The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-01
RETURNING
TRANSPORTS
IN TROUBLE
Three Held at Various
Points.
HEATHFIELD IN A TYPH00N
THE LEELANAw ARRIVES WITH
TREASURE AND sEALSKINS.
Lighthouse That Guides the Oakland
Ferryboats to Their Slips Set
on Fire by a Crossed
Wire.
HEATHFIELD IN A TYPHOON
THE LEELANAw ARRIVES WITH
TREASURE AND SEALSKINS.

The o. and o. Company's steamer Gaelic
| arrived from Hongkong via Yokohama
and Honolulu yesterday with fifty-eight
cabin and 267 Chinese passengers yester-
day. She brings word that the United
States steamer Raleigh had just come off
the drydock at Hongkong the day she
sailed and that the cruiser Olympia was
preparing to take her place. The sailors
Of the warships, who had not enjoyed
shore leave for five months, were making
things lively in Hongkong in a good
natured way. The transport Zealandia was
still on the drydock at Nagasakf, and it
was unofficially reported that her. repairs
would occupy another month. The trans-
port Senator was at Honolulu, having put
in there for coal. and the Indiana was at
Nagasaki.
The British bark Heathfeld, from
Shanghai for Tacoma, had to put into
Yokohama in distress while. the Gaelic
was there. She was caught in the typhoon
that damaged the Zealandia, and very
nearly went to the bottom. She was on
her beam ends, with the main yard buried
in the water. and the topSail yardarms
were frequently washed by the waves Ior
nearly twenty-fofr hours. When the
ballast shifted, Mate Grant and Seaman
Kelly were buried under 1t, and nearly
killed. The stanchions in the wake of the
main hatch were bent and broken, a spare
spar and the two lee lifeboats were
washed away, the starboard bulwarks
from the lore TlgR1nR TO poop were started
and most of the stanchions and dog
shores were carried away Twelve planks
were ripped up from the deck, the gig was
smashed. the skids carried away and the
forecastle door was washed overheard.
1t will be many day before the Heath
field reaches Tacoma.
The steamer Leelanaw arrived from st.
Michael yesterday, via the Pribyloff
Islands. She brought down a full pas
senger list and very valuable cargo. In
fact, not one of the treasure ships has
made as good a showing. Besides the
treasure from the Klondike she brought
down 1902 seal skins, 6S5 fox skins and rs
Island. These will mount up into big
figures, and will materially swell the Lee
lanaw's record: Among those who came
North American Company's agent at SI.
Paul Island, and j. Stanley Brown, the,
company's general agent T; P. H White.
law and the men who went UP with him
on the Sintram to build the company's
river steamers and barges also came,
bling and much trouble. when the COM
pany of boatbuilders first arrived at
Dutch Harbor. but things were finally
Strengthened out and there was no fric-
ton toward the end. FL.
]. W. Ivy, Collector of Customs for
Alaska came down from st. Michael. He
started for Dawson but that none of them
expect to get farther than Rampant, where
they VIII winter int TT, There is plenty Of pro-
there will be no starvation. There are
lots of people at st. Michael anxious to
get back to San Francisco, but they have
no money and they will have hard time
Of. It If they have to stay up there all
winter.
The Leeelanaw is to have all her deck
houses and gingerbread work" taken off
and she will go into the Seattle coal trade.
The steamer. Alviso nearly broke her
back in the Alviso slough last Thursday
night. She was on her way to San Fran.
cisco, when she got across the slough by
some unaccountable means and stuck
fast. The opposition steamer, F. NJ
Smith, came along shortly afterward,. and
in order to get out herself had to pull the
Alviso out of her tight place The tide
was running out at the time. and had the
Alviso been left with her bow on one
bank and her, stern wheel on the other
her back would have !, been broken when
The lighthouse that that guides guide the Oakland
depot was on fire Thursday night. A
crossed electric wire started the blaze
The services of the fire tug Governor r.
win were called in. and the water tower
on her was used for the first time. 1t
proved most effective, and put the fire
out in a few minutes.