The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-11-16
SAVED FROM DEATH
At ELEVENTH HOUR
Crowds See Rescue Of Fifty
From Sea.
LIFE SAVERS WERE HELPLESS
Tug Gets Line Aboard Steam 6choon.
or Warrington After Battle on
Pacific Coast Lasting
Thirty Houre.

Astoria, Ore, Nov. 14.-Rcscued
from the Jaws of death, after battle
with the elements extending over near
ly thirty hours, the steam schooner
Washington, Portland to San Fran
cisco, which struck on Peacock Spit.
WIS towed to this port.
Taking advantage of the cessation
Of the gale, the Columbia bar tug
Tatoosh, Capt. Charles T. Bailey,
slipped in close to the Washington
and after several attempts got Il line
aboard.
The rescue OF the Washington and
her passengers and crew, numbering
AZ persons, was dramatic. Hundreds
of persons who had gathered on the
beach in the early morning hours and
had watched the vessel all day, and
who momentarily expected to see her
crushed on the rocks near North Head
and her passengers and crew swept
into the sea, saw the Tatoosh reach
her side
Rescuing Tug Cheered.
A great cheer went up, and like
an echo came back the joyful shout
Of the passengers huddled on the
Washington's deck.
Crippled and drifting before south
east gale, with furious sea running,
the fate Of the Washington was pre-
carious for hours. All night and morn
ing every effort to reach the craft
with life lines or boats had failed
The sea was literally boiling and to
launch the lfeboats meant suicide.
The Washington got into the break
ers while outward bound. She was
deep in the water and evidently leak
ing so badly that her fires were out.
The anchors were dragging slowly
and under the eyes of the helpless
life savers the ship was edging stead
lily nearer destruction on the beach.
Tugs Kept at Distance.
Several tugs which went to the
scene from this port were unable to
approach close enough to the doomed
vessel to render any assistance. The
weather was so thick for hours that
only occasional glimpses of the tugs
could be had from the beach.
The life guns, equipped with great
coils of rope, had been trained on the
doomed vessel for hours, but she did
not drift into range.
A terrific southeast gale was blow
Ing and slowly but surely she was
creeping toward the rocks.
c,unre Ma. LAIpIAee
The only hope for the so persons
aboard was in the bravery of the
United States life-saving crews from
the Cape Disappointment and Point
Adams stations. These men patroled
the beach all night, waiting for the
vessel to go to pieces or for her to
drift close enough to shore to let them
fire life lines over her.
Four Drowned in Wreck.
New Haven, Conn, Nov. 1.-THE
schooner Witch Hazel. from New York
for Provincetown. went down in the
sound off New Haven during storm
The captain and three men wer,
drowned and two others were saved.
Woman, Babe and Two Men Lost.
Fishers Island, n Y, Nov. 1.-THE
schooner Edith f. Dennis was sunk
In Plum Gut, off Fort Terry Captain
Cook was saved, floating TO the Fort
Terry shore on a piece of wreckage.
His wife and child and two men who
made up the crew were drowned,
.'- Unknown Schooner Ashore.
Woods Holl, Mass, Nov. l4--An I'M
known threemasted schooner was OBJ
served ashore or Pasque island, Vine
yard sound The crew remained on
board and tug Is standing by.
Schooner Crew Unaccounted For.
Northport, N. " Nov. IA schoon-
or, the identity Of which has not been
learned, sank in Huntington harbor.
What became of the crew Is a mys-