The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-22
SEA AND SHORE.
The Magellan Believed to Have
Been Lost off Cape Horn.
An Apprentice Lost Overheard From the Ship
Ea.on Ha,l-The Wh'telaw Dropped
Her Tow eff Cape Banco.

The British ship Eaton Hall, Captain
Lowrison, arrived yesterday after passage
of 1G2 days from Newcastle, England, with
a cargo of merchandise for Balfour Guthrie
& Co. Some little anxiety has been felt in
insurance circles regarding her, because
couple of III onths ago the American ship St
Mary, which put into Port Stanley, Falk-
land Islands, and was stranded there, re-
ported that she had been in collision with
ship supposed to be the Eaton Hall
A few days ago the British ship Dunbar
ton Rock arrived in this port, and Captain
Donovan reported that he had been in COLI
sion with vessel in the vicinity of Cape
Horn and it was generally thought here on
his arrival that it was his vessel that collided
with the st. Mary.
On Tuesday, July 18TH in latitude $50 4O'
south, longitude 4So % west, William
Chichester Barnard, an apprentice of the
Eaton Hall, fell overheard and was drowned.
He was 16 years of age and native of
England.
FROM THE SHIPS LOG,
The following is taken from Captain
Lowrisons report of the passage: Sailed
May 18th; passed Cape Clear May 21st;
crossed the equator Al days out. Had light
airs and Gains all though the southern
tropics. Off the east coast of Patagonia had
fogs and calms, accompanied by thunder and
lightning. Passed Cape Horn on July Sd,
70 days out. On August ID had a strong
westerly gale. in which we lost lower main
topsail and ship took a heavy list 10 port.
Afterward had continuation of heavy
gales until August 9th, when we had ter
rife gale, and the ship was hove to for IS
hours on the port tack.
We had squalls of hurricane force, and
drifted with the storm and Cape Horn cur
rent north by east ia miles. Had strong
gales and unsettled weather until August
18th, when we passed Cape HON the Sec
ond time Were twenty-five days from 50o
south in the Atlantic to 50' south in the Pa
cifc. Then had an uneventful passage to
port.
The Eaton Hall also spoke the following
named vessels on the passage; st Mary,
Henry Willard, Prince Edward, Star of
Russia, Elsinore and Spartan.
QUITE A DOUBT, NOTWITHSTANDING.
Although the Eaton Hall has turned up
all right, and reported no collision with any
vessel off Cape Horn, it is not at all certain
that it was the Dumbarton Rock that was
in collision with the st. Mary off the Horn.
Underwriters have been feeling uneasy
lately as to the safety OF the American ship
Magellan. which left Boston on May 10th
for Valparaiso, and has not been heard of
since. From adyices received yesterday
from Boston it is feared that the Magellan
was the vessel that was in collision with the
s.. Mary, and thar she sank with all hands.
Some time ago the owners of the Magellan,
Messrs. Hemenway Il Browne, received
information that oil packages had been
passed at sea bearing their private mark.
They then thought the ship might have en-
countered bad weather and had 10 jettison
some of her cargo. A second and later
report came from Port Stanley, Falkland
Islands, to the effect that wreckage from the
Magellan had drilted ashore at that place.
The captain of the German steamer Neko,
which arrived at Valparaiso on September
18th, reported that while at the Falkland Isl
ands lie personally interviewed the crew
of the ship ST. Mary, who told him that on
the night of August 9th their vessel ran into
moments without the st. Mays crew
being able to save anybody or to dis
Germ any distinguishing marks on the
Inflated ship. Alter the collision the St.
Mary tried to make the Falkland Islands,
but the muster mistaking his position, the
ship was stranded on the rocks south of
the Kelp Islands and subsequently went to
pieces. The entire crew OF the st. Mary
was saved.
A REPORT FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
On September LIST the German bark Pera
arrived at Valparaiso, and the captain re-
ported TO the agents of the Magellan there
that on August 18th, when 100 miles south
of Statenland, in latitude so 81 south.
longitude $50 80 west, his vessel passed
through large quantities of wreckage, in
GLIDING parts Of wrecked vessel and pack
ages OF mercfandlSa, some of which were
g.tlt t,
cured was case of PETROLEUM, bearing marks
which Hemenway IL Browne recognized as
their private mark on the cases in the Ma
gellan'S cargo.
The captain also saw among the wreckage
the body of man dashed to something, APP
parentfy door or part OF cabin. 1t will
be noted that these observations were made
six days after the collision between the st.
Mary and an unknown vessel. The great
mass of wreckage seen by the captain Of the
German bark and the fact that the body near
by was in a good state of preservation con-
WINGED him that the disaster was of recent
occurrence. The owners of the Magellan, it
is said, feel very little doubt that it was their
ship that was in collision with the ST. Mary,
and further fear that it is more than prob
able that the entire crew has persisted.
The Magellan was built at Boston in 1878.
and was of 1913 tons gross register. Her
dimensions were: Length 17S, beam 81,
depth of hold % feet Ship and cargo were
insured for their full value. Captain Dono-
van of the Dumbarton Rock has snce his
arrival maintained very discreet silence as
to exactly when. where and how his ship
colided with another of Cape Horn, saying
that he would report to the proper authori-
ties. 1t was thought by many here that he
was in collision with the st. Mary, and that
he wished 10 keep the matter secret.
DROPPED HER row.
Whitelaw's wrecking steamer arrived YES
tnF61 of from of
sage of niue days. When she left Victoria
she had in tow the four-inasted schooner
formerly the steamer of the same nance,
which Is laden with wreckage from the Bar
nard Castle. Off Cape Blanco the White
law found herself short of coal, so that on
sunday morning she dropped her tow there
and came. down alone. The schooner is
well found and manned, and will no doubt
come down all right under sail.
Lynde & Hough's codtshing feet, the
Afago. Fremont, Jane A. Falkinburg and
John Hancock, are now laid up in Oakland
Creek The Hancock will be brought out
of seclusion next week and sent up to Sand
Point. James il. O'Brien, agent at Sand
Point, is expected to arrive here on the
Dashing Wave, which may reach here any
day.
A new steamer is being built at Bandou,
10 ply between that port and San Francisco
Her dimensions will be: Length $50, beam
80, depth Of ho'd 10 feet. She will carry 400
tons OF coal on wat9r draft OF feet. The
estimated cost Of the vessel is $40, 600, and
SHE will have accommodations for 80 cabin
and 10 Storage passengers.
The weather was hay at Point Lobos
yesterday and the wind all day from the
northeast, blowing in the forenoon twelve
aud in the afternoon six miles an hour.
The barometer read: 8 o'clock in the morn
ing, 1892; noon, 29S6; O'Clock in the even
ing, 1882.
THE AGED COLUMBIA
The bark Columbia, owned by the Port
B!akely Mill Company, is loaded at Seattle
Tor Honolulu. This vessel is ioriy-four years
cid, and was in the early days Liverpool
packet Captain Renton knew her well
when she was new, and is now one of her
owners. In February, 1917, he sailed from
New York in the Amanda, with load of
corn for Ireland on the day the Columbia
cleared for Liverpool. Both vessels were
caught by storm midway across the At
lantic, and the captain, mate and three of
the crew of the Columbia were washed over