The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRAL\'C]SC() CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1903. 3 STEAMER CRESCEN THTEY @GN TR E ROCKS BUT PASSENGERS AND CREW ARE SAFE K .. = o+ i | HE steam schooner Cres- 4‘ : = “ BA”SES { l cent City is pounding to | STEAM[H Bu[s i pieces on Fish Rocks, off - ¢ 7 2 ; ; the Mendocino coast, and 8 : : 5 = \ NE lN EUUHT. | more than a dozen passengers : . o : : i i : 5 ASHUH[ IN FUE ’ | | and members of the crew are | ¢ T ; L ’ : e ; ._. vu S | marooned on the tiny island. 1 1 Wilson Refuses to They are in no danger and are Life Savers Brave High Be Witness Against | provided with food to last : Y \ 1a a g {1 them until they are rescued to- * g % S ; + ; o ‘ & 1t : 4 . | Ruunlng Seas and Alexander. [ v No T west lastinthe : . . o . e R a Rescue Crew. A | disaster, which occurred early | ; sy ¢ fo . . . s . : A e o ately Declares That vesterday morning during a | 0 : L 0 - e &l - b7 . Part of Cargo Will Be Saved S 11 Answer No furious storm. The vessel is | ’ o v . . . ; ] | But it Is Feared Vessel Questions. | | badly injured and it is not ex- | B - i el : : Will Be Lost. —— pected that she can be saved. 3 i ’ N‘:{ : g ; e £s against ex-Police Of Jo— . e o, O PASSENGER. . ‘ : : ; ; 7 # Y | | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. %.—The Clyde = £ | line steamer Guif Stream, from New York m & wor | | for Philadelphia, is ashore nine miles g | from Cape May. She is expected to be a total loss. A erate southwest wind | 1s blowing, with a heavy fog. The steames | | carried no passengers. | The Gulf Stream left New York yester< | day morning and it is presumed she | stranded during the night The wrecking steamer North America has arrived from Delaware Breakwater | with the lighter Lottie and is now along- | | side the stranded vessel. Six of the Guif | | Stream’s crew were landed by the Here- | | ford Inlet and Stone Haroor -savers. | | The work of resc accomplished | with much difficul owing to the high seas. .| | Captain Swain and the remainder ot | | his erew decided to remain on board the | | steamer as long as they might do so. | | The vessel is leaking and the water in her hold is six feet deep. Arrangements \\X - have been made for lightering her cargo , | | to-morrow, but it cannot be sald at this Y | time whether there is a possibility of saving the vessel | | NAVAL OFFICERS PRAISE || STAND TAKEN BY DAYTON Believe That He Has Made a Syste- matic Programme of Naval In- | crease Possible. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The members of the general board of the navy, of which Admiral Dewey is president, and high- ranking officers of the navy, as well as members of the Board of Construction, to= day united in praise of the resolution pre- | | sented by Representative Da House yesterday calling on of the Navy to furnish Congress with the recommendations of the general board bearing on continuing the naval policy which should be pursued Congress. There is a consensus of opinion that a systematic programme of naval increase, instead of a spasmeodic addition to the fleet each year, according to the varying generosity of Congr t naval- appropriations, has been within the range of possibility by Day- | | ton’s resolution P City Trustee’s Sanity Questioned. | _ SACRAMENTO, Jan. —City Trustee | Robert E. Kent was to-day locked up in | the eounty jall, where he will remain | A - pending an investigation as to his sanity He was in front of the county courthouse this forenoon yelling he top of his | voice. Kent was once confinied in the asv- {lum at Stockton. He has not sat with he Trustees for several months ma | | rocks of which islets the Cres ity J er The 1aw | | came to griet: | | “These are two high rocky islets, con- : | | nectea at high water. and Iying 80 yards » . | | south, 61 degrees west from the extrem- | | ity of the bluff Havens Anchorage The outer rock, t! 0 vards long northwest yards broad. The inn high and about half 1 other. They are con ted by a narrow, | | rocky beach. One hundred and sevent | five yards south t from the outer | | lies a rock forty feet out of water. A S O BS