The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 29

N / | i @ +9--oeot Pages 2010 40 L R LR 2 ok o o & CHOONER 'O HER VOYAGING ON A BARREN ROCK Suffering on nd. ydCare Prevents Disaster Frem chil- schooner Crescent women and ats Sea Rover and h Rock by the Frid schooner Scotia. Rock. he Crescent C S("",'.",. and ’\)("“ re Vv poon were The Statements made the stea ’s crew place f Officer Olson’s failure course by the fact that he Sc good ¥ ras the care given n both on the rock by Captain Payne and 1sch Scotia that no ill effects will Fogg's month old infant The Crescent City will prove 1ding by the vessel, which r movable gear and aban- merScotiaRes- Passen- gers. g 112 nd a Night of Exposure. CRESCENT CI'TY MAKES END ) CavrTay AN N 7 O NS )= 2 J. E. Jorrisors ithout a_qualm isted three babies houldered 1 who h every re. the mother ey each betwe omen we 2lonig the Cresc the 1 had be ird and was resting on inta the boat they were ved to- the thwarts. the & Mrs. Fogg's in- two sallors, » guided over the and nk in b ur we ft wrap- aman i was the first to be fous mother. The Fecley en, 3 and 4 years old respectively, ad a sallor nurse and both landed ks old and protected from | terrific and all unlooked for wave, roaring losing it prey, struck the boat with ter- HERMAN T. PAYMNE * k N ) = . s > .HoHeIise-L 4 e e THE SR Tu\g,m_u:-r— BRINGING IM THE SURVIVORS 2 ec e st @ the stranded [safely in the boat, where Mrs. Feel mpanfed 3 w t he Crescent City’s crew gave | took ¢ > of the younger and Miss Mer % . Erick 3 of which and , the Rog . cher, tem- . 2 » wa: able to | porarily ad “ | BOAT’S PERILOUS TRIP. | | Women Passengers Have Narrow Es- | cape From Drowning. Women i chiidren safely settled, Chief Officer Olson, with Seaman | Jchnson ana an saflor, also John- b to get | son, took their places beside the women, ard - the le other members of the crew under rections hoisted the deck, swung out ghe | davits and then carefully lowered the precicusly freighted craft to the water A Although the sea had gone down con- | siderably the waves were still of a size big enough to make boating a dangerous operation. Watching: the waves as they | th the suspended boat, Crescent City proved ught he saw the chance i es. In the cessful launching. He gave th 2 h, S0 was their | d down dropped the boat. Just and screaming as if jn spite at | rific force. One of the sailor Johnsons instinctively grabbed the davit fails and in less time than it takes to tell was safe | aboard the Crescent City. The boat was | swamped, although Captain Pa that he cannot understand w as not flung back aboard the schoon. The wave left it in the water, how- and right side up, and before an had time to make a move the re chance came, and Olson, with the re- maining Johnson, was pul the direction of the Beatia. Over the water mountains climbed the little boat, then down with a toboggan- like rush into the cold green valleys. The | sailo poles bent almost to breaking. The wom- en, of whose bravery all hands speak in body yne | g for life in | tugged at the oars until the ash | age to make him believe that the veteran | | the wind was blowing a gale and a heavy were weeping silently, and | hildren, obli merry highest terms, one of the Feeley \c the danger, was h of hide a who wa ning the little boat’s progress from the deck of the Cres- | cent City. The Scotla was reached in safety, and for opportunity frientily steam ! board the Scotia, as on the shipwrecked pas- directed by intel- just_one hour game ther watching aboard the after was hauled schooner. On the Crescent City s found kindness ligence. Before noon, after the tugs set out from San Fran- cisco everybody was dry, warm and com- fortable as they had been at any stage of their lives, [ Captain on could not do too much | for his involuntary guests and was about | to add to his hospitality a trip to San | rancisco, when the Spreckels tug Re- lief arrived and saved him that sacrifice of valuable time. Ghief Officer Olson and the sailor John- gon remained on board the Scotia until sterday morning, when they rowed k to the Crescent City and rejoined thei marooned shipmates. Meanwhile Captain Erickson steamed to Iversons Landing, two miles south of Fish Rock Island, where the water was quieter and less disturbing to the unseasoned stom- achs of the passengers. H The tug Sea Rover, dispatched to the scene of the wreck by the owners and underwriters,"arrived off Fish Rock about 6 o'clock Friday evening. It was dark, fea made dangerous any attempt ‘to ap- | proach the island. An hour eor so later the tug Relief reached the scene. Both tugs stood off during the night. Captaln Louls Turner, marine surveyor of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Com- pany, who was on the Sea Rover, board- ed the Crescent City shortly after day- break and soon saw enough of the dam- little coaster will remain on Fish Rock Island until she falls to pleces. Tugs will o o CAPTAIN AND SIX MEMBERS OF CREW OF THE WRECKED | STEAMER CRESCENT CITY. t - 8 . probably be sent to save whatever of value remains on board the vessel and whatever of her machinery and gear can be removed. While some of her parts * e 'Mother Guards Her | Baby in Wreck ‘ and Storm. > 'Mrs. Fogg Tells Her | Experiences of ‘ Disaster. i Thankful to Escape With Month-Old Child. G e R 2N ROl AKLAND, Jan. fi—Mrs. W. W k£ 3. who h her h-old babe was one of Goodale of 949 Ur two days , which A her hus- 1gh very much ying ordeal through 2 Fogs e ship- morning I hap- The awakened ev cussion was viel S A —— o — quietly %4 of what had = le fea 1= - 2 kn 1 h. (1 k the the boat with suen ‘§ around sideways the ship got e much, but lecks | much re- Wa | had-been saved from the expo | Rock may serve a longer term of usefulness the | Crescent City is done for and her career ended on Friday morning when she hit Fish Rock. The tug Relief went within hailing di: tance of the rock early yesterday morn: ing. ‘“SVhere are the passengers?’ sang out Captain Silovich. Residatiigh. T ‘‘Passengers?” re “Why we took them yesterday morning. aboard the Scotia Is Brought Home With Crew on Sea Rover. Captain Silovich offered Pa men skippe Relief proceeded to 4 where she tcok on board the three n dren, who ire of Fish the crews of the two s, and brought them to three women and three ch —— PILOT TELLS HIS STORY. Island b steam. schoone San Francisco, J. E. Johnson Is at Wheel When Ac- cident Occurs. Captain Payne left the Crescent City about 11 o'clock and embarked with his men on the Sea Rover rder to retain possession for the owners two firemen were left in charge of the wreck The shipwrecked marine city about 8 o'clock last littie the worse for t ence. Most of them have but the clothes in which home, but worry about a lost wardrobe scemed natures. They were fairly pleasure at the pr t of rest in a dry They yme lost they travel a a little thing like foreign to their beaming with good night's bad ag: bed wrecked, but they were | that was the only thing - bee: on about two tered. = Fea Captain Payne did not have much to| Continued on Page 30, Columan &