Show Captain of Craft Disappears Passengers Adrift Two Days Avalon Cal a I. I May Ia 27 j After ln 11 having I drifted for fOI two lays daR In the thC open channel between Catalina and auth San Clemente Clemene l Island lanc Captain Caplain A. A Christ ln ha having m mysteriously disappeared the seven oven ton Zeus of ot Avalon with wih Mr 11 IO El and two children chil anti and Mrs Easton nurse dren of or Los Angeles AngelOF was picked Nl up iii II late tren last lust nl night hl h by tho lie United States auxiliary cruiser Buffalo GO 50 miles miLs southeast of Catalina Island Inland C. C 13 E a recent recruit fell tel attending at attending at- at overboard durin iho tho excitement tending tIle tho the rescue and w was titS lost The Te Easton Kaston Easton party PUIt left n LO Los Angeles May 15 lri for foi a n pleasure trip to San Sun Island Inland returning to Silver l' l cnn canyon on the thc west title side of If Catalina In last t. t Sunday rho Tho next morning at 2 I o'clock th the IC party pari started on the lie nine julie mie run to aJon A Avalon It It I- I was hero rind AmI the tho others were asleep that Captain Cap Cap- t tam tain ln Christ after arr weighing anchor and starting starling tho lie engine disappeared Mr th aston Easlon was waR awakened at nt d daylight daylIght day day- light h by the tho stopping of ot th the engine When hen the to fog lifted he found tho ho launch to lO be sonic seven en miles mies off oft t th t-i. coa const coast t of the Island and amid not being a l' l to 0 run the tho engine was I to drift until picked up It I is believed that lint Captain ChrIst entered c tho the rowboat row t to pull pul kelp from train tho the propeller of tho the launch and tho the boat overturned by br the hea heavy swell Mr Mi Easton was as private secretary o of Webster Davis at on one ofle time mayor maur OL oi 01 Kun sas Kun-sas as Cl City und tumid later assistant secretary secretary secre secre- tary tuy of the interior InterIm Easton Enston accompanied Webster ebster Davis to to lg South a during tho tile Boer war var serving as a. ear as var ar correspondent for a n of or American Amer mr r- r lean Iron ne newspapers pcr 5 |