The San Francisco call., 1898-09-03
MUTINY AND
 |NCEND|AR|SM American Ship Barring Bros. Set on Fire. OFFICERS AND CREW AT OUTS WHEN KOBE WAS REACHED SIX MEN WERE IN IRONS. They Were Sent to Jail and the Night of Their Release the Ship Was
 Burned to the Waters
 Edge.
WHEN KOBE WAS REACHED SIX
 MEN WERE IN IRONS.

The well-known American ship Barring Bros. was burned to the waters edge in Kobe, Japan, on August F. There was trouble between the officers and men, and during the run from Kobe to Yokohama the sailors mutinied. Six of them were put in irons and later sent to jail. Four of them were put back aboard when their time was up, and they are now charged with having set the vessel on fire
 Some particulars of the trouble on the ship were received here in private letter yesterday The Barring Bros sailed from New York in December of last year, and arrived at Yokohama in the following May. There was more or less friction during the voyage, and several of the sailors tried to desert but failed The second mate was arrested for cruelty on the high seas, but the United States Con- sul dismissed the case. After discharg- ing her cargo at Yokohama the Barring Bros. sailed for Kobe and arrived there on July 25 last with the police flag flying again, and when the police boarded the ship Harry Brady, o. Paterson. John Hine, Walter Kaguster, Jerry Carnelich and Juan Jule were in irons and charged with mutiny. They were taken ashore and tried before United States Consul 8. s. Lyon. Captain Smalley. and his of of the men and to their attempt at run ming the ship. The men were found guilty, and Carnelich and Jule, as the ringleaders, were sentenced to thirty days in jail, and Brady, iine, Paterson and Kaguster to fifteen days each. The men were to be put back aboard the Barring Bros. as soon as their sentences were up or as soon as the ship was ready for sea-
 The men were sent to jail on July T, and on August Il, when the time of Brady, Hine, Paterson and Kaguster was up, they were ordered to go back aboard the ship. They refused, saying the second mate had threatened to fix hoy roll 4laka.r were carried aboard and locked up in the forecastle. That night the Barring Bros. caught fire, and the next day (August 12) she was burned to the waters edge; The four men were taken back to jail, and will be tried for setting the Barring Bros. atire: They deny having caused the loss have gone to any length to escape mak- ing the voyage to New York in her. Nearly half cargo of mating, silks and curios was burned up with the vessel and be very heavy on the owners.
 The Barring Bros. was well known in here from New York shipping was very dull and she lay tied up at Main street wharf for long time before a charter e e4ud se saeared Ne sbe bs wa4d 6H F m and was 2166 tons gross burden, 243 feet 2 inches long. 42 feet inches broad and
 feet bt inches deeR Gaptan t1 Masters mand of her for years, but resigned his command to go into the coasting trade. On her last trip here but one the Bar ing Bros struck on the bar when mak- ing port and came near being wrecked. The lumber dealers that have been bringing rafts here in tow of tugs in order to save the charter of vessels re- ceived a setback yesterday. The first one brought here from Astoria broke in two, but luckily not great deal of it was lost. Over two weeks ago another one crossed the Columbia River bar in a half of it reached here yesterday in tow of the tugs Monarch and Rescue
 The rest of 1t Is scattered for miles up and down the coast. On August 31 the Monarch and her tow encountered a heavy northwest swell and then the raft S:30 D. m. of that date, when four miles off Point Arena, 1t broke in two and the ends began to fray out. On the 1st inst. the Rescue came along and picked up the remains and both vessels reached port yesterday. The remains of the raft were taken to the Mission Bay mud flats and will be broken up there.
 Captain Metcalf Lloyd's surveyor, spent an hour or so yesterday looking over the collier Czarina. It is the inten- tion of her owners to build up her well deck in order to make more room for castle will be built up. thus making the vessel flush from stem to stern. This will not only improve the Czarina's looks but will add to her carrying capacity She took away yesterday 800 tons of freight for Seattle, and on her return will probably be laid up in order to make the above alteration.
 The transport Zealandia has arrived at Nagasak Japan, and should reach here about the 22d inst,