Great Falls tribune., 1921-08-08
LINER GOES DOWN IN FEW
MINUTES; SURVIVORS ARE
INJURED; NO DISORDER
Crew of Anyox | tightly
raised for Rescue
Work Performance.
Many of Lost Thought
to Have Been In Life
boat Which Capsized.

Eureka, Calf, Aug. 7-Forty.
/ eight persons, 36 passengers and
" OF the crew, were lost SATURDAY
night when the steamer Alaska Of
1ne San Francisco and Portland
steamship company, southbouud
from Portland, Ore, to San Fran
cisco, sank 80 minutes after crash.
ing into the rocks off Blunt's Reef.
1orty miles south Of this city.
Ihe survivors. numbering 1853 per-
sons, were brought here by the rescue
snip Anyox, first vessel to reach the
scene OF the wreck in response to the
Aaskas radio signals. The coast
suara tug Ranger, dispatched early
sunday from Eureka, returned to port
with the bodies of II men. Eight
were members of the crew and four
% mele passengers. Captain Harry
dooey, master of the Alaska, is st;iil
unaccounted for and is believed to have
gone down with the ship.
Thirty Are Injured.
Ut the survivors landed by the An
yox, 30 more were injured and 70
celVed medical treatment at local bos-
pitals. eoA hos-
Ihe Alaska struck the reef bow-;n IN
uehse log, according to the surviv
.ors, and Immediately began to l;s+
Ihe work of launching the lifehoata
was accomplished without delav and
mSorder. Three of the boats success
IuHy rode the waves, but the fonrtb
Doat capsized and precipitated its occ,-
pants into the sea. The greatest loss
81 hfe-. survivors said, resulted from
5his mlshap. A few who wore life
pets succeeded in keeping afloat until
the boats of the Anyox picked them up.
Captain Stays on Ship.
captain Hobey. when the last Of the
Hteboats had been sent over tba e;do
OF the rapidly-filling Alaska. went N
me stern OF his vessel and he was seen
mere when it started its plunge to the
bottom ee W s"e
Some of the passengers took the
hight train to San Francisco, but most
OF them remained preparing to take
special train furnished by the steam
ship agents.
One of the sad touches of the
wreck ' was the scene on the Anyox
1ToAo"lng the rescue of little Irene
Eyer, OF La Grande. Oregon, after
she had been floating on wreckage for
some eight hours and then hrourht
on the Anyox she plaintively asfed
for her daddy and mother.
". H. Dyer. the father, was found
on board, but there were none who
had seen the mother. The father
was injured, and the sorrow;nr httIa
ssrl choked back her sobs as she
sought to aid her daddy.
George Glenn, who. with another
passenger and the captain, were the
asst men on the ship, came to the sur
ace a short time afterward and final
y found an empty lifeboat. Others
were struggling in the water. The
steamer J, Anyox. towing a barge to
ancouver. was twelve miles distance
when the first rs. o. S." signals 0ash-
ID out
Within AN hour the Anyox arrived
It the wreck and with order that vnn
ugh praise from the survivors, the
rev OF the Anyox quickly picked mn
hose who were drifting in lfe pre-
ervers or in lifeboats.
Through the night, other shina ,isln-
q In the rescue work.
No Disorder.
Prafse was mutually extended he-
ween members of the crew and ms
engers In their stories of the nrenes
o1Inu;pv tho ,.o.L - ~~Cncc
rU" MI. ~ th. 'ne sIasn OF the A1aaka. De-
pr'e ~ n e, sup oeMk enveaoped in
ud rs 49, ds Tue swels dashed against it
.u 49, LEV spray from the 9Eged rocks
l. 'ne resI, Guinness prevailed among
ae passense1s ana crew. It was
,ors ~ .Hne-a scant ~ minutes Ibetween
ie strik,ng on the rock and the sink
e of the vessel. But without sirns
{ disorder. the passengers were heip-