The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1895, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1895. THE CAPTAIN OF THE COLIMA LOST HIS HEAD Story of Sailor James Aikman of the Sunk Steamship. THE VESSELOVERLOADED An Order to Stow the Deckload of Lumber in the Sa- loon. THE MAIL COMPANY CENSURED. Great Damage Done on the Coast by the Storm Which Wrecked the Steamer. The Pacific Mai! steamer City of Sydney, Captain Frank Johnston, arrived in port vesterday morning with three of the sur- Yivors of the lost Colima and eight of the crew of the schooner Hays, wrecked by the | ific Mail | me storm which sent the Ps liner with 188 souls to the bottom. The passengers on the Sydney who es- Pegueros, A. S ms Sefore the C the Mail doc e-President R. Schwerin of the Mail Company had boarded her and cautioned the men to preserve silence rezarding the causes which led to the most awful marine disaster ever known on the Pacific Coast. The simple men makes as thrilling a narrative as has vet been published in connection with the lossof the Colima. Aikman was in the after saloon when the ho ces of water which broke 1 of the unfortunate vessel i into the sea with saw the long black line of ¢ of Sydney reached the steamer’s side for a moment, and then the old Colima threw her bow up into the air and slid down into the black deptis of water stern fi The sailor de:c:‘i}uc: the hich have been pictured by the who were brought bere on the nd which are now familiar to mber and wreckage and made the craft, his person torn and bleeding. In the littic boat were a couple of pas- sengers and the two sailors, Pegueros and Santamaria. The two latter pulled him in and shortly after two women were swept down by the flood. The women were grasped as they were going by and puiles i the boat. A littie later a liferaft with ssengers on it passed close to the t and the three sailors jumped e occan and swam for the raft. Three times thal aft turned com- pletely over and e there was one passenger les: tness to the terri- le experience of that woful s F morning until Thursday clung to the little austed, for want of and with the wind whistling throu the tattered rags which were left on th cks. On the morning following the wreck the littic company v the steamer San Juan, which had gone out to pick upsurvivors, They made frantic signals to the rescning steamer, but the signals were unseen, and in de- spair th night t craft, we sleep. food nd the horizon. No pen can de- seri ferings of that parched and famished group during the time they were B tory of the experience of the | ses were carried | the | am to a lifeboat through high- watched the black hull disap- | house until the vessel was all but gone, | when he rushed outonthe bridge and | sounded the three whistles which bade | every one take care of himseli, The | signal came too late and the resultis known i to the world. The first big wave which swept over the stern found its way into the fireroom, and | the second, following on its heels, extin- guished the fires and left the vessel help- | less on the stormy sea, No attempt was made to hoist sail and | | the general impression is that the unfortu- | nate Colima had no canvas on board of | her. Captain Johnstan of the City of Syaney | had nothing new to add to ‘the already- | { published horrors of the Colima Joss. He {enrnenl of the disaster an hour befare the | Sy sailed from Panama and read the | n the CALy, copies of which from ! ' and on the floor of the cabin. but well-directed kick in the ribs roused him to action and saved his life. Passengers on the City of Sydney were loud in their complaints against the Pa- cific Mail service. The time, they say, is slow, and the people along the Central American coast are completely at the mercy of the company. The accommoda- tions, it js claimed, are bad; there is a dearth of berthroom, the food is not of the best quality, and the supply of 1ce is always inadeguate to the needs of the passengers. One man tells of the, loading of the San Juan with lumber in the passengers’ quar- ters, making the walking room cramped and compelling the passengers who had engaged first-class fare to sleev on chairs The Syduey herself was crowded with passengers and the latter have similar complaints to urge against the company. Taken all in all the arrival of the last Pacific Mail steamer will afford an admirable opportunity for the United States Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers to make a more thorough investi- gation into the manner in which the com- pany observes the steamship laws and into the feundering of the Colima, which left i | | '1 !’