Tillamook Headlight, April 1O, 1013. nd Rudolph Rudolpl_______ Fred Goldman and Lesvik, ,_ re he could hardly move. He died How’8 This? Captain’s Statement fuse i to slay on ' board and came ashore. about an hour before the lifts »»era ATe offer O n « H undred L killo » R ewafo The day mail brought Blackman a made the rescue. During an interview last Monday letter from his bride, the first he had or any cate of Catarrh that caaaot be curc.1 by Hull s Catarrh Cure. Rescue Starts at Early Dawn. evening Captain Westphal said : received since they were married. P. J CHENtï * CO., Tried© O. With the first break of day thia —«—— “’When the wave struck the ship I We, the under willed have knon-n T* I. morning the lifesavera were ou was standing well forward. It caught Cheney* for the luSt IS '-eire ' <- hand and tile sea had subsided me and carried me aft, hurling me into WHISTLES ON BARK! him perfectly honorahk i transaction« and finaucia *.y a considerably and a rescue was the mizzen ratlines. Here I clung. oui any oblinations made by hi planned. It waa shortly niter day Captain Fisher and the cabin boy also SOUND DISASTER NATIONAL BANK OP GvM.MhrCF, break when the liieboat was placed had caught bold, while Captain Crowe T 1 uo, O. in the water and the Garibaldi crew and Koen were clinging to a lifeboat Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken iwte*'mi ’/ started to shove her to the boat close to us. We lashed the boy fast, The Garibaldi Lifesaving acting directly upon the blood ano u'u cous surfaces of the system Teatlull « It was 5 o’clock before the crew, but within a few minutes Captain free. Price 75 cents per bottle. S I after a desperate a.ruggle with the Crowe’s hold had broken and he floated Crew Promptly on the eeat by all Druggists. waves, finally got alongside the off. We did not see him again. Koen Take Hall** Family Pills for constipât' >t| wrecked ship. The in. prisoned men I called to us that he was slipping and the Spot with Boat. were near the exit to tneir prison. , we got a rope und r his arms and tried Hides Wanted As the lifesavers, headed o by Cap pu" *1‘m up- raised him two or George Watt, President of the ----- ' ' three feet, but we were so numbed Brighton She went with a rush, with eveiy tain Farley, drew near i . e?i--*»?*!.« Will pay 16c. for Hides, Steph ju Mil s Company, whose every man on the upper deck work see two dead men lushed to the boat ....... , with cold and hampered by the waves plant is about a mile from where 1 Michaud, Hide Dealer. Leave your They pushed alongside and then ing with the lines und ropes con that we could do no more and lashed I KNOWN DEAD the Mimi was stranded, said that' hides at Honey A Pelx. necteii from various points. As she came the rescue. Mr Fish-r col 'him there. hie first intimation that there was sell Blackman Juliana put into deep water one of the lapsed in the arms of members of I “Although we shouted continually, trouble on the vessel waa when he _ . ... . ____ ________ _____ meats, Portland, secre cables either broke or gave way the life crew. Captain Westphal was 'our cries failed to attract attention for heard prolonged whistles from the T OMN LELAND HENDERSON unable to move and had to be carried tary of the Fisher Engineering and the boat turned broadside to a three hours or more, and after that it donkev engine on the bark, and ration. heavy sea. With a terrific crash out by the men, as did also the two was a dreary, hopeless wait until today, soon after Captain Harry Bell, of ATTORNEY tain Albert Crowe, Port- the waves swung the vessel high sailors, who are mere youths of 16 when we were removed. The boy died the launch Meta M., came to the AND into the air and dropped her to the I and 2U All were in a dazed condi-f within an hour. Koen lasted sometime mill for assistance. | ard O. Estes, formerly bottom of the ocean 800 feet out tion and were unable to speak. longer, I do not know how long. It COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW ‘ I called tbe Garibaldi lifesaving rtland, more recently of from shore. With 800 tons of ballast I They were rushed to the shore es was horrible. and they responded at once," ■ iton. in her bottom, the impact was ter fast ..o ____________ “Shortly after ihree o’clock Sunday crew T illamook B uxk , an possible and _ hurried into - a slid Mr. Watt, who was in Portland liam Sipp, North Plains, hmiao on ♦ tiie il Z* O s i ¡nil tl I I vitkif rifle. The deck forward was crushed buggy to » a house spit morning, as I was walking forward to yesterday Tillamook - . . . Oregon. “ They started down the R like so much cardboard, a shower ot be.onging to C. W. Atwood. AU tell the donkey engine man not to pull beach with their lifeboat, it