Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
WRECK REFUGEES
PASS NIGHT OF
HORRORONSAND
WOMEN TAKEN TO HOSPITALS
ON STRETCHERS
COMPANY MAKES NO EFFORT TO
AID SUFFERERS
Many CastaWays Make Long Tramp
Through Sand Dunes to Santa
Moniea-DaWn Reveals a
Scene of Distress
Continued from paGe one,

newspaper man of what he happened
to have in store.
The captain and officers Of the St.
Croix had given to each of the women
blanket to ward off the cold, and,
wrapped in these they huddled about
the bonfires and oven laughed about
their troubles and praised the gal
lantry of the ships crew. and said they
were willing to wait for the sucCor
the company was going to send them
that never came.
1t was not until 1886 in the morning
that the injured began to come in. By
this time each big bonfire was the
center of a ruddy glare for tired
faces, still smiling bat the rumble of
the flatcar told that those who had
been hurt were coming in.
Stretchers made from oars, drift
wood and blankets had been impro-
vised by the ships officers. It was
a strange picture as the first three
women were carried to the hut
Fifty yards away. hlddled about the
three great bonfires, some asleep,
others stalking about near the blaze,
too nervous to lie down, were nearly
100 men and women.
Scene Is Discomforting
Close on one side was the ocean, the
surf booming at nigh tide. on the
other side was the black mass Of hills
and close beneath them the paving
mules, painting after the difficult pull
of ten miles with the blanketed forms
on stretchers.
Were there any of the steamship
company's representatives in that hut
TO receive these women?
Not one single one except the ships
officers, who made the terse remark
after they had done all in their power.
I'VE would be glad to hire automo-
biles or anything else to help out but
If we sign the name of Schubach-
Hamilton or the North Pacific Steam
ship company TO a check it is for
gerry"
Mrs. NJ. P. Cummings Of Pasadena
was the first woman brought into the
little hut. So narrow was the door
the stretcher, rudely but clcverly fash
toned, had to be lowered on one side to
allow admittance 10 the patient. There
was one single bed in the room a
deal table and settee, with an oil
lamp ON the table.
Mrs. Cummings was made comfort
able on the bed She had been caught
between one of the boats and the side
of the steamer and ii was feared she
was ,%ffering from internal injuries
besidCC bruises.
Il don't know how / was hurt she
said as they laid her on the bed. 4
guess l was caught between two boats
I'm wet, too"
Hardly had she finished the second
sentence when the second stretcher
was tilted through the narrow door.
On IL was Mrs. Ella NJ. Jones of SOC
California street. Los Angeles. She had
gone through the wreck in compare
tive safety, but in bringing the refu-
gees back from Point Dune to the
Malbu ranch the big van drawn by six
mules over the Wretched roads had
been overturned three times.
Il guess III be all right, said the
pluclSy little woman as Mrs. Cum
mings moved close to the wall to give
her a place on the bed. But l do wish
that | could get home. I'm bruised all
over" Her sister, Miss Viola Taylor,
who was with her, laughed back and
then room was made for one more.
The third victim to be carried in was
Mrs. c.. B. smith of 1405 Sothern street.
san Francisco. She was one of the
most seriously injured of the women,
her knee being severely sprained.
There was no room on the bed and
she was put as gently as possible on
the floor Her hair was gray but she
had a stout heart and she looked at the
two other women on the bed and TIE
men who had carried her from the fiat
car and said: "Oh, I'm all right. Ill
play the game.
All that had happened to her was as
she was leaving the burning ship on a
rope ladder that her foot slipped and
she fell into the lifehoat. Just little
thing" she added.
Their stay in the temporary relief
hut was short because newspaper auto
mobiles were at hand and promptly
We're put at the disposal of the injured
women. They were hurried To Santa
Monica, where they could receive meI-
cal attention.
Mrs. /. A. Wallace Of san Francisco,
the mother of the youngest baby un
the ship-ouly months old-Was seri-
ously hurt She didn't even have n
chance to he taken into the hut She
and the baby and the babys father
were taken to The Herald automobile
and hurried to the Santa Monica Bay
hospital, where the injured mother was
attended by DR.. Al. /. Loomis
This was at 4 o'clock IN the morning,
after hours Of cold and hunger and loss
of sleep, to say nothing Of the nervous
strain that the men ANA women who
had taken passage ON the burned
steamer had undergone
Victims Think Of Others
More than once woman. worn out
with fatigue, smilmgly gave a word Of
thanks to one of tho newspaper auto
mobile drivers Invitations 10 take her
TO Santa Monica, where she could find
a place to rest, and answered. Wait a
little while. I think Their. is another
woman L.
be brought in in the next carr
Some Of these women were sitting on
the cold sands of the Nalihu ut noon
yesterday Fortunately the last of the
women were given chance 10 go
home then; but it was draary morn
ing as they sat about the fire or
crawled under blankets and tried to
forget their troubles in sleep.
Mrs. II. 3. Haven OF G86 West Blaine
street, Seattle, steWardoss, WAS the last
of the women's guard to leave.
IT don't want to go until the captain
comes" she said. "Ill wait for the
captain, because I'm member Of the
crew and I'm taking orders
1t was 9:15 o'clock Yesterday morning
when Capt. Fred Warner walked IN
from the point whore his boats were
beached, ten miles north.
He showed the strain Of the terrible
twenty-fo hours in his eyes, in his
attitude, in his walk. But there was
a good deal of logged determination
still about his jaws as he gazed at the
half dead fires, with the helpless men
and women sitting about them,
"Ive Just put Sid Finley aboard the
revenue cutter Perry" he said. 81
think the ship viii be here shortly. She
ought to pick us all up"
Even as he said the words the black
smoke from the funncds Of the Perry
could be seen over the big sand hin
10 the north. That was all that was
seen Of the Perry from the Malibu.