Tillamook headlight., February 20, 1908, Image 3

TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, FEBRUARY 20, 1908
TOTALLY WRECKED
ON NEHALEM BEACH
ors. They were so weak that they to California ports. The wrecked craft
could scarcely talk on reaching shore belonged to Hind, Rolph & Co., of San
and had to be carried by willing hands Francisco. She was 215 feet long, 40.6
to the light station where they were feet beam and 24.1 feet, depth of hold,
given every attention.
being of 1,406 net register tons. She
The men will probably be sent to Se­ was built at Waldsbory, Me., in 1880,
attle this evening by steamer, where and was one of the few old American
they can receive proper medical atte wooden ships in service out o( Pacific
Life Boat Picked Up.
Coast ports.
P out T ownsend , Wash., Feb. 17.— tion.
When the back of th» Reed broke, the
It was November 3 that the Emily
First Mate Dubie, Seaman Arthur Jan-
tuke and Seaman Eauld Abelstsdt and small boat had been swung nut from it« Reed cleared from Newcastle N. S. W.,
the deed body of the cook, of the wreck reeling place on the top of the forward for Portland, with a cargo of 2100 tons
ed wooden ship Emilv Reed,came ashore house. Dubie and five men, including of coal, consigned to the Pacific Const
last night near Neah Bay, on the Straits, the cook felt the forward part of the Company. As the cargo belongs to the
a short distance from Tatooch light­ I ship going to pieces and crowded into owners of the ship until delivered, it is
the frail craft. The captain, hie wife scarcely likely that the captain will be
house.
This unexpected survival of three of ' and other members of the crew who had obliged to make a business trip to Port­
the men who have been counted among made tlieir way aft could not see what land in connection with the matter. So
the lost since Friday morning reduces became of the boat, for when Dubie, the far the local agent of the Pacific Const
the Emily Reed death roll to eight. The cook and two sailors out of those who Company has received .no word from
The American wooden ship Emily Reed, cook was alive until yesterday, when he succeeded in sticking to her reached it him.
103 day« out from Newcastle, N. S. W., died from exposure and lack of food.
they pulled with the strength of des
The ship was about two months over­
with a cargo of coal for Portland, went
peration out of reach of the breakers due.
ashore half a mile South of tbe Nehalem
S eattle , Wash.. Feb. 17.—A special Darkness prevented a view of the
In God We Traut.
River, on the Nehalem beach, at 1:30 to the Post-Intelligencer from Neah Bay stranded vessel.
o’clock Fridav morning. The vessel im­ says ;
To avoid Tillamook Head and the (TO EDITOR OF TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT |
mediately broke in two and six mein-
At about 11 o'clock last night the crew dangerous reefs thereabouts the boat
What one man holds sacred, another
bersof tbe crew drowned. Captain Kes of the little six ton sloop Tekla, laving was headed out to sea There was no
The only
only Baking
Baking Powder
Powder made
made igBfegjg
•el, his wile, Second Mate Charles Thump at anchor here, were startled by a feeble sail in the craft and only by use of the uses for a by word, or slang.
The
The president's argument seems rather
son and three members of the crew, viz . hail from a steel life boat drawing up •are was she kept away from the shore
with
Royal
Grape
Cream
of
Tartar
ijF
a
poor
one
for
taking
the
lime
honored
Barney Sullivan. H. Franchez and Her slowlv in the light breeze. In the boat the current setting strong toward the
inscription
off
our
coin,
for
a
dollar
is
a
man Bartell, senmen, were saved by re­ were the forms of four men, three living beach. Once clear of danger the boat
—made from granes—
maining on the stern part of the vessel and one dead, survivors of the American was headed northward and by noon blessing to the man who trusts in God,
while
the
one
who
does
not,
deriven
until daylight, when they managed to ship Emily Reed, wrecked off the mouth found itself ill the grasp of a strong
reach shore. One life boat was success- of the Nehalem River, on the coast of northerly gale, with the wind aft and a little or no benefit by the use of dollars.
What do we trust in God for ?
fully launched, into which the mate and Oregon, 200 miles from Neah Bay. The fairly smooth sea.
