Evening star., 1921-08-08

2 CONTINUED from FIRST rage.
Sides. spilling their human cargo into
the icy waters. Many of the survi-
Nors were rescued by the Anyox. after
they had f1oated about in the water
for several hours.
Captain Dies With ship.
J. H. Moss and c. L. Vilim. both of
Chicago. said they reached a lifeboat
! which had been swept off the decks.
Other lifeboats. they declared. went
down with the ship.
Capt. Harry Hobey of the Alaska
preferred to go to his death rather
/ than leave his command. passengers
reported. When Mr.. Moss removed
+. a life belt he was wearing and offered
1t to Capt. Hobey. telling him to save
himself, witnesses said the captain
walked away replying:
II prefer to go down with my ship"
; Although veteran in the service
Capt. Hobey was only forty years old.
iIIe assumed command of the Alaska
three weeks ago, and this was his
/. third trip.
Stories of heroism again were told
to-day by survivors of the ill-fated
steamer Capt. S. Snoddy and the
icrew of the Anyox were commended
for their rescue work. Accompanied
by three seaman volunteers, Second
Officer Andrew Sinclair of the Anyox
; took a lifeboat from the Alaska. and
Iwithin thirty minutes rescued thirty
persons clinging to wreckage in the
water.
! Acts of Heroism.
Praise was mutually extended be-
tween members of the crew and pas
'sengers in their stories of the scenes
following the crash. Despite the iso-
ilation of the ship. which was en-
!veloped in fog with the swells DASH
ling against it and throwing spray
tcalmness prevailed among the passen-
,gers and crew. 1t was short time,
THAT scant thirty minutes between the
lStriking on the rock and the sinking.
passengers were helped into the-36fe
boats under calm direction of officers
and crew and lowered into the water.
I Most of those aboard the Alaska
were cool and COMPOSED after the
ship had struck the rocks and while
and on liferafts, according to Mrs.
Claim Wright of Deauville. N j..
and Miss Frances Eckstrom of Minne-
apolis. These two women were
brought to Eureka aboard the barge
Henry Willard, which the rescue ship
Anyox had in tow.
Ham and EGGS Promised.
; IT wish 1 could tell the name of the
irishman who. when some of the
women began to be rysterical, sang
out cheerily:
; Don't get scared. folks. We're
all going to have ham and eggs in
about an hour" said Mrs Wright.
I She declared his conduct was typi-
cal Of that of the men aboard the
ship.
Mrs Wright tore off her silk shirt
in Ter lifeboat found the oar han
dies were slippery with oil and they
could make no headway, and she
used the garment to rub the oil of
the oar handles.
; Mrs. Clark. Miss Eckstrom and
other members of their party. were
dancing on the hurricane deck when
the vessel hit the rocks. Both said
it seemed as if the Alaska struck one
rock and then suddenly afterward
crashed into another.
Sailed From Portland.
The Alaska of the San Francisco
and Portland Steamship Company
left Portland, Ore. last Friday with
'131 passengers. of whom 1923 were in
the cabin and 8 in the steerage. The
majority of passengers were summer
tourists.
; The Alaska hailed from the home
port Of Port Townsend. Washington:
its net tonnage was 3.709 and it's
length 327 feet. Her normal crew
numbered forty-five. She was built
;at Chester, Pa, in 1880.
Blunt's reef Is forty miles south of
Eureka and 1877 miles north of San
Francisco. Ship accidents were
frequent at that point years ago,
until lightship was built in 1901.
The only notable wreck since was
the sinking. about fifteen years ago.
of the steamer Columbia, with a
heavy loss of life. The owners of the
Alaska, incidentally. also owned the
iColumbia.
Fogs have prevailed along the
Washington, Oregon and Northern
California coasts for two weeks, and
,several shipping casualties have oc-
'curred, the most notable being the
wreck of the Canadian government
steamer Canadian Exporter, off South
Bend. Washington, last week.