The San Francisco call., 1896-08-05
river BOATS IN
VERY HARD Luck,
Four of Their Engines
Broke Down From Va
riouS Causes.
REPAIRS BEING MADE.
The T. C. Walker Blew Out a
Cylinder Head and Two
Men Were Scalded.
CREW OF THE SIERRA PARMA,
They Were Not Drowned, but We're
Picked Up by Passing Ship
and Land d.
CREW OF THE SIERRA PARMA.

Several of the bay and river steamers
met with a chapter of accidents yesterday
The gasoline Jennie Griffin, bound
for Point Reyes, got away from the
wharf and was well under way when her
engines broke down and she began DRIFT
ing up with the tide. The Ida A went to
her assistance and towed her back to her
berth. The passengers and CARO- were
transferred to the Ida A and she took UP
the Griffin's run.
The T. c. Walker while on her way down
from Stockton blew out one of her
cylinder-heads at Antioch. The engineer
and one of his men were scalded by the
escaping steam. but not dangerously.
The steamer came down under one boiler
and yesterday she was towed to her
various landings to deliver the freight by
the tug Alert.
While on the run from Berkeley to San
Francisco the steamer Hope broke a
crank-pin and drifted around for half an
hour. The steamer Sunol went to her
assistance and towed her to Clay-street
wharf.
The tug Annie was just starting out to
| 90 large towing job, but before the last
| line was thrown off she broke and Captain
| Titchworth had to tie up again. There
seems to be al epidemic among the
steamers that dock at Jackson and Wash
| ington street wharves.
Captain John Darlington, who is well
| known in San Francisco, has given UP the
| sea. He was last here as master of the
Yacht Mama, but later had command OF
| the big four-master Lydgate. From New
York he sailed for Calcutta and at that
port learned of the death of his father.
1 IT I, A, - L.
| the estate.
| A private letter received from Lazy Har-
| Dor, Alaska, dated July 8, says IL at the
| schooner Herman has taken sixty three
| otter skins. AS the skins are worth from;
S4OO to $500 each in the English market the
vessel has done remarkably we'll. The
writer of the letter says that the Indians
have all the way from fifteen TO fifty skins
EACH but are asking big prices for them.
The Herman was boarded by one of the
revenue cutters, but everything aboard
was found to be regular.
The captain of the Herman had not seen
the schooner Webster since the middle of
April and he was anxious about her. Cap
tain Johnson of the latter vessel, however,
he was not going n the beaten way, but
was going to hunting ground known
only to himself. There. need therefore be
no fear for the schooner. The Herman
has six of the best hunters i'll California,
and it is expected that they will bring
back over 100 skins next September.
The steamer Australia sailed for Homo
lulu yesterday with full cargo and the
following passengers:
James Gum and wife, N. Halstead A. G,
Hitchcock and wife, ]. L. Howard, J. A Ken
nedy, Mrs. F. w. Little and child. Miss r. A.
| Miller, A. G. Neeper, George H. Robinson, Mrs
! DR. Luke Robinson, John E. Richards, wife and
| son; Master Richards, R. Schagler, H. Shain-
wald, w. s. Terry, MISC c. Walker, Miss NJ J.
walker, Miss B. Weight, w. o. Atwater, wife
| and child; Mrs. E. Archer, Thomas A. Bailey
| and wife, Miss NJ. Barrett James Campbell,
| wife, two children and maid; w. l. Cleave and
| wife Professor F. B. Dresslar, George de la
Vergne Miss G. Green, Miss Jessie M. Gear
! hardt, George +. Grant.
| John E. Richards, the well-known at
torney, is taking his wife and family to
! the Paradise of the Pacific for vacation.
| They will be gone month.
| Later news from the ill-fated ship Sierra
Parma says that Captain Wlshart and his
crew were saved, but that the vessel was q
| total Ioss The men were picked up by a
passing ship and taken to Colombo, Cey-
| ION, whence they will be sent to Eng
| land. Tnis will be glad tidings for Cap
| tain Wishart's host of friends, who have
| been mourning him as dead.