When God created man he gave him
two seamen and the cook succeeded in men in the boat were : First Mate Fred
l
A Strong Carrent.
two
commands, one to increase and
getting away from the doomed ship, Dubei, Seaman Ewald Abildstedt, Sea­
From Tillamook Head to Neah bay multiply and replenish the earth, and
which was being swept by the breakers man Arthur Jabunke, Ship's cook, name is about 200 miles. The bout must
Safeguards your food against
the other to have dominion.
and rapidly going to pieces. Tbe life unknown.
have drifted at a fraction over two
atai and phosphate of lime
When Christ redeemed us he brought
boat,with it* human freigbt.was carried
The dead man was the ship's cook. miles an hour to have reached Cape
us
back
where
Adam
was
before
fall.
to sea, without water and provisions, The three living survivors were in a Flattery in the 78 hours she was at sea.
and for three days the men endured ter pitiful condition. Their tongues were The exhausted sailors worked at the Die popular effort to eave people is all
rible sufferings from exposure and the swollen from thirst so that at first they oars in relays and the tide and wind was bosh. We are saved. What God wants
want of water and food, but were fortu­ could scarcely articulate. All three men luckily in their favor. Saturday night is to fulfill our natural obligations.
The ma» who trusts in God differs
nate in being picked up at Neab Bay, the were in terrible condition from hunger a stiff breeze sprung up and it was
from
another In that his generations are
cook having died previous to that time. and thirst, for they had had no food necessary to work to point of dropping
, After getting ashore from the wreck at since last Thursday night nor anv water to keep the boat clear of water. Added perpetuated, and increased in number
Gj
day break, it was a long time before since they left the wreck of the Reed at to this was the suffering from exposure. he virtually inhabits the earth. The
other
rarely
ever
generates
beyond
the
the men succeeded in finding anyone, 1:30 Friday morning.
The wind was biting and only by con­ third or fourth generation and he has less
but after wandering up and down the
stantly keeping in action were the sur­ children each successive generatton
Story of First Mate.
beach, they succeeded in finding Mat
"Almost the instant the Reed struck vivors able to withstand the piercing until he is wiped off the face of the earth
Moroney’s place, and from there they the beach she began to breakup. In a gale.
forever.
went to Ed. Hadley's, where they oh. twinkling one of the lifeboats was smash-
Sunday morning, according to Scube,
tu
It is a wrong idea, and one that I was
tained food and clothing, and later in ed by a big wave and the decks were so the wind pulled up briskly from the
brought
up
under,
and
that
is
we
should
the day were taken to Bay City.
deep in the boiling water that there was southwest. The mate was steering and
The ship has broken up and will be a no chance to get aft, where Captain Kes the boat drifting with tbe wiud and seek dominion first, before assuming the
total loss, as will also the cargo of 2110 sei and his wife, with some of the other tide. The survivors were huddled to. responsibility of parentage. This argu­
ment is always advanced by those who
tons of coal. The vessel was consigned member» of the crew, were stationed gether to keep warm and no sound came
to the Pacific Coast Company at Port Wejnmped into the remaining lifeboat from the cook, who lay still in the hot do not trust in God. How often do we
land. Owing to the long passage of the and cut the lashings. Before we had tom of the boat with a tarpaulin thrown hear it said that a man ought not to
ship, 25 per cent reinsurance had been completed the job a big sea broke over over him. lie must have died during bring a lot of children into this world to
starve.
offered on her.
the wreck and carried us clear of the the night. Rain fell, drenching the men
The man who does not trust in God
decks.
but furnished fresh water. Dubie was always excuses himself through one
Heavy Weather Prevailed.
During the previous days heavy weath._ "A strong current swept us toward the stiff with cold and realizing that some­ pretext or another without realizing
Next to Mason Hr s. Department Store.
er had been prevailing off theOregon and stern of the wreck, where we could see thing would have to be done to keep that someone is going to raise children
California coast. The chronometers of Captain Kessel and the rest of the ship's life in the two surviving sailors he to inhabit the earth aud to take our
the Emily Reed were off and the master company clinging to the roof of the after urged them to stir about and do a little places. We are asleep to the fact that
worked her too close into shore before house. We yelled to them to throw us Hailing; he himself painfully managed immigrants from the slums of Europe,
he discovered his error. Captain Kessel a line as we went undet the stern, and to keep in action sufficiently to stir his Asia, Africa aud the iahinds of the sea
was endeavoring to make Tillamook someone threw one, but it fell short of blood to circulation.
are flocking to our shores to inhabit this
Flattery Sighted.
rock. He was correct in his latitide. but o ur boat. My arm had been broken
the grandest and best land of the earth,
Flattery was sighted early this morn­ besides we raise thousands of mula toes
too far to the eastward. When he dis­ when the wrecking galley dropped on to
GIVE US A CALL.
covered his position it was too late to us and there was only one good oar, as ing. Dubie knew that if the boat a*uld illegitimates.
the
other
had
been
broken
and
the
spare
get
around
Tatoosh
in
safety
she
might
wear ship and she struck on Nehalem
In Gcd we trust I We have not only
oars washed a way. We did our best to make Die bay, as be had traveled fre taken this inscription off our coin, we
beach.
