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3KAGWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1917
No. 242 TWENTIETH YEAR
MARIPOSA TOTAL WRECK-LOSS $1,500,000
WRECKED, SAVED, CHASED IT
BEARS, SrORV OF MANHATTAN
Wrecked in a raging Btorm a:
»e» 2 o'clock Thursday morning
rowing in an open boat 40 miles tc
an island for shelter, cold, Jtiun.
®ry and without water, chased ofl
the island by bears just after u
fire had been built, and picked up
by the Mariposa a short distance
inside Icy Straits Friday morning at
7 o'clock, is the story of one oi
the life boat crews who escaped
from wrecked halibut steamer
Manhattan, as totd by Andrew Stev
enson a passenger on the Mariposa.
Luck, good or ill, still continues
the men, for at Juneau they were
all placed under arrest for looting
the Alki— that is, all except the
six who escaped by jumping over
the rail of the ship and made
good their get-away—and now the
Mariposa, the rescue ship, lies
serenely beneath 900 feet of deep
s<* water. j-t ,g;j
It sil sounds like a movie story,
yet it actually happened within a
comparatively short distance of
Skagway and in actual life.
Severe storms have been raging
in the Gulf of Alaska and along the
whole coast of Alaska for the past
30 days. Ju3t three weeks prior
to the wreck of the Manh-ttan the
Alki went ashore during a blinding
■ho* sotrm and is a total loss. It
i» reported the Manhattan
crew locted the Alki and in making
their escape >ere trying to cross
the Gulf of Alaska,
The hand of fate turned, and the
Manhattan with a crew of 35 men
hit a reef at 2 o'clock Thursday
morning, and the ship immdelately
began to pound to pieces in the in
tense storm.
All hope of saving the vessel
was abandoned. All hands took to
the life boats and commenced to
sail and to row 4 0 miles through
the heavy storm for shore.
Coming along Friday morning
south bound >ae Mariposa sighted
a small life boat just inside the
Straits, and learned from the res
cued men of the wreck and of their
experience on the island. Exhaust
ed and weary from the rowing, for
they were the only crew that had
no sail, the men had made a fire
■with which to bring warmth back to
their cold bodies. Just as they
were petting comfortable a herd of
tears forced lljem to rush Into the
water for safety; and securing theii
j boat they made for the inside ol
the Straits,
I Continuing in the search for the
( other life bcata the Mariposa
sighted a small gasoline launch whh
' oroved to the Minnie B., which
bad oeen 19 days from Yakutat. It
was a fisheries boat belonging to
the Libby McNeil Company, and
they immediately sent a wire to
j company announcing their safety.
The Minnie B. began a systematic
search of the north shore of the
straits for the missing boats and
the Mariposa began a search of
the south shore, in the course
of three hours 4 more boats were
j picked up, some having made shore
J where they bad fires burning. One
I boat containing seven men was not
found.
Many of the men were exhausted
; and worn and showed signs of their
hard experience when rescued. They
all acted queer and were quite surly
when jnyone attempted to take pic
J tures of them. It was later learn
ed by the passengers on the Mari
' posa *ha reason for their action was
Ithat ♦•\ey were wanted by the gov
ernment for looting the Alki.
At Juneau police lined the gang
.plank to arrest the men. Six jump
: ed over t\e rail and made; good theis
i ese&De before the authorities knew
'who they were or what they were
I up to. Others were taken by the
| officers.
| Thos ends the "movie'' story
! that actually happened, and the
j hand of fate has extended even
j further in the sinking of the sav
| lor shio, the Mariposa.
I
GERMAN CRITIC WARNS
AGAINST DIVER HOPES
! Copenhagen, Nov. 19.—Capt. Per
' sius, »aval expert of the Berliner
Tageblatt, flotea A growing impa
tience among Germans oyer the sub
marine campaign, registered In a
swelling flood of lettere demanding
j "when shall we have England beat
en?1' He warns optimists against
accepting ag reliable figures on de
stroyed tonnage, Including those ap
1 parentlv German, and other static
I tical material.
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265 PASSENGERS AND 50 GREW
SAMIGOJF COPPER GONE
Mariposa Hits Reef in Sumner Straits at
2 O'clock Sunday Morning—Slides
Into 500 Feet Water Last Night
Seattle, Nov. 19.—The A lank a S
S. company's fast liner Mariposa lu
a reef extending from Strait Isjaiu
iu Simmer Straits Sunday morniiij
at 2 o'clock and at 9:30 o'clock las
night slid off Into 225 fathoms o
water, sinking immediately. Every
one was saved, Including 225 pass
engers and a crew of 50 men. Th<
cargo of copier ore and canpei
salmon, valued with the ship at
one and one-half million dollars
is a total loss.
Passengers were all landed or
Strait island shortly after tin
MaiipGea hit the reef and were plcl
ed up iftiring the day by th<
freighter Curacao and taken tc
AYrangell where tbey are now coin
I l'ortably housed.
