The morning call., 1893-11-18
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

From Market street north 10 the end of
the seawaA there was scarce wharf that
escaped damage either to the structure it.
. self or to shipping moored there.
=. AT Washington street the entire end of
: the; shed for distance of seventy feet
:: back was lifted from the piles and thrown
tothe southwark, making complete wreck
=. Of it. Part of the wreckage was blown
oH.the hurricane deck of the river steamer
Constance. aft the engines, and crushed it
TO kindfing wood. James Woods,
Mekelumne farmer. was asleep in one of
the staterOoms. A beam crushed through
thereon next to him and made splInters
Of the partition, next to which he was
lying, bet be escaped without, injury.
Damage to the Constance will exceed
$1,000. Her machinery escaped injury and
. she left al 2 p. NJ
The steamer Humboldt caught part OF
the shed, which was hurled with great vio-
tence, upon both her masts. These were
shattered and had to be taken out Re-
pairs were begun before noon.
The end of the Broadway wharf was
twisted out of line and part of it will have
90 come down.
AT the bulkhead between Green and
Union streets and at Elsherman'S wharf
there was great havoc among small craft.
The tug Ethel and Marion and the fishing
tugs Farragut and Golden Gate got tangled
up. So great was the force of the wind
and so rough the water that there was no
way OF separating them. In the scrlmmage
fhe Ethel and Marion got the worst of it.
Scarcely had she released herself than she
.strack the scow schooner PinOle, carrying
away her Jbboom ana bOwsprit and losing
her own smokestack. Then she bumped
into. the American ship Shenandoah and
:raked of several pieces of copper. The
Ethel and Marion lost her deckhouse. boat,
6mOkeStack. smashed her bulwarks on
both sides, carried away her s:arboard rail
and all but sank.
The scOw schooner Piute. lying at the
fulkhead. stove in her port buwarks and
broke off her bowsprit.
:. AT Fishermen's wharf intense excite
ment'prevailed from l to 4 A. NJ. The low
structure was exposed to the full force of
wind and wave, and any attempt to secure
:. the fleet moored there would have been
suicidal. A man could not have lived a
minute aboard one of the boats with the
white foam dashlng over them with almost
hurricane force. Sixteen boats were torn
from their moorings. Five of them suak
and the remaining eleven were driven
: against the bulkhead piles and reduced to
spiinters. The pier which served as
banding place on the north side was car
ried away. nothing being left but a few
piles broken off at the water line.
The tug Tia Juana lay at the north side
of Flshermen's wharf, near the bulkhead.
One sea smashed her boat and wrenched
her davts loose, while another carried
away her rudder. Charles Ford, the
watchman, was aboard of her. and as her
bow rose to the level of the wharf he made
q Jump for his lite and landed safely. He
said: "She bucked just like a cayuse.
One minute her bow would be even with
those tall piles and the next minute her
stem would be striking the bulkhead."
The American bark Ceylon kept rub
bing against section of the seawall until
she lost her main and mizZen channels and
crushed half dozen planks on her quar-
ter. The brig Galilee was just ahead of
her, and being light escaped with some
scratches. Said Captain Calhoun Of the
Ceyion: 81 never sew anything like 1t
was between and 3o'clock. The spray.
and very heavy spray it was. too, went
clean over us and struck the roof OF the
shed. Sly mate told me he saw the spray
breaking clean over the foreyard or the
GaliIee. She was light, and looked as II
she was bound to jump on the wharf. Sne
went SO high that you could see her
bottom. I've lived here thirty years, and
this blow beats them ali"
At Lombard-street wharf every door on