The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-06

bers, cries OF men and n general rush Of the
seamen aboard the Santa Rosa TO the star
board side of the vessel. 1t was all done
and over so quickly that the passengers, eX-
cept an unlucky three who were on the hur-
rlcane deck, knew nothing about what had
happened, and until the engines stopped and
aud they heard the short, sharp commands
OF the mates ordering an anchor cast they
had no idea that an accident had occurred.
Ii was not so with the three unlucky pas
seDgers on the hurricane deck. They had
seen the Santa-ROsa collide with n ship at
anchor, and had watched, with ever grow
Ing apprehension, the damage being done
to the steamship. When the tiller rope
broke on the port side Of the Santa Rosa,
the steamship was just about to pass the
bark Flintsbire. The broken tiller rope
rendered the rudder of the steamship use
less, and the vessel was practically help
less. The engines were stopped almost in
stantly, but the momentum carried the
steamer on toward the bark. and tho
broken rudder turned her across the bows
OF the anchored ship. A collision was in
eyitable. The Santa Rosa, moving rapidly,
was without steering gear, and the bark
she was approaching was at anchor and
could not get out of the way.
hen the vessels met the bowsprit of the
Fluts hire caught the Santa Rosa Just abaft
the pilot-hOuse and ran through the hurri-
cane deck. The steamer tore across the
baIk's bows and the bowsprit Of the latter
hundred feet Of the Santa Rosa's hurricane
deck, including half the bridge, the ratings
on the main deck and two of her boats,
were carried away. while a big hole was
punched In the iron plates near the bow of
the boat and close to her deck line
At the moment of tile accident the tug
Hercules was passing. towing into port a
ship, and the Santa Rosa at once siRnaled
her. The tug lay alongside and then the
captain OF the little 'pnll" told Captain
Inv 4 g So.
minute" and he would come back after the
steamer. The Santa Rosa cast anchor and
waited for the tug, which returned and
tOwed the steamer TO the Broadway wharf,
from which she had started a few hours
before.
There was no panic aboard, for the
reason that the passengers had no intma-
ton that there had been an accident until
the trouble was all over. but there was a
panic wien the Santa Rosa got back to the
dock and the passengers found they would
be compelled to wait until this morning be-
fore they could leave the city. and then,
Instead OF the clean. wel-appointed modern
steamship Santa Rosa, they would have TO
take berths on the old but tried and true
steamer Mexico. For two hours and few
minutes the life of the purser OF the Santa
Rosa was burden to him, and then he shut
up shop and went away, with the assertion
that he intended TO put Sub" on board
the Mexico and let him fight with the people
who wanted to see the purser" in
order to tell him that stateroom
I've got is not, Young man,
what I was shown when bought my tick
et" and you told NE I'd be where /
wouldn't be seasck, and Pm right at the
bow of the boat" and you know wouldn't
ever have thought Of going in wooden
ship" et-., and yet the Mexico while not
as fancy as tie Santa Rosa, is considered
one Of the best coasting steamships ahoat.
All the freight and passengers were trans
ferred from the Santa Rosa to the Mexico
yesterday afternoon. The damage TO the
Santa Rosa is slight and will not amount to
over $1,000. The damage to the Flintshire
is also nominal. The vessel has been towed
into Mission Bay for repairs. As reported
the damage to the sailing ship is a sprung
bowsprit and considerable of her headgear
carried away.