A Terrible Wreck.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1904, Page 4

A Terrible Wreck.

U CUEAT LOSS OF LIFE. U <l»ei U M.S. Sonoma, fit Auckland.) |- SEATTLE (Wash.). Jan 9. 5 Tho steamer Clallam, oi the Seat- [| t le-\ ictoiia fleet, went down early , I tbis mooring in- the St.aits of Juan "s* Dc l'uca. Out of eighty souls aboard, , "' fifii-two were drowned within three > miles of the shore. When it appeared certain the Clallam could not be ? savoi. a despaca-te effort was made ■ to take the women and children in r 5 in boats. The first boat, which Cap- [ tarn Lawrence, a Yukon pilot, volunteered to command, manned by P deck hands, went down within sight " of those on the Clallam. The second a. lifeboat, filled with male passengers, f. io •command of the second officer, * thivrm, was probably lost a few minutes later. From -aboard the Clallam -the watchers saw tho waves sweep the passengers from their hold on the seats and burl them into the water. They thought the lifeboat was rlgihted, .but diligent search has ' failed to find any trace ol it More passengers and members of the crew were lost when the third Ufcr- boat was swamped in an attempt to 1 launch it. The passengers who had ; fastened life-preservers about their £ persons were picked up by the steam- ' ' ei Fakat*. but they died from cxnosui e. ;• \\-.tmin sight of her destination, a *' huge sea overwhelmed the steamer, smawhing in her heari-l-isMs, flood--6 ing her hoM witih water, extingmshr ~ vtts the fires beneath her boilers, and " placing her at the mercy of the * touting gale. Bravely the officers £ and crew of the helpless hulk workg, ed to save the boat, ami the eighty Wr souls aboard her, but in vain, for W the Clallam could not stand the terg|_ nliL onalaught of seas that raged in m& mountains high from the ocean. At K 'i2 30 She went on her -beam ends, E and began sinking rapidly. At 1.27; p, she settled, and a few minutes lutR. er she lurched and disappeared beK oeath the waves; and only her top ||k'works and floating wreckage remainBf ed to show whece she wont down.