being atrick, Brighton. broken and splintered wood, metal seemed paralvzed and unconscious. the Mimi further seaward, but to an Room No. ‘ ¿ til. , 1181 Kirby street, ' and pieces of the ship flying in Stimulants were administered and chor where she was, a sudden lurch on a wagon and drove it to the Portland I every direction. One or two of the they were given every care possible. took the vessel and 1 was pinned to the mouth of the Nehalem River and A. Vergt, cook on the Mimi. ■ heavy stesl masts snapped like Mr. Fisher, who is 61 years of age, forward deckhouse by"a fallen top spar. after crossing the stream they drew the boat by hand to the acene, O. I Fischer, ship carpen matches. was probably in worse condition This lurch immediately prsc ded the about two miles. When it wa < day H. T. BOTTS, ter. capsizing of the Mimi. I distinctly Those Aboard Swept to Sea. than any of the others. He was uu Behrens, engineer. remember hearing Captain Crowe light we decided to send to the life ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. At the time of the wreck all of unable to speak for hours Amooti speaking, but whei we reached there saving station for the amall gun B. Meyer, sailmaker, and those aboard were dashed into the the men were recovering and later no one was to be seen nor were there used to shoot a line to a ship, as omplete Set of Abstract Books in sailors W. Birchendin. H. they were able to eat. Tonight they sea excepting about eight, who was lying in the breakers and nsen N. Jorgensen. H signs of life on the forward part of she Office. managed to grab the rail on the were sufficiently recovered to ie any a high sea was running. •n, W. Kruachert and H. the ship at all. able to be taken by boat from the side of the vessel and clung fast. Taxes Paid for Non Residents. The only means ot getting the s, all of Germany. “The donkev engine, mounted there, Gradually these men worked their sand spit to Brighton, a distance ot ha! slid into the sea. After a two-hour weapon there was by rail and when T illamook B lock , a mile. They are being well cared way to the stairs leading into the SAVED. endeavor to prevent sailors from leap we asked the Pacific Railway A hold and got beneath the deck As for and, if possible, will be sent to ing overboard and telling them that Navigation Company for a special Tillamook .... Oregon. S. Fisher, of Port- to the number who succeeded in Portland tomorrow morning. Both Phones. their best course was to stay by the train for that purpose they- agreed McMinnville It is expected all will recover, as ship, my efforts proved all for naught immediately escaping in this manner there is When it reached 1. Westphal, of the considerable doubt, but there were medical attention has been secured by their plunging overboard. Brighton we placed the gun nbour I M|B>- residence Germany.^ at least six, including the four who and it is reported no serious results “Had it not been tor the seven-foot a launch and c*an«ported it acroB« A, Ludwig and Yohon Kus- were rescued and the two whose are expected. The life crew had board that ran around the ship we the bay, then by means uf a team ARI. HABKRLACH, cber, German sailor boys, ot bodies were secured fast to the been on the beach since Sunday would have all been washed away. To got it to the beac'l. Thia shows how ^^pikfurt. morniug and after the rescue went these alone we owe our escape. Until the place is, I de k. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. With the sea dashing over the to get dry. At 4 o’clock this after we reached the extreme aft part of the Attempt to Reach Wreck Falls I KX « S SI ■ * ■ * boat with a roar that almost deaf noon they again launched a uoat vessel no -ign of life was to be seen, T illamook B lock , “Meanwhile the lifesaving crew ened the men, they worked them and fought their way to the scene although we searched all that part of ■ (From the Oregonian). made an unsuccessful attempt o line selves through the darkness, feeling of the wreck, recovering on After hanging to a steel bar waist the vessel that was out of water. Here, reach the wreck and the terrific Tillamook Oregon. deep in water for 29 hours, part of their way by inches, until they got trip the bodies of the two men clinging to a lifeboat lashed to the aft power of the waves caused us to be in where it was dry and where there lashed to the boat. which were in pitch darkness. deck, we Lund Captain Fisher and Tom lieve that there couid be uu living Cbectrs S. Fisher, of Portland, and was a chance of die water failing to Koen. No More Bodies Visible. person aboard and, as the tide was dMkin J. Westphal, of Germany, reach them. “Grasping for a lifeboat which was rising, further work