The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1901, Page 39

38 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, PASGENGERS OF THE ILL-FATED FERRYBOAT TELL OF TERROR OF SHIPWRECK 1901. IND INGIST THAT MANY LIVES MUST HAVE BEEN SACRIFIGED IN THE DISASTER SCENES DESCRIBED BY MEN RESCUED AT LAST TOMENT F. 0. Waite Gives a Vivid Pen Picture of the Struggles for Life as the Boat Sank. Cries for Help Are Heard on All Sides | and All Pessible Assistance Is Given. O. WAITE .of 127 Hyde | the San Rafael in their efforts to escape | street, San Francisco, was | and many of them escaped that way. 1| a passenger on the steamer | saw them coming through the windows. Sausalito. He makes following statement . “I left Sausalito at 6:10 on the steamer Sausalito The fog was very the dense About the time of reaching Alcatraz Isl and we heard the whistles of some Steamer, whick proved to be the San Rafael. The lookout reported the posi- the San Rafael, which was that off our port bow. I didn’t notice owing up of our steamer and in minute and a half I noticed scenes of great excitement on board the San Ra- fael and a number of the San Rafael passengers jumped on our boat. I saw one our boat and fall in the water er he was saved ov mot I @o not “The & passengers Most of them ) the Sausalito by her Before the San e passengers of our boat nd life preservers water. We pulled aboard our beat were in a fainting ¥ of the men from the unable to help them- There were a great many women oh oating in the water— five or thirty any way re. 1 saw none go down, but it seemed impossible to save them, there were so man Many em floated out of my there seemed to be a h carried them sway. of them were that were plying ers f the steamer’'s boats in were some from each rd a great many crying merely crying, “Help! Help® one that I knew. Imme e crash the San Rafael's shed the cabin windows of Some of them—guite a number of them— | were seen to be badly cut, probably from this mode of escape “After the rescue those of the San Ra- fael that were saved were greatly excited looking for lost relatives. After we | struck it was about an hour before the close up to | San Rafael went down. 1 know of two boats that the Sausalito lowered. There cemed to be a litfle delay in getting the | boats off. While I think Captain McKen- zie of the Sausalito did his best to regu- | late the crew. the crew didn't seem to | work in any way in unison or with any | offect or intelligence, as they left it en- rely to the passengers to save life iidn’t see any of them making much er» fort to save life Another thing. there didn’t seem to be rope We had to dig around ourselves to find things. 1 should judge there werc at least twenty-five or thirty lives lost from what I saw in the water and what I heard. One of our passengers ih trying to save a man lost his footing and fell overboard. I don't know whether he was saved or not After the San Rafael went down there were quite a number floating In the wa- | ter. Every effort was made to save them and in most cases it was successful. There was a tug boat, but I could not see her name. Captain McKenzle called | out to the tug for his bearings and got some answer back that I couldn’'t under- stand. It sounded ilke ‘The Fulton Iron Works' The damage to our boat was | apparently but trivial “After the passengers were Arawn up they were taken into the cahin and en- sine room of our boat. Some of th pparently unconscious. One lit it of the water was reported dead ently to being drawn up. A sister of G. M. Caesar, who i8 connected with Wright & Co., druggists, at 14 First street, was pulled up on our rape. and she was frantic about her sister, but the latter was afterward found to have been | saved. Many of the women acted very bravely and seemed very self possessed were a or anything to save life available. | - after being saved. I noticed a great many of our life preservers—nearly all of the |'passengers of the San Rafael had them on. There were plenty of life preservers. | We threw hundreds of them over from | the Sausalito. Some of those saved had | two and three life preservers strapped ‘around them. There were a number of Chinese aboard our boat and not one ef- | fort was made by them to save any one. They were perfectly indifferent. T no- ticed every one of the men that did