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THE COOS BAY TIES BULLETIN
Marshfieid, Ore., Nov 1 .
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WRECKED
FIVE LIVES ARE LOST.
Captaian Johnson and Crew and Capt.
H. Jacobson Find Watery Graves.
Coos Bay Times Sends Airship to the
Wreck and Gets First News.
Coos Hny and Tim Cikin liny
Times broke (lie world's record to
day in sending an airship to relievo
ami rescuo the crow If possible
nnil lo get tlio news if tlio wreck
of llu Schooner Osprey.
The first autlientlu iicwh wiih
lnoiinlit by Jack (.'nylon, who
made iho (rip out over tlio bar
nml haw tlio floating wreckage of
tlio csscl.
Tlio Times also chartered the
launch Alice II. and hcnt it to tlio
lower bay to oo if It were possible
to find any of tlioso who bad been
washed mcrlMiard from tlio Osprey,
ml tlio seaielt availed nothing, as
"me of tlio unfoi'tiinato crow eould
lie found afUr a diluent hearch.
Tlio Kiisollno schooner Osprey
as wrecked on tlio Coos Hay Jetty
this uhiiiiIuk and five liven were
Km.
Tlio dead are:
(WIT. (JUS JOHNSON, master of
tlio Osprey.
CIIKSTKIt .JOHNSON, eiiKlneer.
tWIT. JACOIISO.V, formerly of
llcrwlck, of San I'VaucKco, pusscu
er. JOIJ PKITSCII, derk liaml, and
formerly a iiioiiiIht of tlio ciew of
(ho Dii'iIk'o Oiokoii.
HI) IIAKDV, Indian, of Wodder
burn. Tlio Osprey left Wcddcrhtiru jos
(erday afteiniHin alMiut 1 o'clock.
She reached Coos Day eaily (his
mornliiK and ax nearly as- can bo
loaincd went on tlio Jetty about (I
a. m. Tlio little schooner was
washed over the Jetty and dashed
on the north side of tlio pllhiK.
Tlio Iiik lloscoe, ('apt. Tjler, saw
tlio boat In distress, dropicd a
schooner ho was towluK In the low
er bay, and went int. Ho threw
tbreo lines to the Osprey and pit
one around ('apt. Johnson, but ho
appeared to bo a ruvlnj; maniac
and broko loose.
Capt. Johnson went under as the
Osprey turned turtle.
Capt. Tyler saw a youiiK "" ""
the wreckage who was thoimht to
be IVllsch, but bo went under be
fore ho could be reached. Those
were tlio only ones soon by tlio tug.
Tliero Is no doubt that nil flvo
men who were on tlio Osprey are
dead. The llttlo schooner Is entire
ly wrecked.