Last Words and Death of John Schmitt at Walla Walla Penitentiary
Bound for the scaffold, condemned killer John Schmitt faced execution with calm resolve. He exchanged prayers with Father Buckley and breakfast with oranges before walking to the gallows at 4 the morning of his execution. Doctors described his nerves as iron as he was strapped in and hooded, then smiling until the end as the trap dropped.
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Mal Armstrong
Wallace
John Schmitt
Orutside
Buckley
St. Patrick’s Church
Father Buckley
Jer Buckley
Schmitt
Pettimitt
F. H. Carver
Wallaburg
Dr. Carver
Mother on shipwreck saves two young sons in calm escape
Mrs. F. A. Hawthorne of Tulare California rescued her sons Felix seven and Frank four as disaster struck. The family was rushed to the Frye hotel by the Pacific Steamship Co. The mother described a nightmarish yet orderly evacuation with panicked reactions minimal and the boys calmly eating breakfast afterward.
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F. A. Hawthorne
Tulare
Cal
Felix
Frank
Frye Hotel
Pacific Steamship Co
Altho
What D ye Need yelled at dock during ship evacuation
Capt Emery L McNoble of Pacific Steamship Co asks what passengers need as West Hartland is warped to Pier D. A dozen respond Shoes. Passengers scramble for warm clothes during the rush to the deck. McNoble promises to care for them.
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Emery L. McNoble
Pacific Steamship Co
West Hartland
Pier D
Eafely
MecNoble
Smash sealed up bow of damaged ship saved her
A fragmentary account describes a ship named Weet Hartland with an unusually crushed bow and stern. The stem remained protruding at the fo ship top while ten feet below it was mashed in, creating a peaklike stern. Water marks on the plate show the vessel’s draft, with the bow folded and partially holding back water.
Passenger Witness Describes Governor Collision Night
Miss Jessie Fox, a Seattle passenger, recalls the collision with West Hartland near Point Wilson. She describes waking to a shock, seeing passengers in night garments, crew calmly restoring order, lifeboats lowering, and mothers calling to separated children as an aged woman prayed aboard the after deck.
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Jessie Fox
Seattle
Point Wilson
West Hartland
Altho
Awed Reunions After Shipwreck Survivors Reach Pier D
An awed hush frames the arrival of the Weat Hartland survivors at Pier D as crowds await news of the missing. Disheveled passengers are counted by an officer and hustled to taxis, while frantic relatives surge forward in reunions.
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Pier D
Hartland
Western Ave
West Hartland Sinks Leave Colored Cook Defiant
Survivors from the West Hartland report a scene in the galley as the last crew member was carried away. The ship’s cook, a colored man, sticks his head out and jokes about the water supply for washing dishes before ducking back.
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West Hartland
Boil ers Explode as Big Steamers Crash
Pacific en emas Co reports that the Governor and Hartland collided off Point Wilson. Most crew and passengers were rescued. several missing or dead estimated. Mrs Washburn and two daughters believed aboard when sinking occurred in Juan de Fuca Strait. One injury reported Mrs Susan Cane, 66, of Los Angeles.
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Pacific Enemas Co
Eggers
Hartland
Point Wilson
W. W. Washburn
Eileen
Sadie
F. Sheek
San Francisco
V. Brusema
Alfred Raseau
Los Angeles
J. Clang
Grant Christensen
C. N. Alburton
H. Webster
Washburn
Strait
Juan de Fuca
Port Townsend
Victoria
B. C
Westland
Victo
Susan Cane
Seattle
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