Show NER BONANZA FOUNDERS ON SEAL RU KS S OFF OREGON COAST si Six Men Aboard Fated Sampson Compelled lIed to ban D TON During a Storm i F Oo r O Ore e J lh schooner r Bonanza with six mer on board bound from San Francisco t td Portland Is be believed to have foundered d on seal rocks about 10 miles south of The Do Bo Bonanza nanza was In tow o of the tho tug Sampson which arrived here badly hadly stove in after u a terrible experience with the elements clements which nearly ended In the tug l going to the bottom The Sampson and her tow left San Francisco January 1 rue Was light and when whon the tho heavy storm o of struck them it was as for the tug to handle her tow Cut the Hawser Haws r a few mills miles north of Seal rocks an and l miles off shore in order to save himself Captain Robert Jones or of tho Sampson was compelled to cut awu away his hawser and leave the schooner to the mercy or of the winds 15 Five Flo minutes later the schooner was out of sight When last seen scon the Bonanza was listing und and mak makIng ing to the westward The Sampson at attempted tempted to lay to and keep the bark barlt in sight but a hea heavy sea struck her amid amidships ships in part O her flooding loo Ing her engines engin s and boilers break lag Ing both water gauges This mIshap al Jowel the tugs steam to escape In a ad addition to this her plu plugs burned burnell out nn 1 allowed the water to us e from her boilers bollers Tugs Crew Worked Hard When the cooled the tugs crew made temporary repairs The hollers were filled with sea water bailed l from over the side In buckets an and berths nn and l wood woodwork work of the craft torn out in order to get up sufficient steam to start the apparatus When she finally got under head headway WU the was within a mile or of the rocks und and driving driving ing toward towal l them Captain Jon Jones s says that when about eight mites miles off shore Thur day eY evening lie he sighted a steamer going south and burned a flare light for over Oer twenty minutes Although the thc night was wasso so clear that ho he could coul see tile the steamers lights she passed on without pa paying ing any attention to him |