Well respected by those who worked the river, Capt. With the completion of the Elk, also built in Canemah for the upriver trade, Sweitzer was appointed as Captain, “a man well calculated to make a boat prosper”. In October 1856 Christian Sweitzer was listed as the Pilot of the James Clinton, recently constructed in Canemah for the upriver trade to Yamhill. Amory Holbrook, Esq., Grand Master of Masons in Oregon, delivered a very appropriate funeral discourse in the Methodist Church before proceeding to the performance of the last rites. The Odd Fellows also, of whom he was one, followed him to his grave. On the Sunday following the body was buried in the cemetery near this city, with the usual honors of Masonry, of which Order he was a worthy member. Sweitzer was brought up on the Panama on her last trip, and reached here on Saturday afternoon, March 10. May the dark hour never come when his cry for held shall not be heard and promptly answered. Sweitzer in her deep distress, and while lamenting the untimely loss of those brothers who, in true Masonic spirit, met death while seeking to save others, we rejoice that he was spared, and that his heroic fidelity to duty made our fraternity proud that he is a brother. Dall, for his kind and fraternal care of Mrs. The Masonic resolution also included: “Resolved, that we gratefully acknowledge our obligations to Bro. Members of the lodges noted that all members were to wear a badge of mourning for 30 days in memory of Capt. 3, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and Oregon Lodge No. 1, Free and Accepted Masons, Lafayette Lodge No. The Oregon Argus, Janucontains resolutions in memory of Captain Sweitzer from Multnomah Lodge No. Duffy, Steerage Waiter Moses, Rogers, Bar Pilot. Lewis Steerage Steward Jose Almeda, Pantryman Richard Hill, Baker M. King, Seamen John Deming, Steward John Polson, Head Waiter S. Boyd, Harrison Norton, Frank Callahan, Coal Passers James Lamahan, Storekeeper H. Clark, Fred Mause, Seamen John Grant, Mess. Taylor, Trefry, Grenshield, Bloomfield, Delshneider, Haas, Sweitzer, Radwell, Perkins, Meeker, Steward of Jo Lane, D. Passengers Lost: Samuel Gregg, Miss Gregg, E. for the following list of the lost and saved, obtained from Mr. He had been twice on shore but put off the third time to try to save her. French, the first officer, lost his life in trying to rescue her from the wreck. Several ladies were on board, but one of whom was lost, Miss Gregg, who positively refused to leave the wreck unless her brother, in whose charge she was, could go with her. Smith, of this city, was also on board, but managed to save himself. Sweitzer, of Canemah, who was on board, with his wife, and the body of their little child who had died on the downward passage. Thirty-six lives were lost – seventeen passengers and nineteen of the crew. After being headed for land, she grounded about three hundred yards from shore, and in the gale that shortly followed, soon went to pieces. It is evident that the vessel struck a sharp rock, which made a terrible rent in the bottom. The water gained on the pumps at the rate of an inch a minute. At the time the vessel struck, it was a perfect calm, and the shock was scarcely notice by anyone but the officers. Dall went below, and found the vessel filling very fast, and immediately put all hands to work pumping but, finding the water gaining on them, he headed the vessel for land, about two miles distant. 4, and the next day about five o’clock in the afternoon, struck a sunken rock about two miles below Blunt’s Reef, on the coast of California. Dall, left San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan.
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