The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
A Strange Apparition Sighted by No
Less Than Three Ships Crews.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the PittsbuTg Dispatch,
San Francisco, Aug. 5.-A bark ashore
on the bleak coast of South America, tif-
teen miles west Of the entrance to the
Straits of lie Marie, abandoned to all ap-
pearance, yet intact and with every spar
standing, is what makes a mystery of
the strange craft that has now been
sighted by three different vessels.
No bark answering to her description
has been reported as missing. No news
has reached any part of the world Of a
marine disaster near the cape since the
bark Olympic brought the first news OF
an unknown shipwreck close to the
straits. yet the sailors say there can be
no mistake about what they saw.
The ship Wallacetown, from San Fran
cisco to London, has arrived on the other
side, and Yesterday it was briefly reported
by wire to this city that the Wallacetown
sighted an aban doned bark fifteen miles
west of LIE Marie" Again marine in
surance men, shipowners and masters are
scratching their heads and looking over
all the shipping lists available to deter
mine the identity of the ghost Ship
None of the New York or San Fran
cisco bound fleet is known TO have been in
the vicinity of the alleged wreck at the
time the Olympic first reported it. None
of the British-Australian carriers are
overdue
The strangest part OF the story is that
a dozen vessels have passed within a short
distance of the location described in the
Olympics log, but none of them have
seen the ''what-is-it."
The fact of stranded bark remaining
uninIured in such position as that as
cribed to her, and in a locality where the
storms seldom cease to howl and the
waters to roll high, is something almost
unheard OF in the memories of the old
salts of San Francisco at least.
About the northumberland ghost of the
Horn the sailors Of the Olympic have al
ready tangled mass of superstition.
| When one hears their side of the story il
does sound a tribe like a chapter from
Kingsley or Russell. but the men have an
| earnestness born of conviction in their
style Of oratory that wins converts to
their idea that the mysterious unknown"
is none other than wrath of the winds
and fogs that play queer tricks with the
shapes of the bluffs that rise out of the
southern seas.
The second officer of the Olympic is
confident that his captain made no mis-
take when he reported the derelict 10
the exchange.
Il saw it myself. said he when asked
| about the report and we were so close
that we could plainly discern the condi-
ton of the hull and rigging.
There were no signs of life on board
nor could we tell whether all the boats
had been lowered away. The craft was
just Graded in the rocks like model in a
shipbuilder's office
The sky grew a bit sullen as we
hauled away on another tack, and Pm
sure the gale that overlook us must have
kicked up an angry sea about the spot
where the wreck lay. I cannot under
stand how it could have weathered the
storm and remained as unmoved as
ever.n
One Of the Olympics men said he saw
the stranded bark, but he whispered
something about it suddenly lifting its
spars out Of the water and startling the
crew.
We were on an inshore tack, " he said,
and suppose must have been a good
three miles of land. / looked carefully
at the coast, but did not see thing until