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Show After escaping from a shipwreck, being buffeted around In small boats in the choppy seas of the Aleutian is-, is-, lands, being carried from point to point by chance boatn, and finally landing at destination several weeks late, was. the experience of T. Allan Jones of Ogden, son of the late T. W. Jones, who returned to Ogden this week from Alaska. Webster Lindsay, son of Thomas H. Lindsay of Ogden, accompanied Jones from Alaska to Ogden. Og-den. having also been working thero during the summer. Jonen survived the shipwreck with just the clothes "he stood up in," the outfit including a trusty pocket camera. cam-era. His trunk and a shotgun with several other .personal articles were lost. The steamer, the St. Francis, a windjammer, wind-jammer, was wrecked in the Uniraak Pass during a heavy fog on May 14, and the entire passenger list and crew, numbering 346 people, was saved, taking tak-ing to. the small boats. Tho boat is said to have struck a submerged reef. She lodged on the rocks and broke up. The small boats wore manned by the crew and passengers and were rowed to land which at Ihjs place was within a quarter of n mile, the landing being made on Unimak island. Mr. Jones says that when tho ship struck a heavy shiver ran through tho n-kni. i. . mi. 1 n. .....I. men going to the Alaskan canneries, many of whom .were foreigners, immediately imme-diately broke into pandemonium and started hunting their valuables. They took everything they could carry, ho says, regardless of its ownership, greedily grabbing tobacco and articles of personal comfort first Jones says when he started to hunt for his belongings be-longings nothing romained. The shipwrecked party was taken from Unimak island after a nine hours' stay, by the s'toamer -Norwood which hud headed for the spot in response to a wireless from the sinking St. Francis. Fran-cis. Tho Norwood carried the men to Duth harbor in the Aleutian group, where they had to remain seventeen days before another boat came along to pick them up. The U. S. revenue cutter Unalga, finally steamed Into sight and took tho marooned men to Lockanok on Bristol bay, near the Kvichak river. They arrived at tis place June 4 and started work in one of the canneries for Libby, McNeal & Libby. Jones shipped from San Francisco on April 22 as an employe of the packing pack-ing company. He stated that the experience ex-perience in Alaska was just the thing he had been looking for, but says it is not a very good place for a permanent residence. The weather during the time he was there was fairly good for that country- Many fogs and cool spells were experienced, however. Ho brought a small collection of Indian modcaslns, snowshoes and other articles arti-cles from the north, leaving for' Seat- i o - 1 in .i. .. t LIU UU Of pitJUiUei J.- UU LUtJ SLUillUtT Urnetilla. Webster Lindsay was working at a cannery about thirty mites from tho Nockanok cannery. Both young men started for home together. Jones was "attending a polytechnic school at San Francisco before Icav-. Icav-. ing and is contemplating enlisting or going back to finish his course in engineering en-gineering this fall. On arriving home, young Jones was shocked to learn that his father had died. Not one word had reached him and the news was a severe blow. |