Show I WILD WAVES WASHED OVER STEAMER lost in the Straits of Juan de Fuca uGa f Early Yesterday Morning 4 I I Heroic Effort to Save the Women a and d Chila Proved Unavailing LIt lis of Victims 1 C EATTLE E Wash asb Jan The steam 0 er Clallam ot oC tile the I fleet went down eariT thIs t m ming ing midway between Smith In the Ule straits of de Fuca perUIs were dro They a aI art artI I L Thompson Taco Tacoma Iyda agent Bruno Brono Lehman Tacoma customs In Vt Yu Tu Yukon C T Lawrence torl kon J un river nver pilot Mrs S F E Bolton Alberta B C who was waE on her tour 10 N P Shaw Victoria ship o owner ner C k w V Thompson Tacoma president of the Cooperative I company Mrs Mr AI A S C Gall Victoria wife ife of the ma manager ael of the Bank ot of tr 4 Mies Victoria MIss Loutre LouiF fIarn Spokane Mrs Rouin Seattle wife of rant owner A K member ot otte troupe Eugene Hicks RickE I lad Ind Mrs IM T 1 aA Port Purt Town end F LaPlant Port r M rs H W nt POrt Pt T Mrs Mr Richards Port Townsend ii H Ii H Swaney Miss Murray Irray y v W Gi Tacoma Unknown 0 The rIt rad dences arc an not reported G J I Jeff 0 0 y v H Orimell 1 H Hyson on onA A VW tuy uy rf H t t Mrs Mn Rose t Mra 1 Charles f roy Charles Thomac i c H Jo I Miss om Gill C J Burney IL H G 0 I w y E Ed Lerman Lennan 0 Ii w U Reynold I w v A Johnson Jhnon Vt H 1 ba bar Green I of t the e Orew w C b T Tamea a me rat t 0 Chutes r seaL seaLlie 1 lie it quartermaster rte s er tte p T V fL e ey me Seattle Carrie steward Victoria Irvey 7 S Sears amaO Victoria Hos waiter Lost in a Storm ery woman iI and child chUd aboard the was a to the fierce storm that raged In the straIts night t Within of shore and at a It appeared certain the cI could not be saved a des atC effort was made to save the women and aad children ti the life lifeboats boa They were eft placed the first boat at to leave leae i ship Ip which C Captain L Lawrence wrence a I YUko p ot volunteered to ad at weh ws manned nned b by d deck k baiJ The fran fIol I craft t went dew sight Iff the and a second lifeboat t fled with male passengers and In con coom 1 man mand or of Second d Officer Currin was wa lost lO ti fe few minutes later I board the CI m saw the waves sweep p passengers engers from their hold holdon holdon on the seats and hurl them Into the Wa a terL Though the lifeboat was aft a d Igent search ox ex tending for has failed to te Ir trace of her More passengers ana an bers ot of the crew were lost when a thiM lifeboat was waz swam ed In an at I launch It 1 Bodies Picked Up I rs were pickel up toy t I the vho ho had fastened about their boGies bodies The They IlI had Ie front id their thir bodies 51 5 brought to Seattle today I II I rhe Clallam was a staunch new pea paa se Do boat t on the Se run Fun I She laft Iett P Port tt Townsend for Victoria Victoriae e erday facing fieg R a terrific s sooth Uth west We gae sight ight of her destina a huge sea overwhelmed the little Uttie Ja her I hEr hold Id With water I J i the lIre beneath her boilers Hllen cad her a at the mercy merey of a I MW gale Agonizing Hours Bourn AU All this yesterday after nc The be culmination of dl the tragedy I I for fOT several agonizing r liOl vely o and crew of tM the worked to save the heat aMft a t 1 it her but box JS in iny y an was wan the r I r the Ule terrific 11 of mat tI tea Mood ih ib moul mountain high se just b Mft n Pt ft 1 ed te teM M OER Continued from Page 1 make an attempt to save eave the passengers at least by th the boats beats Two boats were launched and in lii these some of the passengers were en entrusted entrusted trusted to the ary waters Time The first Arat boat contained only women and chil children dren three fleck deck hands from the Cal Callam Callam lam and Captain Lawrence of Victoria going off in her The beat was over overwhelmed overwhelmed whelmed WO feet from the Clallam and I its occupants shrieked In vain ain for aid from these th e hoad the steamer Not No Nota Noa a hand could be raised to aid id them The boat rowed away into the darkness On board the Clallam men were seen as the waves tore them from rein the boat but later she was still afloat The third boat containing only men inca swamped in launching From that time the members of the crew and t the e few passengers who had volunteered to remain aboard devoted themselves to the task ef of trying to a ve u uthe the vessel venial The pumps were Impotent ard three gangs of boilers bailers were set to work In s spite Ue ef of their efforts effort thin water on theta them and nd t theIr oy were about to resign themselves to their when Holyoke one