Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-08
Steamer Founders
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Il. HlCKGiI OF IluUpdfO. JIG
A. n. Hutchinson, Portland, Ore.
s. Kumazawa, Steerage passen-
ger.
Captain Harry HOBBY, master of
the Alaska. with two passengers,
were the last on the ship. The cap
tain is missing He was without a
life prescrver. One of the two pas
sengers, George Glenr OF eNbraska,
was saved.
According 20 the stories OF the
survivors. three life boats were
laurNhed. The last one was but q
few feet from the wreck when the
Alaska, which had listed, to star
board, suddenly righted and then
plunged. bow first.
George Glenn, who. With another
F.! passenger and the captain. were the
/ last men on tie ship. came to the
surface a short time afterward and
finally found an empty hfeboat.
Others were struggling in the water.
The steamer AnyoX. towing barge
to Vancouver, was l. miles distant
when the first IS. o. S" signals OF
the aska flashed out
Within an hour the AnyoX arriv-
ed at the wreck and with order that
! won high praise from the survivors,
the crew of the AnyoX speedily pick
ed up those who were drifting IN
life preseryers or in lifeboats.
Through the night other ships
joined in the rescue work.
Twelve bodies were Afound. which
/ with the arrival Of the Anyox and a
I tug bearing the bodies here, left the
unaccounted for at 81 passengers and
| four members Of the crew.
/ The Alaska Of the San Francisco u
Portland steamship Co. left Portland,
Ore. last Friday with 131 passengers
I Of whom l33 were in the cabin and
eight in Cle steerage. The majority
! OF passengers were summer tourists
| The Alaska hailed from the home
, port of Port Townsend. Wn. It's net
| tonnage was 500 and its length 327
! feet. Her normal crew numbered Is.
She ras built at Chester, Pa, in 1889
Blunt's Reef is 40 miles south of
Euraka and IS, miles north of San
Fransico. ship accidents were fire.
quent at that point years ago until a
| lightship was built in 1901. The only
notable wreck since was the sinking
about Is years ago of the steamer
Columbia with a heavy loss of life.
The owners of the Alaska. Incidentally,
also owned the Columbia
! Fogs have prevailed along the
! Washington, oregon and northern Cal
ifornia coast for two weeks and sew
eral shipping casualties have oc-
Cured the most notable being the
wreck of the Canadian government
steamer Canadian Exporter off South
Bend, Wn., last week.
| Praise was mutually extended be-
! tween members OF the crew ard pas
sengers in their stories of the scenes
following the crash. Despite the ter
ror on the shin, which was enVeIoped
, In fog, with the swells dashing
against it and throwing spray from the
jagged rocks Of the reef. calmness
prevailed. 1t was a short time-scant
30 minuteS-hntween the striking on
the rock and the sinking But without
signs of disorder he passengers were
helped into the 'lifehoats under calm
direction OF officers and crew and low
cred into the water
Captain Hobey's directing Of the
life-savers was described as heroic.
! An overturned lifehoat shot MANY
passengers into the water.
There was half hour of darkness
with the lifeboats drifting in the
blanket Of fog before the siren of the
rescue steame" Anyox was heard.
! captain Snoddy of the Anvcx and
his crew dctied the treacherous reaf in
TIE rescue work. 1t was with difficult
! " that the victims in lfebcats and
/ many IN life pI SEWERS, or cIinging to
drifting wreckage. we're found.
All through the night the rescuers
worked. picking up many who had
beeh struggling In the water. c,insine
t" wreckage fo,' hours.
One Of the last survivors picked nm
was Irene Dyer, girl not ye- in her
teens who had been clinsIuc 70
"reckage for more than eight Lours