any | work at all spoke good English, “Immediately after the clash we—quite a number of the men—went to the rall and tried to throw over ropes and things, but some ‘one in authority, or some one that assumed authority, ordered us back. We went back from the rall, | but nothing seeming to be done we again ! went to the rail and threw ropes and life | preservers overboard. Had we staved | back 1 don't belleve there would have | been as many saved as there were. “We left at 6:10 and about 7:40 the San | Rafael went down. In the meantime she | sank gradually and then went down with ‘l rush. In going down she scraped the | guards of the Sausalito and In doing so | Injured severely several of the rassengers. I do not know who the injured were. I | heard one man's ear was taken off.” —_—— {W‘ITK LEGS CRUSHED ROBBINS CRAWLS UP FROM DINING-ROON !Snys Some One athng Rope and { Let Boatload of Passengers | Fall Into the Bay. Frederick A. Robbins, manager of the | machinery of the American Can Company, | had a truly miraculous escape from going | down with the San Rafael. Robbins was | | in the restaurant eating his dinner when the collision occurred. He was pinned | down Leneath his table, which was over- \wmed by the flying timbers. Although | both his legs were badly crushed he | crawled up to the upper deck of the San | Rafael and succeeded in climbing aboard | the Sausalito. He was taken to the Re- | celving Hospital and later removed to the | Lick House. He sald: “I was sitting in the restaurant eating | | my dinner. The Sausalito struck the San | Rafael directly at the point where the | | restaurant Is situated. The vessel must | have been traveling at a high rate of | speed, as the prow penetrated the side of | the San Rafael, smashing everything to | pleces. Water splashed through the open- | 1n! and 1 was drenched. | ““The sight was tndeed pitiable. When one of the boats was loaded with people ENGINEER M'GUY SAYS LIVES WERE NOT LOST McGUY engines HIEF ENC nal can INEER F the to reversc C R. Wasser, the first assistant { zith the Sa | to stop and two bells to g as I saw her I didn’t They 14 r ) “It ¢ ever knew that last moment o full speed astcrn. think she would float very long { “A plank was put out and over it the passengers from the San Rafael came, one at a time. were a long time 1 comng, but 1 think the bulk of them succeeded in getting aboard” our Some few of them may hawe been left behind and may have gone down with the wvessel, but unless there dren aboard 1 don’t think that any lives could have been' lost. ered and had all the lifebelts ready | ome, 50 i1 r that the ship would ge ! belts over: their zcaists, but the gre there zvas a lifebelt aboard the ship. of the Sausalito said: In the meant, fully fifteen minutes and anybody that could zwcalk must ecasily have reached ok me about sixty seconds to get my men together and in that time oe got four boats lozo- for distributioy. Ewerybody zcan dowen and leave them struggling Some of the people securcd one and walked aboard the Sausalito with it tied around at majority never attempted to get one and walked up the gangway as if they 1 don’t think anybody was drowened because there re cnough Ifebelts floating around the essel to float anybody who might have made a jump at the I dow’t think there was a sou! went doton with the ship. There was a big pas it came o the last minute I think the old San Rafacl weent dozon by herself. It weas a sad ending for onc “I zcas in the engine-room when the sig- I had my famuly on board qud left the room in charge of After making a rush upstairs and finding there was no trouble wsalito I immediately zoent back to my post. We were then within a few yards of the San Rafael and | | | i | | | ime Mr. Wasser had got two bells vesscl. The two wvessels were ited them and nobody zwould take i the water we threw all the life- but wwhen | tify friends and relatives of their safety. | Hysterical women wept and ran excited- Iy about looking for friends. | ploye cf the Nevada Bank, was a pas- { wild confusion. DIAGRAM SHOWING HOW THE ' BOATS STRUCK IN THE COL- LISION. 