been
brought In over the bar by the Q. h.
4 N. tug Tatccsh.
She had on board. beside her officers
and crew. the following named passen.
gers: Frank q. Davis, y. u. Layton.
Charles Re,lnail. Mr.. aud Mrs. Frel n.
Clark, NJ. l., Asher Mr.. and Mrs. A. II.
Meyers, Norman Meyers. Mrs. A..
Moses, 4. Lewis. Geo, +. jackson. Mr..
and Mrs. j, g. stephens, W. +. Richard
con. Y. II. Callahan. Mrs. d, y. pyatt
and Herbert Pyatt, her child 1.-THE hus
band and father, y, i. Pyatt. having
been lost al sen on The Coos barl I; Miss
Lizzie Buisey. all In the first cabin; and
In the second cabin, Charles Weiss, IL.
kinscr and John Wittc,
The Alliance brought but limited lot
Of freight Tor this port, iis harging but
$50 cascs OF salmon at the dock here.
before leaving up for Portland on the
hawscrs OF the steamer Northland. wnica
had received instructions to tow her up
che Columbia shortly after the latters
arrival In this port yesterday morning
ahead of the Alliance,
The story Of the Alliance as told by
her officers and by her passengers, and
confirmed BY her log, u, In substance
\ hs follows.
She left out from Coos Bay about half
past II o'clock on last Thursday morn.
ing. with moderately fair weather pre-.
yailing. but with the bar pounding In
heavy fashion. and had made IL almost
across the barrier, when she either
struck the sands below her. or the seq
wrenchei her rudder adrift. but II was
soon evident that she was not handling
as she should and inspection revealed
the fact that the ruider and part Of
her stern. post were gone and that her
propeller was badly crippled and II Is
supposed was shattered In contact with
the heavy rudder when Il was torn from
the ship. AT the time the accident hap.
pened The Alliance was inside the black
buoy at the outer edge OF the bar; and
facing series OF tremendous rollers all
OF which came aboard swiftly and pom
derously and there II was that the ,nly
fatality Of the voyage transpired. y. +,
Pyatt, who with his wife, and little boy,
aged six years, was a passenger for
Portland. and with the rest OF the peo.
pie had been ordered to the cabins or
to their staterooms. Pyatt was under
The influence Of liquor at the time and
had gone to his statercom mo. l2) with
his wife and child. but becoming rest.
less, sought to leave the room and 90
outside, against the protests Of his wife,
who was struggling with him In the
open door when the greatest Of the
swinging seas came aboard, catching the
open door and the group in 1t with tre'
mendous force, washing Mr.. Pyatt away
and astern down the gangway, and
throwing his wife violently back into
the room against the lockers and fixed
furniture and rendering her unconscious
The sea that swept her husand from 6ei
carried him over the rail TO his death
IN the Pacific, and the dreadful circum
stance was not noted by the anxious and
busy officers for as much as ten minutes
after II had happened. Then due searcf
was made for the unfortunate man with
out avail, and he was logged as lost o.
sea, and in the meantime, every possibl'
aid was extended to the unhappy lady
and child, and this kindliness, in hel