MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XX111. NUMBER 6.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1928
PRICE TEN CENTS
Terrific Windstorm
Damages Scores of
Buildings, Boats
S. S. ALAMEDA DOCKS SAFELY PRIOR TO HEIGHT
OF STORM—THREE HOMES WASHED INTO
THE NARROWS—NO LIVES LOST AS FAR AS
CAN BE ASCERTAINED—HUNDREDS FISHING
CRAFT IN DANGER CAPSIZING—WATER FILLS
NUMBER STORES IN NEW BUSINESS DISTRICT
—CUTTER CYGAN LIMPS INTO PORT DISABL
ED CONDITION
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 9. (/P)—Sweeping out of the
Southwest at a velocity of 70 miles an hour a terrific wind
storm wrought havoc in Ketchikan Saturday. Scores oi
buildings were damaged while three residences were toss
ed into the storm lashed waters of Tongass Narrows. Nc
loss of life is reported.
Scows and small vessels broke loose from their moor
ings and battered against foundations of the waterfron:
homes in New Town; 350,000 logs of the Ketchikan Lum
ber & Shingle Co., were carried away by the tempest.
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The windstorm is described is the
most severe ever known here. It
struck the city at noon and waves
from the narrows lashed the New
Town district. Scores of ipersons
abandoned their homes and hundreds
of fishing crafts along the waterfront
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were in imiment danger of capsizing. I
Before the storm subsided, early at j
night, water filed a number of Newj
Town stores. j
The passenger liner S. S. Alameda j
succeeded in docking from Seattle j
just belflore the storm reached its
height. The wharf of the Sunnypoint
Canning Co., suffered considerable
damage. Iron roofing from cannery
buildings were blown away. The 110
foot coast guard cutter Cygan limped
into port in the afternoon after buck
ing a terrifiic gale off Dixon Entrance
where it had called on Friday to take
an ill seaman from the freighter Oak
ridge, enroute from the far East to
Seattle.
The Cygan battled its way thru the j
storm to the freighter but the storm |
was so terrific that transfer of the;
i
seaman was impossible. The lash
ing waves disabled the controls and
radio of the Cygan and the entire
superstructure was flooded; the galley
stove washed away and water cours
ed down its smokestack. Two en
gines were ipartly out of commission
when the Cygan reached here.
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CUTTER UNABLE TO TRANSFER
DURING STORM; FISHING BOAT
TAKES JOB
KETCHIKAN Jan. 9. (#>)—'The
schooner Dorothy, chartered by the
International Fisheries Commission,
succeeded Saturday night in transfer
ring the sick sailor from the S. S.
Oakridge, bound from Portland to the
Orient, and landed him here Sunday
, morning. Howard Wise had a burst
ed appendix and was operated upon
immediately.
The S. S. Oakridge after failing to
! transfer the man to the cutter Cygan
■ got in touch with the Dorothy and
■ both vessels proceeded to Mary Island
! for shelter to effect the transfer.
(j After transfer at Ketchikan the Doro
thy rammed logs and broke its pro
peller. When it has been repaired
. the Dorothy is to continue on to the
halibut sipawning areas in the Gulf
of Alaska.
daniel McDonald, dead
SEATTLE, Jan. 9. (JP)—Funeral
services for Daniel McDonald, age 83,
an old time Alaskan outfitter of sleds
and equiihnent used by gold miners
who died last Thursday took place
y
this morning.
ALASKA PIONEER IS
KILLED LOS ANGELES
WAS STRUCK BY AUTO
JOHN HANCOCK, FOR 22 YEARS A
RESIDENT OF NOME, MEETS
UNTIMELY END
LOS ANGELES, JaJn. 9. (^—Fun
eral services for John Hancock, age
69, an Alaska pioneer, will be held
Wednesday. He died on Friday night
from injuries received in an automo
bile accident.
Hancock was a resident of Nome
for 22 years having gone there in
1900. He was a government warden
under Governor Bowen and active in
Republican politics. He came here
five years ago to live with his brother
Phillip, also an Alaska gold rusih
pioneer.
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ANGRY THAMES IS
AGAIN THREATENING
ART PICTURES, VALUED AT MIL
LIONS OF POUNDS STERLING
ARE RUINED
LONDON, Jan. 9. (,/P)—Surging wat
ers from the angry Thames seriously
menaced Westminister again Sunday
afternoon at high tide but the vigi
lance of an army of workmen averted
sierious damage. Sufficient water
seeped thru the sandbag barrier at
| a break in the river wall, in front of
! the Tate gallery, to reach the curb
, but prompt reinforcement .prevented
repetition of Saturday’s disaster when
art treasures, valued at millions of
pounds sterling were ruined. The
Tate gallery is a national gallery of
British art.
The Port of London issued a warn
ing that all tides will increase until
: Tuesday and great uneasiness exists
in all quarters until that day is passed.
^The Salvation Army band, which play
ed all afternoon at the corner of Tate
gallery to collect funds for flood suf
ferers conducted a Thanksgiving
'service when officials announced the
| danger had passed for the day.
The Arms, a large barracks nearby,
f has been the relief center for flood
I victims since the first break which
j spread terror in the heart of London
and caused 14 deaths.
SIX PERSONS BURN
TO DEATH; CHILDREN
BUTTLED SAVE THEM
ALL WERE ASLEEP IN AN OUT
! BUILDING WHEN FIRE BROKE
OUT IN KITCHEN
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 9. (IP)—While
three children battled to save them,
six persons including the father,
mother, two boys and two girls^ were
burned to death on the Henry Merwin.
farm in the Pacific district. The
children, who tried to save their rela
tives from death, were asleep in an
outbuilding when the fire broke out
supposedly in the kitchen.
RETRIAL POSTPONED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. (JP)—The
retrial of the Fall-Sinclair oil con
spiracy case has |>een postponed until
April 2nd., because of the illness of
Fall ; . j