The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-05
SEA AND SHORE.
Particulars of Engineer Tomlin.
sons Death.
a Wealthy salvation-Army sailor-The Circe
Sunk at Her Dock in Baltimore "A
Schooner Springs Leak.

end of Pacific-street Wharf about 3 O'Clock
yesterday morning, and was fished out by
Officers Ellis and O'Neil, who took him to
the Receiving Hospital to be pumped out.
From DIR. Chapman, surgeon of the steamer
Gaelic, the real facts of the accident bv
which Tomlinson, the Chief Engineer of
that ship, met his death were learned YES
terday afternoon. 1t appears that the en-
gineer had been on shore and was returning
to the ship on the evening of January 18Th.
In getting to the ship he had to cross a slip
where boats and launches are repaired
This is crossed on a plank, and when he
reached it another man, whose name couId
not be learned, and who was under the inllu-
ence of liquor, was on the plank, trying to
cross. Seeing him stagger, the engineer ran
to his assistance, aud both fell to the rocks
below, a distance of fourteen feet. The
stranger escaped without serious hurt, but
Mr.. T0mlinson struck on his head, and sus-
tanned injuries which caused his death.
DR.. Chapman called to his assistance
Professor Rutter Of Saint Bartholomew's
Hospital, London, who was staying at the
Grand Hotel. and two operations were per-
formed, but erysipelas set in and the un-
fortunate man expired nine days later. The
body was taken ashore yesterday morning
and placed in charge of the Society of Marine
Engineers, of which he was member. The
deceased was 45 years of age, a native of
Liverpool, and leaves a wife and five
children to mourn his untimely death. He
was formerly engineer of the old steamer
Gaelic, and also of the Arabic, and had been
in the service of the Occidental and Oriental
Steamship Company for over fifteen years.
SALVATION JOHN"
The bark Germania has sailor who Is
also a member of the Salvation Army. His
name is John Westerlund but he is better
known as salvation John" John shipped
aboard the Germania on her first trip i'll
1850, and the ship has seldom made voyage
without him. Ever since he joined the
Army lie has worn the regulation red shirt.
John is about the only "a. l" sailing out
of San Francisco who has handbook. He
can also show the deeis to considerable real
estate. Though an old man, John is still
hale and hearty, and expects to make many
a voyage in his IayOrite snip yet.
The tragedy at AlcatraZ, in which DR..
William Dietz killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide last week, was in all prob
ability the cause Of another death few
days later. The doctor had been in attend
ance on Frank Brandt, who was suffering
from blood poisoning, and on the night or
morning of the tragedy sat up with him I'M
til a short time before he committed the
dreadful deed. When Brandt was told Of
took relapse and died last Saturday and
was buried in the military cemetery Oh
Monday.
DISTINGUISHED PASSENGERS.
The mail steamer Monowai has over
forty cabin passengers booked for this trip.
Among those are the President of the Union
Steamship Company OF New Zealand, the
Hon. George Mclean; Alexander Cam
meron of Virginia, the great tobacco grower,
and William Thow of the New..South Wales
railroads. Arthur Thane of the Humboldt
Redwood Manufacturers Association will
also be passenger.
The Seeding orange trees brought to San
Francisco on the Rio Janeiro are to be in
spected by the quarantine officer of the
Board OF Horticulture.
RETURNED To PORT.
The British schooner Oscar and Hattie
sailed for Victoria from San Francisco last
Friday. When about fifty miles off shore
she began to leak so badly that the men
were sent to the pumps and she was at once
put about. The crew had great difficulty in
keeping her atloat, as the pumps choked re-
peatedly.
The steamer George W. Elder, Captain
Lewis came down from Portland and As
toria in sixty-t%5 hours: She has-A, 469
sdcSs OF wheat for the Pacific Coast Elevator
Company.
SUNK AT HER DOCK.
News comes from Baltimore that the
steamer Gree sank at her dock yesterday
The Gree was loading flour and the cargo
was badly damaged. The accident is said
to have been caused by some one leaving the
waste-pipe open. No lives were lost.
Captain Knowles, owner of the steamer
Jeanne. which eolllded with the schooner
Electra recently, was asked yesterday what
settlement had been made. The captain was
evidently not in good humor as lie testify
replied, "A settlement has been made
that's all L know about il"
The schooner John G. North, four DAYS
from Mahukona, has cargo Of 10,349 bags
of sugar for Williams, Dimond & Co.
Steamer Crescent City, Captain StOckfleth,
was thirty-seven hours from Crescent City.
Steamer Coos Bay came up from San
Pedro in two and half days
The schooner Ethel Dean was thirteen
DAYS on the trip from San Diego, in ballast.
The schooners Mary Dodge and Falcon
were both towed to sea yesterday.
A LARGE CARGO.
The large American ship Rappahannock
came down from Port Costa yesterday and
anchored in the stream. She has 50S7 tons
of wheat on board. This is the third cargo
of over 5000 tons taken from San Fran cisco
in the history Of the grain trade.
The steamer Montserrat went up to the
Mail Dock.
The bark Nonantum was taken to How
ard street.
The barks Richard III and Discovery both
lowed TO sea.
The whaling steamer Orca went to the
oil works.
The Germania went to Main street.
The bark Girvin to wed from the Nevada
Dock and anchored in the stream.
The ticket office of the South Pacific Coast
Railway Company has been moved from the
old entrance and placed in front of the
new depot.
At Point Lobos the weather yesterday at
6 o'clock in the morning was fOggy and
calm; at 9 o'clock. foggy. with southwest
wind, twelve miles an hour. There was no
change reported up to o'clock in the after
noon. At s o'clock in the morning the bar
ometer stood 1904; noon, 1905; at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, 29.99.
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