The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-12
MORE THAN FORTY PERISH
in HORROR AT SEA WHEN
OLD ROANOKE GOES DOWN
Ancient Freighter Capsizes Off Point San Luis,
Master browns With Wife and Sailors Take
To Boat: Two Mad Men Rescued With
Three Frozen Dead AS Their Companions
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AN FRANCISCO May sen,ideIiros sea-
~ all who alive of the OF the old steamer
Roanoke which foundered off Point San Luis 100 south
this city, Tuesday afternoon.
Forty Others including wife Captain Dickson and the
himself when the vessel
booup the tremendous seas that were running or were
swamped aerward the boats which
vessel sunk under the waves.
animation of the disaster came Yesterday afternoon
when drifting wateogged ships boat observed from
lighthouse Point San Luis and by the prone
human forms be through the glasses keepers appeal
ed tor assistance That assistance
Port San Luis where the three alive and five dead
Living Sailors Are Not Conscious
The living sailors picked up
by the reuing boats and when apsed
what had happened,
According 70 the told by this the Roanoke badly
overloaded when she left San Francisco May bound Valparaiso
Chile with general that included 600 of dynamite There
board but the captain wife along
Almost Immediately leaving the Golden Gate the Roanoke be-
to feel the effect Of gale blowing cargo proved
to have been badly gave trouble from the start
Cargo Begins To Tumble About
Hardy bad she left the Faaones behind her headed
when the roll OF the beam her cargo tumbg about her
holds and the efforts of the failed temporarily
stay it. =, % -. ~.- ~T*
Hoping for better weather but fearful of the condition of his
ship which than forty years old Captain Rugged
the Coast as much possible. He slowed
little good for the rolling he dreaded kept
growing through the night
Tuesday morning the day broke murk coming in
from the open and cold driving northwest
ship continued to waow southwark and westward
north of Point San Luis.
Then her time gigantic lifted
her sywad fitting her dangerous angle There crash
of shifting cargo and the steamer instead of rghg herself began
capsize.
Master and Wife In Tempest
Mrs Dickson wrapped oil SKINS wearing Southwestern
standing the bridge with her husband and the first
the motion of the ship threw her
hesitation Captain Dickson eaped the rail sprang
he reached her side Lopez struggled for disappear
ed in swirl of white foam Nothing
The first officer acted promptly and the ship them all brief
breathing SPELL she lay there half her side pounded
In all five boats the side with eight
but without water and without food Lopez does
of the other boats and could but details wathappn
ed to the one he was in after leaving the ship
Remembers Cold Hunger and Thirst
All that he knows that cold deck
and the holds fighting keep the cargo shifting
hours before the steamer down He remembers the hunger
the thirst and the freezing wind of Tuesday night wind bit deep
left the sinking ship He remembers the suerngs his
the boat drifting before the gale and their attempts keep
boats head toward the Coast and before the following
Is all
The dead believed have agony of those
hours when their only protection from the gale when breaker
reared its head above the of their boat
Lopez and his three mates in critical condition and the
who caring for them in the hospital
little hope of being able to keep them alive
Search For Missing Boats Begun
Search for the other boats begun
disaster could be flashed by wireless and down the The
Stewart the Whittier packet ship are
all reported within distance of the where
down. and the wireless station San Francisco has
touch with them The Lansing also reported
for the hive scattered boats but late hour last night
not reported any success.