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Show WAVES DRAG EIGHT FROM ROCK TO SEA SH'7RBE" CREW WASHED ONE BY ONE FROM PLACE OF REFUGE TO GRAVE. Schooner Wrecked Off California Coast and All on Board But One, Including Two Women, Drowned in Sight of Safety. Point Arena, Cal.-Oue after another, an-other, seven men and two women who had fought their way up on Mai Pass rocks after escaping from the wrecked gasoline schooner Alliance No. 2 were dragged 'back into the sea by pursuing combers. Eight were swept to death. The ninth, Rafael Ra-fael Medlner, was flung ashore alive. H. R. Jones of Vancouver, the mate, was the only other member of the ship's company of ten that was saved. When the schooner, which sailed from Vancouver, B. C, October 9 for Juazatlan, Slnaloa, piled up on Mai Pass rocks, twelve . miles north of here, early Monday, she had on hoard: Captain Delouchrey, F. E. Harrington, chief engineer; J. S. Walsh, second engineer; H. R. Jones, mate; A. Allan, Al-lan, cook; Baillie, purser; Miguel Abila, owner; Mrs. Abila, Miss Miller Mil-ler and Rafael Mediner, Abila's servant. ser-vant. The two women and all the men except ex-cept Jones, who remained on the vessel, ves-sel, aided one another over the side as the schooner was being smashed to pieces, 'but could not mount high enough on the wave-wracked rocks to escape the clutch of the sea. Jones watched his companions as they were swept away and waited his turn. Soon afterward the pounding hulk broke in two, flinging the mate into the maelstrom of the surf. The ship's dory, washed overboard, came within his reach and he climbed into it. There he was found exhausted hours later. Mediner was tossed up on the beach unconscious. When he revived, he crawled up to a cliff road and was picked up by a farmer's wagon. Abila, the owner of the schooner, was said to be a close friend of Car-ranza Car-ranza and was taking the vessel to Mexico for use in Carranza's service. |