The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-02-28
CAUGHT IN A
SOUTHEASTERN
Overdue Steamers Santa
Cruz and Walla Walla
Arrive.
Encountered Heavy Weather
From Flattery to the
Golden Gate.
Visitors Were Not Allowed Aboard
the Mohican Yesterday Owing
to the Storm.

A storm-tossed fleet of vessels
reached port yesterday, and the pas
sengers and crew were not sorry to
reach a safe anchorage The steamers
Santa Cruz and Walla Walla were
overdue, and their captains state that
it was blowing as hard when they
reached the Golden Gate as it was
when they passed out Of the straits of
San Juan de Fuca. The bark Alden
Besse arrived off the Farallones on
the 23d inst, but the southeaster was
too much for her, and Captain Potter
had to put to sea again. she was
twenty-one days coming from Homo
lulu, and it was a fair-weather voyage
until this coast was reached.
The bark Oregon from Newcastle,
n. S. W., was reported from the heads
last Friday as being fourteen miles
southwest" She was then out eighty
six days, and Captain Parker was con-
graduating himself on the termina-
lion of his long voyage, and refused a
tow from Captain Randall Of the tug
Fearless, when the gale came along
and he had to stand out to sea again.
Yesterday it was blowing forty miles
an hour at the heads, so her chances
for getting in to-day are not very
good.
The Santa Cruz struck the gale al
most as soon as she got away from Sc
attic, on the goth inst, at $3.50 a. M
With a fair amount of luck she should
have been here Thursday last, but in
stead of that she was bucking into
heavy sea off the coast or Mendoclno
At times no Roadway could be made
ct all, and had 1t not been for the sails
Captain Gielow says he would not be
here yet With steam and sail the
Santa Cruz managed to beat her way
down. So many tacks were made dur
ing the seven days the vessel was at
sea that toward the end the sailors
thought they were on board a wind
TANNER again. Off the Columbia
River It blew a hurricane, and the yes
sci had to be hove to. But, all's well
that ends we'll, and last night captain
and crew took a we'll earned rest in
port
The Santa Cruz has been carrying
freight I'd Dyea and Skaguay. and no
one aboard the vessel has any desire
to go back to that part of the country
again. The wharf runs out for miles
over a mud fiat. and even then the
Santa Cruz could only get half her
length alongside of IT. The tide rises
and falls from twenty to twenty-nine
feet, and the wind blows so hard at
times that the men had to hold on to
ropes in order to keep from being
blown overheard. The officers on the
steamer predict that the route be-
tween Seattle and Juneau, Dyea and
Skaguay will be strewn with wrecks OF
many good steamer DeIore the winter
is over.
The steamer Walla Walla got In yes
terday from Puget Sound ports. She
also caught the southeaster, and was
nearly thirty hours late on the run.
Captain Wallace rejoined his vessel
this trip after a vacation spent in the
East He was congratulating himself
prior to the sailing Of the Walla Walla
from this port on the fact that the
worst of the winter was over. He had
barely reached Point Reyes when a
Northwestern came and the steamer
caught ii all the way to Victoria. B.
c. On his way back he ran into the
souhteaster and had to endure another
siege of it. I'VE caught the first of 1t
of. Cape Flattery," said Captain Wal
lace yesterday "and the gale stayed
thought that by morning we would |
have run out of it, but no it stayed
by us and was blowing as hard at Point |
Bonita as it was off Flattery."
The oil steamer George LOOMS was
to have sailed for Ventura yesterday
Captain Bridget took his vessel out as
far as the bar and not liking the looks |
Of the weather came back to port.
The big four-masted British ship |
Spoke is disguised with the turn af- |
fairs have taken and refuses to leave |
her bed Of mud in Oakland Creek. The |
vessel arrived here onsNovember IS last |
and at that time freights were high and |
charters plentiful. Captain VAIN
wright, for his owners, refused an offer |
Of 35 shillings holding that the price
would go to 40 shillings before the |
season was over Instead Of going up
rates went down and finally the own
ers of the vessel were glad to accept 25
shillings. This sudden drop Disguised |
the Spoke and when the tugs Sea Queen
and Redmond went over to pull her out
Of the mud and take her to Wheatport
to load she could not be budged. An
other attempt will be made to haul her
out when the high tides come.
1t was too rough on the bay for Wis
itors to get out to the sloop-of-w Mo-
hican yesterday. In fact, visitors were
not wanted aboard, as out of the 1877 ap-
prentices on the warship there was not
score but what was seasick The boys
have not got their sea legs yet and as
the Mohican has considerable top ham
per she rolls a great deal more than
the lads like. The messroom was de-
serted, but every quiet corner on the yes
sci was occupied. Many a boy on that
warship came to the conclusion yester-
day that "a life on the ocean wave"
is not what it is cracked up to be.
The ferry steamers Sausalito and Tt
buron caught the full strength Of the
gale az it swept in through the gate
Both boats faced the wind as much as
possible, and when off Meiggs wharf
were put about and run before it along
the wharves to their landing slip. Mel
Their one Of the steamers made a run
but what dozen or more of
he passengers were seasick.
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