The morning call., 1894-12-17
THE MISSING KEWEENAW.

brothers yesterday Mr.. Rosenfeld dId
not give his reasons for thinking SO, how
ever.
Captain T. p. H. Whitelaw, at one time
the owner of the vessel. said that he did
not have much hope for the arrival OF
Ell her the Montserrat or the keweenaw.
"SimDly because they would have been
heard from before this had they only been
damaged he added.
Saturday afternoon the tug Vigilant
towed the L. J. Morse outside the heads
The tug had on board five days provisions
and Will remain at sea long enough TO make
a search. 1t is probable that either one of
the two steamers has broken her shaft or
has ,beeu otherwise disabled and is drifting
helDlessly about on the ocean.
Orders to the cutter Corwin have not yet
been received from the Secretary of the
Navy, but it is likely that the vessel will
be started out in day or so.
The Rush is now somewhere off the
northern coast looking for remains of the
Ivanhoe. She may learn something of the
fate of the golfers.
If it be so that the Montserret and Ke-
weenaw have gone down with all on
board, an appalling loss of life by ships
that have mysteriouslv disappeared will
be credited to the Pacific coast records of
various disasters for the past six months.
A crew of for men, including officers,
manned the British ship Senegal that
left San Diego in ballast for
San Francisco not long ago. The
Ivanhoe's crew mum bered about fourteen
souls, and the combined crews If the
Keweenaw and Mon tserrat make a total
of fifty, ana a grand total of 104 human
lives that have been sacrificed to the ele-
ment in the half year OF time. Had over
100 persons lost their lives by the sinking
of passenger steamer, the whole world
would have been made thoroughly ac-
quaiuted with all the facts, but. strange TO
. ln-s
and Ivanhoe only reached London and
Europe in the shape OF fve-line dis
patches.
Cape FlatterY and its varying currents
and more variable winds, seems destined
10 become The Cape Horn of Pacific Norm
America. Last year a number of ships
were disa bled while rounding or while
standing off that dangerous promontorv.
The recent storm has done much TO
render the North Pacific OCEAN subject
for much maritime argument, ana some
sailors say that the word Pacific should be
substituted by some noun that Is not
misn OmeT.
1t appears that the blow of the 8th and
9th has upset number of meteorological
observations and set at defiance the
atmospheric laws that have heretofore
been established by years of regularity.
Referring TO the supplement to he pilot
chart for Novem Der, that showed the
gales does not appear to extend So far out
TO sea and so far south as did the path of
the late hurricane.
1T looks TO me-" said a sea captain. "as
II the storm was simply forerunner of a
series Of heavy gales. The weather of the
coast never has been So irregular as i: is
this winter. Gains and storms are
strangely mixed"
a dispatch has been received at the Mer-
chants Exchange from Port Townsend.
reporting that the ing Lorne has liheled
the bark Detroit for $500. The Detroit
was recently picked up bv the tug while
in disabled condition and lowed 10 EG
quimalt.
The branch United States photographic
Office in tie Merchants Exchange is being
enlarged, the business Of the office having
been steadily increasing. and now il is
ranked as the second photographic office
Of Importance in the United States. All
seafaring men should paw particular atten-
ton TO sending in repbris TO the hydro
graphic service, as the work of the institu-
ton is of the greatest importance 10 mar
liners.