The Reed struck at 1:30 o'clock in the get back to the wreck, but the sea and quenlly into Fuget sound and knew hiB have taken it down from our homes.
bearings well The oars were again re­ As a result tbe homes that a century
morning, bow on the beach. There was the undertow carrieJ us away.
sorted to and the boat headed toward ago had from 9 to 10 children, now are
Cook Gives up in Dispair.
a heavy sea running and a strong flood
“We tried to head for Tillamook Light tbe shore. On approaching the beach either cursed with one or two children,
tide. When sbe-bit the beach, her back
broke and the forward end took a list to but we had no comoass to steer by. the survivors were sighted by some men or else is as barren as a bachelor’s den.
port. An effort was made to launch a When morning broke I found we were on the shore who lent them a willing Then, with the rudest implements and
life-boat. It was put over the side with standing far out to sea. I thought it hand to make a landing.
poor transportation, and everything un
three men in it. As soon as it hit the best to keep the boat well out, hoping
developed they had plenty, such as it
Headed for the Beach.
water it swamped and the occupants to fall into the path Of steamships. Wilh
was. Now with our factories, mines,
drowned before tbe eyes of those left on this hope I set the course northward
Below Tillamook a short distance tbe commerce, agriculture in¡an advanced
along
the
coast.
board. Another life boat was launched
American bark Emily Reed was sighted stage the home becomes a burden, ft
"The second night out we saw lights, at 2 o’clock yesterday morning by the wants no matter how few children. Not
from the fore part of tbe ship, which
but it was too dark to venture io. There steamer Washington, which reached only is barrenness a mark of the God­
was taken to sea.
was neitber food nor water and we suf­ Portland from San Francisco this morn­ lees home, but it is broken up at tbe
Strikes at High Tide.
fered
terribly from thirst during Satur­ ing. Though only about five miles off slightest provocation before the courts.
The Captain stuck to the poop and
forced his wife to remain below. The day. Toward evening the cook declared shore, she was standing ein toward the
Ourccmand our homes do not stand
second mate and three men in his watch he could stand it no longer and took a breakers, making something like six alone the loss of this inscription. Our
were statione'd on the main deck. When drink of salt water. He soon became knots an hour, as near as could be Judg­ public schools have taken down the
the forward portion of the ship listed delirous.
motto and become a Godless institution.
ed.
“At about 2 o'clock Sunday morning
Her identity was not then known, The consequences are our girls evade
they succeeded in making their way aft.
By clinging to that portion of the ship we saw a big steamer. She stopped near out after having read an account of the the home lite and our boys hope to make
until daylight they made their way us and we all hoped we would be saved. wreck the officers of the Washington a living by their wits. No practical
ashore. It was then dead low water- But the vessel got under way again and say they are positive io their own minds knowlege, purely imaginary. There is
It was fortunate that the vessel struck left us. The cook gave up the fight then, that the stranger was the Emily Reed. hardly a boy that has been raised in our
on the top of high tide, or none of the he lay down in the water and in a few She was a full rigged ship, and answers public schools in this county that is
We Ulant all Kinds of Produce
her description in every way. Tbe Wash­ studying or applying himself to become
officers or crew would have ever reached minutes he was dead.
"About
7
o'clock
Sunday
morning
we
ington was witbin a quarter of a mile a mechanic, nor is there one lesson
tbe shore to tell the tale of horror and
Call and See Us
suspense. So severe and sudden was tbe made out Tatooch Island. We were all ol her and hugging the coast pretty well to a girl in practical home keeping
shock to the vessel, the bow was stove too tired to manage the boat very well, to escape as much as possible a strong publicly.
It Is the work of the Independent
in and the ship's back was broken and but along toward Sunday afternoon I northwest wind.
"I know she was not more than five church to pursuade men to trust in God.
her hull ripped from stem to sterm as got her headed back toward Neath Bay.
