People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — MANY SHIPS LOST. [ARTICLE]

MANY SHIPS LOST.

Ivanhoe, with Eighteen Men, Probably Wrecked on the Pacific Coast. San Francisco, Oct. 17.—The gale which has prevailed along the north Pacific coast since Saturday last has undoubtedly caused widespread disaster to shipping interests. At least three schooners are known to be wrecked. There is little doubt that the Southern Pacific raft of 10,000 spars and piles, valued at 830,000, has been broken by the elements. The news of the next few days, it is thought, will show still greater loss. From Tacoma the schooner Nora Harkins is reported wrecked at the entrance to Gray’s harbor. One seaman was drowned. Reports were also received here of the wreck of the schooner Portia at Stewart’s Point. Her bottom was knocked out on the rocks and her crew narrowly escaped with their lives. It is also reported that the schooner Elfreta was driven on the rocks near Cambria, on the San Luis Obispo county coast. A few minutes after the crew left her she broke in two and went down. The American ship Ivanhoe, coal laden, from Seattle for this port, which has been out for twenty-one days, is almost certainly lost. Capt. C. E. Griffin commanded her, and she carried a crew of eighteen men. Fred Grant, one of the proprietors of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and ex-minister to Bolivia, was a passenger on the Ivanhoe, having embarked on her to enjoy the novelty of a sea voyage. A mast and yards painted yellow and believed by seamen to be part of the riggings of the Ivanhoe have been sighted off the Oregon coast. A floating deck house painted as was the Ivanhoe’s was also seen in the locality.