.X‘, J. FORD EMPIYING THE SACK CONTAINING THE MAIL FROM [ THE LOST COLIMA. | [Sketched by a *“Cali’’ artist.] l June 1 to June 10 were found at San Blas. | | Those on the Sydney, however, deny the | | stories of outrages on the dead bodies | | which were washed ashore all along the | | Mexicun coast. | | 7 On the trip down the captain and offi- | | cers of the steamer were entertained by | | Governor Santa Cruz and staff | Blas. The Sydney arrive | place_on Mag 5, and all Mexico was cele- | rating the anniversary of the victory over the French. The Governor and his party | dined on board the steamer that eveni: | and the best of feeling and good-fellowship | prevailed. As soon as the news of the loss of the Colima reached San Blas Gover- | | nor Santa Cruz ordered his soldiers, infan- i try and cavalry, to patrol the beach for | | miles 1o the north and south of the port, and did everything that could be done to | send succor to the sufferers. Some doubt has been expressed as to the | terrific force of the storm. but the Sydney report leaves no doubt as to the nature of MICARAGUA & SOME OF THE RECOVERED MAIL FROM [Sketched by a | THE WRECKED COLIMA. “ Call” artist.] out on the ocean at the mercy of the wind and treacherous currents. On Thursday afterngon they were sighted by the steamer Mazatlan, and a boat with a crew of five men put out to their assistance. Hope was once more raised in the breasts of the emaciated survivors, but when help was just at hand the boat of the Mazatlan was overturned, and the raft drifted on and on to where they knew not. Hours after that the castaways were caught in the swirling surf, and their fragile raft was washed up on the beach fifty miles below Manzanillo. g . But this was not all that Aikman had to tell of the wreck of the Colima. Since reaching port his tongue has been silenced, but at Manzanillo bis_words wers full of censure for the Pacific Mail Company. The wreck was due, he said, to the over- loading of the vessel, and to the subsequent | action of Captain Taylor, who, he said, lost his_head when all his faculties were néeded for the preservation of human life. When the Colima left Manzanillo she was overloaded to such an extent as to make her topheavy, and the first sea which struck her sealed her fate. Had the proper care been manifested in her management those brave fellows in the ship’s company and the passengers who went down in the Colima like rats canght in a trap might heve been saved. SR ‘When there was a chance of saving life Captain Taylor destroyed it by following out the plan of economy observed by the Pacific Mail. The deckload of lumber, ac- cording to the story told by Sailor Aik- man, seems tovhave been considered of more importance thon the precious lives of the crew and passengers. Instead of throwing the lumber into the sea orders were given to stow it in the saloon. This was after the first big comber had rolled into the ship over the stern and flooded the fantail and aftercabin. A number of men, Aikman among the num- ber, were ordered into the saloon to re- ceive the lumber as it was passed down, but it eoon became apparent that the work conld not be done, as it was an “awkward job at best. The second wave which ped the ship completely filled the sa- m and forced the deckhonses high into the air and carried everything and_ every- body in the cabin out into the boiling sea. Captain Taylor remained in the pilot- the hurricane. Three days after the loss of the Colima the Sydney was at San Juan del Sur, 1000 miles south of manzanillo, {and the heaviest swells rolled in which were ever witnessed in that port. The | storm was general all along the coast, and thousands of dollars’ worth of damage was done. At Champerico and La Libertad the sea was breaking in ten fathoms of water and rushing upon the beach in big mountains, smashing and carrying every- thing before it. The pier at Champerico was torn to bits, and the sea was a mass of floating timbers for miles about. At Salina Cruz the damage was greatest. The fine pier at the western terminus of i the Tchuantepec Interoceanic Railroad was completely izutted and swept away. It was constructed of masonry, brick “and | iron and _extonded out into the ocean 1800 feet. Only thirty-five feetof the immense | structure was left intact. One of the men who were saved on the behind so many helpless widows and orphans, e THREE DAYS ON A RAFT. Nouwiens, the Sailor Who Posed as the Hero of the Collma Disaster. James Aikman was one of the crew of the Colima, and was engaged on the deck of the vessel during that dreadful day of the disaster, and after driftingaround with three companions on the life-raft for three i:\nd one-half days ianded on the beach. Aikman is a very intellizent man, and what the Pacific Mail