Show THOUGHT SHE S WOULD FLOAT FOA Why Wy the te Captain Captan Objected to Beech Beach Beaching Beeching I ing the Sinking Sing Ship Seattle ettl Wash Wah Aug 20 J T Say dor dr a resident of Juneau arrived arrve on the steamer stee Falon today from Ju Juneau Juneau neau nau Mr M Snyder was wa on the Islander but returned to t Juneau after alter escaping a watery water grave He was wa In the water three thre hours hors clinging to a raft raf and and was finally Anally Anly picked up in an unconscious I condition He left let the boat just half haf a minute aIer the captain jumped overboard and an they both held onto the te same sm raft for fully fuBy half an hour In conversation the te captain said he could not understand why the the boat bt went down so 8 quickly The Th captain finally said uBy Boys I cannot enot stand It I any i longer and casting cUng his life Ufe preserver away at once sank ank At the inquest held at Juneau unu which Mr Snyder attended atene evidence devel developed develop developed which may ma tend te to t excuse the op captain for not beaching her hr at t once Mr r Snyder r said sid The pilot puo t testified e that tha h he h was on en the bridge and that as a soon son as a she te an se seI II struck he be told the captain fee was s tOd te h W going t I to beach bm her hr but the t captain said S No there t is 1 a better bt place plc about abut three I Imie miles mie ft t m here ber and a she se will wl easily j float ft that tt long loO The be testimony showed that there tere I was Wa a stowaway IWa in li the te forward water watertight wate watertight tight compartment and when the te yes ves vessel I Il set sel l struck st the water rushed ru in on hint him hi and aD he ht set up a abi big howl and ami 8 being immediately under the sailors th quarters quarten tees ten they U thoughtlessly rushed rs down and ad opened op th t tho compartment which i allowed aloye the u s es a to l come rolling Into I Ithe the hold carrying the body by of or the te stowaway and a sailor with it This was wu done without the te captains knowl knowledge edge eK and I think excused him for tor thinking the te vest Ve vessel l would woul float ft for fol soy sev several v veral eral hours hou which It would woul have done had bad b the watertight compartment not t been opened and ad he be could eul have beached beahe her hr i In a small SaU bay about abut three miles aUe away awS It was wa established that tt if the pilot pot poth had h carried c out his Intention he h could have gotten tier her Ier on o the t beach b without the te less IC of o any ay lives Uve except e p the stow stowaway ItOW stowaway away After Ater I got on Oft deck de there t re seemed to t be no n one 0 in iii i charge g although It ItI ap appeared to ine b that u the t steward Ad Admore d dmore sewa more than t any 3 one o else es in lowering Iw the I boats on b o deck and ad getting g ng the te passengers ftp p po pon |