"Sunday seemed tbe worst day we miles from the shore, and she was head and to subscribe to his sovereignty, in­
breaker after breaker struck her. bring­
down the masts, spars, sails and rigging were out. We kept seeing all sorts of ed straight tor it." said first officer stead of trying io inculcate some re
with a crash, and the sides of the vessel vessels passing hack and forth, but none Avery. “There did not sppear to be ligion on creed. But for the men who
breaking away, left the stern part of the of them would answer our hails. We anything wrong with her. but we trusted in God we would never have
deck entact, which drifted ashore a mile were generally too tar off to be made thought it rather strange that she was had a government of our own, but re.
proceeding in that direction, and re- mained subject to some other nation.
from where tbe vessel went ashore. It out plainly, I guess."
marked upon it among ourselves. It was
was the holding together of this part of
The government needs a church to
tbe vessel which saved the lives of the Terrible Experience at Sea. raining and the weather was thick. She •uade men to trust io God. Just as a
captain and wife and four of the crew.
S eatllb , Feb. 17.—As if from the had no signals flying. It is possible that church needs a government to maintain
The Nehalem beach is strewn with wreck­ grasp of death three men of tbe ship •he did not see us, although we were order.
age, the masts and timbers of tbe vessel Emily Reed, which went ashore near close. We were a little too far away,
Aliraham of old tiusled in God and •2» '”•34
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2».
•30
25 I
i -37 •29 •21 •23
being mashed and broken up like so I Nehalem, Oregon, last Friday morning however, to speak her.’’
from one as good as dead ■prang the
1» tn. am. 1 p.m
Lv.
Ar 1
p.m. p m
Robert tones, cook on the Washington mightiest nation even though they never
n oo MOO 3.10 ........... .... POBTLAND.... ............
much kindling and cord wood.
pulled ashore ac Neah bay thia morning
12.15 10.00
7 20 9 20 4 15 .........
G oals .........
............ 1 O 55 M .40
in the ship's ¡small boat. The little life served in a similar capacity on the Emi­ entered the promised land.
7.35 9.35 4 27 ..........
Tale of Hard Luck
R anikw .
IO 40 H 25
A 05 10.05 4 49 ...........
Q oimct . .
10.05 7.50
Posterity is fl rat, ¡dominion next to the
Captain Kessel, who was with Mr. J. saving craft was the name that was sup­ ly Reed less than a year ago. His last
H 13 10 15 4.54 ...........
C lathkanik ..
9 52 7 40
H 52 10 51 5 23 ......... 1........ C lifton ..
9.1 5 7 04
O. Bozorth at Bay City, said Friday posed to have been swami>ed when »he trip on her was from Puget Sound to min who exemplifies this motto, “ In ■■■■■a.
9 40 1 1 45 6.02
Ar A storia l,v.
».20 6 IO
was swung out from the stranded vee- | San Pedro,
God We Trust."
J. C. Govs.
evening in speaking of the wreck :
a.m. p m
a m. '
p m « m.
a.m. i
A. 15 5 50 9 50 1 1.46 6 05 1 1 30 Lr. A stokia Ar
4 00 A 15 A. 06 5.50 11 OO . ...
"During
that
voyage,''
aaid
Jones
thia
sei.
The
mate
s
name
is
Dubie
and
the
"Mv chronometers went wrong and I
55 n so 10.05 12.05 6 20 12.35:. W abmentom
3.35 7 55 7 45 5.35 10.401
Many Sleeplens Nights. Owing A.
morning,
"the
members
of
the
crew
were
9
1
A
7
11
IO 25 12 31 A 43 1 IO
G babhabt
2 39 6 5 7 7 IM 5. OH 9.4M'
missed my latitude. I had endeavored other men Arthur Jamuhuke and E.
to a Persistent Cough. Relief 9.26 7.20 10.30
12 40 6.50 1.3Oj.
S kahidr
2 30 6 50 7.10 5 OO 9 40
to make Tillamook Rock and was cor­ Adelsteldt. In the boat was the corpse kept busy at the pumps to keep the old
» 30 7 25 10.35 12 45 6.55 1.35<Ar. H oliday L y . 2 2.1 e.s.i 7.05 4.56 9.351 .......
Fund at Last.