3 and about to be lowered into the water some cne cut the wrong roge and the whole load was spilled into the bay. Ropes and life preservers were thrown to the pgople who were struggling in the water. ““When I got free from the overturned table which was pinning me to the floor of the restaurant 1 crawled to the stern of the San Rafael and made my way aboard the Sausalito. The men on board the San Rafael acted in the most com- mendable manner. I saw many assisting ladles aboard the Sausalito. There was no excitement to speak of; at least not as much as usually occurs on such occasions. There was a little excitement shown when the captain told us to hurry aboard the Sausalito. The captain seemed to have good control of himself. ““When the boats collided there was an} old man, whom I understand was from | Corte Madera, seated in the restaurant| nezr the side. One of his ears was com- | pletely severed from his head by a fiying plece of timber.” The scene when the Sausalito landed at the dock was one of tremendous excite- ment. Men rushed frantically off the steamer and hastened to various places where they could find a telephone to no- The news | of the disaster spread about the water | frent with lightning rapidity and a large crowd gagpered at the Sausalito's dock. | The clang, clang of the ambulance bell as the vehicle hurried through the crowd to pack the few injured and half drowned survivors to the hospital added to the ex- | citement. Lieutenant of Police Jack Mar- tin and Sergeant Brophy were on ha with a score of policemen and they aid | good work In keeping the crowd In check. P i AL, JAMES MOORE FALLS EXHAUSTED FROM THE BAUSALITO’S RAIL Eprings fdr Safety From the San Rafael and Strength Fails Him at a Critical Moment. James Moore of Ross Valley, an em- | senger on the San Rafael. He sald: ““There was the usual Saturday night crowd on the San Rafael when she left at 6:15 for Sausalito. There was a dense fog. d Captain McKenzle of the San Rafael sent the ship along under a slow bell. We were about half way between Lombard-strect wharf and Alcatraz Islund when the Sausalito crashed into | us. 1 was smoking a cigar on the for- | ward deck of the San Rafael, and it | seemed to me that the Sausalito struck | us fust about amidships. There was a| terrific crash, and immediately there was | Men, women and children | w 5"‘{\-~ E A S I et R A T T i ! preserver and knew that I would float for a while, at least. There was an attempt Lo lower a boat on the San Rafael, but 1 do not belleve many people got off in it. There was too much confusion. “‘Mr. Tompkins of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was with me, and he agreed with me to stay on the boat as long as we could. Between ten'and fif- teen minutes after the first crash the San Rafael went under. As she went down I jumped for the Sausalito, which was close by, and caught on her rail. I was not strong enough to haul myself up, %0 I hung on and shouted for help. None of the crew of the Sausalito heard me, and 1 finally let go my hold from exhaus- tlon and dropped into the water. My life prescrver kept me afloat, and twenty minutes later I got hold of a ropc lowered from the Sausalito and was hauled on board of that vessel. 1 was almost com- pletely exhausted and had given up all hope when 1 was finally rescued.” Mr. Moore, who is about 60 years old, thinks his escape was miraculous. In his opinion most of the passengers on the San Rafael were saved. He sald: “The two boats stayed together after the collision. It was soon learned on the Sausalito that she was not seriously in- jured, and the people on board her took Immediate steps to rescue the unfortunate passengers on the San Rafael. She ran a gangplank over to the sinking vessel and many of our passengers escaped in that way. ““After the San Rafael went down the Sausallto stayed by and lowered ropes to those floating In the water. “Of course, I cannot pretend to be ac- curate, but I would not place the loss of lite over twenty. It seems to me that most of the passengers must have been saved." MISS EDITH BRIDGMAN HAS A NARROW ESCAPE FROM A WATERY GRAVE Young Lady Resicent of Sausalito Remained in the Water for Twenty Minutes Before Being Rescued. Miss Edith Bridgman of Sausalito was on the San Rafael when the accident hap- pened. She was thrown into the water and remained there fully fifteen minutes before being picked up by the passengers on the Sausalito. When the steamer reached the wharf Miss Bridgman was carried to the Harbor Recelving Hospltal to be treated for