Delegate Chas. E. Sulzer and
j wife were among the passengers
on board and were on their way
hack to Washington, P. C.
j In order to avoid waiting a(
| AVrangell Xantws for the tide it
I Is thought the Mariposa,' wqnt aioum
i the narrows tlius coming up Sum
! ner Straits on its way to Wmn
gell. The vessel struck early in
the morning when the weather wa
I very dark. Severe storms have bee
| raging on the Alaska coast o(
late, and it is presumed these maj
l»e partly responsible for the JU-ci
| dent.
j Antcng the prominent passengers
on Itot.rd tlie >I»rii>osa were:
' E. L, Bedell, secretary of the
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
and joint publisher of the Anchora®
Times. ' I II' II |
J. E. O'lteiliy, pronuneni «>"
operator r.nd bank director oi
Anchorage.
Nels Smith, mining oj>erator ol
Cordova.
Chas. L. Goodall, president ol
the Cordova Mill and Lumber Co.
J. It. Smith, of tbo Northern
Commercial Co., of Fairbanks.
Meyer Blum, President of tli<
First Bank of Valdez.
Geo. Anderson and wife of An>
chorage, head of Willow Crock Gol<
Mines Co.,
Miss Bath Chandlrc of Anchor
age.
John Grajf, former chef of tin
Mint Grill, Anchorage.
Jas. Fish, insurance hum of Al
aska and California,
C. B. Bi-eck division engineer
of the Alaska Engineering Commit*
sion, going to the front.
The Mariposa is the crack steam
er of the Alaska Steamship Co.
and is the fastest of their vessels
Capt. J. O. O'Brien has been ii
tonuii-Vnd for some time, and is ai
old experienced navigator in Al'teki
waters, '
The vpssel is S31 feet long, 41
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. feet, in breadth, gross tannage
3,3158, and its displacement to 5,
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j operated between, San Francisco
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London, Nov. 19.—Colonel House,
t' lieaci of the American mission to
i England, has received a cablegram
from President Wilson stating that
a unity plan and control between
11 the Allies and the United States
is "essential in order to achieve a
just and permanent peace.
This is taken as an answer to
the recent speech of Lord North
cliffe iu which he says America is
• disguested with the British manage
I ment of the war.
JJAPAN 10 GEI NO
! S1EEL FROM
■ AMERICA
Tokyo, Nov. 19.—It is officially
i announced her© that the United
States hag turned down Japan's re
•1 quest for more ship building steel.
Steel is needed la the United States
, and dv her Allies who are actiye
- ly engaged in the war.
GEX. PERSHING VISITS GRAVES
AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE,
j Nov. 19.—Gen. Pershing yesterday
i ! visited the graves of the three
b, soldiers tilled recently by the Ger
11 man forces in their raid on. Ana
. 1 erican trenches. | 1 ;:
TEUTONS THROWN INTO P1AVE
RIVER AND DROWNED LIKE RATS
Italian. Headquarters, Nov. 19. —
Austrians ftnd Germans who forced
their 'way across tbe Piave river
above Zenson have been thrown in
to the river where they were eith
er drowned, bayoneted, killed or
captured. Not an enemy now re
mains on the west bank of the
Piave »t the most, threatened point.
The fight in which the Hun forc
I est wore dislodged forms one of
the most fearful chapters in th«
war aiii one of the most glorious.
Enemy Unable To Advance •
Rome. Nov. 19.—The war offio«
announced this afternoon the en
emy 's unable to advance anywhere,
and in many places they are being
thrown back with Bevere losses.
YUKON CITIZENS
PERMITTED TO
OIL
Whitehorse, ' Nov. 19.—In conneo
tion with the recent action on the
part of local authorities to stop
citizens from drilling, Councilman
Charles Johnston received advicee
today from Dr, Alfred Thompson,
M. P., that after consultation with
the military department he cannot
discover any order in council that
would prevent civilian citizens from
bavins military drill in the Yukon.
It 'b not known positively but
the coi-cengus of opinion is that
drilling of the home guards will
start at once as formerly.
AMERICANS WISH
10 FLEE FROM
PETR06RAD
London, Nor. 19.—The American
embassy at Petrograd, according to
a Reuter dispatch, has requested
that a train be provided to convey
two hundred members of the Am
erican colony in Petrograd to Har
bin.
E III
Whitehorse, Nov. 19.—Two In
dians arriving in town la«t week
reported a new strike about 140
miles from this place and to sub
stantiate their fi&d brought wlt!~
them a poke containing $14 '
coarse gold taken from the ere
Considerable excitement took *
in the city and as a result s
men l.e.ft for the purpose of f
claims. The find is about 2
from Mush creek, and
large in its area,
Thos. KerruWh was among the
men who stampeded for the placer
digging, but turned back when ha
got as far as Dalton. Post on ac
count o' having received sufficient
assurance that the trip is not
worth the abandoning of his busi
ness interests here.
This substantiates the view that
the find is not important.
SP! ARRESTED
Chicago, Nov. 19.—Jos. W. North,
confessed German spy, formerly la
the emdoy of Ambassador Bern
storff, has been arrested.
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