The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-01-16

Telegraph wires, and the lifesavers die
mot learn of the Strathblan's predica-
Iment until s O'Clock. Keeper Harris
ordered out his men, took five volun-
teers from Fort Candy, and contrived
to pull the two miles between the sta
ton and the railroad wharf in 10 min
utes. At the wharf a fatcar and en-
CINE, with steam up, were waiting, and
the boat and crew were whisked over
the rails to point near the wreck. At
half past nine they had the Lyle gun
in place and began to try to shoot the
| lifeline over the wreck. After an
hours futile work in the 60mile wind,
the surf-boat was launched.
Twice the lifeboat was swamped, and
| finally as it was cresting huge sea,
| it turned turtle completely and all the
crew were thrown out. Though all got
back to shore, they had to abandon
their efforts to reach the Strathblane,
as their boat had two large holes stove
in it's side. The wreck began to break
up, and the % people aboard-eight
had contrived to get ashore in small
boat-began to jump into the sea. Clad
with life-preservers, all those who
missed contact with the tangled wreck
age, escaped. Six, including the cap
tain, were drowned.
One of the most dramatic wrecks in
the Pacific coasts history was that Of
the trans-Pacific liner City of New
York, stranded on the rocks off Point
Bonita, as she was cropping her way to
sea through thick fog. The life
savers boarded her and succeeded in
saving all of her crew of 1O4 and the
1873 passengers she carried, as we'll as
$241 900 in bullion.
In October, 1896, the steamship Ar
agon founded off Coos Bay after con-
tact with the rocks at the north end
of the jetty, and in the first few min
utes that the seas stormed over her 13
persons out of the 80 aboard were
drowned. Three years later the steam
shin Weott was wrecked on the bar of
Humboldt bay and two lives were lost.
The Rio de JaneirO Sunk.
In 1901 occurred what was said to
have been the most disastrous marine
accident which the Pacific coast had
known up to that time. The American
steamship Rio de Janeira, bound in
the Golden Gate, was caught
in a treacherous cross current and |
swept out of her course against some |
rock or other obstruction, and sank al
most Immediately.
The disaster was so unexpected and
81 instantaneous that even discipline
did not serve to help those on board.
Of 209 persons, all but 81 persisted. The
water where the Rio de Janeiro sank
is so deep that no trace of the wreck
was ever found, and the first news the
Iifesavers had Of it was when one OF
he patrols saw boatload of survivors
pulling UP the channel in the early
morning.
Among the most recent Of the TRACE
lies Of the Pacific was the wreck OF
he large coasting steamship Czarlna
IN the Coos Bay bar few years ago.
Only one of the "a men aboard OF her
vas saved. She had been trying to get
o sea, but the buffeting of the waves
IN the bar was too much for her, and
he was tossed on the South Spit. After
hat there was no hope for her, more
specially as her captain had made the
mistake of dropping anchor just before
he struck, which held her enough to
Compel her to take the full force OF the
,onderous breakers that drove In with
he regularity Of steam-hammers,
BOUNDING her sides to pieces and
hearing off her upper works. The