THE ONEIDA LOST.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 483, 25 June 1890, Page 5

THE ONEIDA LOST.

A FATEFUL ALASKA TRIP. News was received in San Francisco recently that the ship Oneida, which left that port on March 20th for Thin Point, Alaska, had been wrecked near Sanak Island, and that 77 lives had been lost. The Kimball, twenty days out from Sanak, Alaska, reports that on April 26th, at 9 o’clock at night, the ship Oneida, Captain Anderson, was wrecked on Hennine’s rock, not far from Sanak. The Oneida went ashore on tho southwest side of the island during a heavy fog and was wrecked. The vessel had on board 110 Chinese workmen and forty-five white men, bound for Thin Point, where the men were to bo employed in the salmon fisheries and canneries.

The officers and crew, as well as the white labourers and thirty-three of the Chinese, were saved, but seventy-seven of the coolies were still missing when the Alice Kimball left Sanak, and it is believed that all of them were lost. The Oneida left San Francisco with men and supplies for the Thin Point Packing Company, at Thin Point, Alaska. She was a full-rigged ship with two decks, and was rated at 1,130 tons. The Oneida was owned by Leon Sloss of San Francisco, and was valued at £4,000. Sanak is a small island to the south of the continental and volcanic island of Unimak, which forms a virtual extension of the peninsular portion of Alaska. The effects of volcanic action in this entire section are very apparent, and the coast is studded with dangerous rocks for hundreds of miles east and west of the point where the Oneida struck.