ATeN e SCENE =2 | | around these rocks are many small rocks FISH ROCK [SLAND XSEOBI AR T¢ | | above water. There is a pa and and 100 | less than a hundred yards i tween the inner rock and —¥ | point of the mainland, but know the depth of ter | Five or six v can lie with safety | under the” protection of the Fish R | iIn heavy northwest blows. Sea ns abound on these rocks and their bellow= | ing can be heard nearly a mile distant. SHIPWRECKED P NGERS AND SEAMEN AS THEY APPEARED ON FISH ROCK ISLAND AFTER THE STEAM SCHOONER CRESCENT CITY HAD CRASHED INTO THE ISLET, WHICH LIES OFF THE PERILOUS COAST OF MENDOCINO COUNTY S@ME DISTANCE SOUTH OF POINT ARENA. 4 emeanor : Foal Tt S % Lord 'llempleton Ashore. 3 ',,,.?;;,Vessel Piles Up High on a Desolate Island in the Early Morning and Is Breaking to Pieces in the Furious |, i, i, T, . Storm-f—Men, Women and Children Are Marooned on Fish Rock, Off Mendocino. oot and her sta b to £0 « Epectal Dispatch to The Call, s the miserable conditions wo % Cf i . W, 7 des e ]‘f“"‘d’"u;i“‘l ’m'):;::;““_y-"“ \;lf‘:\rr—‘; o —= ‘:i(mu is the wife of Professor W. W.|of the highest regard. He is a young| DR. PIERCE’S REMEDIES. : ISH ROCK, Mendocino County, | ¢ro Losnrde ook TO ORI ISy Fogg, principal of the Crescent City High | man, but enjoys the full confidence of his | RO = g M e oot s Jan B.To khe ahigiretkielion. e SomcentsClty, and. fzes ‘were )| N R MU O STHOEY | | School. She came from Crescent City | present employers, in whose service he < scuthwest gale that - romred | Soon afier th S ook Iy he Al | | just before Christmas to visit her parents, | has been since he left the Mail Company. | . f b s S :m_‘"f"llf‘d'-"" q‘ 5 ’{ ) WHO SHARED THE | | Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Goodall of %49 Union | The other officers are A.-Olson, chief | perli it i ekt § s R e flid | | street. During her visit the child was | ficer; R. Comstock, chief engineer; M. Fo- coast early this morning pEgmi b e o e i | born, and she was returning on the Cres- | ley, first assistant engineer, and C. Poyer, ars S e close as possible with safety. The experi- TERRIBLE NIGHT cent City to rejoin her husband. Her | steward. She also carried a second mate. n Francisco at 4 o'clock yes- | aftef repeated trials & Lifeboas pumcceqed | s parents and many of her friends saw her | six sailors, two firemen, a cook and a » y morning, heavy with cargo and |in reaching Fish Rock, P s | oft yesterday at the wharf in San Fran- | boy of whose names Hobds, Wall & Co. | freighted with men, women and childr L pntas. il Ll otk .-ar’?du ten PASSENGERS. | | cisco when the steamer sailed away. The | have no record. 1 h ; en an e s, @ o d chil- weather was calm ther d they were | Th : Miss C. b peceidin ¥ A DR Sahe luen o d senls ne W EORE waa hehey . calm then, and they wer: e passengers were: Miss Seopea ]’ =d up on the ledges of Fish Rock Is Bt Boott he boat then re- | Crescent City surprised to-day when the wire brought | rill, Mrs. W. W. Fogg and baby, M - While | @04 and probably will be a total loss. | HP iy MISS C. L. MERRILL, Rogue the news that a storm had driven the | R. Feeley and two children, Nicholas Mil- 2 heavy grade a spark from | S0 close and so high ub was thesmall | ERIL OF A LIFEBOAT. PR ol d vessel ashore. Assurances were soon | ler, Willlam Westbrook. C. E. Zaber, C. | - set fire to the abd Of the car| vessel cast by the + that | The sea was running furiously, and it e given them, however, that Mrs. Fogg and | S. Boesch, W. R. Glass and G. Murphy. | " g Soime’ GRNEHity estio- | the passcngwy st o ':;’C*:'e‘f;zd h:‘n | was with extreme difficulty that the res- | | o MRS. C. B. FEELEY, two chil- | |jer babe were safe, which greatly relleved | Mrs. Fogg is a resident ot cent City | Just a little Saci o . | cued people were placed on board the o the fears they felt when word of the dis- | and had been visiting her parents in Oak- too far and the landing on the rock. About fifteen of | NICHOLAS MILLER, Cr t d Bl e e ok ADout ffteen of |schooner. On several occaslons the life. | esoen aster first reached them. land, where the child was born. woman who reaches ta Fo