The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-16
Fears For the Safety Of the
Montserrat and Keweenaw.
5oTH ARE FIVE DAYS OVERDUE.
The Collier 6iermania and I.umher
Bark Columbia Heard From.
isey wssshered Cape Ffatterv ana Axs
PROBABLY safs-Aii Incoming ye.seIs
kspert Terrible Expsrteas~rh.
Rasa TO search

san Francisco. Dec. is-As rnNsrfwss
there were no ti9ings Of the steam ealllsrs
MonsSeFrat and keweenaw. the earu,ar
rom NalAaino and the latter from Conaox.
ana hota ave days ogeryiae az this fsort-
in marine circles IL Is generally believes
both vessels have heea lost
fort Townsend. Dec IA teiesranh,c
request from Collector WISE. at San Fran
cisco. Was Teeesved tonight bv caIlee.or
SANinaers. asking that a revenue euftar.
oe SeRt out on a cruise 10 search for IN.
missing golfers MontSefrat and few..-
nSw. 1he dispatch came q few heur~
ahter the Rush had sailed for san Fran
elSae- Late teiegrams from Tapoosh to-
hakht say the Rush returned inside az
eaoch this afternoon. CoGector sannd~~x
wired To Neah Bay tonight 20 Capt. fsoop-
er' ordering the Rush 10 40 forthwith ON
searching cruise for the missing VS.
Seis' The revenue cutter Grant Is IN tns
Souia' hat II is hardly probable that .he
Will be sent our. ~A'
nope for tAe safety OF the bark S.alnr,-
pa was aroused to-day when If -.
learned that the British ship Comberuer.a
"hich arrived In Royal Roads last sun
Jay from Yokohama, on December 4 TIA
0AF atter the Columbia sailed from t.gal.
iaih Day uad seen the bark standing wen
OF oAne fiattery before a fresh eaxtsrgv
wlhu, heading toward the west IL wa.
t"e or three days later when the Storm
bFoke OUT IN all its fury and shtn
ping men believe that the vessel got Ear
enough TO the westward 10 avoid IN.
worst part or the gale. This Information
dtspels the supposltlon that the lumbsr
cast ashore below Cape Flattery was from
the Columbia, as she undoubtesiy had
time enough 10 get over 100 miles from
shore. Ii has also been learned at C,al-
lam hay that lumber drifted ashore ahaut
ten days ago. The Cosumhla's captafn. n
w. Cove. who made 100 round trips In the
late bark X. X. Ham. Is an old ana ex-
perienced shipmaster. familiar With North
Pacific coast sailing. and IL IL believed
that he got his vessel well out OF tho
track of the storm
The ship John a. Briggs. which arrived
at Nanalmo yesterday from San Francis
co. reports having seen the bark Ger
mania some distance of shore In the Iati-
tude OF Gray's harbor. She was under
easy sail before n moderate breeze and
had ample time to get TO the southwark OF
all danger from the late northwest
storms.
Capt u. o. Blackburn. OF tho tramp
steamer Montserrat. which Is several days
overdue at San Francisco from Nanalrno.
had habit OF loading his vessel un-
usually deep and then driving her very
hard 10 make time When she went out
20 sea the last time IL was generally re-
marked by seafartng men that the vessa
was unusually deep forward. IT a heavy
sea ever came over her. IL is said. she
would never be able 10 recover. and ID IN
thought ehe would have opened UP and
gone TO the bottom like a rock. The
Montserrat II an old vessel. and not a
very good sea-going one.