Show ISEA A SEA GIVES UP 8 OF WRECK DEAD HEAVY TEAVY EA VY WAVES W AYES KEEP RESCUE 11 VESSELS OF OFF OFFu u Graver Graveyard Grave Grave- Oregon Ship r i I yard Claims Greatest Greatest Great Great- I est Death Toll By United Press ASTORIA Ore Jan 13 13 Eight bodies had been recovered M ered red today of the 34 men who went vent ent down with the freighter Iowa off Cape Disappointment f early arly Sunday Three of the bodies washed shore ashore Sunday two were vere re- re from the sea by a ast st gu guard rd boat and three If were ere washed on the H beach toH to- to lay ay Captain E. E C. C Barnett of the Cape Disappointment coast guard station aid Id boats would patrol the sea luring the day and would attempt o 0 board the wreckage of the Iowa f t seas Beas moderate sufficiently The and part of ot the bow of ot othe he ship were visible today A coast ard seaplane also was due duc from ort Angeles to help the patrol Wreckage was coming ashore on one he e entire length of Long Beach his morning and a small army of I each teach combers was on hand to re- re over over it t The wind had died down to 15 tiles iles an hour and the heavy seas ere cre subsiding The guardsmen who were pre- pre by high seas and an mile 80 ale from reaching the Iowa as she shenk ank slow slowly in n the sandy spit yes- yes erday spread their patrol over a mile l front abutting tho the s scene ne of 0 o similar tragedies since the Cobia Cabia Co- Co imbia bia river was opened to on n. n Watchers on the Washington side the river could see a slender forest forest fore- fore Last st bobbing above the waves all at lat remained visible o of the on n a States Stales St Steamship company eighter reighter which wind and wave and md d broke brok to pieces in incredibly ly port ort art time Rescuers were held back by the theale ale which sent the Iowa to her bom corn oom The wind knocked down the buoy ropes fired by coast boats which approached the theene theene ene cene and the waves prevented Continued on Pue Pase Three Column Five I Shattered in Mile 80 Coast Gale 1 wu i if s' s J k V. V s 4 f fk o iL S f i. i t s v x i a 4 x pHora A 4 h y h. h I FR FREIGHTER IOWA IOVA PICTURED IN HER DAYS OF PRIDE I 8 SHIP BODIES ARE RECOVERED Continued from Page One boats boals from coming close enough to board 1 the wreck The Iowa was a a victim of ot a sudden sudden sudden sud sud- den storm which produced a mlle milc hour an-hour wind at the mouth of the river early Sunday When Captain Edgar L. L Yates veteran skipper took out the freighter from Portland Saturday night the weather was normal There was rain and some wind but nothing to presage tragedy The Tho wind ind literally picked up the foot freighter like a feather and tossed it on the tho dreaded spit Maritime Maritime Mari Marl time authorities were investigating reports report that Yates neglected to employ employ employ em em- ploy a pilot to take him over the river bar but it was believed that with or without a pilot the Iowa could not have avoided the sands which pulled her to her death Frank Caldwell CaIdwell radio operator sent out a feeble S. S O. O S. S at a. a m. m It as was the last call from front the freighter The coast guard cutter Onandaga answered from Ast Astoria ria but cut the storm drove her back time and again and it was six hours later that she finally approached the scene seen e. e None Left Alive Aliv Commander R. R S. S Patch brought the ton 1000 Onandaga within 1500 yards of the Iowa close enough for him to observe through glasses that there was no living man aboard As Commander Patch attempted ed to maneuver closer a towering towering vave wave smashed two lifeboats on the cutter and swept away the stacks and bridge of the Iowa Before Patch turned the On Onandaga Onandaga Onan Onan- anda an- an da daga a back toward the Columbia only the foremast of the Iowa re remained re- re above the waves A short time later Captain Lars Bjelland commander of the Point Adams motor lifeboat reached the wreck and circled it several times He too reported no life Ufe aboard Bjelland's boat picked up the wave-battered wave bo bodies ies of two seamen their arms broken about yards inshore from the wreck Three small guard boats barely made it back into the river each craft leaking where the waves had opened scams seams and the 18 guardsmen guards guards- men shaken and bruised Never Had Chance Commander Patch said the 34 men aboard the Iowa never had a chance to escape death I r am sorry we couldn't save at least some of them but it was Impossible impossible impossible im im- Im- Im possible he said We saw aw no sign of life aboard Had the storm calmed before 3 p. p m. m yesterday several of ot the men might have been saved A lookout of a lighthouse reported he saw what appeared to be three men clin clinging ing to the wreckage The sea swallowed them as it had the huland hull hul hulland hulland and the superstructure of or the ves yes sel sd Captain Yates Yates' home was In Port Port- land It was ivas his first trip on the Iowa although he had commanded other boats of the States Steamship company The bodies of ot the two men picked up by the Point Adams motor lifeboat lifeboat life life- boat and the three bodies washed to the Washington side of the river were not immediately identified Peacock spit has claimed hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of lives Jives from the 90 ships which have run aground there but bul the loss of the Iowa brought the heaviest toll of or life Until yesterday yesterday yester yester- da day the major disaster was that of the S. S S. S which sank sankin in 1913 with 30 men aboard Other Oilier Ships Peril Periled cd Two other ships were endangered yesterday by the gales which blew eastward across the Pacific bringing bring bring- ing a storm which drenched the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- cinc coast with rain piled plied up a snow blanket in the mountains and caused a number of ot deaths from I traffic accidents and I The Canadian freighter proceeding south from British Co- Co lubia lost her rudder when 10 miles off oct the coast of southern Oregon Waves kept the coast guard cutter Cahokia from going to her rescue from Crom Eureka Cal The crew fixed a temporary rudder anc and continued slowly along the coast It was not believed In danger The S. S S. S Romulus also lost her rudder 15 miles of off Coos Buy Bay Ore Th The freighters Lumberman and Castleman were standing b by Reports a small schooner had broken up near the wreck of the Iowa were sere discounted The Iowa was bound from Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land for Cor New York via San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco with lumber and flour Much of her cargo floated ashore and spectators collected scraps of lumb lumber lumber lum lum- b ber r cases of ot sardines and other sal sal- vage Captain Yates was a veteran of oC 40 years at sea He began his career career career ca ca- ca- ca reer in Great Britain and entered service of United States lines in 1916 He had held masters master's papers 20 years S SEATTLE Jan 13 UP A UP-A A wind and rainstorm that lashed the coasts of Washington and Oreg Oregon n nover over the week-end week sent the tho freighter freight freight- er Iowa and its ts crew to their doom and brought floods and pro property pert damage growled out at sea toda today threatening another onslaught The weather experts predicted more stormy weather for tomorrow Storm warnings hoisted yesterday were ordered continued |