The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
He Threw Over Some Lumber.
but Allowed Others to
Do the Rescuing.
ALMOST DEAD WHEN SAVED.
A Marriage Is Now on the Tapis, as
the Lovers Are Again Good
Friends.

A lovers quarrel nearly ended in a trag-
edy yesterday. The couple were on FIRE.
mont street wharf and engaged in an
animated conversation. Exactly what
they were talking about will never be
known, but before even a warning CRY
could be given the girl was overheard and
struggling in the water. A couple of
planks were thrown overheard by her
companion, but she made no attempt to
reach them. box was thrown from the
steam schooner North Fork, and it foated
alongside of her as she was going down
for the last time. She involuntarily
clutched it and managed to hold on until
help. in the shape of one of the steamers
crew reached her.
The couple are Miss Ida Owens, who
lives on Central avenue, and Henry Chris
Jensen, the master of a coasting schooner.
They walked down the wharf in a lovelike
manner, and when opposite the Spreckles'
drydOck stopped 70 look at the North
Fork. which was being overhauled.
Christensen, according to the men on
the steam schooner, made a remark to
Miss Owens that reused her anger.
She flashed back remark and
he replied. Then she looked up
in surprise and apparently asked
then whether the girl tripped and fell or
jumped overheard remains in doubt.
The men on the steamer say she Jumped,
and Miss Owens is equally certain that
she tripped. One thing is certain-Chris-
tensen's only attempt at rescue was the
throwing of a couple of pieces of scantling
overheard after her.
Seeing that the woman was in imminent
danger Martin Bare, one of the North
Forks crew, sprang overheard after her.
The vessel was in the floating-dock, and
the dive must have been one OF about
forty feet, but the brave sailor did not
hesitate an instant. One of the vessels
light lines had been left towing astern
after the docking, and on coming to the
surface Bare seized it, and on reaching the
drowning girl made a bowline and put it
over her head and shoulders and under
her arms. He then gave the signal to
the men on the drydock and they hauled
her ashore. Bare clambered up himself
and, not even waiting for thanks, hurried
aboard the steamer to change his clothes.
When Miss Owens reached the wharf
Christensen had hack in waiting and he
at once placed her in it. They were hur-
ried away, and when the home of Mrs
Jorgensen, ON Rincon Hill, was reached
the young lady was at once put to bed.
When seen later in the day she did not
appear to be much the worse for the duck
ing. She denied having jumped over
board, but asserted that during an excit-
ing argument she tripped and fell. Both
Christensen and Mrs. Jorgensen were at
her bedside, and the former was doing
everything in his power for the invalid.
He laughed at the idea of quarrel and
said it was an accident pure and simple.
Martin Bare and the mate of the North
Fork assert that Miss Owens stamped her
foot in anger at Christensen's remark, and
that when he nodded in reply to her cues
ton she jumped overheard. In any event,
what at first looked like ending in a trag-
edy will now probably end in wedding as
soon as Miss Owens is able to be out and
about again.