New Britain herald., 1914-11-24

u survivors and fifteen dead from the wrecked coastng steamer Hanalei which went ashore yesterday on DuX- bury Reef near here had been ac- counted for at 10 a. m. today. Of these thirty were lowed ashore by life lines or struggled through the smother of surf by their own strength and thirteen were carried aboard the revenue cutter McCulloch. The if teen dead also were on the McCul- lOch.
 As the vessel had sixty-two persons aboard. all told, the list of dead and living left but four unaccounted for.
 Three Variously Reported.
 These figures did not include, how ,Ner. five men of the Fort Point Liic Saving crew, San Francisco. who were swamped last night. Two of these were known to have come safe ashore, but the remaining three were various ly reported as aboard the McCulloch and among those cast adrift when the Hanalei broke up. They could not be counted with any certainty among either the dead or the liN- ing.
 The Hanalei broke up early today, after pounding on the reef nearly A hours. Some of the fragments washed far enough in shore to en- able those clinging to them to make fight for their lives. The ordinary apparatus of life saving was power less against distance, fog and a break ing sea.
 Oil from the fuel tanks of the smashed ship coated the sea and made nf @ a1 to the difficulties of the rescuers. Vessel Struck Yesterday. San Francisco. Nov. 24.-The steam 1 schooner Hanalei, ashore on Duxbury 1 Reef. broke in two just before dawn 1 today with fifty-eight souls aboard i Eighteen persons were rescued. in- l c1uding Captain I. I. Carey of the Hanalei. There seemed small hope 1 for any others.
 Duxbury Reef is at the end of deep marrow channel running north from San Francisco harbor along the very edge of the cliffs. Big and little boats follow it in and out to avoid a l big Welter of shoal water known as the Potato Patch" which begins just beyond the channel and runs for miles to sea. Tn clear weather it is ! easily navigated. The hanalei went ashore in a dense fog
 Ran Ashore in Fog.
 The schooner. which had been pounded by the surf since yesterday noon, when she ran ashore in a fog, went all to pieces. Her bow which hung over the reef and had been twisted to a right angle. slid into the water and drifted to within one hun dred yards of the beach. The five persons who first came ashore swan from this wreckage
 \ few more hours would have saved every soul aboard. An hour would have saved many. After all hope had heen given up ashore and on board the wreck, the sixth line fired by the Gid den Gate Park life saving crew under i Captain Norman Nelson went over the vessel. A brooches buoy was rigged, and then the line parted. Almost inn mediately thereafter the Hanalei broke apart amid cries which rose above the thunder of the surf.
 Efforts to take off the passengers and crew from shore began late yes terday after dozen vessels had tried to reach her and were prevented by fog and surf.
 Lines Fell Short. . The Fort Point Life Saving crew from the beach fired lines which fell short, until in desperation they dou- ble-charged their mortar and it burst : An effort to launch a boat from the Hanalei failed and passenger was drowned. A sailor tried to swim ashore with a line. and men on the beach could see his arm swing above the waves: but at the line of breakers he sank and his body drifted out to sea. A passenger, Elwood Schwerin of Berkeley Cal, took a line and got ashore, but the line became unfastened as he swan.
 One other man, it was reported, also