The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-09
A DAYS CHAPTER
Of ACCIDENTS
Two Vessels Ba 1y Injured
While Making a
Landing.
One Cut Forty Feet Away From
a Wharf, tue Other Crashed
Into Ship.
Officers of the Planter, S. G Wilder
and Aloha Were Also L jur@d
During the D Y.

Collisions and accidents were the main
features OF interest on the water front yes
terday. The steam schooner National City
ran into the German ship Marie Hackfeld
and did considerab bic damage.
( The French steamer Madeleine made a
connection with Beale-street wharf that
will mean several hundred dollars in re-
pairs to that structure.
The mate and carpenter on the s. G.
Wilder were almost killed by kicking
mules, and kenneid's chief clerk was
nearly killed aboard The barkeDtine
Planter.
Some waterfront hend who has grudge
against Bill Bendt, the well-known water
front boniface, poisoned his three squir-
rels, his chIpmunk anu lis parrot. The
little animals died, but after dose of salt
the parrot threw up the poison and is now
alive and hearty. The squirrels and the
chipmuuk came from Folsom prison.
Captain Smith, second mate of the s. G.
Wilder, was at that time guard in the
State peniEen tiary.
Both the squirrels and chipmunk we're
born IN Jail anu Captain Smith brought
them to San Francisco. For over five
years they have attracted the attention OF
every child that passed along Clay street
to the ferries, and now that they are dead
their owner would give $50 to know who
poisoned them. A post-mortem examina-
ton shows that arsenic was tie cause OF
their death. The parrot IS still alive,
however, and keeps up the cry all day
long, VINO stole my monkeysP'
The first accident recorded was that on
the schooner Beulah. She left this port
anchored on the bar. While hosting the
anchor 10 proceed on her way the FISH
hook split and struck the hand OF Mate
Gas Bum, cutting mis- finger of. The
Five B others move IN ssght and Blum was
transferred 10 her and broug hit to this City.
The Beuiah proceeded 10 sea
Captain (. Garrison, chief clerk for
kentield & Co., met with serious acct
dent on the barkentine Planter. He had
been to the vessel on business and was
bidding good-by to Captain Dow on the
poop deck when be lost his footin. anC
fell to the IL ain deck, fracturing four of
his ribs. Captain Dow took him TO his
home at Fruitvale last evening. and from
last accounts he was doing well.
Four of the crack Hawaiian liners
started on q race for Hawaii to-day, and
every one Of them had an accident to re-
cord before getting under way. The one
on the Planter has already been recorded.
On the S. g. Wilder while taking on board
a numbe or mules for the plan atoms
one the animals got loose and not only
kicked Second Mate Tom" Smith into
lnsensiOility but nearly killed the car
penfer. a doctor was called in, and after
careful treatment he gave it as his opinion
that both men could go TO sea without
danger.
The Wilder takes out ffty-two mule.
and the Aloha has over seventy, while the
Planters consignment has not been
| counted.
! The Hawaiian climate is not conducive
to mule longevity, and the consequence is
that every vessel that l-aves here for
/ Honolulu, hzhufui, MahI kona and other
/ ports IN The group "a ses a iu!l load of the
/ by birds. Plantation life does not suit them,
and the demand IS always greater than
/ the supply.
/ The French steamer Madeleine was
/ again in trouble yesterday. When on her
way here from South America, the gas in
the oil TANKS exploded and wrecked the
/ en- Inc room. She was towsd 10 this mort
| and has since been in the hands of the
RIsdoI Iron Works. She had her trial
yesterday, anu did well up to the time she
came 10 dock at BeaIe-street wharf. Then
when the signal was given 10 reverse. the
engine. tailed 10 answer, and the steamer
crashed into the wharf. NearlT forty feet
of the structure was cut into, and the cost
OF pairs will De considerable.
As near as can be gathered the cause of
the trouble was as follows: The vessel
had been out on her trial trip and Csptain
Freeman, one of the best-known pilots in
California, was in charge OF the shir.
After making circuit OF the bay she was
headed for Beale-street wharf ana en-
nearing it the slow DELL was given Next
the signal stop" was rung up ana the
steamer came down 70 4 speed of about a
knot an hour. When the signal stfuII
speed astern" was rung up the engines
tailed to respond. Then Captain Ham
mon took command and rang I'D full speed
as,ern twice and still there was no an.
swer. Then came the crash and FORTY
feet OF Beae-street wharf will have to be
repaired in consequence.
The steam schooner National City came
down from Eureka last Thursday and on