The morning call., 1894-11-06
ON FIRE AT SEA.
Loss of the WreCker San
Pedro.
FOUR SAILORS IN A BOAT.
They Left the Vessel When She
Started to Burn.
FUN ON THE SCOTTISH DALES.
The Captain Objected to Clouds"
The Silver Springs Crew.
A WhaIer Arrives.

News was received here yesterday fore
noon by the California Iron and Wrecking
Company that the wrecking scow San
Pedro caught fire Sunday night while on
her way to Colo Harbor from Anacopa
Island. A dense fog prevailed at The time.
How the fire started IS OF known. but as
the San Pedro Is very stoutly built
craft, it is hoped that she has not been en-
tirely destroyed. -Four men were on the
scow. They left her in small boat,
which has not been heard from as yet, but
as there are plenty of good landing places
on the beach near Colo, it is thought that
the survivors will :urn up all right.
| At the office of the vessels owners only
meager information had been received. A
tug had been chartered 10 start out from
| Santa Barbara to search for the derelict
and the missing boat but information of
a more definite character was not expected
before this morning.
The California Iron and Wrecking Com
pany came i2to possession of the San Pc
dTO about one year ago. She was then
supplied with powerful wines fore and aft
ana wiDdasses. A new Westinghouse air
pump was purchased and every conceiva-
bic piece of machinery necessary to the
paraph erDala of a well-managed wrecker
! fitted in her.
The hull of the San Pedro was of 10x12
! timbPrs. She was built 10 1887, was 70 feet
) inches in length, "a feet beam aud q feet
depth of hold.
| Captain Macguen Of the abandoned YES
| sci has been recently employing his crew
| to secure old iron and machinery from the
| wrecks of tho snip Golden Horn, steamer
! HardiSon and steamer Winfield Scott. The
last was lost in 1852 near AnacOpa Island.
| and is one of the historic wrecks that are
! identified with the early history of Cali
| fornia. She was on her maiden trip to
/ Panama when she struck and went down.
There has been considerable discussion
! Of late over the question of whether the
/ work of the San Pedro in securing wreck
| age from the vessels has been profitable or
| not. 1t is believed by those who know
| something about such matters that the eX-
| petition paid fairly well.
Captain Mccarthy of the British ship
| Scottish Dales sailed his vessel into port
! Saturday night without aid of pilot or Tug
| Goat. lie cut snaky wakes in the surface
! OF the bay with the Dales' hull and had
! hard time lodging buOys, but he got to an
! anchorage all right. But this is not all
/ that is said of the captain. II is told that
! his crew deserted him, and on investiga-
! ton it was learned that The able seamen OF
| his ship had complaint TO make. as able
| seamen usually have, and that Captain
| Mccarthy was not as kind to his men as
! he might have been.
| This is the sailors side of the story:
| First Mate Webb. though good seafaring
man. has the misfortune of having dark
blood in his veins. The captain insisted
on calling him negro, and declared that
| he did not Ike the idea of going to sea
| with cloud" to bother him.
! we'll have clouds enough off the Horn"
| said the skipper. and they will be enough
! for me to handle"
/ Rn 10 81 or IN
| ing the after cabin; result. free fight and
| trouble on board. The captain got angry
at every body. One day during a gale a
| sail was lost. The commander blamed the
man at the wheel and would probs bly
| have booted that individual had not the
man escaped down the starboard stairway
| from the poop TO the main deck. Captain
| Mccarthy reached the steps Just as the Of
| Tending one Jumped boldly to the deck be-
| low. He aimed a kick at the sailors CEN
ter of gravity, missed, and not striking
| anything of greater resistance than ozone
| fell uncomfortably hard upon the plank
| ing.
Just as soon as the Dales dropped
anchor she began 10 drop men. One by
| one they left her and now no one is left
! on the vessel butthe Waterman.
The steam-Schooner Scotia arrived from
Fort Bragg yesterday morning with eleven
| of the men of the wrecked Silver Spring
! on board. The Spring went ashore on the
% Of the month at Rockport Judging
| from what her crew say there is little left
| OF her to be saved. The captain, chief en-
! glneer and mate surveyed the wreck. but
| it was pretty well broken VI. The blow
| that caused the destruction of the vessel
| came up very suddenly. She was being
| unloaded when the wind rose. An at
| tempt was made to get clear If the coast,
| but one of the m0Oring lines caught in the
| propeller. rendering that piece of ma
| chiDery useless When the steamer
| started to drift on the rocks the crew left
! her in boats. She was valued at about
| $50, GOO and insured for $4,000.
| Captain Murchison of the schooner
| Fannie Adele which arrived yesterday from
| UmpQua harbOr sighted the derelict L. W.
| Lucas. While the Adele was outside the
| bar at San Francisco a small vessel of per
| haps of 80 tons was observed drifting
about the ocean bottom upward. The
derelicU is probably the small fishing
schooner recently wrecked near Crescent
City.
The whaling bark Andrew Hicks, six
teen DAYS from Fox Island. with 800 bar
! rels of oil and 5000 pounds of bone. ARRIVED
Yesterday morning. In latitude 81 deg. 90
min. north, longitude 159 deg. 80 min. west,
gale was found which smashed in twn
boats and did some damage to the rigging
On October % and "a the vessel was hove
TO under bare poles for number of hours
czech day.
The bark Melrose. from Departure Bay
for San francisco, has put back TO Esaui-
malt. leaking.
The tug Fearless has arrived at Astoria
with the ship Kentmere.
Waterfront police officers should keep
their ewes on the suffers who will attempt
to vote from sailors boardlng-bOuses TO-
day.
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