Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — ESTABLISHED August 19, 1904
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RESCUE OF MCCORD !
PARTY Oil ISLAND
(Continued from Page One)
plunging low and rising to shake
off the boarding seas like a ter- J
rier shaking a rat.
COMMANDER'S REPORT
Take up Commander Dench’s i
report: I
"The forgoing indicated a very j
serious situation indeed, but I felt
that further information could be j
obtained at Kodiak, and on the j
face of it it was difficult to under- i
stand why some word of the disas
ter had not reached the outside
world within a reasonable time i
subsequent to the landing of the j
party on the 14th of December, I
‘‘Arrived at Kodiak on the morn
ing of the 8th; Mr. Jack McCord, I
manager of the Chirikof venture.
:ame aboard. He advised that the (
party on the island was in no dan- 1
?er of starvation as there was aj
nerd of cattle there of about 3501
head and that some stores had >
seen left there. There wras no
ioubt of course that the Chirikof '
aeople were short of many kinds of,
provisions and stores. The worst
:eature of their situation was pro
bably the strain and worry they
vere undergoing, because they had
ucpected the Dorothy to return to
ihe islands about one week after j
hey were landed there, that is to:
ay about 21st of December. They
rad been in complete isolation and
rad no way of knowing that the
Dorothy had stranded on a reef j
urd that the 10 men on her after; I
learly losing their lives in the life- I
>oats, eventually got the Dorothy!'
iff the reef and into port.
PERSONNEL OF PARTY
"The Tallapoosa made ready to ,
jroceed to Chirikof as soon as the i
veather showed signs of being rea- ■
onably dear and settled. ,
"Before telling of the rescue of i
he Chirikoff party it is interest- <
ng to understand the nature of
he venture and the personnel who
mdertook it. Mr. Jack McCord,
in. old-time Alaskan, and one of <
he actual characters in Rex l
leach’s famous story of the fight; 1
>ver the right of way on the Cop- <
►er River Railroad, the managing 1
lirector of the Chirikof Platinum >
Told Mining Company. He is a 1
ikeable, talkative man of imagina- 1
ion, sanguine and able, promoter j £
■f various ventures. He sailed with : £
he Dorothy from Seattle with i
bout 20 persons on board, includ- 1 ‘
ng several who were there more i
s guests than as real members of ‘ i
he working force. Two such were j i
oung women from Chicago in ^
heir early twenties, college girls
rho had driven to Seattle. They <
it upon the idea of traveling to c
Jaska and writing up their expert- ! 1
nces or vacation, and through the j £
Jaska Weekly publication at Se-1 t
ttle they met Mr. McCord. He! i
greed to their proceeding to Chi- | t
ikof with Mrs- McCord on the Do-; t
othy as members of the party, and i s
hey had planned to leave Chiri- I /
kof after about one week’s sta;
there.
“Besides a mining engineer, then
were several youths and two na
tives. The cargo consisted o
stores of every sort and some cen
trifugal machines for washing ou
the gold and platinum from th<
black ore-bearing sand found or
Chirikof.
ABANDONED VESSEL
“Continuing with the cruise ol
the Dorothy, she proceeded out ol
Seattle by the Inside Passage and
Prince William Sound and Kodiak
for Chirikof Island. On her firsl
run in the direction of the latter
no landing could be made on ac
count of the high surf, but on the
13th the party was gotten ashore
The heavy freight, however, con
sisting of centrifugal machines
and a tractor, could not then be
landed, and the boat stood back
for Alitak Bay. Unfortunately the
Dorothy was passing the Trinity
Islands at night and the westward
one, Tugidak, is low and difficult
to see. Furthermore, the cur
rents sweeping north of Tueidak
and into Sitkinak Strait are quite
strong. In the middle of the night
they suddenly struck a reef and
found themselves pretty close to
the breakers. The 10 men aboard
took to the lifeboats, five men in
?ach beat Soon after they shoved
iff, the mining engineer, who was
without nautical experience, kept
>aying that they ought to drop the
Dorothy’s anchor.
“They went back to the Dorothy
and dropped the anchor, to which
hrcumstance it was later apparent
:hey owe their lives.
“Shoving off again from the Do
rothy, the two lifeboats pulled
with the wind and with the pur
x>se of getting around a point
which seemed to them to make out
i little way and which might pos
sibly afford a lee on its far side.
3ut the contour of the shore was
rot as it first appeared, and pres
ently they found themselves in a
light with breakers everywhere but
o seaward. The only thing they
ould do was to pull out of this
ittle bay against the wrind and the
;ea.