officials permit him to tell is interesting notwithstanding the remarks of censorship noticeable here and there. At Manznniflo after the disaster he stated that the Colima was overloaded, topheavy and badly managed, and when asked yesterday what caused the wreck he made in substance the same admission. ““When the Colima was in her last strug- gle,”’ said he, ““I was on deck passing down lumber to the saloon—" *“Why were you passing down lumber?” he was quickly asked. “We were trying to nail up ‘the house that was broken by the seas,” he answered. This statement, in view of the fact that the house and saloon are in different lo- calities, and that the vessel was'in extremis and well-known to all except the com- mander who held on to his fatal lumber- yard, and the steward, who cursed the passengers for putting on life-preservers, is somewhat peculiar. However, the genius that would fail ‘o sevsail aft, fail to try the virtues of a storm anchor, 'fail to get rid of his dangerous load of tons of loose timbers, might attempt to make repairs in the ruined cabin when the vessel was even | then settling to her long home. “The steamer would fall off every sea, roll on her beamends, and the great waves would tear away some of the deckhouses before she came slowly back. Presontly she -lrorped clear off in the trongh &f the and an awful wave swept down on us. vbody on deck was dashed into the water, as was also the lumber and every- thing that could be torn from the huli. *'Oh, the horror of this moment! The water swirled and roared around me, and the floating things crashed and ground agzainst eacih other. I first clutched oue thing and then another. It was impossible to hold on to any- thing long. If a small object the waves would dash it out of {our hand, and if a large one the wind would assist the sea in getting it away from you. I could see men and some women strugghng around me. They would make frantic grabs at the wreckage all around them, but they would make no noise.. I never heard a single cry. It was grit teeth and hold on, and nobody had any breath for voice. 1 would see several persons floating together and a big pile of lumber or wreckage would bear down upon them and they would be gone. i *‘I soon saw if I escaped I would have to keep clear of the stuffpdashing around, so when I saw anything on the wave above me and coming my way I wovld dive. Often I got hit, but I escaped several blows. ““The wind seemed to die down some- what for a while and I saw a boat near me. Climbing in I found it almost full of water and containing Professor Whiting and a woman dressed in black. His clothing was torn almost off and he was bleeding from deep cuts on his body. He sat in one end of the boat with his head hanging down and seemed to have lost his mind. “The woman was lyving in the water in the boat almost lifeless. She moved occa- ife raft from which Aikman was washed 1 GENERAL FREIGHT sionally, but Whiting never paid any at- tention to her. Two or three other persons LUMBER. DECK PLAN OF THE SAN JUAN ON HER FEBRUARY TRIP, ashore was J. J. Nouwins, a United States marine, who was on his ;:(\iy home to New York. When he recove: from his ex- perience he was the ‘‘bravest tar that ever sailed the water.” He told how he had worked m-nongl the passengers and encour- "{ed men to heroic exertions, cheered up the women, and in fact performed miracles of valor. Aikman gives him the paim for being the greatest coward on earth. He says that the marine tumbled into the scuppers and moaned for the maternal apron strings, and that only a judicious : climbed into the boat with us and soon we had o Icad. Afte: n bit wWwe saw a liferaft floating near us, and knowing that it was safer we all, except Whiting and the woman, left the boat. From the raft we saw Whiting and his companion sitting in the !aont. and they snon disappeared. “There were about ten of us on the life- raft, but every time a sea struck uswe would be turned completely over, and-| wli:se;; Wwe came up again one would be missing, “We kept losing men till only- Santa Maria, Pegueros, sryan, Nouwein and n}; self remained. Then began our lone drift of three days and a half on a rait. We cut holes in_ the slats to let our legs hnn§ through into the water and sat there and suffered. Next day after the wreck it was almost calm, but’ the sea was running pretty high. * We bad several oars, and we pulled and pulled for the shore, which we couid see al? the time. “We paddled the rait up to two turtles asleep on the water and caught them. Their flesh saved us from starvation, but we suffered fearfully for water. We would stay in the water to keep cool, but cven the sea scemed hot to out feverish bod *When we