oO of the six ala tugs togs which MIh ha been hoen sent to the redone of ote the from Port Pelt Town Townsend Townsend send hove in le t tA A line was thrown aboard the tug and with her tow she started for Port Pert She made fair progress seemed for a time that the Wai lal lam lain with the remainder of her passengers gers and crew were wire to be saved sayed But the hungry seas were not to be cheated of their pray wore more lives liven were to be sa to the god of the waters The loU hull ef of the began to give way before the terrific assaults of the waves and the strain of the tow line completed the work the theseas sea seas had The tug Sea Lion Lien sighted the and her tow about midnight and stood by to assist At 1390 12 O she went on her hei beams end and began slaking sinking rapidly At 10 sh she I f settled and the tow lines Un s were cut A Ai Aa i few a minutes later she lurched and tile dis disappeared I appeared beneath the waves wares Only her top works and floating wreckage re ye remained to show that she had hod ever been Went Down at list By heroic efforts tilt crews of the two tugs saved the lives of nearly all who had bad remained aboard the Clallam A Afew j I few were swept away and perished in inthe inthe the blackness of t the sWeat storm with none I Ito to heed their shouts and cries The closing scene m in this the most moOt terrible marine nane tragedy ever known In itt was eight miles north of Protection island only a short shoOt distance Port Townsend awl anti miles inline from Victoria The Holyoke picked the Clallam up oft off Smiths island The survivors of the wreck areck Ten wera brought to Seattle at 5 tonight Chi the steamer r Dingo Dirigo Story of a Survivor Charles G Bennett of 2771 Twenty fourth street San Francisco a passenger ncr ger remained on board the Clallam un until ill til she sank and witnessed all the prin principal cipal scenes both before site she found foundered arid ered and sunk sank and immediately after afterward 1 ward when the last laet life raft was launched Bennett BOnnett had not recovered from the effect of the exposure and scenes incident to the wreck when he heI I arrived on the Dingo Dirigo tonight and andI I teemed seemed to be in lna a condition conditionS S He collected lila his thoughts however suf to recall what was probably one of the moet thrilling and pathetic incidents incident of the wreck areck This was the action of a man to Bennett after his wife and two children were ware drowned before his eyes became frantic and plunged headlong into the plea ea He was undoubtedly lost as neither Bennett nor any of the crew saw him come to the surface and no 50 I life boats were near him at the time Signals Misunderstood I in i Bennetts opinion there was some misunderstanding between the officers of the vessel and the crew In charge of th the tuc tug Holyoke over signals at the critical moment and this thIn fact Bennett believes in the loss of many lives among those who stayed with the doomed ship who other otherwise wise have been saved Bennett speaks i iii the highest prater praise of the action of the crew on the tug tag Sea Lion Lien who he Bay rendered every assistance pos poti possible sible from the moment they arrived on the scene Bennett ateo witnessed a life boat capsize with Its load of women and children and was see a spectator to the fearful struggle cries crier of the kelp help lea inmates of the boat as she was swallowed up in the trough of the sea se seas as if a mere feather Bennett l 1 an anold anold old man and has traveled extensively but the harrowing spectacles which took place before the Clallam finally went down dews unstrung him completely It was wan with effort that he could bring himself to recount the things which he eased and the experiences of him and ether survivors Who clung to tel the raft from w which they wove were fin finlly lly I When the wl vestI boam all the male malO passengers worked heroIcally to launch the life boats said Bennett and the tho was reserved for th tha the theS a S omen and aad children a It was loader loaded with AM An angry anvy See sen was roll rolling ing but this thic boat cleared the th ship and rode rod fh the W vis for about tm ten minutes Of a it got into the trough of the j sea a and shil before the on deck could realize they saw its load of humanity engulfed in a sea w was as running eighteen feet The ibe sight ht was a terrible one and we could plainly hear t e ef of tIle the helpless women and children as they for fOe a few moments before th sank The screamed about us arid and Rafted att their