The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-09
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 WHEN SEINER
 TURNS TURTLE
Fire Department, Sh or e Boats and Tallapoosa
 Sailors Go to Rescue

During the high wind just before noon yesterday, the gasoline seine boat Kitty, with three men aboard, turned turtle in Gastineau Channel opposite the City Float. Conditions, i person would think, could not have been more unfavorable for quick help in a harbor accident. None of the business places along the waterfront were open Sunday and the Taku that sent even sea gulls to cover, kept lower Front Street and all the wharves free of pedestrians and loungers.
 Yet immediately after the Kitty had capsized, Fire Department trucks and numerous automobiles were assembled on the City Wharf, small craft were closing in on the ill-fated seiner, and the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa's lifeboat, with 10 sailors in sleeveless under shirts, bending to the oars, and ships officer, resplendent in uni- form-he was about to go to town when call to quarters was sounded standing at the tiller sweep, was leaping like thing of life, over the Whitecaps as it raced to the place of the mishap.
 One Man Under Boat
 In the meantime, the owner of the Kittiwake, William S. How ard, an Indian of Douglas, was struggling with the aid of his younger son, Elijah, aged 19, to get from under the craft, while the elder son, John, 25, had gained the top of the keel Finally, the fath- CT was brought from beneath and, clinging to the side of the vessel, helped the younger son upon the keel beside his brother Every wave washed over the three.
 The power boat, Trygve, Capt. Andrew Anderson, owner of the Blue Fox Companys farm on Whit ney Island, in Fanshaw Bay, was the first to reach the capsized craft. The Trygve took aboard the three Towards and landed them at the City Float. Aside from a soaking, which chilled them, they suffered no i'll effects.
 Record Time for Distance
 The Tallapoosa's lifeboat, which had been rowed from the Govern ment Wharf to the wreck oppo- site the City Float in six and one half minutes, lowed the Kitty, with the aid of one of the power boats that had put out from shore, to the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com pany's pier. The upturned boat was made fast there. She was taken today to the flats at the north end of the channel and beached for repairs. Her damage is estimated by her owner at $500.
 Owner Was Tn Church
 In explaining the capsizing of the seiner, the owner said:
 My boat was moored beside the Alaska Juneau mines Rock Dump yesterday when I left to go to the Russian Orthodox Church. My two sons stayed aboard to wash her, preparatory to going for her. ring today While at church, l i was notified she had been ram med by another gasboat and dam aged. I went to the Rock Dump immediately. My boat had a rent on one side of her above the water line. We decided to take her to the city float. When well out in the Channel opposite the float, she was caught in a trough of waves. She went over on her damaged side, water poured into the hole and she foundered.
 Beside the damage to the boat we lost considerable gear. The Kitty was built in Douglas a year ago. She is 35 feet long and is equipped with 10-horsepower en- zine