St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-23

MONTEREY, CAL, April %. = The
Pacific Coast Steamship company's
steamer Los Angeles, bound north from
Newport, Cal. and way ports to San
Francisco. ran on the rocks at Point Sur
Lighthouse, thirty miles south of Non
terey, between and 10 o'clock last
night. The steamer sank within few
minutes, aud the passengers and crew
took to the boats. Three boatloads
reached shore at Point Sur. and the first
ne rs or the disaster was brought here
by messenger today. The other boat
loads and raft containing other pas
sengers and members of the crew were
met by the steamer Eureka this even
ing, The Eureka brought them to Mon
terey. From those who arrived on the
Eureka it was learned that the Los
Angeles reached Point Sur lighthouse
about 9 o. IN. The captain, who had re-
tired, had given orders to have the third
mate call him when a certain number or
revolutions of the wheel had occurred.
The mate failed to do so, and the
steamer went upon the rocks at 9:15 and
in ten minutes she sank. The captain
Instantly ordered ont the four boats and
raft Of two floats, containing about fifty
ruen, succeeded in reaching the shore.
Two others and the raft
KEPT OUT TO SEA.
Chief Engineer Wallace, in charge of
one of the boats, saw the steamer Eu-
reka and succeeded III getting within
Iailing distance. The steamer laid to
and sent out boats to search for the
other party. They soon found the raft
with seven persons aboard, whom they
rescued. and this morning about z
O'clock they picked up the other boat,
containing seventeen others. They
sent word TO those on shore and offered
to take them aboard the steamer, but,
owing to the roughness of the surf. they
failed TO do so. Four dead bodies had
been recovered, and Capt. d. d.
Leland. of the Los Angeles, was
reported in critical condition by
his brother, Capt. James Leland, of the
Eureka. All the ladies and children
were saved and brought here on the
Eureka. The Los Angeles was a very
old vessel, having been used by the Pa
cifc Coast Steamship company for
twenty years. Before that she was a
United States revenue cutter and was
called the Wyanda. She became useless
to the government, and Geodale, Per-
kins IL Co., the agents of the Pacific
Coast Steamship company. purchased
her and put her into service as freight
and passenger boat between San Fran
cisco and Southern way ports. She was
a small steamer of not quite 800 tons,
and for some time had not been rated as
first class. The rocks at Point Sur,
which are Il
CLUSTER OF UGLY SPURS,
about mile from the shore. have long
been menace to navigation on the
Southern route. In 1885 the Ventura.
a handsome steamer, which was at that
time the largest vessel in the service of
the Pacific Coast Steamship company,
was lost on these rocks. The steamer
Eureka, which rescued the survivors
this morning, also struck the rocks sew
eral years ago, sbatteTing her stern and
barely escaping destruction. The
steamer Los Angeles also struck the
rocks once before, though she escaped
that time without serious injury. The
| location OF tue rock is peculiarly dam
gerous i'll that it is very near the
| point where steamers from the south
change their course in entering Mon
| terey bay. The pilot who bears east
ward to enter the bay bit too soon is
| almost certain to hang his vessel up on
| the rocks. The steamer was due in San
Francisco today. Her passengers and
crew numbered about seventy. Owing
| to the almost inaccessible point at which
| she was wrecked the names of those
| lost have not been learned here as yet.
One of the men drowned was Fireman
Nolan. another was S. ". Sheridan. an
aged citizen of Ventura. who was ell
route to San Francisco TO visit his son,
who is telegraph editor on the Morning
| Call. anu the other was passenger not
| known to the seamen. The second mate
also lost his hold, and was saved from
drowning only through h; ability to
swim to rope laid by a sailor named
| Johnson, who was perched on the top of
| the main mast.
PECULIAR EOOSIER FIRE.
Rio RIaze Which Ia Hard ~ prS