crien on oi deck Where stood two score of brave men who gaz at a their death powerless to a helping hand bend The 2116 second boat beat to be he launched lly d but bet a short time tinte longer tha did didie d ie first It contained a g mixed toad load of nm On and women mOstly the former boat was tossed about toy by the as en if It it were a and went want down in the trough of a swell with alt att its occupants Some may have after afterwards afterwards wards gotten on rafts hut if they dM did I am not aware af of it So far as no I know not a wenan n or child survived Stayed by the Ship When I If realized that the third and nd last boat launched was about to meet meeta a similar fate I turned away unable to another suet sueh terrible end endI I stayed with the doomed ship and together with the remaining passengers did iId all I could to bait bail the thC water out nt of her hold The was ws the first tag to tocoma coma to rescue though in my ray ion hind had the vessel been equipped with flashlights and rockets she could have summoned the whole Victoria fleet her tar assistance long before the put In an ait appearance Where When the ilia Holyoke took h of us it was with witha a line fully of a amile mile julie long She towed us towards Port Townsend instead of steering for the beach the thO passengers on board meantime mean meantime time balling water out of the hold When it became apparent that the yea ves vessel eel sel was doomed some of the crew sig signalled naIled to the tIie Holyoke td to abandon abando the tha tow ton and come alongside Either through a misunderstanding of the sig signals sam nals or failure to comply with them themI I dont know which the greatest loss less lessof of life on 9 board bean the Clallam occurred The me did not respond and thee vessel began to list We then realized that our only chance was to take to ti tIle water and nd the majority jumped Into the sea in n their life preservers I was wac in the water about live five min main minutes tries utes before I got hold of a life raft After clinging to this for half an hour the Sea Lion came along and took me moe aboard There were half a dozen other passengers on the raft with me and alt all were gotten aboard the tug Might Have Been Saved Isaac Hewitt a passenger who re resides resides sides on Vancouver island stayed with the until she foundered and went down He shares the th opinion of Charles G Bennett tha thai had the Hot Hoi yoke responded promptly to the signals of the crew on board the tho Clallam ninny many I passengers would have been en saved who had stayed with wit time the ship in the be belief lief that at the critical moment the Holyoke would abandon her tow and come alongside to rescue the passengers gets gers We all itIl believed that the would let go her line Une and come alongside along alongside side when it became apparent that fur further ther eSCort effort to save the ship was see uee lens leaa said Bennett This Thin belief served to keep us buoyed up until a few minutes before the ship sank We sig signalled naIled the repeatedly to come cometo to our aid but she continued to tow us with a line which put her out of range of the human voice I noticed that red lamps were used by the crew on t the nt I dont know knew whether this is the proper signal in such seh but butin butIn in any event it h Td no visible effect upon the crew The Sea Lion wasted no time when sIte arrived m in rendering all the assist assistance ance Every member of the crew crete rendered heroic assistance and it was largely due to her efforts that any of the survivors live to tell the story of the wreck pumps Refused td to Work The pumps refused to the start and she chic was kept afloat only by the efforts of the pas passengers and crew who i ho remained on onboard onboard board Water rushed into her hold In Ina Ina a perfect deluge and all we could do doI I was to oft dit every one below I deck realized would be the inevitable I end A great deal of water poured in through the dead lights anti and human I effort was powerless to bail out as feat fast as it accumulated All this time we were vere working in the belief belier that if the boat began to sink we could get aboard I the and anili not until she chiC failed to toI I come to our ouy did on board fully realize their peril Then the rush for life preservers and life b be began gam gan Those who were able to gt t ton on the rafts raft j were rescued in short order by the Sea Lion Too much cannot be said in praise of this tugs tuga officers anti and crew for the assistance which they rendered |