The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1901, Page 2

o SCENES OF TERROR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1901. MARK THIS HORROR OF THE SE! IAM, Honolulu. n E 1 PASS lulu, dentist- t en route to , lawyer, married to at Honolulu. AM WARD. ROONEY. STER DOMANIC. T. SMITH. TEE BRIGHTON. T ENGINEER R. J. MACCOUN. 4 ENGINEER T. H. BRADY. NT ENGINEER W. A. MUNROE. AND CREW . C. JOHNSON. CER C. J. HOLLAND. GERS. JEHU, MISS R., of Alameda. KAWAHARA, 0., and wife, Honolulu. MATHESON, H. C., Yokohama, merchant. REIDY, MISS KATE, nurse to Wildman party. SEYMOUR, H. F., Hongkong. WAKEFIELD, MRS. 8. B, and daughter Naomi,- of Oakland. WOODWORTH, MRS. W. A., Honolulu. WOODWORT H, MISS, Honolulu. WILDMAN, ROUNSEVELLE, Consul Gencral of United States, Hongkong, wife and two chil- dren. OF THE RIO DE JANEIRO. WATER-TENDER H. LEWIS. OILER F. GREENWAY. OILER H..WATTS. OILER W. SMITH. STEWARD H. A. SCOTT. STEWARDESS MRS..J. €. DORMAN. BUTCHER EDWARD BARWICK. SALOON WATCHMAN ALBERT MALCOLM. STEERAGEWATCHMAN —. McARTHUR. Chinese crew, names not known. ASIATIC STEERAGE PASSENGERS. TAKATA AND WIFE, SAKURAL ODL F. SITO, W. SAWAJI, Z. YAMADA, T. KAWAMURA, S. DIKA HAMASOKE, MISS HOKIASEKI, MISS HEMASEKI EERAGE PASSENGERS NAMES NOT KNOWN—31. , SENIJIRO TAMAURA. ASIATIC tragic, dramatic act of heroism in the whole dreadful catastrophe. With command and gesture and personal insistence he demanded that the women must be allowed first into the boats. Quickly and more quickly the ship was sink- ing, but crew and officers worked -with desperate energy.. A boat was launched and into it four women and two men were qtick- Iy lowered. The last of the four women, the wife of Consul Gen- | eral Wildman of Hongkong, had just been safely seated, when down the ladder went Pilot Jor- dan with the child of Mrs. Wild- man in his arms. Screaming in terror the little one grasped him frantically around the neck while the husband*-and - father, Consul General . Wildman, stepped over the side 6f'the ship-and placed his fect upon the ladder. Just at that moement a spar from one of the masts came hurtling through the ominous, low 1 . | doomed ship can only be told by | wors and it is a story of | tle The ks. ship had What horror. ving hole had . Captain 1d children rushed screaming, grating, g dread-inspiring sound from be- Not an officer on board 1 mistake that_sound. nine what the damage was. It reported to him that ten feet water was already in the for- rd hold and twenty feet amid- | followed Jutting out from Point is a shoal which ex- | in a northeasterly direction. n the very outer rocks of this Jection the City of Rio de Ja- had crashed It seemued that almost Iy the vessel began to set- Ward from his post and personally su- perintended the work of alarming the passengers and hastening them to the decks: shuddering, ordered his officers to the boats, and then performed the most # air and cut the lifehoat in two. Death was itrevitable. ; While thiss was happening other boats were being launched and met a kinder fate, but it seem- ed only an instant after that, with a terrific sound, the City of Rio de Janeiro sank. The waters of the bay were hurled into volumes of foam, seething around masses of wretkage and human bodies. Just as the great vessel sank her enormous boilers burst and shat- tered the entire upper structure of the ship into splinters. At 5:20 o'clock the ship struck upon the recks-and it-is believed that she sank at 5:33 o'clock. As she disappeared, meost of her pas- sengers and crew were taken down with her and only by the strangest chance ever again arose t6 the surface. Paid a Drcadh" Penalty. Some escaped to the harbor in boats, others floated on pieces of wreckage until th'e_v-w&e pieked up by Italian fishermen, and stil} others were rescued by men from various vessels in the Iua_\‘: No absolute information of the dis- aster reached the ¢ty until 7:30 £ struck on the I Cap- 1 Ward issued his orders to de- on the and a great, been ripped in hastened Men, women shouting, crying up to the decks and could see nothing around the sinking ship but the black, dense fog. The Chinese crew and pas- sengers went mad with fear. They fought and scrambled to get out upon the decks. Heroism to Women. Confusion reigned absolutely supreme, for it seemed thar all would be lost. Captain Ward t to leave a e in the disobeyed Iso a uni- en a pilot he is.ab- he ship and ible way stion of the | Captain violated that Mail that rest whol- | tunate captain with his ship. It a pilot is employed he purpose of acting in a ory capacity and that THE"RLO DE JANELRO e M oenst [r— he