The morning call., 1893-08-27
ON HER BEAM END
Cyclone Strikes the Ship
Harland.
CHINESE LEAVE FOR HOME.
The Gaelic Takes Away Over 800 for
Hong Kong Continued Gains
to the Westward.

The British ship Harlhnd, Captain
Colder. 213 days from Calcutta via Mad
ras, 161 days. with jute and gunnies to
Balfour. Guthrie & Co., long posted and
overdue. arrived last night, right side up
with care.
On June u In latitude 46 south, longi-
tude 153 west. the barometer down to
28.77, she encountered a circular cyclone,
lasting two and half days, throwing her
on her beams end with high, mountain
GUS sea. Her starboard rail was under
water Tor hours at time. The seas
washed the battens off the matches and
Hooded the cabin, the water going down
the after hatch and destroying some of
the provisions. The cabin doors were
stove In, the galley Quilted, this fOrecastle
flooded and every movable thing on deck
washed overheard. but fortunately no one
was injured by the heavy seas which broke
over the ship from stem to stern. After
this terrific storm. nothing eventful hap
pened except Gains. Her underwriters
have paid % per cent for reinsurance on
vessel and cargo.
Another overdue vessel, the Hawaiian
bark Andrew Welch, thirty-three days
from Honolulu, got in last night. She was
detained by Gains.
The Gaelic, this crack ship of the Occi-
dental and Oriental line, left for Hong
Kong yesterday as bright and clean as a
yacht Oh her first trip. She had thirteen
saloon passengers for Yokohama, two for
Hong-KOng and nine for Shanghai. In
the steerage she took over 800 Chinese, the
largest lot which has gone for nearly a
year. Many of them were provided with
certificates CONTAINING their photographs.
Her cargo consisted in part of $500 barrels
nf fOnr q000 nnnnda nf dc
of ginseng and $4,000 pounds Of pearl bar
ley for China and 800 barrels of -four ana
81 rolls of leather for japan. She had also
the complete plant for a match factory at
Yokohama, costing $4,000. The total value
of the cargo is SCI. 800.
Among the Gaelic's passengers was John
ID. Han bury of the Oriental Trading Com
pany, who goes to Yokohama to arrange
for attractions for the California Mid
winter Fair, additional to the exhibit now
at Chicago.
p. Gleason, the contractor who is re-
moving the old shacks at the foot of
Market streets, suffered unmerciful chaff-
ing yesterday. He saw floating In the bay
large package wrapped in oilskin and
firmly Bound, which he imagined to be,
and said was opium. After much exer-
ton and one ducking he secured the treas
ure, being watched by crowd of more
than hundred. Opening il he found the
PnoAa eS ~ Couldiu AJo WAY Bulue5, ana
how the crowd jeered and chsered.
The barkentine S. q. Wilder, which will
sail to-day for Honolulu, has among her
cargo 95 kegs and 80 cases of gunDowder.
She also carries 600 barrels of -four and
very large shipments of provisions and
canned goods, the value of which is S24, 800
The steam schooner Signal is on the
Merchants drydock.
The Italian bark Antioco Accame
cleared yesterday with full cargo of -four.
consisting of 1882 barrels, valued at
S54. 70S, for the United Kingdom. This is
the first fun cargo OF -four shipped during
the present cereal year.