The San Francisco call., 1897-11-07
BACK With
A STORY Of
PRIVA4I0N
Miners Who Sailed on
the Grace Reach
San Quintin.
ASK THAT HALL BE
ARIES | ED.
CAPTAIN of the Craft Accused
of Having Attempted to
Poison Them.
WERE LEFT TO STARVE ONA
BARREN COAST.
Arrived at a Mexican Settleme ent
When Almost Dead From
Starvation.
Captain of the Craft Accused
of Having Atte m pied to
Poison Them.
WERE LEFT TO STARVE ONA
BARREN COAST.
Arrived at a Mexican Settleme ent
When Almost Dead From
Starvation.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 6.-Three of the m en-
who claim that Captain A. W. Hall of the
unlucky schooner Grace tried to poison
them. arrived to-day at San QuintiE. after a
journey that reduced them to skin and
bones. They we're put ashore from the
schooner at Santa Rosalia. almost 200 miles
south of San Quintin. One of them, ac-
cording to the sailor Barney Wilson, was
so weak from the eff facts of the poisoned
food, that he vomited blood and had to be
carried ashore.
ALI three are miners who went down from
San Francisco to work on claims
alleged by Captain Hall to have
been discovered by him on a for
mer trip. Through a conversation with
the men over the wire it was learned
that their experience after being put
ashore was something to make their hair
turn gray. All were weak and sick. They
were on a barren coast without water, ex-
cept as they found it on their march. The
dangerous condition of the youngest
member of the party forced them to keep
on the march toward civilization, as they
feared he might die at any time.
1t was decided 10 strike out for Rosario,
the nearest Mexican. settlement, over 100
miles to the north. The men were afoot,
not having burro or any other animal to
pack their effects. They abandoned
everything except small packages of food,
and struck ont
One OF the party, whose name is sup
posed to be Johnson. had been in the
country before, and knew the water holes
in general way. But for his knowled ge
i - -E% l..
They were abandoned on october II,
and from that time 10 Novemb ber L they
were in constant danger of death. The
men tramped over the trackless sand, TAX
ing to the seacoast some INES, but oftener
going over the hills of the interior, where
they occasionally found an old trail to
guide them. Their boots were cut by
rocks and cacti until their feet bled.
One of the party said they had TO lie at
one place week, nursing the sickest man,
and at times being ready TO dig his shall
low grave. But he rallied and they made
their way to Rosario, arriving there on
November 1. They were like ghosts they
said. straying in from the wilderness, and
the Mexican ranchers were astonished at
their appearance.
But they treated the castaways kin dIy,
and supplied them with horses to ride to
San Quintin, seventy miles away. The
ride took five days because of the ex-
hausted condition OF the men.
They were determined to reach the tele-
graph at the earliest possible moment.
They Immediately sent dispatch 10 the
authorities here. asking them to arrest
Captain A. w. Hall for the attempted
murder of the party by poisoning.
The men are expected to arrive on the
steamer Pacheco, which will return from
San Quintn on Wednesday morning.
They will then make complaint against
Hall.
Captain Hall, who was himself for four
days without food on the ilI-fated cruise
is lying at Non -Sectarian Hospita suffer
ing from heart disease. Chief Russell
said tonight that he had not placed the
mysterious stranger under arrest, but that
he was under police surveillance and that
developments would follow as soon as
Hall was convales cent.