The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
ARRIVAL OF
THE SYDNEY
Mrs. Thorold's Luckless Tug
Ethel and Marion
Raised.
THE ENGINEERS ERROR
Adventures of the Bark Willie
Hume in a Fierce China
Typhoon.
IN THE CALM sToRM-GENTER.
So itary Journey of the British Ship
Drumrock = The Vigilan.'S
Load of Rockcod

Mrs. Thorold's little tug Ethel and
Marion, which was sunk at her moorings
alongside of Union-street wharf early Sat-
urday morning, was raised that same
evening. The accident was caused by the
engineer, David Linden, leaving the water
from the dock hydrant to run into the
vessels tanks while he took stroll up
town. lie returned and went to bed, for
getting all about the tug. and when she
was full of water she went down in the
bay.
Mrs. Thorold employed Captain White
law to lift her boat up into daylight. The
veteran wrecKer, sympathizing with the
unfortunate woman, raised the vessel, only
charging $l25, just enough to cover the
actual expenses of sending down a diver to
secure the sunken hull with chains and
hoist her to the surface
Yesterday the hands of the tug were
busy getting her cleaned out and in shape
for work again. The hatch covers, sky
lights and in fact everything movable
about the deck had fioated away and were
lost. As Linden is a single man and has
no one depending upon him for support,
1t IS the feeling along the front that he
would do graceful and manly act if he
would turn 10 and pay that $125 bill. He
either permitted the water to run un-
checked into the vessel until she went
down, or II some malicious person turned
on the water. as he intimates, he was
crlmlnaiIv negligent in leaving the hose
and couplings fixed to the hydrant instead
OF removing them to the Toulouse, as he
has always done before.
The bark Willie Hume, owned by George
w. Hume of this City, arrived in Tacoma
from China few days ago having es-
capped from terrible typhoon that caught
tho ryacso1 in ifc mkt ~, 1zFs
Shanghai August and on the oath ran
into the storm at latitude 42 north and
longitude 150 east. Several men were in
their hunks i'll with the terrible heat, and
this made the bark short-handed. The
captain reports that he needed 100 men to
manage her in that awful gale. For days
she ran before the wind under bare poles
making nine and ten knots an hour. The
bark found the calm center of the storm
and often Tor hours she would not feel q
| breath of wind. She would roll on the
great bilIows till it seemed that she Wonld
shatter into thousand pieces, then she
would get into the inner circle of the gale
and away she would go like racehorse.
Finally the good bark got away from
the tempest and made her way safely
across the Pacific to her destination.
The schooner Aloha arrived yesterday
evening from the Hawaiian Islands. In
latitude 81 north and longitude 146 west
IL.
bound from London to Vancouver. The
people aboard the ship had not seen a
vessel for four months ana the Aloha was
blessed sight to them. a boat with
newspapers and fruit was sent to them
from the schooner and the delighted sea-
men gave three hearty British cheers for
the Yankee craft and the stars and stripes
The tug Vigilant returned yesterday
evening from fishing trip up the coast
and her passengers came ashore fairly
loaded down with strings of big red rock.
Gods.
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Syd-
ney got in last night from Panama and
anchored in the stream. This morning
she will be boarded by the Quarantine
Officer, and as there is no sickness on board
she Will land at her dock.
An officer of the vessel stated that eyery-
thing was quiet on the Central American
coast and tnat nothing of any Importance
occurred on the vessel during her passage
up the coast.
The following are the cabin passengers:
Mrs. NJ. Alberque, Miss A. Alberque, Mrs.
Carranza and daughters, Alice Fay and
Hilda Fay, Otto Boeden, Mrs. Boeden,
Joaquin Arzin, Fredrico Soginni, J. P.
Corcoran, G. R. Perry, Isaac Siena. There
are thirty passengers in the steerage.
The bark J. D. Peters arrived last night
from Port Clarence, Chignik Bay, Alaska,
with %, 600 pounds of whalebone, some
ivory and skins, also 21.515 cases of
salmon, all consigned to Pacific Steam
Whaling Company.