The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-30
BLOWINGOUTSI
Many Coasters Returned
Disabled.
Two English Ships Posted as Unin-
surabIe - San Francisco Manu-
features for Central America.

Heavy seas and gale that made seamen
keep an eye on spars and sails blew off
Point Reyes Thursday night and yester-
day afternoon. One by one the coas:iug
fleet that left Thursday morning returned
to port with topmasts carried away or
stays broken. A long line of white
breakers stretched along the Marin shore
from early morn till late in the evening
and heavy cross sea tumbled about in
riotous confusion from Stewards Point to
the Golden Gate.
Inside San Francisco harbor little EVIL
dence Of the rough weather outside was
manifest. A steady breeze blew from the
northwest, but the weather was as genial
as the climate of day of spring
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon seventy
two miles an hour was recorded off Point
Reyes, and some anxiety was expressed
for the vessels bound up the coast. The
schooner Albion was the first to return in
the morning. reporting that while off
Point BoInas her jibstay was carried
away at 10 o'clock on Thursday night. Her
crew said that IL was one OF The stOrmiest
nights that they had ever experienced
outside. The wind was blowing stiffly
from tile northwest, and light fog covered
The surface of the ocean and YVES drfted
rapidly about by the Increasing breeze. The
heaviest sea and wind was encountered off
Point BOlinas by the Albion.
Mkt in order came the schooner Archie
and F0ntie. which sailed on the 2Sth Tor
Stewards Point. While off Smith Point
the vessel had carried away her fOrestav,
and was obliged to return to port for
repairs.
The schooner Joseph Russ was more un-
fortunate than any of the fleet Of coasters.
She had to come back to port because her
mailmast had been broken off like pipe
stem by the bowling breeze. and sue was
in danger of being swamped by the noun
famous seas north or the bar In the
evening several other vessels were forced
to return to barbor.
Tie force of "a seventy-mile breeze can
not we'll be imagined by iandsman. At
the Point Reyes signal station it is not
possible tn put up signal flag vi hen
siXty-kDot gale is at its height, and
human being can scarcely walk against
the wind when the gauge registers eighty
miles an hour.
A strange story comes from the British
ship Garsdale, which sailed for Falmouth,
England, from Tacoma on the 23d Of April.
On August 8 swarm of locusts dropped on
the decks of the ship. covering her rig
ging and deck plankS with the insects.
Land birds and butterflies also lit upon the
ship, and her crew thought that the end
had come. The nearest land was san An
tonic Island, distant sevenly-6ve miles,
and the Garsdale's officefs cannot account
for the phenomenon.
The British ships Blair Atbold and
WooltOn are posted as missing and unin-
surable. The Blair A hold is out 30 DAYS
from Java TO Vancouver with a cargo Of
sugar. She j. a Glasgow built vessel con-
structed in 1874. The WOolton is out 106
DAYS from Newcastle. n. 5. W., to VAL
paraiso with coal. She is a fine 21OO-ton
vessel built at southampton. England, in
1885
Further particulars were received last
evening concerning the drowning of Ed
ward Fellows, 14-year-Ol1 Oakland bow
who went out fishing off Goat Island last
Monday with three companions.
Young Fellows was standing up in the
boat when his comrades were trying 10
make tack. The boom struck him, and
he was knocked into the water, going
down before the amateur sailors could
come to his rescue. He was the only son
Of a widowed mother.
Careless stevedores of New York have
been the cause of serious damage to the
American ship Florence. Owing to the
lax manner in which the vessel was loaded
three of her lower deck beams were crushed
in by the weight of a consignment of rail-
road iron stored in an incompetent man
ner.
The steamer st. Paul. which has been
chartered by the Gull line, has been
renovated and is now at section of the
seawall.
The body Of an unknown man was found
floating in the bay yesterday morning by
some Italian fishermen and was removed
to the MoIgue.
The North American Navigation Com
pany will carry the Panama and Central
American mails once in every twenty
days. according to its offer accepted by
the government. This cOmpany's steamer,
the keweenaw, was taking on a quantity
of freight yesterday afternoon for Central
America, and among the shipments were
several bu9gies and wagons of San Fran
cisco manufacture. Ii speaks well for the
enterprise of the local firm that con-
structed the vehicles. This is probably
Cne of the first shipments of the kind from