The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
Stories of Storm Told by the
Coasters That Came in
Yesterday.
THE THAYER's MAIDEN VOYAGE
A Disabled Schooner, Thought to Be
the Free Trade, Seen Off
Cape Mendocino.


from the north yesterday morning, reports
that on January 10, off the Mendocino
coast, during a fierce southeast gale. the
schooner Free Trade from this port was
seen with her lib carried away. Both YES
sells were laboring hard and no communl-
cation was had with the disabled schooner.
This seems to meet with the statement
of the steam-schooner Sunol, which came
in Tuesday, that undertaken schooner
was seen with flag inverted as signal OF
distress She was under double-reefed
foresaiI and appeared to be disabled. The
Free Trade was at that locality and in
about the condition described.
The little schooner Bessie h staggered in
Tuesday night very much wearied after
her rough trip from Albion. Her cabin
was flooded, the galley swept clean into
the sea and her deekload of railroad ties
went plunging and banging around in the
air and water like the Collma's fatal load
of lumber.
When almost all OF that deckload had
left the half-foundered Bessie she labored
less heavily and managed to escape the
fierce southeaster.
The schooner Wing & Wing, from Coos
Bay, had her hands full for twenty-seven
days struggling with a series of heavy
gales. Her cabin was flooded and the
deckload shifted by the constant pounding
of the seas.
The schooner ]. NJ. Coleman, which ar
rived yesterday from Tacoma, is another
craft with an interesting experience. She
was seventeen days on the passage and,
her cargo shifting, her starboard rail was
under the water.
The new schooner C. A. Thayer, from
Eureka, a short time ago came in on her
-,
with the Pacific will last her a lifetime.
For five days she vas hove-to, with the
seas going over her continually. She lost
some of her new white sails and much of
her prettiness in that terrific storm. She
was only saved from laundering by the
use of oil bags, which deadened much Of
the force of the pounding seas.
William Deacon, proprietor of the Main
street Iron Works, in a sworn statement
filed with the Board of Harbor Commits
sioners, says that during the last five years
his firm has done over 1000 worth of
work for the State. No commissions were
ever paid for any work until julius Haste,
the late State Superintendent OF Tugs and
Dredgers demanded them, the firm re-
luctantly submitting to the extortion.
Mr.. Deacon also states that x-superin-
tendent William Cruise did not receive a
centin commissions from the Main-street
! Iron Works.
| Yesterday afternoon a small lad named
! John Gleason saw a body floating in the
water off Beale-street wharf. Anxious to
/ earn the $40 bonus given by the City for
such discovery, lie hastily pulled off his
! clothing and plunged into the cold waters
/ of the bay. He swan to the corpse, took
it in tow and brought it to the wharf.
Somebody threw the enterprislng boy q
rope which he fastened TO the prize, and
then several sailors from vessel lying
/ 6allp1 the rp m on the hnpE
! When the Morgue wagon arrived the
| sailors demanded a portion of the $40, and
! the Coroner's men promised them several
dollars for their labor of about a minute.
telling young Gleason at the same time of
this award. The boy, shivering from his
| work in the water, was aghast at this con-
dition of affairs. The $40 was rapidly
slipping through his fingers before he re-
ceived it. And to further muddle matters
his three boy companions were loudly
clam oring for a recognition of their claims.
Say, young fellar," said Gleason to the
Morgue man, ''where do [ git off? If yer
a-goin to give the whole wharf a piece OF
that $40, why just take the stiff and
divide 1t up among them ALL
And the corpse-tinder turned his back
in disgust and stalked up the street.
The remains are those of a sailor lost off
the British ship Ancaios on the night o.
| January Is.
George Bounds. sailor on the shiE
Lachee, at Folsom-street wharf, fell dowT
the hatchway Tuesday night and broke
| his left leg.
The revenue-cutter feet is getting ready
at Main street for this season IS work. Or
the Perry and Rush carpenters are making
repairs, while the Bear is mounted higi
up on the drydock. She is a small yes
sci, but, being built especially for buckinl
the Arctic ice as a steam-whaler, is IN
usually strong. Her frame is strength
ened with heavy oak beams, and her sterI
is sheathed with iron. AS she stands il
the dock she tips the scale at 1900 tons
Notice is given that freight will be re-
ceived for the North Pacific Coast Railroad
at Lombard street on Thursdays.