submersion. Mrs. An- drews, the matron, had her taken to her room and tenderly cared for the young lady. Despite her. harrowing experience Miss Bridgman was very brave. In an in- terview she gave a graphic account of her experience. She sa “When the steamers crashed I was taken by Andrew Westwader on deck. I was ordered to get into one of the life- beats and afterward told to get Into an- other, because the first was crowded. The upper ralling of the San Rafael was close to the water line when I stepped into the boat. The boat swamped and 1 with others was thrown into the bay. 1 belleve I was in the water fully fifteen minutes. Luckily one of the passengers had the nresence of mind to break open the case containing life-preservers. I had has been in existence, said: work and the compass was useless. PEOPLE TO B ||[SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUGHT E ON BOARD ~ Cabin Windows Are of the T Broken by the Excited Passengers Soon After Collision wo Boats. A A. A. Martin, a Resident of Ilill Valley, Nar- rates His Experiences in Life Saving. A. MARTIN, a resident of Mill Valley and connect: ed with Shreve & Co. was one of the passen- gers of the San Rafael He tells a graphic story of the disaster. statement follows: “We left the o'clock, ten minutes late. 1 was on the lower deck, which was well filled with hunters, workingmen and the ordinary Saturday evening crowd.\I was in the small card.room on the left side of the boat at the time the’crash came. This occurred just- five minutes after we passed the Lombard-street bell. cabin upstairs was crowded with women and children, but how many I am unable | to state. There may have been 400 pas- sengers on board the San Rafael, but I am not certain as to that figure. “When the noise of splintering planks, accompanied by shouts of men and screaming of women, reached me I ran to the right side and up to the wheel. I saw that the passageway was blocked by | wreckage, and I was forced to go into the engine room. I met the firemen es caping, and the engineer told me that a collision had taken place, that one fire was already out and that we were sinking. then met James McCue of Corte Madera, who was in the right restaurant at the time of the collision. The bow of the Sausalito had cut into the side of the | San Rafael like a knife, and the restau- rant was the point of contact. was being assisted by friepds. His scalp was cut and one leg broken. I then got a life preserver and assisted In the work of getting ropes to the Sausalito, by which we were enabled to get a hold on the boat. I then climbed up on a water barrel near the paddle-wheel and passed women and children up to the top of the wheel frame. From this point they were assisted to the deck of the Sausalito by a number of marines, who,did excellent service. b His | slip for Sausalito at 6:15 | The | I} McCue | “The San Rafael was sinking rapidly by this time. We saw people in the upper cabin trying to break the windows and thus make their escape. When we got on the Sausalito we secured all the life preservers and threw them over- board to those who were struggling in | the water. Three of the four boats on the Sausalito were lowered and the peo- ple picked up. Captain Tribbel of the | SBausalito seemed to have lost his head completely. The boats were lowered by | the passengers, and the rescue work was | ordered by passengers. After the San Rafael sank out of sight we wege allowed to drift about aimlessly in the fog for an hour. Had It not been for the appear- | ance of a tugboat on the scene, an offi- cer of which gave us our bearings, it Is hard to say where we would have landed. ““Mr. Hood of Sausalito was one of the last to leave the San Rafael. He In- formed us that he saw a number of women and children huddled together in | the main cabin. If this be true, | people must have gone down with thl vessel. Isaw one woman who was saved, | and she stated that her baby was lost. She was hysterical and little could be got | from her. We heard a child In the water | crying for her mamma, and as she was holding on to a life preserver she was | saved. The wife and child of an engineer | of the Tamalpais Railroad was seen on | board the San Rafael just befors the col- lision, but a diligent search among the rescued falled to bring either to Jight. The inference is that they were | "“The San Rafael was at a standstill when the Sausalito hove in sight. Had the Sausalito also come to a hait the col- lision could not have taken place. She seemed to be caught in the tide and thus forced full upon the n Rafael. The | captain of the Sausalitd seemed to have | lost his head, and after the San Rafael | sank the captain of the fll-fated boat | took command. The fog was yery dense, but it seems to me the accideat might have been avoided.” e o o o e e ] ample time-to strap one around me and but for it would surely have drowned. 