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barely to inch away from the danger
zone, unable to get close enough to
shoot q life line aboard the doomed
Iowa.
Rescuers Turn Back.
The Onondaga left the scene when
her commander, Capt. r. Stanley
Patch, said no life existed longer
aboard the remnants of the 3,564-ton
freighter's broken hull.
Mountainous waves and an ire
sistible gale clutched the freighter
just as it crossed out over the Colum-
bia River bar. bound southwark and
for the East Coast. Slowly, at first,
the ship was forced off its course and
driven northward
The oppressive force became greater
an S o S was flashed-full speed
ahead was ordered.
But the sturdy engines of the craft
were no match for the gale. The
storm drove the boat back and
grounded it on the spit where giant
breakers comb the shallow shore line
for several miles out to sea.
A 76-mile-an-hour hurricane was
blowing over Peacock Spit. Farther
southwark on the Oregon Shore the
wind reached velocity Of 30 miles
an hour.
Two Bodies Identified.
Two of the six battered and OIL
smeared bodies were identified. They
were Marion Perich, New Orleans,
and o. A. Meyers, Portland. The
bodies, recovered from the Southern
Washington Shore, were brough to a
mortuary here.
Southwark, at least two other ships
were in trouble in seas that Capt.
Lars Bjelland of the Coast Guard
described as possibly the worst he
had ever seen. Il may have seen
worse but not much worse" he said
The Canadian vessel Rochelle re-
paired her steering gear, damaged Is
miles of Cape Arago, and proceeded
after losing part of her deck cargo.
The freighter Vinland also was re-
ported to have lost deck cargo in the
same area.
Coast Guardsmen and c. c. C. men,
swinging lanterns through the dark
ness. kept an all-night vigil. They
patrolled every foot of the 13-mile
beach between North Head and Will
apa Harbor in search of other bodies.
1t was feared the rough seas would
carry bodies away again if they were
not recovered when first cast upon
the shore.
Last View Of Life.
The last last view of life aboard
up rope ladders. Then gigantic
breakers shut the doomed vessel from
view. Then it reappeared ghostly in
the spray, bare of life.
Four Coast Guard boats, manned
by 70 men, braved what appeared
seemingly certain disaster in battling
their way across the Columbia River
bar and close to the site of the wreck
age
All reported the Iowa was deserted
and rapidly sinking in the sand.
Today only small portion of the
hull was visible. The lone mast
which withstood the storm was cut
almost to the deckline. The wreck
age was expected to be visible only
few hours more before the greedy
waves of Peacock Spit finally swal-
lowed another victim.
The crew list included the name
Of Frank Eakin, Seattle, and Frank
Parker. Atlanta, VINO escaped be-
cause they decided at the last mo-
ment not to make the trip. In Port
land, the Sailors Union of the Pa
cific said it had sent two men to
replace Eakin and Edward Parker.
The requirements were Tom Barrett,
80, Portland, and James McHenry, 26,
Philadelphia
Others in Crew.
Others named were Capt. Edgar L.
Yates, Portland, who was making his
first trip aboard the Iowa. First Mate
Alfred G. Kreiger, Aberdeen, Wash;
Second Mate Fred w. Whiteside, Oak
land, Calf: Third Mate Donald Gra-
ham, Seattle; Radio Operator Frank
Caldwell and Carpenter Marion ].
Perich of New Orleans, and Boatswain
August o. Meyers of Portland.
Engineers: Theodore j. Prison and
Elven Sevrine, both of Portland; v.
Cloherty, Tacoma: Charles Ogan, San
Pedro: Carl c. Bendixen, Bellevue,
Wash.
seamen: Walt Spencer. Chester,