Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-05-08

and Point Adams.
The operator at North Head was also
beseeched to notify the Cape Disap-
pointment people The telephone
wires were out of order. The agent
of the tugboat company finally got a
message to Point Adams. but could
offer no information as to the scene
of the wreck. Since the ship had not
been able to see the beacon through
the storm the surfmen, of course,
could not hear a shout from the break
ers Of Peacock split.
It was nine o'clock. nearly four
hours after the stranding Of the
steamer, that the surfman keeping the
watch from Cape disappointment
lookout tower telephoned his chief at
the main station, a quarter Of q mile
away, that there was a ship in the
breakers OF Mckenzie head.
A furious gale had risen. The arsw.
rounding the cape, had to night both
storm and rising tide, SO they turned
back toward a cnt-off on nearby
island. Here, too, the tide met them.
Then the keeper spied tug being
lowed over the bar and asked TO be
taken to the wreck. There was q
sharp refusal. So the crew renewed
its efforts singly. 1t was man and
mans humanity that gave them
strength to struggle to reach the
wreck. It was useless. The crew
grew exhausted. And It was moro tight.
ing to get back to the station to wait
for low tide. Noon had come when
they arrived, disheartened only q
men who spend their hives in the bust
ness Of saving other mems lives can
be when they fail.
| Keeper Wicklund at Point Adams
after receiving the word early in the
morning, had commanded all his mee
to get ready for sea. With the tul
Tatoosh q thorough search over tn
bar was made, but the vessel was hid
den from their Wow and not tho trao'
Of q mast could be seen.
Upon their return Fort Stevens tele
phoned that the Rosecrans had ground
ed on Peacock spit Keeper WioA
lund left tor Cape disappointment
station, WHARF he tried again to rsacl
the ahip whose three survivors ooul,
now be seen hanging to the rigging
but found 1t impossible.
Captain Rimer met him a. he pulle,
In shore. Desperate now and detea
mined to save those three men cfina
ing to tho mast that swayed Ike
willow in tho wind, the two chisf
manned their boats and started bach
the gale tearing like fury.
The Cape disappointment boa
} Tenacious reached the wreck mrs,
} but got herself into trouble by II, an
It vas the Point Adams crew that sil
nailed to the half-dead men aloft I
} Jump. BY continued circling the boa
got pretty close to the ruined Ros.
Grams. The men on the mast we1
afraid to leave It. The rescuers keI
circling closer, when, without warnin,
, a sea piled over their boat, 1t wa
overturned and four Of the crew IN
! the keeper shot into the water, whey
! they chung to the wreckage until th
{ others, who had sat tight while Ii
boat made the dive, managed to g
, IN but one back.
The crews Of the tugs which d
: % much to help in the disaster TIL
. c,nimed the lives Of SO men we're dee
+ II appreciated by the department, a.
> lotters Of thanks we're written them
; the secretary Of the treasury.
) Every member Of the two nfesa
ing csUws has been awarded the h1g
a Il sagn OF praise within the provfn'
. Of D. sagvice-a gold medal that
|, only Owen IN exceptional cases
Z hasuAam m saving lite along d
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