Show MEET DEATH IN fEARfUL j SHIPWRECK Over a Hundred Perish When Star of Bengal Hits the RocKs ABANDONED BY TUGS IN FACE OF A GALE Handful of Survivors Tell Harrowing Tales of Experiences Alaska Sept Sopt 23 O Quo to hundred and ten out of or a a. total of r persons aboard tho the cannery ship hip St Star of or Bengal were drowned last Sunday afternoon af f when the vessel was torn from tho hold of protecting tugs and dashed ashore at Helm HeIDI Point at the southeast end cud of Coronation i Island The news was brought by the tug Hattie Gages Gago Captain FalTer which carried the survivors sur twenty seven In all The TI sur cux before leaving Coronation island buried the bodies of fifteen whito men menon on the beach f Those buried were as follows Charles Buchanan Carl Bore Dore Joseph Griffin Andrew Hanson Frank Healy X Norman Hawkins George Benjamin Denjamin Johnson Sigurd Nelson Eri Erick Person William Villiam Peter Peter Peterson son John Peterson Olaf Peterson Swenson Tho The cable ship snip Burnside which left 4 for the scene at midnight ht Monday as ts s soon a as the news was rec received returned last evening c. with the news th that t. t t the e Star St of Ben Bengal l vas was a total loss only the ends enda of tho the masts showing above water The Tho ship was was' bein being towed to fi sea from tho the Yran l' l c bythe tugs Hattie the Gage and Kayak Captain Farrer of the the- Hattie Gage gives the tim f following account of the thc disaster Cut the tho Tow LineAs LineAs Line i As As we cano came within reach of the thealo gale galo alo we could r e eee see we were making leeway leo lee way and drifting toward Coronation is- is and The K Kayak y k was li light ht and could do nothing Tho The Hattie Ga Gage Gago o could not handle the ship alone At 4 40 0 o'clock c ck the Star of Bengal drifted into a narrow narrow- bight and we could see ce land on both sides abreast We Wo sounded and found eight fathoms We could see the vessel dimly b by the phosphorous dark rocks roche that are aro- aro all around We cut the tow towline towline line Jine and steamed out into open vat water r. r but could not see anything in iu the driving driving in ing ing rain rain except one blue l light ht burning burning- on the ship The s storm torm increased and the tho tu tugs steamed d to Shipley bay twentysix six tj miles away Survivors Muir and Olson said laid the tIte ship sank sank- about 9 o'clock after breaking break break- ing ing into three pieces The surf was full fult of salmon cases eases and gasoline drums Struggles of Survivors r I Muir says that ho and Olson got a ot 3 boat off and went ashore through the wreckage They helped several ashore asbor and anti pulled Captain Wagner out of tho the wreckage He lie could not speak The breeches buoy was ri rigged Jed to a n tree but tho the ship was swaying swains so 50 that the line liue was wag alternately alternate loose and nd tight makin making it impossible to use Tho The ships ship's books and papE papers were found on the beach One Oue man had matches and anti a fire firc was t built with kerosene from the wreck The The- fire saved the tho lives of the survivors sur as asit asit as' as asit it kept them from freezing reezin Captain Wa Wagner ncr of the bark Star ot of Bengal which was wrecked on Corona j tion island with nith a loss of lives Jives t a was unconscious cious for an au hour after he lie was was was' rescued He charges the the- captains of th the tugs Kyak and Hattie Gage who cut loose from front him with rank cow cow- ardice ardic Unable to speak above a a. a whisper wIns wIns-i per Captain Wagner wrote the tollow- tollow follow j In ing i I When the thc tugs cut tho the tow lino line w we t were wore lying in ten fathoms of water and for four hours hoped for help from the thai tugs We burned blue lights but the thai tugs would not not- come in Had they done doneHO donol HO every man aboard could havo have been boeni saved I I I Ifill will fill send fiend both tu tug captains to the penitentiary if possible for their cowardice My y soundings gave avo seventeen fathoms of water when I dropped anchor anchor an an- chor ehor and ten fathoms when the tho anchor line played out Tho The wind did not blow blowhard hard bard until 10 Tho The survivors of the wreck number twenty Tho The ship hip broke in in three pieces and is lis a complete loss |