was discon BORGE WILLETT. and No other bodies were visible Imprisoned Men at Loss. S k K to German sailor boys were lashed round to the aft deck, we stayed tinued. The wreck was lying en lifesavers removed their equip till daybreak, when we discovered that one side with file deck toward the 1 this morning by life savers Every light on the boat was out the le German bark Mimi, which and die imprisoned men hardly ment and returned to Garibaldi to one had slipped down inti the water beach mid it was continuously swept ATTORNEY AT I.AW. id early Sunday after being realized where they were. They night. No further attempt will be and was nearly submerged, Here we by gigantic waves, some of them off the sands of Nehalem stood there waiting for death. Grad made to reach the ship, tne bodies, heard Koen call f »r help We hastened 3<j feet high, and at times it was T illamook C ommercial B uilding , pit. ually the water rose in the hold and it there are any, and the big steel to pass a line under his arms, with the obscured Iroiu view, being com en other persons, including they were forced to climb up steel hull being left to the waves amt t .e assistance of Captain Fisher, and were pletely covered by water Tillamook • Oregon. I Portland people, were bars. The water continued to come dashing sea. The beach is being able to raise him about two feet, but “From what I learned it appears watched for bodies. but there is sd. So far only two bodies up at such a rate it seemed that owing to his weight ve were unable to that they sent up a rocket about 10 'been recovered, one being they were doomed any minute to be thought to be but little chance of get him higher, Koen, with a final ef minutes before the bark turned coming ashore at this time f a German boy and the other drowned. fort that seemed to sap his remaining over and it appeared to begin to T. BO ALS, M.D. Tne lifesaving crew under Capt vitality, threw his legs up over a spar break up immediately, for soon of W. C. Koen, 1181 Kirby The boat was lying on her side ain Farley is being severely criti that was lashed on deck near the star in Portland after doors and other wreckage be with the lipper deck perpendicular. four were the only ones sav Steel bars running across the ship ■ cised here tonight for the lacs of board bulwark. Two minutes after gan coming ashore, also a pig they PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. in the crew and the list of under the deck was the only thing action when they first arrived at this a peaceful expression came over had kept and some hens all drowned. ____ en on the vessel all ot era available to catch a hold. The the scene ot the wreck It was de his face and he fell limp and passed But there were no bodies of the men T illamook B lock , Either having been swept from the water drove them until their heads clared by many that when the float unto his God. or even clothing washed on the deck when the accident first oc were almost against the side of the was first seen Sunday morning the “The other sailors died during the beach, so we felt sure that all hands Tillamook Oregon. curred or having been washed into boat. The water rose waist deep, waves were not high and a boat course of Sunday night. One man went were drowned. the sea from the boat during the and rose and fell with the waves, I could have been pushed to the crazy early Sunday morning, after the Although several persons said hours the terrific sea of Sunday which forced through the broken rescue. Lack of action is attribut first lurch and before she capsized. they had heard shouting, there waa rooming dashed over her steel deck forward. Many times the men ed co the general belief ot those on “We called for three hours before nothing really definite of that char M. KERRON, shore that there could lie no one any effort was made by the crew to acter to work on until one of the hull, which barely protruded above were up to their necks iti water. on board alive The crew is con launch their boat. I guess they could the -I ya ter. survivors raise! himself above the Fortunately they were shielded PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON from the cold wind, the bottom of demoed for such taking the opinion not hear us and it was then that we rail of the bark and waved his hut. Two Sailors Lashed lo Deck. for granted. It is apparent that undertook the dangerous efforts to at While he waved great waves raced One sailor plunged into the sea the boat facing toward and the the men and Captain Farley did tract attention by climbing up in the over the hull and it looked as if lie T illamook B lock . last night and was lost almost in wind blowing in from the sea. As their best when they learned for scupper and