Piresen Ave Pavoreld.. | the boomosin, hete| t0-pig3t, Uit beyoid | boat iwas' neiriy’ Ewamped of ‘sinahed City. Miss Merrill is an vnmarried woman of | over the cliff for the bt opeienge e i e e |into bits against the side of the larger WILLIAM WESBROOX, Ores- VESSEL'S FIRST MISHAP middle age, a school teacher by profes- | coveted flower goes R, JEn e s | s Snthairiancy ray, 4hey ars Tmate] R i cent City. s * | slon and on her way to take charge of a crashing down into ther e " erque has announced that | from further disaster. pe Y | The skipper of the Scotia decided not to C. B. ZABER. Crescent City Had a Long Record of school at Rogue River. | abyss below. Just a o Bgpoduny osspudvionis | > | venture another boat in the turbulent C. 8. BOESCE, San Francisco., s esful Vovages. | Nicholas Milleg, s the son of a Creseent | little too far and the nes of that| ALARM GIVEN ON /SHORE. waters, and the persons, numbering about W. R. GLASE. | COmE! yages. | City rancher and William Westbrook is a | woman, who, day by ncrease I0 | |The mate of the Crescent!City, A. OI- | fifteen, who had been left on the rotk G. MURPEY, Del Norte. | Hobls, IVall & Co., the agents at this| gavman at the same place. day, neglects to cure the Iy stated, | Jo 20 o S en Who were necsenzers. | were obliged to remain until the weather e | | port of the Crescent City, received the 3 y, neglect S reheted 1 £ 0 were passenger: 2 A | C.'S. Boesch is employed in San Fran- | womanlydiseases which per oeat. Tne wx.| Orattan Murphy and Willlam Westbrook, | Moderated or” arrangements could be OFFICERS AND CREW. first newd of the disaster about 8 o'clock | cisco by the United Rafiroads and left on | Bet hevie trated . e iod b | haszarded the rioting surf between the [ 808 on theishiors for thelrlanding. HEERMAN T. PAYNE, captain yesterday morning. and at 8:45 were in tel- | the Crescent City to pay a visit to his o g ase granted has | ook and the mainland and succeeded in | Meanwhile the Crescent City was A. OLSON, chief ofcer. 7 ephone communication with Chlet Officer | parents. | ol vponated of sickaum, reaching shore. A few of the passengers | PCUnding on the sharp rocks, and through R. COMSTOCK, chief engineer. A. Olson, who told them that the steam | G- Murphy is a son of the late Judge | . . 3 ) No woman should z were rescued by the steam cehoomer Seq: | numerous holes in her hull poured a vast M. FOLEY, first assistant en. = had been driven, during a heavy | Murphy of the Superior Court of Del trifle with the diseases peculiar to her ot of Cigarettes. | tia, which chanced to be near the scene | UANtIty of water. The sea continued g ¢t | mehooner had bewn Guiven, QUEOE S RN | Norte County. sex. Neglect to-day means a worse con- X —A bill| when the dawn disclosed the trim look- | Y¢TY TOUEh and it appeared certain that p LI R northwester, right on top of Fish Rock| mhe Crescent City was built here in 1852 | dition to-morrow. > . . e v prohibit- | ing white coaster pounding herself to | he ;‘ef‘?’:‘;:\:“: e su!"\'lva trhe con- COND OFPPICER. Island: that the passengers were on the| by Dickle Brothers. Her registered ton-| Dr. Pierce’s Favorite iption is & ate Olson sprea e alarm in this | "~ ' ! |atug m 4 y | fee A eet in beam an as 4 disea: i | hamlet considerably before daylight and there was evidence of the beginning of TWO FIREMEN. i wanted to save anything of the vessel. depth of 12.2 feet. She is valued at $50.000 ;j:: aged pelcn}lla'r!dv'wom.:nl o hd“!ab' NEW ADVERTISEMENTS [ preparations were immediately made by | Preaking up unless the storm abated. COOK BOY. The tug Sea Rover was loaded with div- | and is insured for about half that amount. | poar™ feqeariy, CIICS ERtecHung Crains, s all avaflable residents to succor the un- TUG NEAR THE WRECK. STEWARD'S BOY. | |28 gear and wrecking apparatus. and| Up to two years ago she was command- | 2203 ;nflamm-uon and ulceration and fortunates who were striving to make| The life-saving crew from the Point | . | | with Captain Turner, marine surveyor for | ed by Captain John Stockfleth. who, dur- | Cures female weakness. =~ | the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, ing