Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-15
five LOST ON
C0!lsT SHIP
Pacific C<S,twise Steamer
Bear oes on Rocks
Nes Eureka, Cal.
TWO BOAT LOADS
STILL MISSING
Five Bodies Recovered and Some Of
Lfeboats Fail to Reach Shore-Bear
Coos on Rocky Reef and 10 Aban-
doned by 1872 Passensers-Battiesh
Oregon Answers s. o. S. Sisnals-
Fog Retards Rescue Work.

IsuIehd, Ndi., JUNG lo.-r I've uOuiSS
have been recovered from the coast
wise steamer Bear. wrecked last night
on Sugar Loaf Rock, and one iifeboat
was seen today trying for landing on
the rocky coast. according to mes
sage received here from the lightkeeper
at Cape Mendocino.
Most Of the 1s2 persons on board
were reported safe aboard the tug Res
cue, which went out from here, and
first advices were that all had been
rescued. The fog which brought disas-
ter TO the Bear continued impenetabIe
today.
The Battleship Oregon and tho
steamer Grace Dollar, which answered
the S. Q. S. calls Of the stranded liner.
have been patroling the vicinity of the
wreck.
Bear Goes on Rocks.
When the Bear Graded in the rocks,
Capt. l.. O. Nopander. who was IN
charge, did not send out an S. .. S. call
Immediately evidently believing he
could clear his boat. Apparently find
ing the steamer tightly clamped. he
ordered his passengers from their
berths and into the lifeboats.
Everybody went over the sides into
the small boats, some OF which have
not since been seen. The Bear was
flealsing badly when deserted.
The sea was calm and there was but
little wind when the passengers and
crew took to the boats. Later q heavy
swell started to run.
When the distress call was sent out
it was picked UP by the oregon, which
was steaming south from the Bremen
ton navy yard on the Puget sound; to,
San Francisco. and by the Grace Doll,
lar. The radio stations here also re-
ceived the calls and the life saving
crews We're dispatched. saSsi
Two Boats Missing.
Sugar Loaf Rock, where the Bear
Graded in the fog. juts our into ,the sea
at the outermost edge OF long ledge
fGocks known as Blunts reef. which
extends out from Cape Mendocino for
about five miles. l. i-t
The Bear was valued at approxl-
mately $1,oOOOOO and has been in the
coaSSwise service ever since she was
built seven years ago.
One boat carrying twenty persons
was reported to have landed at Point
Mendocno. Steamship officials said
two others We're missing, one from
which five bodies were lost. 4
Missing Accounted For.
Later two boat loads of survivors
came ashore. one boat is reported try
ing to land. and the remaining passen-
gers and crew are said to be aboard
the tug Rescue. .
Among the survivors two were re-
ported to be fatally injured. Many had
sustained minor injuries and all were
suffering from exposure.
The two boats landed at the mouth
of Bear river during the night.
Men and women, numhed with cold
and In various stages of exhaustion,
dragged themselves from the boats and
found what shelter they could along
the beach. Some made shelters of
drftwood. Others burrowed into the
cold sand and spent the night there.
Residents Of Capetown. the nearest
settlement, found the survivors early
today. They were taken to Capetown
and cared for in the homes of towns
people.
The city of Eureka, thirty miles to
the north, has been asked to send med
Holes Torn in Ship.
The survivors told how they had been
awakened by the shock as the Bear
lifted her bow on the foghidden rocks
and came to a jolting stop. The pas
sengers had rushed on deck. in their
night clothes, the women screaming in
terror Great holes had been torn in
the steamers bow plates by the i'm
pact. but Captain Nopander after an
examination of the damage, assured the
passengers that there was no immediate
danger.
The officers and men Of the crew
went about endeavorins to calm the
fears OF the passengers.
Aboard the Bear when she left Port
land were: First class passengers. 90;
steerage. %; crew %. Total. 216.
Say Thirty Were Drowned.
The first boat away from the wreck
upset and almost surely all the thirty
persons in it were drowned, according
to Miss Vera Adams, of Seattle, sur
vivor. Miss Adams was in the third
boat, which also upset.
Rescued Taken to Eureka.
San Francisco Inne 1S-The naval
radio station on Goat island reported
today that the steamer Grace Dollar
was taking 10 Eureka sixty 1.-TWO pas
sengers rescued from the steamer Bear.