Show ELEVEN Of THE CREW CREVi DROWNED Lumber Steamer Springs a aLeak Leak Off the th Coast of Oregon Newport N Ore May 4 During a big storm FI day night off the coast COlst th of ot tho th steamer Minnie E Kelton shifted and strained the vessel ves el which sprung a bad leak leek Saturday noon a big wave struck the vessel and washed her h r ec load anti and cabin over oer overboard board hoard leaving the vessel waterlogged and unmanageable and deck awash Eleven of ot o the crew were drowned some som while trying to launch lauah h a boat Four Fouron on a raft tried to get ashore a hore but only cne succeeded and he lie a brok broken en leg The lifesaving crew crow of this place took nine men off the tle vessel and landed lan ed them on the shore about bout a fifteen miles north of here Loaded With Lumber f The Minnie E Kelton was bound from Aberdeen to San Francisco loaded with lumber in command of ot Captain James McKenna The last seen een of the vessel ye she sh was picked up by another schooner going north As soon as the news of the disaster reached here the lifesaving crew at bay station left for the scene After a n trip fraught with danger tha crew reached d the vessel and succeeded In rescuing the nine men who remained on board boar The lifeboats put ashore ashor twenty miles north of Newport x Partial Dead Chief Engineer Carl Lund Walter Peterson Fireman Barney McVey MeVey Steward A Peterson Cabin Boy Robert R n Little Cabin Boy George Johnson JohnsonA A J Nellson Neilson leg broken rescued |