The morning call., 1890-12-04
MANY VESSELS BAR-BoUND.
The Charleston, with King KaIakeua
Afraid to EnIer Port

The Charleston, With King Knlaksua,
Afraid to Enter Port.
Bar breaking" were the significant words
chroncled upon the blackboard at the Mer-
chants Exchange at Z O'Clock Yesterday
morning. This was the first intimation the
public received that the initial storm of the
winter had broken forth with great violence,
and that it would be almost an act of mad
ness for any vessel to venture through the
Golden Gate.
Before sunrise the storm broke forth upon
the Pacific, and terrific gales swept in
through the heads, threatening destruction
to the shipping in its pathway. The fierce
winds dashed the waters of the bay until it
was dangerous for small craft to even VEN
ture forth in the harbor. Only two vessels.
one steamer and the other bark, of the
inward bound fleet, dared to cross the treach-
erous bar, and not one Of those that had
cleared sailed out Of the bay without re-
turning to port.
BREAKING BADLY
"Bar breaking badly" was the warning
to mariners telephoned in by the lookout at
the Point Lobos Station at / o'clock in the
afternoon. The wind was then blowing
from the south with a velocity of forty-four
miles an hour. and the weather was very
cloudy. According to the reports sent in by
the marine observer at 6 o'clock in the morn
ing the wind was blowing from the south
east at the rate of twenty-four miles an
hour. AS the day advanced the violence of
the storm increased, ana at 2:10 o'clock in
the afternoon the wind had veered around
to the south, and swept over the bar with a
velocity of ffty-six miles an hour. 1t stead
lily Increased. and at 80 o'clock the Point
Lobos observer reported that it was blowing
at the rate OF sixty-four miles. The barom-
eter. which had sunk to 1851, was still fall
lndIp1 yuar hat Inn tar
would soon increase TO an alarming extent
FRIGHTENED PASSENGERS.
The big steamer Walla Walla. Captain
Wallace, which left Victoria last Sunday
morning, was the first vessel to cross the
bar. She steamed over safely at o'clock in
the afternoon, although the seas, which
were mountains high" swept over her
from bow to stern, carrying every loose OBJ
Ject on the decks overheard. To say that
the hfty-hve cabin and seventy-fve steerage
passengers were frightened is expressing it
very mildly; Every one was deathly sick
Some were almost frantic with terror.
While some prayed others shouted loudly
and demanded to be let out of their close
quarters before the steamer foundered
Captain Wallace remained on the bridge
ana was too actively engaged in navigating
the vessel to pay any attention to the APP
peals of the passengers. When the steamer
locked at Broadway Wharf some of the
iduy passengers were so weak from sickness
and fear that they had to be assisted ashore.
Captain Wallace told a CALL reporter that
the weather was unusually severe all the
way down and that he encountered a series
OF fierce and contrary gales. The steamer
was fourteen hours late, as 1t took thirty
hours to run through the storm from Cape
Mendoclno to this port, when the run is
usually made in less than sixteen hours.
FROM HONOLULU.
At seven o'clock in the evening the bark
Z. u. Bryant from Honolulu, sailed into
bar was still in most dangerous condition.
The waves were still running so high that
the officers had to pour ten gallons of oil
upon them in order to moderate their fury.
BY this means the Bryant made her way
in through the Golden Gate and anchored in
sheltered portion of the harbor.
The bark's commander, Captain jacob
son, reported to the Merchants Exchange
that he sighted the new United States