The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-20
ALONG THE WATER FRONT
The Details of the Loss of an
Italian Bark Off Cape
Horn.
A SHIP COVERED WITH ICE.
Three Men of the Life.Saving Crew
at the Cliff House Almo st Lose
Their Lives.

1t is now known that four sailors of the
Italian bark Brom Carlo, which was re-
Gently sunk in a collision with the British
ship Condor off Cape Horn, were saved.
Three of the men made their way up the
coast to Guayaquil. Ecuador, and came
aboard of the United States steamer Alert,
undergoing repairs in that port, she hav-
ing been run down by British steamer,
also named Condor.
According to their story the awful disas-
ter occurred during dark, stormy night,
and the two vessels came together with a
crash before either one was aware of the
others presence. The Condor struck the
Italian bark squarely on the port side, cut
ting great hole in the doomed vessels
hull.
The heavy seas soon dragged the ship
away from her victim, and in the darkness
| could be heard the dreadful cries of the
Italian crew. Boats were lowered from
| the Condor, but so deeply had the Carlo
| been cut into that she sank immedia tely
| CARRYING down fifteen out of her nineteen
people. Three men were found clinging
to wreckage by the boats, and one more
next dav by a passing vessel. He had
almost persisted, and, being unable to
speak English with any fuency, could not
give any account of the collision.
| The fine American ship w. +. Babcock,
CAPTAIN Graham. arrived yesterday, 1856
DAYS from Liverpool. She experienced
heavy gales off the Horn, with exceed
| ngly cold weather. While the storms
we're beating down on the great ship
| everything was frozen. Whenever the sea
came over it would add to the thickness of
the ice on the rigging and decks. The
running gear was frozen as rigid as iron,
and. it was impossible to walk along the
slippery decks.
September %, i'll latitude "a south, lon
gitude So west, William Beckett, the cook,
a native oflVirginia, died at sea OF chronic
| liver complaint. On the 18th OF this
month. in latitude "a north, longitude lbs
| west, George Jansen, aged So years, a
native of Iceland, fell off the jibboom
while slowing the sail. He was dressed in
very heavy clothing and sank Immediately.
The steam schooner Casper, while COM
ing into Steuart-street wharf yesterday be-
| came unmanageable and colhded with the
ship Shenandoah, lying at the dock. The
big vessel was considerably damaged about
the bow and rail. AS she sails Thursday a
| force of ship carpenters were put to work
repairing the damage.
The life-saving crew at the Cliff House
while drilling in their boat last Monday
were capsized in the breakers 1t was with
| the UTMOST LNaC the men reached
the shore. Captain Mott was struck by
some object while in the water and came
near being drowned. Two of the crew
were drawn into the undertow and dragged
away from the beach.
Again and again they would swim OF
float in on the wave, and when it would
comb over they would be dashed down and
washed out to sea. Finally number Of
the people on the beach by tightly holding
each others hands and forming a line
reaching down into the water succeeded in
| rescuing the men. They were taken from
the breakers partly unconscious, but re-
covered their senses after an hours treat
ment by physician.
The Government steamer Mcdowell is
on the drydock, her route on the bay being
| filled by the steamer Sonoma.
The British ship Lawhil, which sailed
! from Shields, England, June Is of this
year, arrived yesterday. In the vicinity
OF the Horn she caught heavy gales and
snowstorms, accompanied by high seas.
The British ship Kelat, which has just
reached Queenstown, spoke the shir
Chrysomene. which sailed from San Fran
cisco for that port July 4. She had passed
through the usual Cape Horn zephyr:
with the loss of nearly all her boats anG
several sails, and had received severe dam
ages to her spars and hull.