The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-23
SEA AND SHORE.
Another Steamer Leaves for
Chile With Supplies.
The Palestine Wreck Overdue Ships-Engi.
neer Byrns Talks-Along the Front.
Movements and Charters.

| ship Palestine lie. The temporary light ship
has been removed and it now remains for
the United States to finish the work and de-
stroy The hull in order to clear The channel.
The Whitelaw returned yesterday with
| the ships pumps and the remainder of her
| chain cable, about thirty fathoms.
The steamer West Indian sailed for
Iquique yesterday afternoon. The steamer
| had big cargo on board and deck-load of
hay that was as high as the bridge She is
| expected to make the run down in less than
| twenty days.
The bark S. c. Allen is also loaded and
will soon be on her way to Chile also, laden
| with provisions, the major portion of which
| is flour and barley.
THE MoNowAIs CARGO.
The mail steamer MOnowai will sail for
Sydney tomorrow as soon as the mails are
| on board.
Among her cargo are 500 tons of wheat,
| 70 tons OF germea, 10 tens of broom corn, 70
tons broom handles and $50 tons Of holdings
| and doors.
The Willamette Valley. belonging to the
| Oregon Development Company, will go
| into commission again this week and will
| sail for Yaauina Bay on the 3lst inst
Since the steamer has been laid up she has
| received thorough overhaullng; all her
cabins and the saloon have been rented and
she looks like a new vessel.
OVERDUE SHIPS.
The British ship City of Florence is not
the only vessel on the way to This port that
| is overdue, as the following list will show /:
| The Florence heads the list, as she is now
| out ia days from Antwerp; the j. c. Glade
| Is out l13 days from Liverpool; the Knight
| Commander from Antwerp and the Emily
| from New \ ork are both out los days; the
| SaTdomene is cut 1913 days from Calcutta
the Eurasia from London is out 154 days,
while the Arabia from New York and
| BreidablIk from Glasgow are both out 15l
| days. The Norwegian bark Victoria beats
| them all. as she left Callao for Puget Sound
154 days ago, the average trip being about
| sixty days.
The schooner Lizzis r A was sold yes
| terday at auction by United States Marshal
| Long to II. c. LasSen for $3.50 Mr.. LaSsen
| VIII add the vessel 10 his coastiBg fleet.
Won HELMS ROCK.
| Lieutenant D. Delehanty, u. S. n, COM
| mandlng the United States Coast and Geo
| deiic Survey steamer Hassler, has succeeded
| IN correctly locating this dangerous sunken
| rock. In his report Lieutenant Delehanty
| states that The rock lies little over eight
| teDthS OF a mile from shore and about half 4
| mile outside of the kelp line, Cambria Rock
| bearing north 30o west north-nUIthwcst
| hve-elghths west, approximately, distant
| two miles, and White Rcek bearing south
| S9' % east least One-eighth south, approx
| mately), distant one and quarter miles.
| There is depth of about fifteen feet over
| the rock and from eighteen to twenty faith
| oms all around it.
| The following vessels came in yesterday:
The steamers Oregon from Portland, West
| Coast from Plsmo, Whitesbro from Green
| wood, anu Nnyo from Noyo.
| Steamers Los Angeles for Eureka, Colum-
hla for Astoria, Eureka for Wilmington,
| West Indian for Iquique, National City for
| Humboldt, and Alex Duncan for Port Har-
| ford, went TO sea yesterday
| The SchOoner5 Robert Searles, Mary
Dodge, Ralph j. Long. Berwick, Abbie, Del
Norte, Mary Eta, Reliance ana Fannie
Adele sailed for coast ports.
ENGINEER BYRNE's STATEMENT.
Engineer T. j. Byrne OF the steamer
| Santa Maria makes the following state
| ment relative TO the incidents leading up to
the running Of that veSse! on the mud flats:
| Left San Francisco Friday afternoon at
O'CLOCK Tor Fort Costa to bring down the
| Santa Maria. l found twenty inches of
water in the crank-pit, by measurement.
| Got the ship under way Saturday about i
o'clock noon. Arrived in San Francisco
about O'Clock. The ship was quite dry.
| There was no water in her. The captain
rang the jingle-bel that he was through
with the engine. l gave orders to the fire.
man to haul fires and blow down his boil
| er. He Shut the Injection and | went down
| and shut it afterward. The fireman washed
himself and went away. remained on the
| ship and shut off the blow and raised
| the safety-valve. Took lamp and
went around to see if everything
was all right. Pound everything all right.
| There were only a couple of inches of
water. Saw the Waterman and told him to
| look out for things in the engine depart
| ment; to 60 down every hour and look out
that there was no fire in the engine depart
| ment Gave him strict orders about going
| down every hour and seeing that everything
| was all right in that department.. / met the
mate and he asked me if there was any
water in the ship. told him no. He said
she was leaking. He was afraid water
| would get in the forward part of her,
| asked him If there were timber holes in her.
and he said that there were, but the timber
chain was broken in them and they wera of
no use. But lie said they had put suction
pipe from the donkey pump forward; 1
could turn to and put the pump on
and pump whatever water there was
in her out. / asked him to sound the water
IN the forward part of the ship to find how
much water there was in her, He replied
that he had no way of sounding her. l then
told him That if lie had any doubts about
her leaking to get fireman and keep him
on her donkey boiler all night, as | was not
going on the ship and did not consider that
| had any right to Interfere with anybody
coming there. He thought it would be all
right and that he would not keep fireman
on her all night as he did not want to go to
| that expense.
''On Sunday morning at o'clock the fire.
|
go down into the fireroom he stepped off the
ladder into water up to his knees. The
ship was taken over to Mission Flats.
| was aboard about 9 o'clock and got tho
water out of her and at 4 o'clock there was
not three inches of water in her. When
went aboard Of her | found between two
and three feet of water in her engine
department.
after l pumped the ship ont told the
| fireman to go down and measure her and
l "a 9 Tn mn 10 NM
nick in the stick. showing that there was
| about three inches of water. | told him to
measure every half-hour and he could tell
| what water she was making. / told him at
| nigh water to pump up the main boiler and
get the fires ready To start, as orders might
come to move the ship. There was no cap
tain nor any one else on board at the time to
| give orders and We did not know what we
were going to do. Told them | would be
| back about or o'clock that Sunday night.
Having worked AL of Sunday and being wet
l did not go down, but if they wanted me
they knew where to fed me.
-" went down on Monday morning and
| the mate told me that Maharn wanted 10 see
| me up at his Office. He said you must have
left valve open rs the ship is not leaking
any water | told him there was no valve
to leave open; that when the injection was
| shut her sea-cOck was shut and when she
| came off the flats she would leak again
| through her seams.
" When he took her off the flats on Mon
day and took her to Mission-street Wharf
she leaked and he had to put her on the flats
again: told him that the only way he could
keep her from leaking was to get calkers
on her, which L am told he did.
| When the engineer left the ship he left
| behind written statement of what repairs
were necessary, which included new set of
tubes in the boiler and other repairs, none
OF which have been attended to. This is a
| true statement OF the whole affair in so far
as l am concerned. And do not wish to be
made scapegrace for Mr.. Maharn or his
| Ship"
| MOVEMENTS.
The moves yesterday were the steamers
Zealandia to the refinery. the Umatilla from
Beale to Broadway, the ship Bidston Hill
20 Port Costa, Swanhilda from Port Costa
to the stream, the Yosemite locked at Oak
land and the Two Brothers at Brale street
Bark Coiusa, 1923 tons. now on the sound,
lumber thence hence to Guaymas, has been char