The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-28

ter McCulloch, bearing the survivors Bear. built last winter by Capt. Louis Lane, the noted Arctic trader and ex- plorer, arrived in the roadstead yester- day afternoon shortly after one o'clock from St Matthew island, at which point the Lane vessel was wrecked on tue night of Thursday, August To-
 The cutter was met far out in the rcadstead by Capt. Thos. A. Ross of ne local coast guard station, in he Goncvieve of the Alaska Lightera ge omp ny bearing Mrs. l ane. wife of the shspwrecked commander of the Great I ear and the Lane children, to- 5et&cr with d number of friends of Ire fudily. Arriving al anchor, the trim white cutter was boarded by the Nome party, and happy reunion of the Lane family took place while there were numerous handshakings and con- gratulations on all sides.
 The Great Bear party consisted of twenty one persons, Capt. Louis Lane, Mir. John Borden, capitalists and sportsman of Chicago. Mr. N. H. Bo- kum, also a Chicagoan, Mr Mott, sec ond mate of the wrecked vessel, T. NJ. Cloves of Seattle, Mr. Murphy, chief engineer and the crew of fifteen men.
 All were in the best of health and spirits and declared that their exper- fence was attended by none of the hardships usually associated with ship wrecks. MT. Borden remarked about it as the crashing of the Great Bear on the sharp outlying points of Pinnacle rock had happened so quick ly and under such conditions that the wreck and attendant experiences were anything but shivery. According to the story of the survivors, the Great Bear departed from Unalaska at I: 35 q. m on the morning of August G. St. Paul islands were reached the follow ing day and q passenger aboard the vessel landed. The vessel departed again on Tuesday August s. While at unalaska q story reached Capt. Lane to the effect that a man at Port Muller had picked up floating bot tie containing a note stating that two men were ship wrecked on St. Mat thew and he resolved to stop at the island en route to Nome to investi- gate All went well until the night of August 10. The sea was comparative ly calm; heavy swell WAS on and a dense fog hung over the water shroud- ing everything from view. As the weather had been cloudy and stormy since leaving St. Paul, the vessel was proceeding by dead reckoning The navigators were aware that they were near the island but believed they were still fifteen miles or so away. Sud denly at 12:57 a. m, without d hint Ol warning, the treat Bear cfaSfed upon the Jagged teeth of Pinnacle rock The ship hung fast and, as party remained aboard until the fol- lowing morning, meanwhile unloading q large portion of their supplies into the five boats, and later proceeded to St. Matthew island where camp was made in tents taken from the wrecked schooner. During the following days he larger portion of the stores and supplies were taken to the island and the party lived in comparative com fort for the fifteen days of their stay. In the meantime friends of the miss ing party in Nome became anxious and Mrs Lane, who was in Nome with her children awaiting the coming of
 I husband, finally applied to Capt Thomas Ross, of the local coast guard station adn enlisted his services in communicating with the commander of the Boring sea coast guard fleet, Capt. Broadbent, at Unalaska. Following an interchange of messages between Capt. Ross and himself, Capt. Broad bent dispatched the cutter McCulloch 10 locate the long overdue vessel. The cutter arrived at St. Matthews August 25 and the party were taken aboard, together with large portion of the supplies landed from the wrecked schooner. The following account of the wreck and the attendant circum- stances was kindly furnished the Mug