the nearly twenty years he had| "My wife, Mrs. Mary Estes, has been taking on board to represent the underwriters, | charge of her, never met with a single se- | | ‘medicine and received great benefit fr started about 11:30 o'clock for the scene of | rious mishan. Stockfleth was always on | ya. © sy frobies the wreck. | deck when the vessel left San Francisco, | heavy, bearin; The Crescent City left here for Crescent | and during all the time he commanded | and head, an — | WORD 3 ORM AND DANDRUFF. | themselves secure on the island. It was | Arena station arrived here at noon in re- a They Are E ed by s Pestifer. | a bitterly col@ morning and over them | sponse to a telephone messags. They | Penetrating cold. It is hoped they will be ’ 3 - | showered great volumes of water that at | came overland, the sea being too rough | rescued ‘at daybreak. es threatened to hurl them into the de- | to allow rowing to the fsland. They | FISH.ROCK,Jan.31 (1 a. m.).—The fires ving sea below. brought a lot of apparatus with them, | of the ooned party are plainly dis- | but during the afternoon their efforts to | cernibleWat this hour and the WOMEN CRY FOR AID. | 8¢t a line on board the Crescent City or | Ashore are satisfled that no anem;fle?}fi i wn pains, severe pain in back a li\'t({> worn-out feeling all the City about 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. |Jier never doffed his clothes until he had | time. Tried all the remedies we could hear off, Her officers and crew numbered sixteen | his charge safely in port at one end er the | but they and she had on board twelve passengers, | other of her run. Captain Payne was, 384 = The almost impenetrable darkness the ol - -1 centes muy Sefietaiithey ‘ellort af Teasie, ‘h—rh;"“figwsfi e R l‘f;c;““';r;g;“:mn“’m‘:k“ them off the | 5 whom one was a baby four weeks old | mate under Stockfleth and it was largely | N S e e and it was found necessary to await the | arrived hero at 7 o'clook tonlght and 1y | appear that two tuge are hoverl it would | gnq (o others children of tender age. | due (o the latter’s sirong recommendation | abways recommend Dr. Pieree's Favorite Pre- | awn. Those on the shore could hear at | )y; v ring about, | The trip on which she met disaster was | that the young mariner was placed in'| scription to all who are thus afflicted.” ing roar of | leves ’lf:’;fi‘nr;"fiff‘f,flp“‘f‘fejg(, ;;)?fh}’:; walitrg for dawa, the vessel's 7030 between here and Cres- | charge of the vessel. “Favorite Prescription” makes weak n the piteous cries of women and | until to-morrow morning, as the night is o R e L o Nusioany T T worien strong, sick women well. Accept chiigren Al the ieflectplAppesis 1B | vers qure ant the Noigs sflliedvy g REPE 0N LR WBROK It A e et ot 2 ener| DANGEROUS FISH ROCKS. no substitute for the medicine whicia aid rom the deep-throated satlors and | people on the rock are as comfortable as | Four-Weeks-0ld Child Among the | accident. Her captain was Herman T. AL works wonders for weak women. the terrified lJandsmen. could bE exgactead i, the chréy g . - | Description of Islets on Which the i At daylight thepeepie on the Tock sebs | They! lave fire, fobd wod. tha sheres of Steamer’s Passengers. Payne. He was a cadet with the Pacific = The Common Sense Medical Adviser, comtanad with thE Eeaniance (hat They | somey ReIr e xnings ihs Wit b T | OARTAND S M Mre WL Desal e Aangsr and ihe impression. Beb. oy p“m: ezt f,f,“:“k' b R B T ot - e g 2 § y o b 2 3 Y & by rgbe 48wl * | made while in that service has never been “oas ot, pubiished by t of twenty-one one-cen! ™ \_ud“)‘n‘x\ul:]m:yu‘l;:(;n ;:I:n. a‘ud ctmr 1;:0- able ror”m; Thand coming in such a di- [ who with her four-weeks-old babe was| forgotten by the company's officlals, who | the United States Government, has mi' mmfr“p:nton;:?cxpense of mailing n»l). o cee o make themselves as orta- | rection tha ey are prote 1 o : s el 2 . A y cted from its | among the passengers on the Crescent|epeak of his seamanlike qualities in terms | followinz to say of Fish Rocks. on the | Address Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. ¥. Is above the resound