1 was rescued by a rope being placed un- | der my arms and was hauled on deck. The | experience was one I'll never forget.” WILLIAM ENILL'S WIFE WISHED TO MAKE TRIP, BUT SPOUSE OBJECTED Meets Family and Invalid Relative at | ‘Wharf, but at Last Moment De- cides to Remain. Willlam Knill, the well-known book maker, who lives at Sausalito, met his wife and three small children at the ferry TICKET COLLECTOR SAYS TRAVEL WAS VERY HEAVY APTAIN BROOKS, the ticket collector, who has been in the employ of the company ever since it “It is the first accident I have ever been in on this line in twenty years. The fog was the thickest that I have ever seen on the bay. It was utterly impossible to locate any wesscl or to fix any point thai you were gamg to or coming from Captain McKenzie ran on his usual course and while he failed to locate the whistle on Alcatraz he wvas nevertheless within two points of his regular course when lhe ac- cident happencd. There weas no confusion on board; all hands went to their posts and I think that when the zwhole thing is summed up it zill be found that very few lives were lost. “We had an unusually heavy crowd for the wintér travel and I suppose all of 250 souls wert on the San Rafael when the collision took place. There twere quite a number of children among the pas= sengers «who had been over to the matinees and who were going home with their parents, their fathers hav- ing met them at Ilu' haal to accompany them home. Everybody that I could see got aboard before the San to escort them home. With Mrs. Knill was a relative from the East, an invalid who had just arrhed on the overland from Chicago. | Kam hemaua about making the trip; | and finally vetoed his wife's proposition to go home. Instead he drove to the | Palace and registered for the night. Knill left a party of friends, all prom- | inent turfmen and bookmakers, residents | of Sausalito, who made the trip on the | unfortunate San Rafael. When he heard | of the accident he endeavored to locate them. At midnight all of Knill's ac- quaintances save Ralph Curtis, a sheet- writer at the Oakland racetrack, had been | accounted for. It was simply guess- i % ’ Spst . ” | | rushed for 1ife preservers. Some of them | f the fastest and best of the ferry-boats. Jumped overboard as soon as the steam- | | Rafael went dowon.” | ers collided, but I made up my mind to | £ B T s G SRR S KL 2P ) 4 | stay by the ship. 1 had put on a life | fe— e e e e, e JNES HY AT HIS WAY OUT Continued From P-g- Thirty-Seven y jumped through a window of the and though she was severely about the face she too was gushed saved.” WILLIAM G. CRANDALL OF SAUSALITO SAID TO BE AMONG MISSING Was Last Seen on the I‘ll Fated Ferry Steamer S£-n Refael and Has Not Been Seen Since. illiam G. Crandall, secretary of the Long Syrup Refining Company, is among He 18 known to have been a senger on the steamer S8an Rafael and no tidings has been obtahed of his whereabouts since the vessel went down. this morning word was Tecelved from Sausalito, where the miss- 1ng man lives, that he had not come home, His family is extremely anxious. His rel- atives and friends have searched all his haunts, but have not found him. It is feared that he was drowned. He was a strong young man and was a capable swimmer and every hope is held that he #ucceeded in reaching shore. