The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16

two ships passed in the night without meet
ing.
The Sierra Nevada's half circle of stormy
Cape Horn was from gale to gale. The
decks were swept from forecastle to poop
with heavy seas, and the fierce tempests
howled over the ocean necessarily.
From about 40 south in the Atlantic to
the same latitude in the Pacific, said First
Mate R. W. Leyne, 1--WE pushed our way
through the succeeding storms. never
saw such hard weather, even off the Horn"
Several men were hurt by the seas that
washed over the decks. James Fish was
thrown against the lee rail and his spine
severely injured during furious gale May
16, and Third Mate W. d. Stoney was
pitched under spare spar lying on the
deck and his left thigh was broken. Cap
tain Scott set the splintered limb and the
injured sailor lay in his berth and let the
fracture close again while his ship was
struggling over the mad seas. A tossing
and storm-menaced vessel is not the quiet
est place for bedridden patient, and Mate
Stoney will always have slightly crippled
limb as reminder OF his painful expert
ence.
The Sierra Nevada is one of the fleet of
twelve white hull and spar vessels owned
by Thompson Anderson of Liverpool.
They are the Sierra Estrella, Sierra Parma,
Sierra Cadena, Sierra Blanca, Sierra Co.
lonna, Sierra Cordova, Sierra Lucena, Sierra
Moreno, Sierra Pedrosa, Sierra Ventura
and Sierra Nevada.
The ship had quite an experience with
Quarantine Officer Chalmers as she came
into port. After the tug let go the vessel
off Green street the doctor came alongside
in the Governor Perkins and ordered Cap
tain Scott to go back to the quarantine
grounds west of AlcatraZ and await to be
boarded. Scott expostulated, but the officer
would not inspect the ship in that locality,
and sail was made on the ship. The wind
was light, and the tide threw her over
toward the Berkeley fats and she was in
danger of grounding, when she hastily
signaIed for tug. One of the redstacks
took her in tow, and she was taken back to
Black Point, where the Quarantine Officer
went aboard.
Captain Scott is angry as only a British
seaman can get at the double towing
expense put upon his vessel, and the know
ing ones along the water front say as the
Sierra Nevada is one OF the ships which
DIR. Macdonald has secured for medical
practice DIR. Chalmers is not inclined to
brook any quarantine infractions on the
part of that craft. However, this is the
opinion of Macdonald, who soon after
boarded the ship to attend the injured
seaman.
DR.. Chalmers states that no vessel from
foreign port shall pass the quarantine
grounds until she is boarded and inspected,
and pilots and tug captains must remem-
Der that there will be no exceptions to the
rule.
The British ship Manydown, Captain
Glover, came in yesterday 163 days from
Swansea. When five days out from that
port the cook went insane and jumped
overheard, sinking before boat could be
lowered.
Yesterday morning David Hatch, a col
ore sailor on the brig Galilee, which ar
rived from Tahiti, attempted to assault
Mate Anderson with big knife. During
the passage of the vessel up from the
islands Hatch ran things to suit himself
and walked the deck looking for war.
When the brig locked he was told to leave:
He did, but became intoxicated ashore and
returned to the vessel with his butcher
knife and ran amuck around the deck.
The mate and crew took to the rigging
and Hatch was in command until Police
Officer Callahan arrested him. lie was
taken to the police station and charged
with an assault with a deadly weapon.
Hatch was once an understudy of Pugilist
Hall, and is desperate fighter as well as a
big powerful fellow.
The cruiser Olympia anchored OH Clay
street yesterday evening. She Will remain
here for ten days, then sail for China by
way of Honolulu. Her complement of
crew is short large number OF ordinary
seamen and firemen.
The old ship Blue JACKET was sold at
auction for 500. She will be broken up
for her metal.
There was no meeting of the Board of
Harbor Commissioners yesterday on &C
count of the death of Commissioner Chad
bourne's father.