finally struck the breakers we were rolled over and over in the surf, almost being disabled by the clumsy raft, but we got ashore with only a few more braises. At a_poor Mexican’s house we got a little food, but. our stomachs were so weak that it made us deathly sick. After 2 few days we reached Manzanillo. ‘I want to speak of my raftmates. Santa Maria and Pegueros bore their sufferings without a complaint and Mr. Bryan--1 believe that was his name, anyhow it sounded like that—was cne of the best men Tever met, But the sailor, Nouwein, was no man at all. He had a few scratches on his leg and whined like a baby. When we got to Manzanilio and he felt safe he began to brag and blow about his bravery and his seamanship, wken, in_fact, he showed neither. He spent a good deal of time talking to reporters and posed as the hero- of the Colima. The papers will vrobably be full of him.” SO A AN UNCIVIL OFFICER. Mr. Engelhardt Makes Some Severe Criticisms of Steamship Embloyes. One of the most unfortunate of the cabin passengers on the City of Sydney was Theodore Engelhardt, a Guatemala planter, who bears a standing commission from President Barrios to purchase fire- arms and ammunition for the Guatemalan Government, and enjoys the mate con- fidence of the Jefe de Politico of San Marcos. Mr. Engelhardt isa native of New Or- leans, educated in Europe, and about a year ago he secured three plantations in Tumbador. He is now on his way fo Lon- don to purchase machinery for a ‘‘bene- fic10,” as a sugar-house is called in Guate- mala, of 1,500.000 pounds capacity, and, in- cidentally, he may make a few bargains for theG overnment’s wardepartment with the English and German manufacturers. As General Manager Nanne of the Gua- temala Central Railroad had sent to Aca- jutla a special request to the officers of the steamer to take good care of him when he came aboard, and as he has shipped about 1500 quintals out of his first coffee crop, with prospects of being able to ship a crop of 5000 quintals in a year or two, Mr. En- gelhardt naturally expected to be treated with some consideration. But he was doomed to a severe disappointment, as will be seen from his own statement in the following: I was put down below in a little room (about five by fifteen feet it seemed) which six of us had to occupy, and where we had no ventila- tion to speak of uot\vilhilandinf the swelter- ing heat. Had there been any disaster there is no telling what would have become of us, for there were not enough life-preservers. There were only four of them in our room, and being away underneath the lowest berths they would have been practically inaccessible. When I inquired of an officer whether he had recelved eny word from Mr. Nanne he very bluntly said he had not. I must say that he was a very uncivil officer and his behavior on the trip was scandalous. He was extremely uncivil to some of the ladies. Worse still, he had the impudence to fiirt with some of them, using a show of hospitality in treating them to cham- pagne as an excuse, and when he was politely tepulsed or received the cold shoulder he en- deavored to get revenge by making villainous accusations. He wentto Captain Johnston and tried to scandalize the second officer and chief engineer because he chanced to see n lady looking at the apparatus in the engineer’s roor1one night while under the escort of the second officer. ‘The fact that I had a berth at all might be taken asa fortunate eircumstance, becausc & greal many passengers were under the neces- sity of sleéping on sofas and iounges where- ever they could. We were very much crowded, as a number of native planters, Salvadorans and Guatemalans, had come aboard at La Libertad, Acajutla and San Jose de Gautemala., There \ere ninety cabin passengers aboard and I donot think there were proper accom- modations for over hali that number. 1n con- sequence we had to have a firstand second table set, and those who sat down to the sec- ond table fared very poorly, indeed. The food was wretched, invariably cold and nauseating, besides lming scarce and provok- ingly monotonous. One day we had fresh fish, but usually it was canned lobster or canned cod that we got, and no vegetables worth men- tioning. If there had been oranges at the first table, the second got none. A colored waiter—all the help was colored, including the steward himself—would put his hand on your shoulderor back in a patronizing way and with affected solicitude inquire what he ‘could do for you. This was easily under- £tood as an ingenious suggestion upon his part that a tip would insure good atiendance, but sometimes even a tip was of no avail. I gave one—n watchman or porter, I think he was—a 5 piece to get changed for me so that T couid give a few xif.s around and had towait almost two davs for the change to come ba I never saw anything like it, yet I have trav cled on twenty different steamship lines. The roughness and total lack of even civility dis- played by the colored helpis simply incom- parable. Yet, what can one do? Iam entirely at the mercy of the company. The only way I can ship my coffee or sugar is by water, and even if Iattempt to do anything by rail I find Hunt- ington the largest stockholder in the railroad. Some times considerabie coffee of Central American planters s thrown overboard by the nrbitrary officers or the help employed on the company’s steamers. 