The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-01-11
STEAMER SINKS;
TH|RTY-ONE DROWN
EoSECRANS GOES ASHORE WHILE
CROSSING INTO THE CO.
LUMBlA RIVER.
55-MlLE GALE BLOWING.
Four Men Rescued After cIinsing to
Rigging For Hours-Craft
Had Unfortunate
Career.

Astoria Ore. Jan S.-'rhe oil tank
steamship Rosccrans. bound from
Monterey. Cal. for Portland. Orc. ran
aground near here on Peacock Split
while crossing into the Columbia river
during 53-n,lc gale and was lost
with 81 members Of her crew of 35.
Four Arc Saved
One survivor of the wreck WAS re.
ported to have reached shore at Tioga.
Wash. six miles from tho scene of
the disaster and tho Point Adams life.
saving crew rescued three other men.
rigging Of one Of thr Elasls when the
ship went down. For many hours
they clung there, the waves breaking
over them repeatedly. Two of the
men were taken from their perch,
while The third. who had lcapcd into
the s2a when the lircboat nenred tho
spot WAS taken from the water.
Tho Rosecrans was hurled upon the
rocks of Peacock Point ut the same
place where the steamship General
Washington went aground year ago.
Owing to the thick weather, tho plight
Of the RoSccrans was not learned for
, several hours. When her pcrilols no
sition became known tugs and the
Fort Candy and Point Adams life.
saving crews hurried to her aid.
Vessel Shift Position.
, When the tugs reached the neigh.
horhood OF the tanker siIc was found
! to be hard aground, the high seas and
driving, winds making a near approach
| impossible. Tho wrecked vessel soon
! shifted and began to break up. and
! before the tugs and lifcsavcrs could
get near enough to put a line aboard
she slipped off the rocks and sank
until only her masts and the funnel
appeared above tho water. with three
mon Of the crow clnging TO the rig
ging.
Steamer Unfortunate.
San E'rancisco.-Troublc perchcd on
! the forefoot Of the Roscrrans when
she was launched as the Mcthvcn
Castle in Glasgow. .? years ago and
never left her.
Captain l.. +. Johnson. her master.
went down with hcr after three wrecks
! was responsible. On an early voyage,
Carey, one Of the Phoenix Park muir.
dercrs, who surrendered his confcdcr.
ates in the assassination at Dublin OF
Lord Charles Frederick Casondis!, and
! Thomas Burke. was tracked half
around the world to Cane Town, South
Africa. and shot down on her decks
as an American army transport, but
the sovcrH.ncn: was dissatisfied and
sold her.
More Actively Unfortunate.
Sco0red out aud converted into a
(, tanker. she became mere actively I'm.
fortunate. On Marcel, II. 1912. after
+, fighting a terrific gale all night. she
hocam" unmanageabc and WAS tossed
broadsidc on the rocks at Alcaraz, 20
miles north OF Santa barbara
Tll" ships carpenter and y quarter.
master were washed overheard and
! drowned. With a. hole % feet wide
in her plates and spiked firmly on the
rocks. tile Rosocrans was given up for
lost the weather moderated and il
was seen that she could be saved
Pitched up and put TO work again,
the steamer caught fire five months
later while taking in oil at Gaviota
and burned to the waters edge.
Name Not Known.
The owners put another handful Of
thousands into her in repairs and sen,
her to sea again. This time she made
Il complete job Of it on the rocks OF
Pcacoch Split, taking her stout heated
master and 81 men with her.
The names Of the sailors may never
be known This being the first trim
Of the steamer since she was repaired
after the fire, the delegate sheet
containing the names of the scamen
70" the records Of the sailors union
was lost with the ship.