The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-25
AFTER THE WRECK
Quiet Prevails in Old
Monterey.
MORE STORIES BEING TOLD.
Despicable Cowardice of Three
of the Steamers Sailors.
MORE STORIES BEING TOLL
FITZGERALD NOT IDENTIFIED.
Third Mate RyfkogIe Is in Prison
and Unable to Furnish
Bail.


ment attending the wreck of the steamer
Los Angeles has subsidized. There is no
evidence of anything unusual here now
except that in and around divers under
taking parlors all has been hustle and
activity during the day.
The body of S. n. Sheridan OF Ventura
was shipped to San Francisco this after
noon by his son.
Foreman Allen L. Luce OF the Coroner's
Jury to-day swore TO a complaint against
Third Officer Roger Ryfkogel of the
steamer Los Angeles, chargi' him with
manslaughter in having "unlawfullv
and feloniously killed and slain one s. n.
Sheridan without malice" The warrant
for Ryfkogeps arrest was issued by JUS
tice Michaelis and served by Constable
Das at 8 o'clock this afternoon.
The prisoner remained in the Justices
Office until late to-day in hopes of having
bail furnished for MIN. The amount set
by Judge Michaelis is $1,000.
1t was supposed that bonds in this
amount would be promptly furnished by
| San Francisco parties. but all requests
have been promptly refused.
| The preliminary examination will take
place here as soon as District Attorney
Zabala returns from Eu reka, here he is
in attendance at the Grand Parlor of the
| Native Sons.
Since the inquest was held over the re-
mains of those who perished at Point Sur.
rumors have circulated that about two
months ago. Officer Ryikogel being on
watch, the steamer Los Angeles was nearly
run aground at Hueueme. The bottom of
the steamer scraped the sand and a catas-
trophe was aveited only By the merest
chance. In his testimony berore the Coro-
ner's jury. Captain Leland said nothing
about this matter. and only testified re-
garding like incident at Ventura at about
the same time after great deal of urging.
| New developments are sure to spring up
at the preliminary examination of Ryfko-
gel, and it would not be surprising were
some rather sensational revelations to be
| made that would have direct bearing in
locating the responsibility for the loss of
life at Point sur on other shoulders besides
those of the friendless third officer.
| In conversation with your correspondent
to-day Ryfkogel stated he would take no
step whatever toward preparing for his
defense until after the preliminary exami-
nation as it seemed impossible to him that
| be would be made 10 suffer in his present
position very long. He said he realized
that his was not the N ost enviable position
| in the world.sbut that he would do abso-
] lutely nothing to implicaie others as this
would not be manly. He remarked that
no one could know what it was to be a
prisoner with the whole world clamoring
| for his conviction on incomplete and dis
torted evidence. However" he continued.
II will take my medicine like man and
do nothing to involve any friend Of mine."
Sheriff Matthews returned to-day from
Point Sur. where he had been for two days
protecting the properly that washed
ashore from the steamer Los Angeles. In
connection with the Sheriff's excellent
work at the scene of the wreck, it is inter-
esting to note the fact that prior to his
arrival there the corpses of the victims and
the small quantity of plunder that has
washed ashore we're In charge of portion
| of the crew Of the sunken steamer. When
the bodies were first discovered Light
house-keeper Ipgersoll reported that sew
eral of them, notably of Passenger Sher-
dan of Ventura. had considerable money
and vsluabes on them. As stated above
they had been scared" for by rortion of
the crew until the Coroner and Sheriff az
rived. when they Immediately assumed
| charge.
Coroner Gordon found nothing on Mr..
| Sheridan excert bunch of keys, which
circumstance clearly shows that in the
horrible hour of death some one had been
robbing dead people right and left, and as
the only ones within reach were those in
whose keeping the corpses had been left
the crime is traced directly to them.
| All the information OBJ ainable up to this
time is that four boats loaded down with
passengers were used after the Los
Angeles went down, but now the state
ment is made that in the confusion follow
| ing the crash one boat left the sinking
steamer with three men In 1t and that
nothing further has been heard from it,
| The raft upon which score of people
were found by the steamer Eureka came
| ashore to-day at the ranch of II. E. Kent,
several miles orth of Point Sur.
Att o'clock yesterday morning Under
taker Thomas Oliver and his assistant, E.
| Duarte, left the Point Sur ranch. with
| three corpses. Coming down from Sierra
| Hill, where the carryall conveying the
| first party of survivors broke down the
day before, the brakerod parted and the
horses became unmanageable. They tore
down the steep grade at breakneck speed,
passing some of the sharpest curves ever
| laid out on mountain roads.
/ They had not gone far when the tongue
| of the wagon broke in two and the vehicle
became like a ship in storm without a
rudder. Finally the hub of one wheel
came in contact with stump on the road
side, lifting the wagon clear off the road
and sending it TO roll down the canyon.
Mr.. Oliver was thrown some thirty feet
up the hill and Mr.. Duarte. still holding
the lines of the runaway horses, was
dragged considerable distance along the
| road.
The corpses had been leaving the wagon
one by one during this time and were
strewn along the way for considerable
distance. A great amount OF time had
been lost by the undertaken and more
would undoubtedly have been lost had not
a gentleman from this city, j. de la Tore.
on his way home from the wreck. har-
pened along. This party is an expert with