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF T. A. REGER FROM INJURY IN COLLISION After Mlhflng Women and Children to Safety He Saves His Own Life by Means of a Rope. T. A. Reger of Corte Madera was among the passengers on board the San Rafael, end narrowly escaped death in the coi- lision. He was rescued by means of a rope, and after the landing of the Sausa- lito was taken to the Palace Hotel, where several contusions of the scalp were @ressed. He makes the following state. ment of the casualty. “l was with my friend, Jim McCue, when the crash occurred. The bow of the Bousalito cut into the restaurant of the Ban Rafael, and went in about ten feet. There were about 40 passengers aboard. I | accident | judge, about fifteen minutes after we left | been drowned. We felt the boat sinking beneath us, and everybody cried out to save himself. The took place, as near as 1 can the slip. People began to jump into the water, some with and others without life preservers. Many of these must have 1 remalned on the lower collision for several min- utes. A party of women and children ran to me and begged me to save them. I took them to the upper deck and assisted them to the deck of the Bausalito. By this time the Ban Rafael was sinking rap- idly, and the upper decs was already sub- merged. 1 got hold of a rope thrown from the deck of the Sausalito, and they were pulling me aboard when two men caught my legs and held me. 1 begged them Lo take hold of the rope below me, so that we might all be saved, and they took miy advice. All of us were dragged aboard the Bauralito in safety. “I saw many women and children . on the upper deck, and my bellef is that some of these were drowned. There was considerable confusion, and the loss of life is due to that cause. We were at a standstill when the Sauealito bore down upon us. The whistles blew at intervals, and the fog was so thick one couldn’t see twenty feet away. I saw many people struggling in the water, but most of thcse were picked up by the boats. PR ONE BOAT CROWDED ‘WITH PEOPLE DRAWN DOWN BY SAN RAFAEL Gien Shaver, a Passenger on the Bau- salito, Tells of the Wild Excitement After the Vessels Struck. Glen A. S8haver and Willlam Hoxey of Ban Rafael were playing cards In the sa- loon of the Bausalito when the crash came. The shock threw Hoxey over the table and almost tumbled Bhaver upon his back. They rushed out and found every- thing on the forward deck of the S8ausalito in a turmoll. In describing the scene Shaver says: gt wan the wildest excitement I have ever The bow of the Sausalito had cut clean lhr'm‘h the side of the San Rafael, and her after deck was filled with for help and apparently’ withont ides. of wha to do to save themselves. took one the Nagpoles’ €rom the forward end of the Saus salito and tlited it over onto the San Rafael and men and women came down the pole until deck after the the two boats separated. A boat from the San Rafael put off, byt it was caught In the vortex of the whiripool when the steamer sank and went down In it. It was full of people and I am sure few of them cscaped. The water [ful] of people swimming and call- ing for assistance. Tom Lennon, an attorne: of San cisco, awam around for half an hour in the water. 1 saw him swimming there and =aw him helped out. Another man tc whom we threw a rope grasped it and was carried under the overhang of the Sausalito, We hauled him up and as he came we could hear him laughing and crying as if in hys- terics. We got him as far as the deck, but before we could get him over we felt him slipping down the rope. He dropped back into and was drowned. We Eoing heard her whisties biowing frequently and we thought she waus going into the dock; In fact, we doubted If we could finish the game we were playing beforc she landed. The boats on the San Rafael were put out promptly, but I understand the plugs were not in and the tar- pauline were over them o that they could not promptly launched. Any way I saw at least one of them, full of people. sink. I saw the San Rafael go down. It was not more than twelve or thirteen minutes after she was struck; and when she went down her after deck and the saloon beneath seemed to be full of le. 1 do not know how were drowned, but the San Rafael's gors say the boat was crowded. 1 a great many lives were lost. SRR il ANXIETY OF FRIENDS IS LATER RELIEVED s BY MANY " TELEGRAMS A Large Number of the Passengers Are Compelled to Remain in the City Over Night. A partial list of those saved in addition to those whose names appear elsewhero has been compiled from the messages sent to friends and relatives in S8an Rafael and Bausalito. Miss Flora Mclsaacs, sister of Dlltrlct Attorney McIsaacs; Miss Rose Ceasar and Miss Loretta Ceasar of San Rafael, wera located at 606 Ellis ‘street last hight. James Watson, also of San Rafael, was in the city. The following p: ngers, living at Sausalito, spent the night in San Fran- cisco: Dave England, Bridgman, George R. Turloch of the Sunset T phone Company and daughter, Whalen of Thomas Day Co,, ason and two dluxhtsrl. Miss yan, Mrs, W. arrett and sisters, ‘Willlam Gillette, Genrle Kingsley, W.'D. Clawson, secretary of the American Bis- cult Company; Miss Ella Meyer, Miss ery slowly. 