The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-09-03

to port, her stern going dow
same time. | had just told - :, at The
tain how comfortable the ni,o 'us CAP
would be when we both h pot house
like frogs into the bay. So So do 70 leap
Burdette, a prominent law, u Ten
Washington. I looked At ts Of
lights then decided I would I' ts Shore
chance with the wreck and was ' axe a
up by boat and towed to th tbs picked
which was then four feet un IN 0sldse
ter. The general was saved inv. Va
was sinking for the third time a'' as he
"One of the most unfortrn~.
dents was the death of a soldier .V y, Incl
l heard referred to as Doc, " Nnon
Just a little while before y, hayes
went down Hayes went bac. Ooat
room to get something. As tho ~ = a''
settled the door damned and NOV e Ooa'
in the act of breaking the door A we were
to let him out when the boat beys susa
take her final lurch. The ro eau 10
were compelled to flee for tbo;s sc "
with the cries of the poor fellow nes
ing in their ears. ing
Eee!es' Body Arrives.
While thirty-five passenoor-
most OF the crew of the Ohio , eaa
allghting from the train last evo "ele
at the union depot, baggagemen I ~
removing from their car rude vo sa9
en- box ip which, packed in ico WV, W."
the remains of George C. Eccles 't Wv
wireless hero of the Ohio. 'De
I'll see to it that the remains ~.
either friends or have a burio, lu
mensurate with the heart that nav
carried" said M. J. Heney, the Alasra
railway man, when the BODY of Eoo1a1
came ashore at Swanson bav uo on
dered a rude coffin, secured ico fron
the fishing boat Kingfsher, and virad
his agents here to spare no eynansa
in finding his relatives and arranpira
for an undertaken to take chargo %
the remains when Seattle was ro.os
ed.
Charles F. Booth, of Seattle: H \
Winchell, mining engineer: Claronoa
Cunningham, locator of coal pronpr.
ties in the Katalla region; Alexander
N. Winchell, professor of geology Of
the University of Wisconsin; &c
Greene, of Cleveland, a coal mining
engineer, with his wife and son: John
P. Gray, of Wallace, and Mrs. Grav
and Harry White, of Wallace, were
members of a party of survivors of the
Ohio who arrived by train from Van.
couver, B. c., last night, having been
taken to Vancouver by the Rupert
City. They were on their way to the
Katalla region.
Mr.. Booth has vivid recollection
of the incidents of the wreck, since
he was fearful of trouble in the bad
weather into which the Ohio had
steamed. After telling of the vessels
striking in the pitchy darkness, Mr..
Booth described the landing of the
pas sengers in the ships lifeboats.
1.-THE men were held back" he said,
while the women and children were
put in the boats
Wireless Not CAUGHT,
Mr.. Booth states that the efforts Of
Wireless Operator Eccles to attract
assistance by means of his IS. 0. s.
message were not successful. MI
Eccles told me himself as we stood
with the freight clerk and several
members of the crew on the rear up
per deck awaiting chance to get OH
the ship, that he had been unable 10
get single response, owing 10 'ne
mountains intervening between MIN
and the nearest wireless station a'
Ketchikan."
"Eccles was one of the last to leave
the ship" says Mr.. Booth. tie con
tinued to give his distress Calls un'"
the fires of the engine were p'I ou
cutting off his power. This occuli'O
fifteen or twenty minutes. before 'l''
vessel went down. -.
among the others who WerS O''
was Albert Anderson, one OF tHe q'''
termasters, who, l am told "d'
drowned while trying to save so'u.s
who was confined to his cauin ans
unable to get out. This solulei n
been aroused, but had failed " ST. sis
the danger, and had gone BACK " A
cabin. ,.,oic
"Purser Etephen also made ne.G IN
efforts to reassure the passensel'
the face of the great danger anu u a.
sist them in getting on life preserve e
He himself refused to put on III,
preserver, fearing that to 90 50 "
add to the alarm of the passens', asf
He STAYED with the ship till 1ne l the
and was caught in the suction as as is i
vessel went down. A walter o."
said to be missing"
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