The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-14
THEPUEBLA'SMISHAP
Will Cost Her Owners Many
Thousands Of Dollars.
THE POWERFUL TUG FEARLESS.
Consin uanes Of the Great Northern Snow
Decentralization Cut %
Rates TO California.

towed to San Francisco for repairs. the
tug Fearless having left there yesterday
under command of Capt. Haskell Tor the
Pcebls- The Queen will leave San Fran.
cisco on the Puebia's next trip.
Some Of the Puebia's passengers arrived
in Seattle yesterday, having had enough
OF the sea, and viii 60 overland 10 San
Francisco. They tell some incidents OF
the disaster that have not been published.
After the collier Costa Rica. which was
coming north after cargo. had parted three
lines in trying to tow The Puebia, she left
on her course. The Montserrat. loaded
with coal from British Columbia, then
came up. A bargain was made. Capt.
Debney, of the Puebla, agreeing To pay
the captain of the Montserrat $50, 200 to
take the disabled vessel safely TO Port
Townsend. Then the Montserrat tried her
hand and parted several lines. but could
not develop sufficient power to start the
Puebla. When First Officer Willett and
his boats crew sighted the Wanderer out
side Cape Fia.tery their boat had been
split and leaked SO badly that one man
was kept constantly busy haiiing. At the
same tine the tug was making for loaded
ship outside. and the officer realized that
he must intercept her or she would PICK
up the ship and be unable to go to the
Puebla. The captain of the Wanderer was
in luck. as he had just towed a loaded yes-
sci to sea, and his towing of the Puebla
will probably ne. $3.50 or 5000
The passengers on the Puebla held
meeting on Monday and adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions. Z. Bloomfield acting
as secretary:
IL
passengers of the steamship City Of Puebla,
on voyage No. 1853, chooses to express their
appreciation of the admirable manner and
cool courage dis played by Capt Debney in
the management of his ship during the re-
cent unfortunate mishap and the critical
conditions in which ii has been placed;
and. further. in expressing our thanks 10
him We wish to state that he has shown
exceedingly good care of the passengers.
and calamity has probably been averted:
and il is further
"Resoieed. That copy of the foregoing be
properly engrossed and forwarded to Capt.
Debney a: an early date"
The following was also adopted:
"Resolred, That at the meeting OF the
passengers OF the steamship City of Puebla,
on voyage l5S. the thank OF the passengers
be rendered To First Officer Walter Wii.ett,
Quartermasters Dan Mckinley and Charles
X.
Gerdenson for their prompt performance
of duty and heroic conduct In leaving the
ship While high seas were running 10
reach point of assistance some seventy
miles distant, and. further, that suitable
token of appreciation be presented to each
of the aforesaid"
The news of the appearance Of the Fear
less on the Sound for the first time is at
tracing more attention and occasioning
more comment along the water front than
did the accident which brought her up.
The Fearless Is an iron tug and was built
at the Union Iron Works in san Francisco
In lsa2 for the ]. ID. Spreckels e. Bros. Co.
She is 400 sons gross and 200 02 net tonnage.
li5 feet long. 26 feet beam and lb feet
depth. and is fitted out with triple expan-
sion engines, having three cylinders,
%, 50 and 50x36 inches respectively.
Her normal horse power is 800.
The owners of the Fearless claim that
she is the most powerful tug on the Pacific
coast. which is generally conceded bv YES
sci men, her nearest rival being the Tyes,
of Puget sound, whose owners are in
cined TO dispute the title of superiority
with the Fearless. The Tyee is a wooden
tug with a gross tonnage OF 1868. net
i5Sl7. is 1il.2 feet long by 264 feet beam,
and - feet depth of hold. Her nominal
horse power is $50. and she was built at
Port Ludlow IN 1851.
Towing the Puebla TO San Francisco is a
monster undertaking. The distance from
the dock At Port Townsend to that of the
Bay City is exactly $50 miles. With the
very finest weather. towing six nots an
hour, il will require SIX days. hard pulling.
The contract for the long haul. it IS
learned on reliable authority, calls for the
payment of s. 500 To the Spreckels' as soon
as the vessel Is securely locked at San
Francisco. Bids from the Sound were
much higher. in fact nearly twice rs
much. The Fearless carries crew of
eighteen men, ana burns twenty tons of
| coal A day