The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-24
FOrty-Three Survivors and Is
Dead Accounted for on
Steamer HanaIei
DESPERATE STRUGGLE
CONTINUED ALL NIGHT
Mortar Used in Firing Life Line
Across the Wreck - A Few Hours
More and All Would Have Been
Saved Some Swan Ashore.

BOLINAS, Calf. Nov. y. IL Forty
three survivors and - dead from the
wrecked eoasting steamer Hanalei
which went ashore yesterday on Dux-
bury reef near here had been account
ed for at 10 Il. IN. today
OF these 30 were towed ashore bv
life lines or struggled through the
surf by their own strength and I3 were
Icalried aboard the revenue cutter Nc
Culloch.
The - dead also were on the cutter.
As the vessel had 62 persons aboard
all told the list of dead and living
left but four unaccountcd for These
| figures did not include, however. FIVE
men OF the Fort Point life saving crew.
San Francisco, who were swamped last
night. Two of these were known to
| have come ashore safely but the re-
naming three We're variouslv reported
as aboard the AIcCnll0ch and among
| those east adrift when the lIanalei
| broke up. They could not be connted
with any certainty among either the
| dead or the living.
| The steamer Went to pieces early to-
| day after pounding on the reef nearly
24 hours. Some Of the fragments
washed far enough inshore to enable
4 those clneing TO them to make fight
for their lives.
! The ordinary apparatus Of life saw
| ing was powerless against distance.
fog and breaking sea. Oil from the
| fuel tank of the smashed ship coated
the sea and made Shiny the rocks of
the beach, adding to the difficulties Of
the rescuers.
The steamer broke up after night
! Of heroic and futile effort by people
on shore to fit mp a line to the vessel
| hy which passengers and crew could
be removed from danger
Those on board kept up courage to
the last and il was not until the hull
parted across the rocks that they
leaped into the water and fought their
way toward the signal fires which
burned on the beach. \ large portion
OF the hull with spar protrudina
from il floated toward shore ou ri-,.~
eombers and to it many human lie
ings clung desperately
| 4 searchlight had been rigced up on the
top Of a bluff and by lis light swimmers
were aided in avoiding the heavy timber
adrift and IN heading toward shore When
the hulk was within 300 feet off shore It
struck a submerged rock and heeled over
/ All those who had been hanging to the
spar of the bit of rigging were washed
off. \ few still chung to the hulk. how
ever, as 1t was wrenched free from the
rock and continued To drift shorewaId.
Finally wave threw IL so high upon
sand that life savers were able to assist
the halt-drowned men
At ; O clock in the morning life say
ING crew with large mortar appeared.
Through the enterprise OF a local news
paper 1t had been ferried across san
| Francisco bay. floated on a mortar truck
and sent 10 miles over mountain roads
1t began to shoot lines toward the wreck
as the tide rose. After the third shot
the water was waist deep on the schoon-
CT and the wireless operator who was
sending with an improviscd outfit held in
one hand reported that passengers were
desperate y few more hours would have
saved every soul on board An hour
would have saved many. After all hope
had been gievn mp ashore and on board the
wreck the sixth line fired by life saving
crew went over the vessel 4 buoy was
rugged up and then the line parted Al
most immediately thereafter the Hanaeh
broke apart amid cries which rose above
the sound of the stIrf