The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-19
CLASS
 MI ALL SAVED,
 NORTHWESTERN
Captain Classcock of Ala. meda Says Wrecked
 Steamer, Bad Shape

class mail which left Seattle on the steamer Northwestern was saved, was the statement made by Capt. Charles Classcock of the Alameda, which arrived here last night and was the steamer that took the wrecked vessels passen- gers from Campbell River to Se- attle early last week.
 Receiving word about II a. m. week ago yesterday that th4 Northwestern had gone aground on Cape Nudge. the Alameda, which was then unloading ore al Tacoma, left at once for Seattle and then for the scene of the wreck, leaving the latter city about D. m. last Sunday, a week ago yesterday. | The next morning at Il o'clock the Alameda arrived at Cape | Nudge and took from the North western some hand baggage and mail that had not yet been taken to Campbell River, and then pro ceeded to the summer resort where the passengers, baggage and first class mail were taken aboard. The freight clerk on the Northwestern. Capt. Glasscock said, reported that only few sacks of first class mail had been lost.
 l According to the story told by those aboard the Northwestern. she had filled with water seven minutes after she struck, but the accounts sent out as to her plight were exaggerated, according to Capt. Glasscock's story, for the water was only up to about a fool higher than the dining room floor, while no water at all entered the mail clerks room.
 F.. M. Murphy, mechanical sun erintendent of the Alaska Steam ship Company. who was sent north with the Alameda to the Northwestern, reported to Capt. Glasscock that the ships bottom Twas badly punctured and she lay In sand and rocks. with list Il towards the shore.
 | Capt. Glasscock said that Mur- nhy, also reported that the strain Il was showing on the ship, as she I had opened up lengthwise abafr the smokestack, while her engine land boilers were raised up out of Tposiion by the rocks on which she lay. ~
 \ In Exposed Position
 l The Captain expressed doubt as to whether the Northwestern would be saved, for she is in an exposed position to any southerly storm which might come up at any time, and which would he apt to batter the stranded ship to pieces. sfssssft'
 l Some trouble was had among I the Northwestern's passengers with theft, as several of them re ported articles missing. Capt Glasscock said that most of the hand baggage was saved but that 1 there were few passengers who laid not lose many personal be- lOpgings. ss isf
 | The salvage crew was at the scene of the wreck when the Ala meda passed Cape Nudge north. bound on the present trip, and were endeavoring to save all pos sible of the cargo. s
 Shortly after leaving Seattle on her present trip, Capt. Glasscock received a radio advising him tn go into Campbell River and pick up some baggage that had been taken off the Northwestern since the Alsmeda's visit.
 In attempting to dock his steamer at the small wharf there, Capt. Glasscock ran aground on g sand bar along side the dock and remained there for 2 little more than seven hours. A strong tida was running and threw the boat against the bar, the existence os which the Captain had not been notified and SO was unable to avoid. No damage. was done to the Alameda.