The San Francisco call., 1897-03-29
VESSELS DR|FTED
THROUGH THE GALE
One Of Them Landed on
the Berkeley Mud
Flats.
Another's Anchors Held When
She Was Nearly Ashore
on Alcatraz.
Whitehalls, Launches and Fishing.
Boats Were Piled Up Behind
Meiggs Wharf

The norther caused trouble on the bay
| Saturday night. Yachts and launches
went adrift white alls and sailing boats
| were piled up on the beach, and British
ships and coasting schooners went drift
ing up the bay with the food tide. One
bark came within an ace Of going ashore
on Alcatraz and the schooner Eva carried
her anchor with her until it held on the
Berkeley mud fats.
When the gale came up the British bark
Dunreggan was at anchor off Black Point.
She arrived here from Panama on De-
cern Der IA last in ballast, and for eighteen
months has not earned cent for her
owners. Consequently Captain Honey
man was not in the humor to expend any
more money for expenses. When his
vessel began to drift in dangerous
proxim ity to the island tort the fog signal
sent forth an alarm, and in few min utes
three tugs came to the scene.
In the mean time the bark's anchors
had held and all offers of assistance were
nearly noon and then returned to their
docks. Meanwhile the gale had freshened
and the Dunreggan was swim ing round
and round in the eddy caused by the wind
and tide and the current from the Sacra-
mento River. Soon the anchor-chains
foulsd and she began to drift again, and
again tho tugs were called upon. Again
Captain Honeyman refused assistance,
and at last accounts his vessel was riding
out the storm with every appearance Of
escaping without injury. He will have to
take tow to-day in spite of himself, how
ever, as his vessel Is in the fairway and
must be moved.
The schooner Eva arrived from Kahului
last Saturday and anchored off Meiggs
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the storm and went adrift. Yesterday
afternoon she was picked up by one of the
| Spreckels tugs on the Berkeley mud fats
and towed to the sugar refinery. She was
not damaged in any way ard as the
matches were battened down the cargo was
| not injured.
| In Canes Cove. behind Meiggs wharf,
| the storm played havoc. The launch Pi-
rate was thrown high and dry on the
beach and hole stove in her bottom. The
| Alta and the Annie were stove in, and the
schooner yacht Josie will have to go on
| the ways for repairs Half dozen white
halls and fishing smacks strewed the
beach with their remains and as Mike"
| Fitzgerald. the head reporter for the
| Merchants Exchange, remarked, lit was
the heaviest blow that has visited North
Beach in many day."
The Seven Sisters and the Five Broth
| ers were also in trouble. The former
started 10 sea but was caught in the gale
and had to put hack. She met her sister
in the offing. Both schooners belong to
Captain johnson, and he is the proud and
happy father Of twelve children. Seven
OF them are girls and five of them are
boys. Nearly all of his vessels are named
after his children, and when he fell short
of name he christened one the Five
Brothers" and the other the "Seven Sis
ters.' Unfortunately the Brothers and
Sisters went adrift last night, but did no
damage. The Brothers took one course
and the Sisters, favored by q sudden
squall, went sailing up the bay and came
to safe anchorage of Main-stres wharf
The Brothers went "scooting" up the bay
| and finally came TO q safe anchorage un-
der the Twin Brothers.
| The heavy break that came in from the
| bar did considerable damage along the
seawall. About fifteen feet OF the break
water at Meiggs wharf was carried away,
and the Merchants Exchange signal sta
ton undermined. At Powell-street wharf
the people fed, expecting that every
minute the structure would 20. A sudden
! gust of wind carried half pile of lum Der
away, and several people were hurt. One
lad was seriously injured, and was taken
home in wagon. The same squall car
ried away two OF the electric poles near
Lom bard street wharf. and in consequence
there was no telephone communication
for many hours.
The races did not take place, but Hay
den and Johnson aud Crowley and Fitz-
gerald went out and nearly lost their lives
| in consequence. When they got into the
tide rip they could do nothing with the
sails and everybody had to go to work