The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-15

bilges to height of about feet above the
keel.
When that vessel was put in your charge was
there any limit set for repairs?
No, sir. The instructions were to make her
as good as new.
Louis Zangaree, United States sailor
and passenger from San Francisco for
New York, was the next witness. He tes-
titled as follows:
We left Manzanillo about o'clock on Sun
day, and about o'clock or o'clock it began
to blow moderate breeze. 1t kept increasing
until it was hal: gale. Then there was a
kind of lull, about IL O'Clock, 1 should judge,
and then it freshened up and blew stronger
than ever. She began to roll very bad and
kept shipping seas once in a while so that none
OF us could sleep down below and I came up on
deck deck and slung my hammock on the main
companionway. | didn't sleep very well, as it
kept blowing harder and harder all night 1
woke up about 3 in the morning with the spray
blowing in my face. Went below and washed
up and went on the hurricane deck to see how
the weather was. 1t was blowing almost a hur-
ricane then. came down from the deck and
went into the Storage and had breakfast.
While eating, the cargo on the port side OF the
steerage came down on top of US. We had a
lot OF salt on the port side OF the icehouse and
went on the main deck, and l think that the
boatswain and some of the crew went down to
replace the cargo.
/ went around on the starboard side and
said, t'It's blowing pretty hard, isn't it?''
The chief steward said, Eyes, harder than I've
ever felt 1t on this coast, and I've been here
eighteen years"
shipping seas on her starboard side. l left the
old steward and went to the messroom and
began talking to the messman about the
storm and as to whether there was any danger
or not. The messman was frightened.
When was in the messroom she gave very
heavy roll and shipped heavy sea on the
starboard side. The old steward was standing
In his room when the sea struck him and
knocked him up against the stanchions. His
spine caught the stanchion and he swung for q
time like pendulum. The messman and 1
ran out and grabbed him in time to save him
from going overheard
Just before that 1 asked the mate how the
glass was and he said 29.67 and still falling.
While we were in the messroom hanging on
she gave another heavy roll and the cargo on
the main deck began to shift to leeward.
Every time shed take roll they'd-the boxes
and general cargo-be flying around the deck
in great shape. looked out of the messroom
door and it looked to me as if the ports were
open, as saw big green sea come rolling in
through them. She took another heavy roll
heavier than any of the previous ones, and it
appeared TO me just as if the cargo had shifted
in the hold. She was gradually going over.
shifted He said, II shouldn't wonder" In
moment or two she took another roll and it
looked to me as though part of the upper
works were carried away.
Another heavy sea came and she was listing
all the time and gradually going down. That
sea carried away part of the messroom, and a
few seconds later another sea came and tore
the old steward away from the table leg he
was cllnging to, and that was the last saw of
him.
There was lot of wreckage came in with
that sea. l said to the messman, owed better
get out OF this or Well go with the old stew
ard" The ship kept listing all the time, and
wouldn't come up. l said to him, 1--WE can't
get out the door on the weather side is
locked" He said, kick il i'm He oct ont
through window ana kicked 1t in Just then
O heavier sea than ever came along and then
knew the ship was doomed. This was about
ten minutes before she went down She took
gone, so thought I'd better get out of there
saw couldn't get up the weather side as she
was listed SO, and was barefooted, so just as
with her / saw a man-ofwarsman named
Waske running along the weather rail-
hailed him and asked for en- end of line