does not take command of the * He is to act solely in sug- T T gestion and t . wrve ety g THRE SAVED. ThE CoLoEis CATE T 1 omir vessel 1 g 4 ’ BRSBTS ik e thing has happededin PASSENGERS % be ]]Ch ” ”\”“;‘ BRANDER, WILLIAM, London, capitalist. LEHRAHEN, MISS G., joined at Honolulu, of the Pa fic Mail CARPENTER, J. K., Oakland, capitalist. IWADA, J., from Honolulu. ES v it is in viola- HECHT, CAPTAIN, German navy. NUSENBAUM, MR., joined at Honolulu 5 sstep at this HARPER, RUSSELL, ccrrespondent, from Kobe. ~ MUSSENBLATT, PEILIP, Oakland. o'clock, nearly two hours aiter HOLTZ, K., Shanghai. RIPLEY, MRS. FRANCES, joined at Honolulu death had claimed its victims. A . LONG, R. H., from Honolulu. WEST, lL‘Bs K., nurse, from Hongkong. boat load of the rescued reached Crashed on the Rocks. OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE RIO DE JANEIRO. Meiggs wharf at.that hour and 7ith pilot . BORGE, E. N., storekeeper. g : R : \\ h '“‘ ,‘(_,—:u]'d r?mf\," on the ! ;I;mcm g;gg:?i i :l::;:::'.m““- then the alarm was given. Al ridige the City of Rio de Ja- DONAEUE, H., steerage steward. RUSSELL, C., main-deck watchman. haste was made to send - assist- neiro sed through the Heads. mennmg’r,‘r E.c.;.ieireigm clerk. TRAMP, FRANK, carpenter. ance, but when the boats bént on pas 30 The has HERLIHY, P. J. n, 3 Francisco. Hfr ‘lmwg journey LINDSTROM, —., quartermaster. : vestige of the great ship was vis- was ;‘:d}‘cd. ’\\ ithin an hour she | SUMMARY. ible. : hou 1ave b in si of | :} n- ‘ 1 ;:ea”e;: in <xgl'£Il’] ;he | s § No. on Board. Lost. Saved. She had sunk absolutely out of own, past nger. e fog al ndp:l:u.e.ngen. . D I S S . 29 19 10 sight and there was not even a which enveloped her and which e it SR OR A S AN ot 2% 5 * i indi 1 Asiatic steerage .. . S e R M . 58 43 15 ripple of the waves to indicate shut out the western heights ot Ship’s officers . .. , 30 h he had di ! g AP i, mids e st T S 42 19 11 where she had disappeared. Here 1..!elm”_ Ry ook ‘Xd s- . &5 o'r s gaR i & ¥ 38 41 and there a fragment of her su- 1 up o b Y i EaerD) sible flrh e A',) n]fm_ ;:’ lm‘ ge | Motal. .~ Lt S L S T S S S 122 79 perstructure drifted, but indicated to see the crew at w ork below, The following passengers who started on the Rio de Janeiro from various Asiatic points left her nothing of the location of the was thicker than ever, it seemed, :: Hf::"‘“é: mm“'x‘"’:z‘d’ H. "-’3“‘;“ from Yokohama, Mr. Heiza from Shanghai, Bdward Secre- wrecked vessel, In the early . n from Shanghai, W. M. e and wife from Hongkong, W. Close from H Mrs. - C Sk ST B but the cnmn_lander hoped that it Tatieh oo xon‘k’m" L. Marn from. Shanghai, » ; " m:koy[, . C. K. Mec : would soon rise. Then came the 4 : . ; R Pt Dt Laxative Bromo-Quinine removes the cause.® TN Ve reae , SHOWING WHERES THE VESSEL STRUCK AND WAS LOST. THE SHIP FILLED FORWARD AND SANK. Frounres Inoicare Sounoincs 1o Farmoms . o - where the City of Rio de Janeiro had sunk. Cost of the Disaster. It is estimated that more than 15,000 people crowded the heights from the Cliff House to Bakers Beach, but although they watched for hours, they could see nothing out of the usual. Early in the day several bodies were washed ashore or picked up and taken to the Morgue. Some of the fishermen who prowled the waters of the bay in the neigh borhood of the wreck picked up a mail pouch which had contained registered mail. It had been ri- fled and told its own story of an unspeakable crime. Whether or not this theft was committed on board while men and women were in the agony of approaching death, no one can tell. It may have drifted from the wreck and been secured by some marauding bay thief. The rifled pouch was brought to the city by some Ital- morning the fog lifted and the day was clear enough to have per- mitted a novice to steer a vessel * through the Golden Gate. - At 7:30°0’clock in the morning Cap- tain Ward and Pilet Jordan could have entered the Golden Gate in absolute safety. They risked the attempt two hours earlier and one hundred and twenty-two hu- man lives paid for their hazard. All day long small boats, fishirfi! smacks and tugs hovered around the scene of the disaster picking up here and there some article of small value and grappling with the hope that the sunken vessel might be located. Lifeboats from the Federal station patrolled the waters, but no one could tell Continued on Page Thres. This Month Danger to health is especially great. You can best prevent illness by talk- ing Hood’s Sarsaparilla to keep your blood pure, sustain your appetite and build up your strength. 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