National Republican., 1883-02-05
WRECKS ALONG SHORE.
The Disaster TO the Steamer Tacoma
Other Vessels Meet with Accidents.


Other Vessels Meet with Accidents.
SAN Francisco, CAL, Feb. 4.-Late news
from the wrecked steamer Tacoma leaves the
fate of those remaining on board still doubt.
full. The second mate had charge on dccl;
when the ship struck, but he neither saw nor
heard the breakers until the ship went on
land among them. The ship was supposed to
have been well of shore, and the only theory
in explanation of the disaster is possible de-
rangcmcnt of the compasses. The night
was dark, but not foggy A dispatch
from Empire City says: "Tho steam
tug Feayless, which arrived from the
wreck of the Tacoma reports that nine
of the crew were lost, and that First AS
sistant Engineer Grant died after getting
ashore, The ship is completely broken and
nothing can be saved from her. Five bodies
have been recovered. Nothing can be seen of
the wreck but the top Of the cylinder at low
wafer Seven men were lost oil the foreyards
when the masts went overheard"
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IA dispatch from
Empire City, Greg, says: On Wednesday
afternoon, whom the first news of tho wreck
ofthc steam collier Tacoma YVES received here,
requesting the assistance of liebOuts to rescue
the men on the wreck, II crew OF eight volun-
teercd and proceeded that night after dark to
the life saving station ut Cape Gregory, dis
tant from here about nine miles, where they
arrived about IL o'clock that night and in
formed the keeper of the station of the wreck;
that they came rs u volunteer crew, and that
the tug Escort would be oil the station at
daylight to take them to the wreck. The
men then, under the direction of the
keeper proceeded to put the boat in
condition for the trip and launched her,
and, with the keeper in charge, went about
two miles to practice the crew in pulling.
The boat then returned, and Il short time NJ
ter the tug arrived off the station. The
keeper now refused to go out or TO allow the
men to take the boat. Three of the men got
small boat from the light house keeper and
went of to the tug and informed the captain
that the keepcrwould not 90 or let the boat go.
The keepers only excuse for such conduct
was that he would not go without an cX-
perienced crow. Capt, Hill, of the tug Fear
less, who returned from the wreck on Satur-
day, thinks that if life boat and gun for
throwing lines had been ut the place of the
disaster all those lost on the Tacoma would
have been saved"
KEY WEST, FLA, Feb. 1.-The British
steamer Neto from Galveston, for Liverpool,
has arrived here. She reports that she struck
reef near Tortugas and was relieved by
wreckcrs taking out her cargo.
Tho Neto discharged about 2O0 bales into
the wrecEors and iettisoned about 500 the
most OF which will probably DO recovered.
There were only two small wrcc5crs on the
ground when she struck. She is leaking
badly in her forward water ballast tank and
also aft.
ATLANTIC Cry, Nj, Feb. d.-Thc British
ship ParlSlield, Capt. William Anderson,
bound from Calcutta for New York with u
cargo Of juto, lingecd, and saltpete, came
ashore on Little Egg harbor shoals carly this
morning. Tho captain and crew of twenty
three men We're taken Off tho vessel by tho
life saving crew from station No. %. The
vessel is in critical position and has eight
feet of water in her hold.
New YORK, Feb. 1.-The Fall river steamer
Old Colony ran ashore on the point of Hart's
island at 7i0 u. IN. during u thick fog. The
extent of the damage has not been asccr-
tanned. The passengers were brought TO this
city by the steamer City of Lawrence, of the
Norwich line. An attempt will be made to
float her tonight at high water.