“ For several winters just my wife
rect in latitude but too far to eastward. of the ship's cook, name unknown and ship afloat. She was leaking like a
PT. STEVENS BRANCH
■eive. In the gallev I was standing in has been troubled with a most persistant •40 •3 A •4S • " , ♦* 1 •43
•3» i •41 1 •33 I •43 •36 i »87
I had hard lack all the way from New­ *> exhausted were the surviving mem
•nd
diswgrresble
cough,
which
invari
­
castle and that same did not desert me tiers of ibe boat's crew that they had water which reached to mv knees during ably extended over • |>erw>d of several a m. a.n». i V m. a m p.m I p.m.
pm
p.m. 1 a.m. p.m. a.m.l a.m.
10 16 A 36 6 1 1 7 2M¡ 3 1 1 12.06
WarrentonAr 12 31 : 8 35 7 54| 6 4o M 65 10.39
When six days out from the Australian not strength enough to lift the hody over the greater part of the trip. There seem, weeks and cause I her many sleepless 10.23
A 43 6 20 7.3A 3 23 12 15 Ar HammomlLr 1 2 25 3 29 7 4.1 6.33 A 4M IO 30
ed to be something wrong with her all nights.” writes Will J llsyner, editor of IO 2A1
3.26 12 20 Ar Pt.Atvvensl.v 12 2t: .1 2*> 7 i». |o s *»; i <> ?7
port I was spoken. That was in 72 S. tbe rail and cast it into the sea.
Trains n-arked • run dally.
When th* Taloosh lighthouse was the time. The troth of the matter is the Burley. Colo., Hnlletin. •• Various
179 west. Since that time I have seen
remedies were tried each year, with no
Trains Nos M, 27 and 39 from Clatsop Beach, and trains Nos. 26, 30 and 34 from
■o one. For weeks I bucked bead winds sighted the three men of the Emily Reed that she was aboat worn out on account beneficial results. In November last Astoria.
run via Pt Rlrveai
t
Train No. 2S, from Portland. 3 10 p m , la Saturday Special. stopping at Goble, Rainier
and heavy weather. One storm after gathered what little strength they had of her age. Whenever she reached a the cough again put in sn appearance
and my wife acting on the suggestion of Clatskanie. Astoria and Beach points, only
another was encountered. This mors, I left and feebly guided their boat to the port she had to he repaired."
COMNBCTIONS—At Portland, with all transcontinental lines. At Goble, with
The Emily Reed was well known at • friend, purchased a lerttle of Chamber­
ing I was called shortly after the honr harlior. Good seat tier prevailed or this
lain's Cough Remedy. The result was Northern Pa. (Ac Railwar Co. At Astoria, with steamers for San Francisco and Tillamook
Portlauil, where she was a frequent indeed marvelous. After three iloaaa ■nd Ilwaco Railway A Narigatlon Co.’« boat and railway.
of 12 and discovered that we were loo 1 task would hare been impossible.
The NgMhoone ¡keeper at Tatooeh and visitor. She was a sister ship of the the cough entirely disappeared and has
Through tickets sold to and from all points In the Bast and Europe.
chwe in. I rn-leacored to haul out but
For further particulars apply to.
B. H. JENKIN».
was too close in. The heavy breakers H.
I G. Rand of the government weather Isaac Reed, which has also taken a nnm- not manifested itself since. This remedy
Genl. Frt * I'aasgr Agt .
is for sale by all LtruggisU.
Astoria. Or.
and tbe Sood tide earned me well op oq »1 bureau at Neah are caring for the sail- ber of cargoes from the Wills met le river I
Emily Reed Breaks up
and Goes to Pieces in
the Breakers.
the beach. It was exactly 1:30 when
we struck. The forward part of the
ship went down. The second mate, three
seamen, and my wife and myself, who
were aft, succeeded in staying by the
ship until low tide at daylight."
SEVEN LIVES LOST.
Terrible Experience at Sea
by Four of the Crew-
One Dies from
Exposure.
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Insures healthful and
delicious food for every
home—every day
w
i
The Tillamook Lumbering Co. having
a large amount of Fur Logs on hand, made
arrangements with Frank Long to saw the
same, the Company is now in a position to
sell and take orders for Lumber. Leave
orders at the Company’s office.
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All Kinds of Confectionery, Pies and Cakes.
We make a specialty of Bread.
CONNIE DYE, Proprietor.
Opened Up for Business
SAPPINCTON & GO
A Full lune of Groceries
Tinuuare
and Crockery.
Flour, Feed,
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