waving lo those on shore. would be swept away That was staatly. Two others were lashed the tide fell during the early- hours certain there were some on board With the coming of darkness we gave the fir-t knowledge we had that ,-reg'i Tillamook to the deck during the low tide and of the morning the water in the but at the time they were unable to ourselves up for goners, as we knew there was someone aboard. black watery prison got lower, and later died from the cold and Tile th»- tide was higher than that of the act because of the bad sea Current Defeats Lifesavers. Their bodies were cut (town by daylight it was possible for them men were at the scene wet through night before and that almost covered “/bout 4:30o’clock Sunday afte-- le Garibaldi lifesaving crew to to work their way to the stairs and and without sleep for 36 hours the boat. Al! night long we cheered ____ I and are now occupying a look out. The crew comprised C.iptain Far- each other by telling of the wrecks and noon, when th« tide was pretty well C. HAWK, High Sea Cuts off Deck Trip. MMporary morgue on the sand •ey, O. C. Hawthorne, M. Adam- situations worse than thiB, where men out as low water was at 7 o clock, they launched the boat again and spit The bodies of the others are The high rolling sea made it im son, F. C. Robinson, C. Howers had been rescued. ^fht to be lost forever, the only possible for them to venture out C. lxill, E. Erickson, B. Chatterton, “With the coming of day and the tried to rem li the wreck, but when [ for their recovery being the side onto the part of the ship above C. O. Shaverton and M. F. Robin sighting of the Garibaldi crew standing within a few feet of the ship the PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ibility of their washing ashore water. It was possible, however, son. by out toward us on the way to our current caught the lifeboat and swept her past. Then, owing to the I Mimi, as dusk fell tonight, to wave theirt.ands, but apparently rescue, our hopes rose higher. Ludwig, The lifesaving crew from the U.'Xon. 100 out in the ocean with the they could not make anyone see. Point Adams Station arrived on the tie boy in the room there, who is so tremendous seas, they were forced Bay City Several ® dashing madly over her, As daylight came Sunday morning scene shortly after 5 o’clock this weak, stood in water almost Arctic in to return to the beach. ring a spray which looks to the men could get glimpses of the morning, after the rescue had been temperature for 28 hours. That he shots bail been fired with the gun feet in k-ight. She has been peop.e on shore, and made des made. Inasmuch as they could be survived is a wonder and a credit to the but every time the line fell short. Tney made iwo more attempts but igned to her watery grave for- perate efforts to yell loud enough of no service they were signalled stock from wl. ch he came. SAR :nsr possibly with a number of so they could hear. They waved by Captain Farley to return to Point •‘The most sickening feeling anyone naraness stopped their work. The Fashionable Tailor. “ Residents of Brighton were ts in her hold. their h its also, but all apparently Adams, which they did. Captain could have was experience! when the n-.ght, loath to leave the beach that B lifesaving crew departed to- without avail. Farley, when asked tor a statement last attempt at rescue failed Sunday t after making a trip to the The high breakers shut off the regarding the criticism ag.iins* Ills night. It looked as though our lives as they were anxious that aid be Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing and securing the two bodies, view most of the time, the glimpse early action refused to say any were to sink out with the dying sun. given those on board and ma y made as complete an invest! at the shore being only when tne thing. announcing that it is against B it we held fast and prayed. My God. volunt ere 1 to help man the life a Specialty. m of the ship as possible under waves got low. The men stood in the rules of the service. hiw we prayed and hoped and clung! boat The time the lifeboat reached itions, but could see no other the water above their knees and Ills too horrible to relate the horrors the wreck it seemed to Htimd emend Re(»orta were circulated yesterday uf that second night in our danger. We at times and I was surprised that . They could see there was watched the life-savers on the shore Store in Heine Photographic that Superintendent Holyfield, one ssibility of anyone else on attempting to get a boat into were paralyzed from the cold, sickened the crew reached land again. ' Gallery. Calvin Blair, bookkeeper for the being alive and that it was action. They saw the crew on of the contractors on the job