| Show SOBER CRUISER W YOSEMITE IS WRECKED OFF GUAM Typhoon Devastates the Island and Dashes Ship About So That It Sinks at Sea Sc Five of the Crew Drowned in Perilous Adventure Others Have Narrow Escape e Nev 1 rK Nov 58 bave hae 1 II rd ru id d J from Manila that the e by bj a ai aIt visited has been Hand of t f I 13 which phoon t on Nov i It rIk n V r r I bI i hundreds of ot houses hou e among of General Schroer II I i tin Ih I h quarters i i r The towns of and Te Tei Tero ro were pre tre swept away and it is esti e tI I that thit hundreds of the native pop in ill variouS arlous parts parta of ot the island iland n I t th ir deaths I Th T crops were rendered 11 is worthless and nd the t 1 lOr f t h island killed by salt seit water Th Hi storm came ame up In the afternoon 1121 i i 1 i P JI roas OfIS the thO land island l with ig I Th Tin ri I United States auxiliary cruiser er ermit omit mit wa W anchored adt a 1 MI II t t tl of i the oilier collier Justin dragged drag her hop and was Aas driven aground 4 i ids l fi from m the reef t her bows being u in A launch with a crew of ot l 11 n had previously left ett the ship I i to find nd a safe anchorage f I 11 th essel vf sel the indications being helD T MI ih an hors would not hold where 1 f 11 was tas as The men were not seen after ater t h ily i l ft the ship and aDd it is practically f 4 that the heavy heay sea lea which the therm v I nn rm ku ked up swamped the launch M TL if f Coxswain t F and I je rge A line I were recovered vend fh tr r th i hoor subsided Heroes Rave Have Escape Th Mi s si tr i i n lii i veered around after the 1 v i 1111 nt mounded and she was waa driven T r di t ant 11 i i an anif ted on the Semaye S maye cliff cliffe i i ri h hr r rudder and propeller w were ere erek 0 k i u 11 Sweeny and twelve I i p 11 11 n M to take a life i 1 ashore st lire A boat was wu wa lowered for tot fori I i 1 Li L i in i e but it was WaB W immediately v i mi 11 ii 1 h by a WK blK sea that swept over 1 i 1 ii n its ts OleU ants were carried carriedo a i o m the boat but they mIrau u MI kI ed de i in reaching the land iu ff hours struggle with Uh the theM M I 11 it hie i i the atmosphere had bad ben bei be n i r inky ink blackness bl kness and the Yo To Yov v nn h had bad again been blown OJ la l tt was drifting helplessly t t th i gale which was At Yf nf R of f f nio HIO miles an hour houri I h 11 i i f of or saving the tb cruiser er was waa wasi a C I i 1 and a nt the officers and crew j i i r i t l fr 1 r the th death hey thought I M to d j Y Marine them in the face I t 1 i u u ity of If the boats had been en eith 11 ti lu tu 1 l or f out of the day dav v 1 m In n to Ii hf t that were left could not noti i i latt half halt the crew even tf Ii it iti J I i t 11 i for them to live lve ve Inus In 1 m u us seas that were by this i in 4 h had bad been n put out and andi i 1 l t ih ti ite up in the Che teeth 0 i m and prevented her from fromI roan roanI I r n into int the trough of the sea io 1 this thi anchor atei nr and drifted until II n I i I 6 o in tn i n the evening vather cleared The cruls ruis n sixty niles niI s north and for tor 1 J t ji j Guam She had laM lai la Is i M that she had h d sprung a aj af j ai f lands including her com corn J n 1 iti nant Brief an engineer worked heroically in tr trying to clear leal her of the he water that was s pouring into end and Jt d rapidly filling the forward com corn compartments compart part enta Ship Is Scuttled After Alter the ue violence of had subsided sub an effort was as made to start stait the engines en nes They were finally got to work and the Yo with hr her h r dam damaged damaged aged propeller struggled led landward ait at atthe the rate of two knots an hour The Theater water ater kept filling the hold and the ship was gradually sinking At p pin pin in JR November 15 lii the Justin which had Iad started In search of the Yosemite mite picked her up and attempted to tow her beck back b ck to Guam Two hawsers were w e broken and arid it was then decided that it itaas was aas impossible sible to take her into port The was then scuttled after which she was abandoned all hands going goin aboard the Justin The sank ank bow first at 3 Z and the thc Justin stood Way away for Guam Paymaster Pa m s ster ter Ballard saved Mexican money on the sinking ship news nes reached Manila by steamer Washington Wa ton Nov Noy 28 The Yosemite was wag fleet first commissioned April 13 She had been station ship at the island of Guam since the days day of the Spanish war Sh Sit She is I a converted I cruiser ot of tons displacement ement and andis is provided with a main battery of ten guns a and aBd d a It second secondary secondary ary battery of six and Colt rifles rUles She has a complement of eighteen eighteen teen officers and men liar Her meas mean measurements measurements are feet in length by feet extreme breadth She has a mean draft of twenty feet one Inch I Just before the Ute outbreak of the Span war r the vessel was pur purchased chased by the navy department fitted as an auxiliary cruiser and rendered ren ered ef effective effective service as one of the patrol fleet bein manned part by the Michi Michigan Michigan gan gnu naval militia It is said that sr rr r anchorage at Guam was off the harbor barbor of ot San Luis DApra and that owing ov ng to her draft she he was waa obliged to stay six miles off ore shore The harbor is a particularly dangerous one owing to the existence e of a rocky shoal in the middle and a particularly crooked channel According to the naval register the Yosemite was manned by eighteen of officers and 7 men but in her capacity c p as station ship not all sAl of these were required and nd undoubtedly a part of them were ere ashore engaged in duties at atthe atthe atthe the naval station This probably would be true of her commander Seaton Schroeder who also is governor of Guam and who probably left the active command of the ship to the ranking lieutenant Augustus Angustus N X Mayer The other officers accredited to the ship by the register are Lieutenants W T E Safford rd Albert B B Ensigns A W V Pressy Pre sy H L Lollins LI Lc I c ohms ollins A N Mit hell and E IS T Evans Assistant Surgeon E M 11 Furling As Assistant Assistant Paymaster P V W Delano Chap Chaplain cl Chaplain p plain lain K Jt E B Reynolds and eight warrant officers |