RETURNED TO BOAT
They had come the distance very
juickly with the wind at their
>acks. and they wrere now an unbe
ievable time getting back to the vi
:inity of the Dorothy, whose mast
lead light they could still see. It
vas a matter of some five and a
lalf hours before they had got to
heir vessel- It looked at one time
ts if they were never to get back,
ind the Scandinavian captain said
n a quiet voice to Mr. McCord:
Tack. I don’t think we can make
t.’ Just as the skipper made this
emark, the wind dropped and the
noon came up, and in a short
rhile they regained the Dorothy.
“An examination of their strand
'd vessel pounding on the reef
ulckly revealed that she had lost
lere rudder, but her hold was dry.
kune of the spikes had been forced
y the pounding she was receiv
ng, up in the engine room, but
he engine still functioned. With
he rising tide they got the ves
el off and anchored in 10 fathoms.
J1 hands were so exhausted that
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they went to sleep for five or si>
hours and did not trouble to leave
anyone on watch.
RIGGED JURY RUDDER
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“The crew of the Dorothy rigged
a jury rudder, and with consider
able difficulty got to Alitak Bay at
the south end of Kodiak Island
“Mr. McCord seriously consider
ed mushing back to Karluk in or
der to send telegrams to the own
ers of the boat and the insurance
companies concerned. He was dis
suaded, however, for it would have
taken at least three days to make
that distance and there were nc
cabins or way places at which to
stop en route. The Jury rudder
was improved and the boat left
Alitak Bay for Kodiak steered by
tackles. When in the vicinity of
Woody Island, close to Kodiak, one
of the steering tackles got adrift
and fouled the propeller.
“Upon hauling out the Dorothy,
they were much surprised to find
that her keel was entirely gone,
many holes punched in the hill,
and all that had kept the boat
afloat was the cement in her bilges.
Immediate steps were taken to re
pair her at Kodiak, but there was
a great deal of delay in refloating
here due to the small range of tide
which prevailed for some time.
APPEALED COAST GUARD
“In this way the weeks went on,
and when repairs were finally com
pleted the Dorothy was considered
unfit to proceed again to Chirikof,
and that she must go to Seattle,
avoiding bad weather en route if
possible, and have permanent re
pairs done at that place. With
this decision, request was made to
the Coast Guard to take off the
people left on Chirikof by the Do
rothy on December 13.
“The Tallapoosa reached the is
land after a foggy run on Friday,
February 10, and went fairly close
to the east side of the island,
sounding the whistle many times
to attract the attention of the
people on shore. Landing was im
possible on the eastern side and it
was hoped that the party would at
once walk to the west side of the
island and stand by to be picked
up. It was about a two-hour run
around the north point of Chirikof,
as the shoals extend out some lit
! tie distance. At 2 p. m. on the
OUR SPECIAL DAY
Next Monday, Feb. 20, another
one of our half-price special days
i for dry cleaning and pressing,
i SEWARD STEAM LAUNDRY.
10th we anchored on the west side
of the island. This ' affords little
protection, but fortunately there
was only a gentle breeze blowing
off shore. The surf on the wesl
side was moderately heavy, but il
was negotiated by the ship’s boat.
AFFECT RESCUE
“As is usual in expeditions of thb
sort there are delays of one sorl
or another and in this instance
there was a most unexpected one
One of the natives, a young mar
about 24 years of age, caught hfc
foot in the ‘go-devil’ (a sort ol
land sled without solid platform,
so that one’s foot may possibly slip
down between the two-by-fours.)
This young man, Joe Amuknuk, oi
Kodiak, it was found later, thus
broke both bones of his lower
right leg. Long after dark the
surf boat returned to the ship
through the surf bringing Amuk
nuk and Mrs. McCord, Miss Hilda
Green and Frances Meusel, the
latter of Chicago, 111.
“Lieut, (j. g.) B. H. Brallier did a
fine piece of work getting so many
of the party back at this hour. Al
though the surf had gone 'down
somewhat, it was nevertheless
quite an undertaking to bring an
I injured man and three women out
[ to the vessel under the conditions.
“The next morning Mr. Brallier,
in charge of the motor sailer and
a surf boat, went in to bring in
the rest of the party and all the
baggage and bedding. The motor
sailer was anchored beyond the
surf and the transfer of the rest
of the party and of the baggage
(Continued on Fa tap Threei
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