The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-13
SURVIVORS CLAIM
MANY persisted IN
WRECK ON PACIFIC
Santa Rosa's Owners Say Four
Sailors Were Only Victims,
but This Story Is Denied.

10y 1FhAneN H4aN 5Ne2kVlSay MEeEy mN4 ttA1
but This Story Is Denied.
Santa Barbara; Cal, July l0-InF spite
bf assertions from company officials
and ships officers to the contrary, the
passengers Of the wrecked steamer
Santa Rosa, who arrived here early
Today after a thrilling battle with the
breakers that smashed the stranded
ship, declare that more than four
sailors lost their lives.
The known dead are:
=. HEUSoN, second officer, Berke-
ley, Cal.a
FRED JOHNSTON,
JOHN 2. SIFFER, seaman.
E. W. JEBSEN. m
Many Not Accounted For.
One hundred and ninety-two pas
sengers are al that have been account
ed for so far, say the survivors. There
We're 200 on the steamer and many OF
the rescued declare today tina the
missing ones went down to death
when the surf-battered life RATS went
Few OF the shipwrecked
have recovered from the strain OF the
battle with the breakers IN the dark
last night. Many OF the rescued
that We're able to continue the Journey
south boarded regular trains this
s.:a.:..:ssss asSI HIS first 4duoTtO1 ar
rive at Los Angeles at S:45 o'clock.
D%enounce tho Captain.
Many OF the passengers were bitter
IN their denunciation of hes ships Of
1cers, who refused to LAM the pas
sengers soon after the Santa Rosa
grounded neal Point Arguello.
Captain Faria declined, they say I'd
listen to the passengers. who desired
TO be put ashore before the gale arose
l (rD ~ n ~ nr,n1,ty,r 81 TJNa 4 n ai7 ~ f,n va r.
replied to entreaties with the state
ment that he had received Instructions
from the Pacific Coast Steamship
company to permit no one to go ashore
until it became absolutely necessary.
The relief train bearing the rescued
passengers of the wrecked tea1ner
Santa Rosa arrived in Santa Barbara
early today and discharged a pitiful
freight of hysterical i'm and half
clad, shivering men.
Victims in Bad Shape.
Suffering and privation were writ
ten plainly on the faces of all and ID
will be weeks, and in some cases
months, before some of the victims REL
cover. All had been drenched to the
skin in coming ashore in the breecheS
buoy in the high surf. and none had
mad anything to eat since the noon
neal yesterday on board the ship, exI
rept n hasty lunch and n cup of coffee
provided by the sympathetic farmers
who thronged to the beach from tleir
nearby homes when the vessel began
to break up.
Many were too weak to leave tho
ears unassisted and half a dozen had
20 be carried from the train on
stretchers. Hardly a n of the pass
sengers was fully clothed. The great
n portion We're wrapped in blanketsi
Feared No Loss of Life. 4
When the boat landed the injury did
not appear to be serious and Captain
Fariar, believing he would be able
again to float the Santa Rosa, made no
attempt to land the passengers. A
sharp wind rising soon after 4 O'Clock
threatened to rack the boa to pieces
and hasty preparations We're made I'd
lake the passengers and crew ashore;
At $50 o'clock a heavy swell cracked
the vessel amidships and at 6 O'Clock ii
split in two. There We're 275 persons
on board. most of whom. mad taken
refuge in the forward section, as tha
stern of the boa had received the
brunt of the attack of the waves.
h coast is bleak and uninhabited,
and the signals of distress shown an
hour previous still We're unheeded. The
breakers rose dangerously, and 1T was
With great difficulty that the first BOAT
was launched soon after 6 o'clock. In
1t were Third Engineer c. w. Brown
and a woman passenger. Brown car
"ied a line to shore, and when he had
affected a landing, after a desperate
battle with the waves, aid had arrived
On shore.
Taking Passengers Off.
A net was rugged on the shore line
End the passengers. women and chill
iren first. We're talSer from the floun-
aering ship, three and four at a time.
Tho disaster in which Second Officer
Houston and three seamen lost their
lives occurred just before the vessel
yielded to the assault of the wave
and burst in two. A life boat, carry
ing five men, had just put out. Heavy
seas sent it careening bach to the ship
md a mountainous wave sent it crash
ing against the hull of the vessel.
Oscar Patterson. a seaman, sue
,eeded in swimming to shore, but his
four companions persisted. Efforts had
oeen made earlier in the day by the
officers of the steamer Helen p. Drew
20 induce the captain of the Santa
Rosa to land his passengers and the
Drew still stood by in an attempt to
Md the distressed vessel. A lifeboat
WAS launched, but it had hardly been
;aught by the waves before 1t was cap
sized and it is believed that First Mate
". b. tombstone was lost.
Many Heroic Deeds.
The landing of the passengers of the
Santa Rosa, a large number of whom
were women, was attended with the
almost danger, and acts of thrilling
~ tiC ="
In taking their helpless charges to
shore.
A life raft containing 20 women cap
sized off the bow of the Santa Rosa.
Darkness has fallen, and the search
lights of the shore lighted the scene
ilnperfectly so that 1t could not be
clearly determined whether all the
women We're rescued.
When news of the disaster spread,
special trains We're rushed from San
Luis Obispo. Surf and Lompere, carry
ing food n blankets for the suffer-
ers. Fires We're built from drift wood
along the beach, and When the
drcnched survivors We're landed they
were given coffee and restoratives.
Train Dispatcher G. Merritt. of the
coast division of the Southern Pacific
railroad. reached the scene Of the
wreck with the wrecking train, :Ea
special cars FOR the injured. The train
men joined the rescue and aided in
landing the terrified and fainting sur.
Gvors.