Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-14 | Page 12 | Rescuers Will Search Wreck

RESCUERS WILL S SEARCH WRECK I ASTORIA ORIA Ore Jan 14 4 UP UP- UP V Rescuers rs who believed most mot of the crew creyi crew of 3 34 of ot the S. S S. S Iowa died within the hull hun of the ship unable to escape escape caP when she he was wM waa driven on V Pea Peacock ock spit by ah an 80 80 gale R hoped h p d. d to confirm their belief today b by boarding the vessel iGo tC guardsmen believed the wInd and the waves waves s would subside sufficiently a for tor them to examine Jn more re closely the e submerged freight freight- freighter er oh oli the sand Band bar which has been the scene stene of 90 wrecks since the U. U US U.S. S. S Peacock S. S from which It it took Its aground more than 70 TO e rs' rs ago go Search by land landsea sea and air r recovered ered eyed three bodies yesterday Five other bodies were found Sunday jh shortly r ly after the Iowa sank Twenty Twenty- Twentysix a six six still are missing Records of ol the States Steamship line Une owners of oi the thc freighter showed she carried of Jf 34 when she left Portland left for San Francisco Saturday night J Joining the coast gu guardsmen and beach residents In the dismal hunt hun f for r bodies was was a figure that tha nf of Portland Portland Port Port- of of Mrs Frank Caldwell land Jand whoso whose Bon son Frank was radio operator aboard the vessel v s el Caldwell had time for only one f feeble SOS earI early S Sunday morning before th the freighter commanded by E. E EL 14 L. L Yat Yates of P Portland settled d deeply Int into V the sand and titanic seas lIens engulfed her The exact cause of the wreck may never never be explained An inquiry was pl planned ned r It Some mariners familiar with the currents and winds of ot the Columbia river mouth believed bellev d the the vicious gale twisted the w wheel eel from the hands rendered automatic automatic auto auto- matic apparatus impotent impotent- and literally literally lit lIt- lifted the Vessel essel through the laveS waves waves' to the bar The U. U SO S S. S weather veather bureau had war warned ed of strong gales along the Oregon coast but the weather conditions conditions conditions con con- were not regarded as unusual unusual un un- un usual or extremely dangerous Sev- Sev oral cral other ships were crippled by bythe bythe the gales and the waves but many weathered the thc blow which h reached Its greatest intensity just as the Iowa stuck her nose noso from the river Into the open sea and found hers herself If set nt down on n the graveyard of y ships