Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-13

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 Between Hains and Skagway all went we'll until at 4:30 o'clock a point had been reached about three and half miles south of here and a half mile south of SturgilPs wood camp, on the east shore of the ca nal. The launch was pretty well in shore, with only a moderately strong breeze blowing, when it suddenly lurched, throwing all the people on board to one side, their combined | weight causing the boat to turn bot tom side up almost in the twinkling of an eye.
 "All managed to get out of the cabin of the overturned boat except Orchard and Arthur Boone, the lat ter of whom was asleep. Orchard immediately broke out one of the windows, cutting his right hand bad ly in doing so, and when the boat rolled back he managed to crawl through and get a hand hold along with the others, who were clinging to the sides. Young Boone got out some way, no one seeming to know how, and also managed to support himself by holding to the boat.
 "All those on board, except Bell and Logan, succeeded in keeping themselves afloat with the assistance of the boat. Bell swan to trunk that was floating in the water short distance away and, clasping it in his arms, tried to make shore. When almost there, however, he rolled Ov- CT on his back, with the trunk up permost, and that was the last seen of him.
 From that time on the casualties were but a repetition of each other. Whenever the boat rolled, which it was constantly doing, some of the benumbed fingers relaxed their hold and their owners slipped quietly into the water and were seen no more. Their going could be told by the sur vivors by the roll of the boat when they let go.
 When the boat first turned over there was great deal of excite ment, everyone yelling and appar- ently not knowing what to do, but in short time two or three took the lead and after that things went better. Henry Bernhofer was hold ing on to the boat, but when it roll ed he and Arthur Boone were forced to let go. They were two or three feet away and I called to Henry to catch hold of my foot and hold on, but he seemed to be dazed and paid no attention, and after struggling for short time went down.
 Boone needed my call. seized my foot and shortly after I was enabled to drag him up onto the boat
 Stanley Dillon managed to stay with the boat quite while, but final ly let go, although l did not see him when he did so.
 Logan thought that he could swim ashore, and after I had helped him to put on life preserver he started out and had almost reached it when, for some reason, he turned back to- ward the boat yelled for him to go on as he was as near to the shore as he was to the boat, but he did not seem to understand. When l again looked for him he was gone.
 At this time all my attention was taken up with trying to save Orch ard, who apepared to have given up all hope. He was hanging on and the seas were washing over his face. I managed to get hold of him and pull him up so that his body was across one of my arms between my body and the boat. It was soon af- ter this that we were taken off.
 Shortly after the boat went over Tom Running and Peterson started out for shore and managed to reach it at almost the same place, about half mile this side of Sturgill's wood camp. Running was the first to land and he at once started along the shore line over the cliffs for skagway. There is trail, but he failed to find it, so 1t took him much longer than it would have otherwise done to reach the dock. where he could get help and come to our re lief.
 "The boat in the meantime was drifting out into the bay. We were in plain sight of Skagway and kept calling for help, but no one heard, ,a Lslt 1S,L