The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-14
SNOHOMISH IN
 ROUGH STORM
 ON WAY SOUTH

hE1 SE11hRN, rep. l4. -- II the seven members of the crew of the
 mail boat Pulitzer, which was miss ing from December 15 to January 20. had remained on the damaged ship
 much longer they would no doubt have been hungry, for provisions were running low when she was found. The Pulitzer was located in the shelter of the harbor of Chignik by the fisheries commission ship Elder, on January 20, over month after she was last reported. The Sno- homfsh, which had been sent in search of her, arrived by her side on the 23rd in response to wireless news of her discovery by the Elder. The Snohomish lowed the disabled boat to Seward, and then proceeded south.
 Severe storms were encountered by the Snohomish soon atfer leaving Seward, so strong that she could make little headway against them, and for three days rode heavy seas. Commander F. L. Austin of the Sno- homish had laid a course direct to Cape Flattery, but the great con- | sumption of coal without speed, | forced him to come here for fuel
 Great waves dashed over her from 1 stem to stern and everything had to be battened down tightly for more than three days. The ship was run at half speed much of the time and held straight into the wind. She laid l over one night at Sitka to wait for the gales to blow over
 It was in such gales as these that the Pulitzer ran ashore at Aniachak gay trying to seek shelter. Her keel was in this way damaged her rud- der post split, and her rudder lost. l Aniachak bay is about 40 or 50 miles from Chignik. After succeeding in floating the Pulitzer, the crew rigged up a jury rudder, and made Chignik. There, heavily iced down, and in waters so shoal that a low tide caused her to rest on the bottom, she was anchored.
 The crew of the Pulitzer had not expected aid before spring, so were very glad when the Elder was sight ed The Elder, bound for the west ward, took the mail from the Pulitzer, and after wirelessing news of the Pulitzer's whereabouts, continued on her way.
 Chignik was one of the first places to which Commander Austin would have gone in search of the missing l E Q, and if the Elder had not locat-
 it first, the Snohomish would soon have been on the scene. Capt. Austin's judgment that the Pulitzer | might be found there, if she was not absolutely lost, was substantiated here on his way north by information given him by Capt. L. H. H. Jen- nings, formerly of the motorship Washington, who was previously master of the Pulitzer.
 A board of survey, appointed from the officers of the ship by Con- mander Austin, was sent aboard the Pulitzer. They found the mail boat in extremely poor condition, and un- fit for sea voyage. It is doubtful if the ship will be worth salvaging. "Wind-proofs" and other cold. weather outfits, with which the Sno- homish had been equipped during the war, came in for good service during this voyage of the cutter, and proved just the thing for the weather encountered. Many of the sailors wore these wind-proofs when the ship docked last night and gave them the appearance of the polar explorers.
 The Snohomish brought south be- tween forty and fifty sacks of mail from Chignik, Kodiak and Seward, which was delivered to the Ketchi- kan postoffice today, for shipment south on the next steamer. The Sno. homish will leave early Sunday morn ing,