New Britain herald., 1916-06-15
SCANNING PACIFIC
 FOR SURVIVORS, 0F
 WRECKED STEAMER
Five Bodies Recovered from Sugar Loaf Rock Horror Hug Res
 cues Many Passengers
ALL FORGED TO TAKE TO
 BOATS FIVE MILES OUT

OVAXX " 4 ! U AAAAAS V V | Steamship Hangs Up on Reef and Is
 Abandoned at Midnight While Life Boats Crepe in Fog-Battleship
 Oregon Responds to Wireless Call
 for Help and Sweeps Mist With
 Searchlight.
 Eureka, Cal, June 15-Five bodies . have been recovered from the steame CT Bear, wrecked last night on Sugar Loaf Rock, two boat loads of surviv- ors have come ashore, one boat is re- ported trying to land and the remain ing passengers and crew are said to be aboard the tug Relief.
 Most of the 182 persons aboard the liner were reported safe aboard the Rescue, which went out from here and first advices were that all had been rescued. The fog which brought disaster to the Bear continued im- penetrable today.
 One boat was seen today trying for a landing on the rocky coast, accord ing to a message from the lightkeeper at Cape Mendocino.
 One boat, carrying twenty persons, was reported to have landed at Point Mendocino. Steamship officials said two others were missing, one from which the bodies were lost, and an- other which was seen trying to make landing.
 Spasmodic communication was had by the radio station here early today with the battleship Oregon, speeding to the relief of the stranded steamer Bear. As the sea was calm it was be- lieved that the Bears passengers would all be rescued without difficulty provided the boats in which they left the vessel were able to keep together. Owing to the dense fog prevailing this it was realized that this would be difficult, and fear was en- tertained that the boats, drifting about in the dark, might encounter some of the sharp rocks which jut about the surface at that point. The boats were reckoned to be about five miles off shore.
 Sugar Loaf Rock, where the Bear struck, is the outermost pinnacle of @ reef that has caused the destruction of a dozen vessels in the last twenty years. Close by the spot where the Bear is supposed to have struck the steamer St. Paul was wrecked ten years ago with a loss of many lives
 The battleship Oregon and the steamer Grace Dollar, which answered the S. O. S. calls of the stranded lin- CT, have been patrolling the vicinity of the wreck since early morning. A tug and life-saving crew from this port are also at the scene
 Oregon Uses Searchlight.
 A thick fog lays low over the water at daybreak and although heavy swell was running, there is a possibili- ty that the survivors succeeded in reaching the rocky mainland shore, five miles from Sugar Loak Rock The Oregon arrived before daybreak and played it's big searchlights through the fog to no avail.
 When the liner cradled in the rocks Captain Nopander did not send out an 5. o. 5. call immediately, evidently peHeVlng he could clear his boat. Ap- parently finding the steamer tightly clamped he ordered the passengers into the life-boats
 The Bear was leaking badly when deserted and at daybreak showed signs of breaking up.
 The sea was calm and there was but little wind when the passengers and crew took to the boats. Later a heavy swell started to run and the wind freshened.
 San Francisco, June 15-The steam CT Bear fo the San Francisco and Portland Steamship company, south bound with 100 passengers and a crew of eighty-two from Portland Ore, for San Francisco, went ashore last night on Sugar Loaf. Cape Men docino, and passengers and crew were compelled to take refuge in the ships life boats.
 The order to abandon ship was gv- en at midnight and all on board got away safely. The steamer went ashore during a thick fog, but the sea was reported smooth and assistance from Eureka, fifteen miles away made all haste to the ship wrecked company.
 The battleship Oregon, bound from the Bremerton navy yard for San Francisco, picked up the Bears wire less call for assistance at 1925 D. H., and headed at once full speed to the vessels aid. The life saving station at Eureka, fifteen miles north of the scene of the wreck, started out a power life-boat at 10:3O, and at mid night the tug Relief left for the scene of the wreck.
 A radio message received early tC
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