Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

WTM SORRY LOST THE THE SHIP, But I THANK GOD
DIDN'T LOSE A LIFE
That's what Capt Fred Warner the burned ST.
the North Pacific Steamship company said he stepped
The Herald automobile Pier avenue, Santa Monica
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
That every man. child who had paid for
the lost said about the that left them
wet hungry injured thrsyon bleak shore within twelve
of line that would have taken them into Los Angeles
pitiu sight under the bright starlight that succeeded
Already they had been subjected to the racng strain of
fire 1t L 4 o'clock when the first boat lowered
1t $50 before landing made ten miles north OF the Malibu
ranch house, close to Point Dune
CUT OFF FROM WORLD
There was telephone telegraph available The only beacon
light people huddled the beach the burning torch
which they had escaped
g" the torch at II so o'clock last night and went
down stern first" said Capt Warner.
Capt Warner encouraged them He sent Purr 5 Ford and
Engineer Charles Lowe walk Los Angeles and notify
company that H2 OF the and were helpless their
emergency that the captain had ordered into the boats
Ford Chief Engineer Lowe had been heard
from when from the wreck taken
from the Nalibu ranch yesterday afternoon
their fares cared whether passengers dead
when the Perry steamed to the spot where the
wrecked steamers boats had landed took board Sid Finley
panyman who really had proved himself to be hero in trying to
and children and Of other victims who had
been able make their to the camp on the abu ranch
and then steamed away.
WATCH PERRY STEAL AWAY
Capt Warner believed that the searching along
the shore Scores who had had bite
since luncheon that had been hurriedy interrupted by t
St Croi the day before hudded hungry
cold and tired alongside fires plain to be seen from consider
The close where the suffer
that the tops her tunnels could be the sanddune
silently stole and lost in the distance when Capt War
of The Herald drove the of the
hill o in which direction she had gone.
The of real hardship is the of the night Hard
throughout all with the pain and the long waiting
the cold and fasting there complaint
the steamship company that answered the first call
for aid but ancher T. Henry who the glare OF the burning
from his ranch house. fifteen miles below Point Dune off
which the steamer lay.
Henry owns automobile that prize the big
Santa Monica. He is proud of the machine and-hes
"IIee boys" he called of his There's ship
there Get that machine and it damned
quick skin that Santa Monica record Maybe somebody's burn
ing UP over there
MAKES DESPERATE RUN
Henry found the shverng scared and of the
beach, after ride road that Phoenix
would have dared to tackle He told the officers of the ship
look for help He out and hustled himself that
help and met with willing response
By this time dark Fires lighted to dry the clothes
and chldand there and little babies
this group of the ranchers brought mules
the the Malbu ranch
impossible for automobile But there railroad in
of construction and flat and big bus and plenty OF
mules.
twohour trip each from the deserted spot where
landed to the hut the Mabu where
automobile touch with Santa Monica and Los Angeles could be OBJ
tanned
midnight the only persons the hut Chief Officer
Frank Mills Croi and Second Steward W. Ross They
ahead of the crowd the way and II 80 big
machine plowed the hut hard fight the
beach being twice pulled mule
machine five and three little children from the
The others in the auto Mayor Eakn of Ocean Park
and F. W. Gordon They gained the wreck
and had gone to the assistance OF Henry
BONFIRES STARTED
Then things began busy Railroad ties pressed into
load There and children this load hauled
by six mules Some of the All of te cold
Everybody hungry and there nothing for ento The
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