The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1903, Page 1

* Pischer's—“Bubes and Roses.” Grand—“Ben Mur.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Vaudevills. ‘Tivoll—Grand Ovcre. XCIV=NO. 177. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1903, PRICE FIVE OENTS. FOUR SURVIVORS OF WRECK AT TOMALES POINT REACH CITY AND TELL STORIES OF THEIR TE 4 they ha ed in reaching the shore, and in an intervie F the survivors pronounce as ridiculous the report that there was mutin the French bark Francois Coppee at Pierces Point, eleven miles north of Point Reyes, last Friday night, were brought to this city i left the doomed vessel was smashed to splinters on the rocks. These four menm, with thz nine that were picked up by the stcam schooner Scotia and taken to 3owens Landing, meke the tot:l 1. An unconfirmed report from Point Reyes is to the effect that two more of the crew had succeeded in reaching shore and were seen walking in the direction of the lighthouse. he struck, and Captain Inrye is among the missing. He was in the lifeboat that foundered, and when last seen he was clinging to a table that-had floated from the wreckage. First Officer Edward No- with The Call he tells a terrible story of the suffering which he and his companions underwent from the time they left the ship wntil they reached , or even dissatisfaction, among the crew, and the seamen unite in declaring that Captain Inrye was a gallant sail leave the vessel as she was pounding to picces on the rocks. Two bodies were seen in the surf at the Point Reyes lighthouse last cvenin day saw no wreckage off the Marin or Sonoma shore, and little debris from the wreck has been reported by the men who are patrolling the coast. It is believed that the bark RRIBLE SUFFERING ON THE SEA g, and two more were t oot + yesterday by four of the men who were saved by swimming ashore after There were twenty or and vashed ashore at Bodega Bay. has broken to. pieces. TR HAS BEGUN N OHIENT Russian Agency Reports Start- ling Advices. o et Japanese Fleet Sails to Intercept Czar’s Warships. nt Their Joining Naval Force Anchored at Port Arthur. S tion Ends in Disaster. 1 and New York ewed activ- t of the with a 0OS AYRES, Argentine, Nov. 23. ant Josem Sobral of the Argen- , who accompanied the Nor- Antarctic expedition, has tel- » La Prensa, from Santa of the particulars of the f the expedition and the loss of y ship, the Antarctic. Lieutenant So- nal cris bral s the Antarctic attempted to DE ROSEN’S ACTIVITY. | go to the east of Joinville Island, but b Tkto < f the Daily | met many difficuities. The ship finally ) in wn un- | entered the gulf of Erebus and Terror, vhere she was crushed by the ice and sunk. This occurred on February 3 of the present year. Captain Larsen and all Komura, | of the members of the party escaped Foreign Af- | and succeeded in saving some of the provisions before the ship went down. chireioiniing 1Ny ted for Paulet Island and for Minister at | Sixteen days they had to pass through another note to the | many difficulties, but all reached the st regarding Yon- | 181and in good condition. They spent that if Korea per- | the winter on Paulet Island, subsisting g that port Russia will | O seals Korea replied that Rus- The Argentine gunboat Uruguay ar- remce with the opening of |Fived at the island on November 18 and was a violation of Kor te on board Captaln Larsen and ts. to which she strongly | {Wenty-eight members of the expedi- . concurrently notified | 100, The gunboat then returned to Minister to the same ef- Louis Philippe Land, whers it took aboard several boxes containing fossils collected by the expedition. °d With Murder. The Nordenskjold party explored —James Sullivan, | 0Tahams Land, between Bramfleld o into unconscious- | Strait and Cape Pramaes, as well as ard of the Log Cabin | King Oscars Land. It made numerous Ttk Dbt b SN0 observations and gathered valuable zoological collections. All of the mem- te Joseph Vero, a 8ol- | 200108k is under arrest | DETS are in excellent health. —_———— beeh set ort | ! i 5 for| Two Hundred Perish in Floods. e the s o | TONDON. Nov. 23—A telegram re- gy Rt 1"4\'9'} at the Indian Office from the Vice- | roy of India, Lord Curzon, says that ac- Bank Fails. | cording to reports recefved u’u-dr-;cn The suspension |flood in the Palar River on November 12 of John Brown & |destroyed half of the town of Vanizam- all b hed private | badi, in the Salem district. Two hundred he failure is not of importance. | persons were drowned. rding to the sa ft, the as sent Fort Laws ficers } rrest Priv John Brown’ “i 5 South Pole Expedi- the New York | 3 N — (SOSESE —p i | 1 ON A RUDELY CONSTRUCTED RAFT. FOUR SURVIVORS OF THE CREW OF THE WRECKED FRENCH BARK FRANCOIS COPPEE, BROUGHT TO SAN FRANCISCO LAST NIGHT AFTER HAVING REACHED SHORE AT PIERCE'S POINT o+ the great register of marine horrors. the coast they had encountered. Captain Inyre at once ordered the crew to 'man the life boats. worked with alacrity and a coolness that I have never seen equaled. WHO WERE - First Officer of Francois Coppee Narrates the Experiences of Himself and Three of His Comrades. There were twenty men all told aboard the French bark Francois Coppee when she struck on a small rpck at the entrance to Bodega Bay, about eleven miles north of Point Reyes lighthouse, last Friday night. Seven of them perished and the tales told by the thirteen survivors find few equals in Four of the seamen—First Officer Edward Nolere, August Victor, Adolph Victor and P. O'Neil—arrived in this city yesterday afternoon. There is no conflicting statements in their stories of the wreck. They say that the bark was buffeted about for days while trying to reach this port, and that for forty-eight hours prior to her loss she was unable to get bearings or soundings, so dense was the fog and so raging the sea. When she struck the rock the murk was so thick that the bewildered crew could see only a few feet away, and Captain Inrye and his officers did not know what part of “Tt was about 1 o'clock Friday morning when the Coppee struck,” said First Officer Nolere yesterday to a Call representative. “All hands were on deck at the time—indeed, not one of the men aboard had slept an hour for two days—and from the position the vessel assumed immediately after striking it was evident to all that she was doomed to destruction. She listed heavily to larboard, and In obeying the order the men - | “I ought to state here that two of our boats had been washed away previous to the wreck, and that we had only two boats to accommodate twenty men. After taking another view of the COACHAN ELOPES WTH h PRINCES Daughter of Don Carlos Deserts Husband. Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company BERLIN, Noy. 24—According to Darmstadt dispatches Princess Frede- |rick Ernest of Schoenburg-Walden- burg, who has been missing fourteen days, has eloped with her coachman. LONDON, Nov. 23.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Berlin says that, according to absolutely reliable infor- mation, Princess Alice, wife o Prince Frederick Ernest of Schoenburg-Wal- denburg, has disappeared since Novem- ber 9. Her coachman also is missing. At Dresden, where the Princezs form- erly resided, It is generally sapposed that the Princess and her handsome coachman have eloped together. Since their disappearance it has come out that the relations between them were not at all that of mistress and servant, but that they had been quite intimate. The Princess, who is 25 years of age, is a daughter of Don Carlos. She mar- ried Prince Frederick Ernest -in 1897, one son being their issue. Her sister, Princess Elvira, it will be remembered, created a sensation some years ago by eloping with the painter, Folchi, where- upon Don Carlos repudiated her, de- claring: “She is no daughter of mine.” ————— KING AND QUEEN OF ITALY IN DANGER Soldier Is Arrested for Placing Ob- | structions Before the Royal Train. LONDON, Nov. 24.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Cherbourg says that a attempt was.made on Saturday to derat a train in which the King and Queen of | Ttaly were traveling through France on their return to Rome from the visit to King Edward. Five large stones were | laid on the track a few minutes before the train passed. An Investigation showed that a soldier who was one of those de. :lhd to patrol the line had placed the lonés on the track. He was arrested. SPS LG TRLLS STORY IF HORAORS Appalling Events Mar Octavia's Voyage. ‘Sailors Drink Poison and Skipper Charges Murder. Vessel Arrives at Port Los Angeles With a Sail- maker Ironed Special The Call LOS AN( 23.—With her sailmaker in irons, charged with a diabolical murder, her first officer sick unto death and her logbook showing that three poisoned members of her crew had been buried at sea, the Ger- man ship Octavia, Captain Breckwoldt, 140 days from Antwerp, dropped anchor oft Port Los Angeles this afternoon. The t thing that the captain re- ported when his barge touched the long wharf and he was met by a customs | officer was that.murder had been com- | mitted on his ship and he wanted to know what could be done about it. His next inquiry was as to a hospital to which he could send his first officer, and that being told him, the sick man about whom he was so solicitous was conveyed to this city and tak Sisters’ Hospital, where he lies hover- ing between life and death. FIGHTS ON THE SEA. | 1t was a grewsome story which the | captain to \ story of fights, revenge and death, and it will be for the Ger- man authorities to pass upon the guilt or innocence of the accused. Names are lacking for the present, reason that the captain has r ¢ entered United States has anchored o has declared himself der German jurisdi main so until he can comm wire with those in author whose orders and control he,ce himself. Meantime the one prisoner aboard the Octavia will remain in irons, charged with murder, and it will be for the Consul at San Francisco to decide what course shall be pursued. On July & the Octavia sailed from | Antwerp laden railroad iren, cement and a bo . Port Los Ange Fran Ske is a fast sai and until after sh rounded the Horn the voyage was without incident except for the u fights which occur among sailors on such a voyage. More than one of these fights had been between two certain members of the crew and the sail- maker, in which the latter was bagdly whipped, and a which he is said to have threatened revenge. FIRST MATE INTOXICATED. Three weeks ago Captain Breckwoldt discovered a number of the members of | his crew, including his first officer, in- | toxicated. Investigation showed that | with the knowledge of this first officer the sailmaker had led several members of the crew into the sealed hold and there they had broken into casks con- taining whisky, a part of which they | carried to the first officer and to other members of the crew. This breach of discipiine was duly punished by the | captain and for several days the inci- | dent was forgotten, but within a week the sailmaker, taking the lead of other members of the crew, among them the | two with whom he had had trouble, | again entered the hold and showed the sailors where the liquor was to be | found. | Of course they drank and in their | drunken condition began to search for more liquor. In the cargo were some carboys of carbolic acid, and in their drunken frenzy the sailors broke into them. The first two to drink of this poison were the two with whom the | saflmaker had had trouble, and the hird is said to have been an innocent youth who had signed for the voyage only for the purpose of reaching Cali- fornia. According to the captain’s story the first officer, who had profited | by thd former raid upon the cargo, was | on watch, and missing the members of the crew, he went to the hold and there Continued on Page 5, Columat & ken to the 1l being un- and will re- ate by nder |