1 felt that I could not keep up under the —— j A streak of luck s never ‘realed to or- Nora Whaley, Miss Olive Collins, Miss Ella Watson, Migg Belle Coughlin; J. D. Warrock of the White House, George T. Ryan of Madison & Burke, W. R. Ritchie, engineer; H. Lorraino, butcher. The folowing additional names of those in the city were reported at a late hour: From Mill Valley—C. J. Fallon, with Myer, Wilson & Co., 210 Battery street; Bs Deffebach, Miss Boyle, Allen Boyle, Michael Fiood. From Millwood—Josic Leonhart. From Sausalito—Mr. Brown, of the Ne vada Bank, and Mr. Rosenbaum. PASSENGER HELPS TO SAVE WOMAN AND BOY WHO CLUNG TO HIM William Terry Has an Exciting Ex- perience by Being Thrown Into'the Water. ‘Willlam Terry, note teller of the Lon- don and Ban Francisco Bank, was a pas- senger on the San Rafael and was on his way to Millwood, where he resides. Terry says he was unable to make his way to the decks of the Sausalito and was precipitated into the water by the sudden lurching of the vessel after she ‘was struck by the Sausalito. “I found myself in the water almost before I knew it,”” sald Terry, “although I succeeded in grabbing a life preserver before I fell overboard. I immediately set about to keep my head above water. I had no sooner done so when I felt two little arms entwine around my neck and discovered that a little bdy had also been thrown Into the water and had taken that way to save himself. I found no difficulty to support him, but when a woman tried to grab me about the walst double strain. Help was close at hand, however, and none too soon, for I felt that myself and two charges would soon sink or T would have to shake them off, ‘e were picked up by the rescuers be: lore anything serfous happened, and was thankful that I was partially {nstru- mental in saving two lives.” Mr. Terry was brought to this side by the Bausalito and. then departed on the same boat at 9:30 p. m. for his home in Millwood. * 1 / ‘on the Bausalito. GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF DISASTER Continued From Page Thirty-Five last to leave the vessel. There were about 250 passengers on the vessel as I judged and a few of them came ahoard with life preservers on and still wore them when they reached San Franclsco There was no yeal danger and had -everybody kept quiet I don't think there would have béen a sin- gle life lost. As it is I don't know now that there was anybody drowned or went down with Ipa vessel. “They say’that several meh and women lost their lives during the struggle and that several children were left to go down with the steamer. Personally, I don't know anything at all about it, but 1 don't think there was a baby aboard the ship but was carried over the gang- way- on to the Sausalito. 1 don’t think a child was lost. “The whole accldent was due ‘to the fog. 1 have been living for several years in Marin County and in all that time I have never run into such:a heavy fog as was on the bay last night. I have now got an fdea of what my father used to call a London fog. There was no con- fusion on the vessel. Captain McKenzle handled his men llke & seaman; the boats were got out; the life belts were all ready to hand and outside of the usual panic that results from a collision there was nothing very much to talk about. The two vessels stayed together for all of fifteen minutes and I think everybody ®got from the San Rafael to the Sausa- lito. If anybody:went down with the San Rafael I don't know anything about it and I think it will take an investigation to prove that they did go down.” hasdsiandi g R. 0. P.' FITCH TELLS OF EXCITED SCENES FOLLOWING COLLISION Flacerville Dentist States He Saw ‘Women on Deéck of San Rafael When She Went Down. Dr. 0. P. -Fitch, dentist, n-earvur-. made the. following stateme: 1 was going over to San Rafael to visit father and d-vm to gake dinner on t .b-:t‘: The restaurant was crowded. I should judge that there were fully sixty in the restaurant. 