and by exposure and faint from hunger and sible to have entered the hold shore shoot a line out and saw it Thomas Watt, of Brighton, son of thirst. The smell of the sea was horri Brighton Mills Company, is being John Watt, of Portland, were mi ble. I want to forget it all.” cong ululated on hie narrow escape boat to hunt for bodies fall short. water iur*de rose and dropped All day Sunday they stood in the the boat Both of these men left Charles Fisher ¡ b 61 years of age and from probable deitli as he obtained H. GOYNE, the waves at such a rate that freezing witer and watched and the ship before she was dragged his fight in the watery dungeon is funds and made other preparations was danger of any of the prayed They often shouted as best off the sand. equally as heart rending as the story fora journey to Portland when he heard Saturday evening that th« The boat is a total wreck and no of Capt. Westphal. who went in, being dashed they could but gave up when their ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. th. No further attempt will voices were lost in the din of the attempt will be made to rescue her. As he sat in the sandspit house this Mimi was to be floated. He left the mill for the scene, ex In addition to being smashed al afternoon wrapped in blankets he com- ade to invade the ghastly con- mail surf. pecting to get aboard and remain onice- O pposite C ourt H ousk , of the vessel unless plans are In the late afternoon they saw the most to pieces she is lodged in a r ented on the hours he pa-sed. ged. lifesavers force their boat into the deep sand and has WX) tuna of bal “My whole life pul together did not on <tie bark un'il she was taken in water and saw them make a desper- last in her hold. Tons of wooden s -cm as long as the hours between tow by a tug. as the Port of Port Tillamook - Oregon. Westphal Hears Yells Mr. parts of her have floated ashore. sunset Sunday and daybreak this morn lane had arranged to send either ate attempt to reach the boat. inion is divided as to the poe- Fisher stuck his head out and Lifesavers report that it would be ing. It seemed years. All we could the Unaonta or Wallula to Nehalem y of there being more bodies shouted: impossible to move her and until do was wait. Sunday afternoon, word having he ship. Captain Westphal she is to far gone to tie of any use “Often during the long hours I been received here Saturday even “We’re here.” R P. J. SHARP, he is practically sure there are They saw the boat beaten back by even if it could be raised. thought I would give up my hold and ing that she would be hauled into -s in the hold. He could give the furious waves which were When a lifeboat gets into the fall into the water to join the others deep water about midnight Mr. aines. He says he heard some pounding against the bottom of the breakers it is very easy to under we knew had gone before us. Several Blair returned to the mill during RESIDENT DENTIST, gelling in the cookroom aft r boat and dashing 30 feet into the stand why rescue or escape was t mes I lost heart but something seemed the night an<l complained that lie iccident and believes it was the air, throwring a white spray over imfioesible. Office: Commercial Block, I was frozen was unable to get on the Mimi and A boat full ot life- to cause me to cling. 'a cook. Others may tie within the water fora long distance around. savers this afternoon was pitched with the cold water, was sickened by soon alter the first call for assis told, pinioned under the wreck It was at thia point that one c! the about like a cork and seemed as the cries of the people about us ami tance for the wrecked crew and sal Tillamook - Oregon. of the upper deck. It would be imprisoned men gave up hope. though it would bedashed to pieces. was faint from hunger and - thirst. I vage crowd was received at the Dseible to secure their bodies, This man, a German sailor, bade Often it stood almost on end. cannot see how I held on as long as 1 plant. le beach was comlied for miles his fellow prisoners good-bye and Word comes from Brighton did. I shall return to my home and at Beene Most H rrible afternoon and tonight, but no plunged into the sea. He wan seen J. CLAUSSEN, tain ptto recover from the shock ami Beach that while F-ederick Fischer, es were found. The carcasses to go under in the heavy under Members of the crew describe the the horrors of it all. 1 want to forget first ina't, and Frederick Gold LAWYER, >me pigs and a vast amount of current and that was the last. man. second mate, and Rudolph scene at the boat this morning it.” :kage from the ship has come DEUTSCHER ADVOKAT. Mr. Fisher was greeted this after ilagga, third mate of the Mimi nil Night began falling again and w.oen the rescue was effected as lore. Mr Koen and the German sailor the moat horrible it is possible noon by hi» son from McMinnville, who of whom made their way to the 213 T illamook H uk k le suffering» of the men who boy Kruachert said ‘.hey “could not to imagine. rushed to the scene, believing his fath shore by means of a line from the ! beneath the deck of the ship stand it any longer.” Sunfiended in the air by ropes er to be dead. It was not until the bark when it was definitely decid They had • Oregon. ■ 2 o'clock Sunday morning. I had nothing to eat or drink and were the two dead men, while back Portland train reached here this after ed !