The San Francisco call., 1898-01-22
CAUGHT ON A
 BREAKING BAR The North Fork Had @ Hard Time of It Get ting Into Eureka. More KlOndike kers Started Yes terday on the Umatilla
 for Dyea.
A Rush Among tho Retail Dealers to Secure Coal From the Bark
 Wilma.

The steam schooner North Fork had a narrow escape on the Eureka bar last Monday. She left here early Sunday morning and had a rough time of it all the way up the coast. Crossing in at Eureka three heavy seas swept her, one after the other, and several of the passengers thought she was go- ing down. The railing was torn from the upper deck, stairs carried away, stateroOm doors broken in, staterooms flooded to a depth of two feet and the smoking-room gutted. A private let ter received yesterday says the doors were torn off staterooms 6, s and 10 and the occupants drowned out The seas swept almost over the pilot-house and the whole steamer was almost un- der water. She rose out of the trough of the sea like a bird. only to be buried again and again until the passengers gave up hope and began to say their prayers. It was all over in half an hour, and when everybody was safely on terra firma they began to laugh at their fears. The North Fork will be due back here to-day.
 There was another rush of Klondik- CTS by the Umatilla yesterday. They were down to the steamer bright and early and seemed on pins and needles until the starting hour came. On ar irving at Seattle they will be trans ferred to the steamer City of Topeka and will go to Dyea and Skaguay on that vessel. Hundreds of people were down to see the adventurers off, and many a man among the crowd on the steamers decks left a wife on the -l,ar incp h dnrNa Nav~trI Ir-ea Every gold-seeker is burning with high hope" but the chances are that very many of them will be back before the year is out with their hopes shat tered. Among those who left on the Umatilla were J. B. Sprague, J. c. Da- wis. F. J. Owfus. Mrs. Otenstand, Mrs. Lemke, E. T. Hatch and wife, c. H. Davis, J. Daniel, J. F. McNair, w. V. Curtin, C. Barlow, T. Olsen, J. Ring cid, J. Ebright, A. Robinson, E. H. | White, J. J. Quale, A. Quale, w. M. Daley, V. Bejequerz and wife, A. H. | Isaacs, H. L. Letey and wife, P. Oli- yer, J. Lepstrom, c. Granz, J. Brown, c. E. Sargent, J. Kirk, o. Smith, A. c. Janshu, D. Freidman-
 The American ship Henry B. Hyde and the Russian barkentine Boring sailed for Honolulu. They are going | to race down and the captain of the Russian boat is confident that he can | beat the 1anKee cllpper. The dyde will load sugar for New York and the Bering will bring sugar to San Fran | cisco.
 Nels Nelson, a waiter who lives at ( Central Place, gave pr. Deas and Driver Kelly of the Harbor Receiving Hospital a scare yesterday. He fell down stairs and broke his nose in two places. After his wound was dressed he was put to bed, but while the doc tor was washing his hands he disap- peared Kelly made sure he had fallen down the chute in the stable into the bay and procuring a boat began to search under the wharves for him. IT a little while, however, some longshore- men came into the hospital and told Dr. Deas that the missing man was or his way home on the run. Kelly was called in and the hospital resumed its usual air of quiet
 The scarcity of coal was very evi-