The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-05
ANITA PHILLIPS DOWN IN THIRTY
 FATHOMS WATER
Wrecked Off Port Snettisham Last Night = Sunk in 20
 Minutes-3 Men Aboard

At the mercy or a raging wind when the engine went dead, the gasoline boat Anita Phillips, Capt. Tay Bayers, was smashed against the bluffs at the entrance to Port Snettisham, on the starboard side of Snettisham Inlet, and sunk in 20 minutes, in 90 fathoms of water, al 7:30 o'clock last night The boat was coming from Speel River to Juneau.
 Captain Fay Bayers, owner and op- orator of the Anita Phillips, and Fred Curtis and Ed Swanson. employees of the Alaska Pulp & Paper Company mill at Speel River, were aboard. Tha men reached the shore in safety and an hour later were taken aboard the mail boat George, Jr., on the way to Juneau from Petersburg and way ports, and arrived in town at F o'clock today.
 No Insurance
 Captain Bayers estimates the loss of the Anita Phillips to be approxi- mately $6,500 The boat carried no insurance Nothing aboard was saved The loss is almost entirely to Captain Bayers. little property belonging to the pulp company being aboard. It would be impossible to raise the boat from the depth in which it sunk Captain Bayers said.
 "It was not black dark, but we were bucking heavy gale in the Inlet and when we reached the en- trance to Port Snettisham, the en- zine went dead" said Captain Bay CTS. "The wind immediately picked the boat up and smashed the stern against the bluffs, breaking the rud- der AS the stern hit the bluffs told Curtis and Swanson to jump onto the rocks, which they did, with out injury 10 themselves. With the rudder broken l was poweress to do anything but before I could help myself in any way the boat swung out about 100 feet and the wind hit it again with tremendous force carrying it side on, toward the bluffs The stern swung in. striking the rocks first and caving in the entire end.
 Sunk Stern First
 Curtis and Swanson called 10 m that the boat was sinking at the stern and I immediately made ready to leave. I tried to save some of my light equipment and little cargo I was carrying but the boat filled with water so rapidly l had no time to get thing and when I got the skiff off the boat I was stand ing to my waist in water I made 1t to the rocks where Curtis and Swanson were and we. pulled the skiff up on the beach. The Anit1 Phillips went down a few minutes after I left it, sinking stern first, and was out of sight 20 minutes after the stern was smashed in.
 Suffered From Cold
 From where we were on the beach we could see the light of the mail boat Gorge, Jr.. up the Inlet, and by burning personal papers of Curtis and Swanson's, all we had which would burn, we succeeded in attracting the attention of the men aboard the boat. They did not reach Is for about an hour Ii was i'm possible to find wood for a fire and the night was bitterly cold We were soaking wet and experienced a lad hour until the George. Jr, picked us up."
 Built In Juneau
 The Anita Phillips was q gross and IA net ton boat. It was 52.5 feet long, 14 feet wide and had a depth of 4.3 feet. The boat had a S5 horsepower engine.
 The boat was built in 1908 in Ju. neau, by Captain Jack Rowe Cap tain Rowe operated the boat as a fishing schooner for number of years. Captain Bayers purchased the boat two years ago and has been running it under charter to the Al aska Pulp & Paper Company.