■> make » pull and haul her in Tillamook n the accident occurred, until were (aligned from the exposure in a place where it would not seem noon at3uH> P. M. that he learned that to deep water, they were among clock Monday morning, is al- It was then that they naked Captim poaaible for any person to survive his father was safe in the cabin. There the fir-t ti volunteer to go to the t beyond description That any Westphal and Mr Fisher and the were the pale, almost un< onsci u» was a joyous meeting between father rescue of the men on the overturn J E RKEDY. D.V M., efl »hip when tfte hies iving crew le four held last to the rigid two German hoys, who were all re men who were still alive It was ami »on. l and kept their heads above the maining of the imprisoned party, with great difficulty that they were failed 1<i make gains Sunday, and Young Ludwig said: VETERINARY. ig water in the hold seems to be lashed to the boat so they taken aboard the lifeboat, maa • We wanted to come ashore before lor a time the three saiiorrnen in ling short of miraculous 'could keep from falling into the much as they had to f>e carried and they made any attempt to pull her off, sisteil that without other n«»i»tan< e Both I’hmi**». water in the boat and drowning. the boat was pitching up and down but we were held back by the captain they could reach th ■ marooned Tale of Wreck is Told ________________ He threatened crew. le statement« of the persons res Pieces of rope were rtaced abcut at bounds of about 15 or twenty at the point of a gun. to shoot the first m”- thst left the ship. Tillamook Oregon. I as to what actually took place their bodies and they were sue feet. After the strugg'e to get those W e boys saved the captain's life jvhen Recommended for a G-*o1 R-aa n practically the same. Tne boat, (»ended in the air with the water h*- wax waa pinned down <l->wn by the fallen fur- eh struck the sand February 13 waist deep The other* got hold of who were alive on the boa . Captain Ik* C II Grail '¿H Waverly St., been worked by means of tke steel bare and held on as tightly Farley ordered the 1» at rdf intend ward yard. We fell no ill will toward» Peoria, Illa . *.i)" (>. It < ka< tie and MvGKE, M.D. ing to rush the victims to shore him, as it wm hi» duty to prevent de key engines until -he win ready as they could. kidney* made me suffer They suffered the most terrible and return lat«r for th«- dead x-i •ertion an-i it wax our duty to help congested oat into the sea S-nday morn- intense pains, Was always tiled The erel tunes on the trip from the boat him.” st high tide. All the men who agonies during the night. Mate Fredrick Flagz h»d a dream aid floating -|>e ks leitfcreit me | been working with her, except- only light they bad waa an occa to the shore it seemed as though Took Foley Kidney Pills anil saw PHYSICIAN & SURGE'’N some of the crew including the sional dim flash from the monster the lifet»oat would ca,size and Friday night that the Mimi wm • dead bi ' improvement after third day. They were dump its load of humanity into the min i hotel at the bottom of the aea, I kept on until entirely freed of all' e mates and some of the able- campfire ob thi ahore. the crew, with the exception *>f led aailcrs. were aboard at 2 cnly able to hold on by theatrength water, in which even tne four r»-a that < Hfice : Our Block East oi trouble anti sulf-ring That s why 1 when high tide came, and of tape that they would be rescued cued would have beer drowned. the captain and two of the boy», wore 1 rrcommend “oley Kid lev Pills. 1 head dreeaea of aeaweed and that their On reaching shore the four were in the morning. Morning found i a chugging of donkey engine» Putt Office. fate« were cowered by »cloud. Owing They cured me " Sold by a I drug- cables were drawn and the boat Mr. Koen dead and the other man unconscious and remained a > for to hie dream toe thrae mates, , Flagg. grata. almost an hour who waa laahed to the ship so weak ved to sea. THE GERMAN BARK MIMI TURNS OVER. 16 Persons Drowned--4 Saved fter Terrible Sufferings on the Ill-Fated Ship. • I I * * i ■ I s. I