0Of course when such coffée: is subsequently taken out of the salt water and dried in the sun our San Francisco agents-and buyers do not find it to be of the quality expected. It is true there is good money. in coffee, and in consideration of that one might be willing to suffer a little unpleasant treatment by the Pacific Mail monopoly, but it scems to me that 1f the company were ‘more considerate and its employes ‘more courteous it would be good business policy upon its part. As it is, only those people who are compelled by sheer ne- cessity to travel “Y and down the coast will do s0, and San Francisco is consequently made to suffer, for thousands and thousands of people in the East and in Europe would gladly take a trip around via Pauama could they be assured of proper treatment, Mr. Engelhardt still retains his Ameri- can citizenship, which he finds to be good policy in a republic that is more or.ess Tevolutionary. It cost him $50 to do so, though. Down in Guatemala any man who refuses an offer_of -an office or candi- dature must pay a fine. As his partner, Francisco Aguilar, is pretty well connected with the powers that be, he has hosts of friends, and there was an effort to make Mr. Enfielhard& the alcalde of a town called Rodeo. He positively declined the honor and paid a fine of $50 for doing so. Had he done otherwise he would have be- come a Guatemalan citizen and the,next successful revolutionary party could have mm‘r!ly confiscated all his property by orced contributions. He has the power of a little czar on his plantation, and can arrest and throw into jail for any length of time the Indians and others employed by him. They are Econs—hopelessly indebted to him—and e manages to keep them in peonage. Should one of them leave a_plantation owned by him he can promptly call upon the jefe and compel the fugitive's arrest and return. This system of peonage Mr. Enge‘bsrdt deplores, but the natives would not work at all, he says, were it not for that. There- fore he finds some satisfaction, or rather reason, for it. s It costs Mr. Engelhardt about $8 per quintal to produce coffee, and he can sell it for $34. Mr. Engelhardt T was told that youngJ. L. Barillag, a nephevw of ex-President Barillas, had expressed satisfaction with his treat- ment aboard the vessel. His explanation was: Well, these Spanish-Americans. do not know any better and consequently have nothing to tomplain about. They live in adobes and sub- sist upon tortliias, so'it is no wonder they are easily satisfied, 3 Anent the treatment of M. Francastle, the French Consul.at San Jose de Guate- mala, who is taking his wife to Europe to improve her health, Mr. Engelhardt said . It was shameful. The ticket allows passen. gers 1o go aboard the steamer on the date of ber arrival at any way port, yet Mr. I‘rw?uue and his wife, who {s rnl,: d{lelc:u condition, were compelled to stop in a migerable hotel at San Jose for two days before they were per- mitted to board the vessel. I went aboard the first day, being one of the more favored passel- gers who were permitted to do so. ‘When Mr. Frazcastle told an officer he was & Consul of the French Government he replied that he did not care who or whet he was, French Consul or not. INFERIOR SERVICE. Mr. Laflin Contrasts That on the Atlantic and the Pacific. Early ir the spring H. H. Laflin of St. Louis, who is at the head of the branch in that city of the Latlin & Rand Powder Company of New York, contracted with the Pacific Mail Company for a sea trip from New York to San Francisco by way of the isthmus. He had made the same trip twenty-four years ago, when he was ! in the heyday of youth, and enjoyed it, so he anticipated a pleasant voyage for his wife and family of seven at a cost of §810 net. The moon of February had not waned before Mr. Laflin wrote for his ticket, which he received in the latter part of March. This gave him a chance to secure good rooms, which he did, selecting four of them on the main deck of the City of Sydney. It was all planned nicely that he should £0 to Colon from New York on the steamer Newport, and from Panama to San Fran- cisco on the Sydney, and the plans did not miscarry, yet Mr. Laflin discovered much reason for complaint. He told a story very simildr to that of Mr. Eugelhardt concern- | ing the Eoor fare and general bad treat- ment of the passengers. Said he: It was allright on the Newport—could not have been finer—but on the ney it was quite different. I never saw anything like it before. The steamer was actually filthy. The tows were not changed more than once in four days —some of the passengers say theirswas not changed at all—and there were mnot enovgh bedelothes. And such bedelothes! What there were of them were not fit to be slept in by per- sons accustomed to anything like decency and cleanliness. Now, I thought when I put $810 into this trip Iwould surely receive firsi-class treatment, and expected at least to get something zood to eat. Itcost me $25 more for tips on the trip up from Panama and yet we did not get any- thing like proper tréatment. 1f we had not tipped porters, waiters and about everybody who was supposed to do anything in the way of attendance I do not know how miserably we might have fared. Why, there was an English artist aboard, named Cheshire, who was dying of consump: ton, yet there was nothing done for him until the passengers finally insisted upon it. Ipaid for four botties of boiled milk for him. One bottle he received, the second was spoiled by allowing the milk to burn, and the others never appeared. We could not geta drop of ice water for the ladies on the entire trip, thongh the heat was excessive. If there wasany ice aboard, I do not know what they did with it. You would suppose the cabins would be carpeted, but all there was to some cabins was a miserable little strip. The purser and some of the other officers seemed to have a particular penchant for try- ing to flirt with the ladies. One fellow Icaught even trying to flirt with my 19-year-old daugh- ter. I would heve liked an opportunity to put a bullet into him. Evidently the champagne on board was for { the especiil benefit of this officer, who tried his best to have my daughter drink with him. Now, if there is any champagne to be bought for my jamily, I am abundantlyable to do that myseli—T ean buy all they wan of it. If there had been more Americans or English- speaking passengers on the steamer we would have formulated a vigorous complaint and signed it, but as it was the Central American natives were in the majority and what could we do? . I heard that the steamer was purpos layed. Sheleft Panama on gime and wi posed to be due at this City several da yet we were kept twenty-four days on the trip, 8he stopped two days at_Libertad, two days at tla, three days at San Jose and two day. at Champerico. These delays were just killing | poor Cheshire. The factof the matter is that the company was trying to gep all the passen- gers and freight ald_and did not care wno suffered. Twenty-four days from Panama to San Francisco is a shame. Mr. Laflin is enjoying a vacation for a year or two and grup(\ses to spend consid- erable of it in Southern Caiifornia. will look around San Diego for a good ranch to purchase. His paternal grand- father commenced the powder firm now known as the Laflin & Rand Company in New York in 1805. Mr. Laflin succeeded his father in the management of the St. Louis house a few years ago. Rl A K THREE MAIL BAGS. They Went Dow:‘v‘vlth the Colima, but Were Washed Ashore. Relics of the Colima disaster have at last reached the Postoffice. Three bags of mail reached there yesterday morning, that on the 19th. day of May, at 3 p. u., passed the handsof Postmaster McCoppin’s assistants en route for Central American ports. The consignment was composed of letters and papers for all sorts and conditions of peo- ple, from Manzanillo to Panama. When the Colima went down the mailroom must have burst open, and the three bags that got in yesterday on the steamer City of Sydney were picked up on the beach near Manzanillo. ‘When the mailbags reached the Post- oftice they were at once taken to the mail- room, and an attempt was made to secre- gate them. In some instances they were secured, tied together in bundles, and then only the edges were fraved. Others were very much’mautilated and all had become unsealed. On some of the letters the stamps still adhered to the envelope, but in others they had washed off and were found scattered among the packages. All were sopping wei, and it took half a dozen clerks to spread them out on tables to dry. As soon as this is done the letters and papers will be sent out again to their des- tination. If it is found impossible to read the addresses the mail-matter will be re- turned to the sender when he or she can be found. On nearly all the paper and parcel mail the addresses were obliterated, and the chances are that the owners will never be known. Oneof the letters that there will be no difficulty in sending on its way was one from the British consulate here to “Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Pan- ama.” Another in a good state of greservntiun was from a hat firm in this ity to “Mr. Sam Wong, San Jose de Guatemala,” while ‘a third was to *‘Sr. Don Irhio, Mayorga, Leon, Nicaragua.’ Superintendent of the Mails Thomas J. Yord was busily engaged in remailing some of the mutilated packages yesterday. “All the envelopes that fivca an Fran- cisco or other address of the sender will be held until that Earty is heard from,” said he. “Others ‘that ‘we can readily trace will be sent on to their destination. The canvas bags in which the mail matter is carried are stout and strong, and I expect to hear that other pouches will be washed ashore lateron.” The Crew of the Hayes. The survivors of the schooner Hayes, which went ashore near Manzanillo, came up on the Sydney yesterday. They are: Captain M. Jorgenson, C. Hammond, A. Paulson, J. H. Jorgenson, F. Lemeyes, J. Dougherty, M. Anderson and Henry Cano, The vessel Parted her chains and went b ashore on the heavy swell. All hands were saved. b Arrested for Opening Letters. A letter containing 50 cents was recently mailed from San Rafael to Charles Plouff, care of the Mariners’ Church, San Francisco. It was missing from the rack a few hours after its delivery. James Roberts was suspected of hay- ing stolen it, and when, scarched the envelope was found in his pockei. He was arrested by a United States Deputy Marshal and charged with stealing an D!yenill letters which had Bflled through the United States mail. 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It must be Send to above address for com- ‘We refer without permission to the mercan- tile and business public of this city and the Pacific Coast. FOURD BOUND D GGEED The Watchman for Newman & Levinson Placed in a Predicament. TR TS | They Seize Nagel, and, at the Point of a Pistol, Silence ’ Him. An attempt at wholesale robbery of the dry-goods store of Newman & Levinson, 120 Kearny street, was made last night, but the thieves did not accomplish their’ purpose. E. Nagel, the nicht watchman, who has been employed in the store for five vears was found in the front part of the building | near the Kearny-street entrance bound hand and foot and gagged so securely that he could not utter a sound. i He was discovered by E. W. Seymour, the buyer of the silk department, who was passingghe store and noticed that the cur- tains wete drawn. He peered through an opening and saw the watchman sitting on the fourth stool from the door. He sent a friend to the Sutter-street door and called the police. Special Officer Linville, Sergeant Gillin and Policeman Crisham responded. Lin- ville kicked in the glass of the door, and when they entered the store the watchman was sitting on the stool nearest the door, having moved himself forward. Nagel toid his story in the presence of | the police and others, saying that he entered the store‘at his usual time, 6 p. ., | and twenty minutes after the proprietors | and employes had gone he closed and locked the doors and proceeded about his | work. | His first duty was in the basement. He | then went into the north wing of the gal- lery in the rear of the store, and after dust- ing there went to the south wing of the gallery, where he was attacked by two men wearing black cloth masks. One of them held a pisto! at the watch- | man’s head and said : | .If you make a noise I'll shoot you.” ! They tied him with pieces of heavy | twine and gagged him with two pieces of | thin white goods. Nagel says that one of them remained | with him for about an hour while the other | went below. He beard a noise as of some- thing like a drawer being opened. The robbers then |escaped through a win- dow in the corner of the gallery which ginens into the hallway of ‘the Arlington ouse, at 127 Kearny street, After they had escapea Nagel slid down the stairway and made his way to the front door, hoping to attract some passer- by, but found the curtainsdrawn. He was }_’:‘”.:’ frightened and awaited develop- ents. mfi?e(fiooa! or vroperty of any kind was | | | | | ————— Wordsworth considered *“The Excursion” his best and next to it, the “*White Doe of | Rylstone.,” Wordsworth said. that when | he first thought seriously of being a poet he looked into himself to see how he was | tted forthe work and seemed to find there | day. 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