Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-26


Persons Drowned.
SAN Francisco, June 25th.-A terrible
accident occurred on the bay between Ker-
shaw's Island and Saucelite this afternoon, in
which three persons lost their lives. A pleas.
ure party, consisting of the following persons,
John McClusky and wife, Andy Sutherland,
William Sutherland, Edward Kelsea, the
Misses Eva, Ida and Christina Redfeld and
their brother George Redfeld, started from
this city this morning for sail on the bay.
Everything went well, and they we're having
good time until the hour mentioned, and as
the wind increased in velocity and the waves
were running pretty high, they concluded to
return. While McCiusky, who was in
charge, was endeavoring to get the sail over,
the rest of the party changed their positions.
them all into the water. Ida Red6eld, aged
10 years, and Christina Redfield, aged II,
disappeared at once. George r ,dfield, aged
II, after struggling for some time became ex-
hausted, and sank out of sight. The rest of
the party were finally rescued by passing
fisherman. The bodies of the drowned have
not been recovered.
SECOND DIsPATCH.l
San Francisco, June 25:h.-The bodies of
the two unfortunate daughters and son of
Mr. Redfeld, who were drowned to-day near
San Rafael, have not been recovered yet.
Fishermen are of ths opinion that the bodies
will wash ashore in few days.
Sudden Death OF n Prominent Citizen.
SAN Francisco. June 25th.-Captain C.
P. Blethern, who is well known in this city
among mining aud real estate circles, dropped
dead this afternoon near the corner of Cali
fornia and Polk streets. He was in the act of
stepping into a car, when suddenly stagger-
ing back few steps he fell and expired in
stantly. His death is attributed to heart
disease. Deceased was aged 80 years. His
family has resided here some years. He has
been engaged in business in China until about
a year ago, when he returned to this city.
Deceased at the time Of his death possessed
considerable amouat of property, and was
largely interested in real estate. He was
President of the Board of Trustees of the
First Baptist Church, and member of the
Merchants Exchange. He leaves wife and
several children.
Bark on Fire.
SAN FRANoIsco, June 25:h.-EcrlY this
morning the bark Roswell Sprague left here
bound for Port Townsend. with 100 tons of
hay op board and other cargo. After passing
the Heads some miles the vessel was discov-
cred to be on fire, and immediately turned
back for port. She was taken in tow by the
StchlueE LUIS anRcicsp WuIVu HaPpohcu w We
coming in. At Black Point the fire tug
Governor Irwin came to the rescue, and
assisted by other tugs, towed the vessel on to
the fats, where she now lies beached. The
fire was extinguished after long fight. The
damage to the vessel and cargo cannot be
estimated at present, but will probably be
heavy. Spontaneous combustion is supposed
to have been the cause OF the fire.
The sand.Lst-Fatal Fali-Pure Air VIC.
IatOrs-Fire Alarms.
SAN Francisco, June 25th.-The meeting
at the sapdlot was well attended. Denis
Kearney addressed the meeting.
Pietro Perueni had heavy fall on the
street Saturday night, sustaining fracture
of the skull! He died from the effects of his
in uties some hours after the accident.
AT an early hour this morning 81 Chinese
pure-air law offenders were arrested by the
officers. The offenders will probably have a
hearing tomorrow.
Since II o'clock Saturday night six alarms
of fire have been sounded. The fires in each
instance have been slight, the damage not
exceeding $500.