1 was stal h on the starboard hip and the lights went out in the restaurant. I was knocked oft my seat to the floor and. raising myself, 1 ran out to the lower deck and secured a life-preserver. I then ran to the stern of the San Rafael and saw that a hawser had been attached to the Sausalito. I watched the excited scene for several minutes 854 was surprised (o see. that Bo efforts were made to he boats. ] noticed the San Ratast "wos becling ‘ver st sweng myself hand over hand on the hawser to the Sausalito. I could not have gained my point of safety six- ty seconds when I heard the order given to cut loose from the San Rafael. The hawser was cut loose with an ax by one of the crew. ‘Scon after the Sausalito drifted away tgom the San Rafael and the latter boat soon sarik. She went down head first and T am certain that I saw many women, men and children standing on the upper deck In the stern of the boat when she went down, CESeR S FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY ON FLOATING BENCH RESCUED FROM BAY Three rnm‘cn_ , Who Jumped Om‘ board Are Picked Up and Help Save the Little Fellow. W. L. Beedy, Miss Fannle Shoobert and Mrs. Olive Hamilton, who were passen- gers on the S8an Rafael, jumped overboard at the first sign of danger. After floating around for a few minutes they were picked up by a boat from the Sausalito. Just as they were rescued, Mr. Beedy saw a little boy about § years old contentedly seated on a floating bench, though evi- dently wondering at what had happened. The lad was picked up and placed on the Sausalito, where he was put in charge of the officers and crew. He had been in the company of his mother and an elder sister a few minutes before, but no trace of his relatives had been found ‘'by Mr. Beedy, who made a search for them. SEme—sm———— UNKNOWN WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH IN THE BAY Is Dressed in Black and Heavily Veiled and Leaves No ‘Clew Behind. OAKLAND, Nov, 30.—An unknown wom- an jumped into the bay from the after deck of the ferryboat Berkeley at 10:3 o'clock nllht ofl Gon Island. The steamer e way to Oakland. The snleldu lcap was witnessed by a boy, who alarmed the crew. The vessel was stopped and a boat lowered, but no trace of the woman was found. There was nothing left behind to disclose the suicide’s identity. She was clad in a black dress and hat, her face being so heavily vetled that her features were con- cealed. —— Death of Thomas Clarke Luby. NEW YORK, Nov. 3).—Thomas Clarke Luby, formerly a well-known Fenian leader, is dead at his home in Jersey City, aged 7 years. In 1364 he was ap- pointed by James Stephens a member of the executive council of the Fenlan Brotherhood and the same year became managing editor of the Irish People in Dublin. The paper was seized by the Government and Luby served five years of a twenty-year term. He was pardoned in 1879 on condition that he remain out of the country for the succeeding fifteen years. After this he made his home this country and lectured from Maine California for the Irish cause. Entombed in a Caved-In Sewer. John Bennett, a l‘borer employed in the street department, 'was entombed for a short time in a sewer In the Sunset’'Dis- trict yesterday. Bennett, with other work- men, was engaged In digging a sewer on I street, between Tenth and Eleventh ave- nues, when the bracing gave way and permitted the sand to fall in on top of them. Bennett's companions managed to escape, but he was buried fifteen feet underground. He was sent to the Emer- gency Hospit#l, where his injuries, which consisted of two contused wounds of the left leg, were dressed by Dr. Armistead. —_————— A woman whom I was sitting next to at dinrer the other day told me that she had a remedy for seasickness. She had been a very bad sallor, and even now if she does not practice her remedy she is sick; whereas when she does she can negotiate comfortably a storm of four or five hours on the high sun. It is simple enough. As the vessel dips she draws in her breath; as it rt-u -ho expels It Whether this woman's internal a: ments are pecullar to herseif I do know, but If not the nnody uo- h wonh knowing.—London Truf .—-.-.——— it thc world owes every it has a lot of gold brlcu to ntth