The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-09
Asks for Pay for Saving
the Grace Dollar.
WAS FAST ON A SAND SPIT
GOLD HUNTERS DESTITUTE AT
COPPER RIVER.
Returning Miners Say Starvation
VIII Reign Supreme at Coffee
City This Winter Unless
Relief Is Sent.

The arrival of the new steamer Grace
Dollar from Coos Bay to-day will prob
ably be the signal for the commence
ment of some lively litigation. About two
weeks ago the vessel left San Francisco
for Coos Bay and Astoria with passen-
gers and considerable cargo. On the
morning of August 81 her captain started
into Coos Bay with her, but somehow
the steamer got out of the channel and
struck on the south spit. After some
maneuverins she was backed off only to
go ashore again on the other side Of the
channel.
At this point things began to look pretty
blue for the Grace Dollar, and those who
were aboard of her. The rudder and
rudder post carried away, the vessel was
leaking and 1t seemed to the passengers
as though the hull would soon break up.
In the nick of time the tug Columbia
hove In sight, and after a great deal Of
trouble a line was got from the stranded
vessel to her. The men on the Grace
Dollar worked splendidly and launched
their life boat in spite of the heavy sea
that was running. When they got the
hawser aboard the Columbia it did not
take long to get the Grace Dollar into
deep water and thence to a place of safe
ty in Coos Bay. She has been fixed up at
A. M. Simpsons yard and is expected
back here this morning.
ers of the Grace Dollar have offered to
pay what they consider fair amount
for the towing OF their vessel to a place
of safety. The owners of the tug do not
look at 1t in that light, however, and
have made a demand for salvage. The
chances are that the courts will have to
decide dec the valve n1i OF the services rendered
Vessels from Cardiff and Swansea for
Pacific Coast ports with coal seem to be
particularly unfortunate. The Eaton Hall
far Two oiC lad %
into Rio de Janeiro on the Sd inst. with
the loss of her boats and her deck dam
aged. The Banffshire for Victoria, B. c.,
and she had to be run into Montevideo and
the hold flooded before the fire was put
out. The chances. are that she will not
surveyors have recommended the sale of
her cargo. The Routenburn, for San
Francisco, had to put into Rio de Janeiro
with her cargo shifted, and the Balmoral,
the British ship Glenericht, also from
Swansea. The latter had to put back to
Monteydeo tS with the loss Of her miz5en
the captain of the Glenericht found the
bark Fiery Cross, from Cardiff for Puget
Sound. damaged to the extent of $4,000
Captain Nelson of the steamer President
reports that on September 8. in latitude
4s:25 north, longitude 1870 west, he spoke
the British ship !Ceitie Monarch, from
wished Sashe to be i reported :all weIl' captain
The British steamer Glengyle, under
charter to the Pacific Mail Steamship
arrvs sbt from the Orient
sengers, all from Honolulu. 9 steerage
Among the cabin passengers was DR..
Clinton Gushing, who has been spending
q vacation in japan and Hawaii. The
Glengyle brings the news that the Ameri-
can ship Barring Brothers, which caught
fire in Kobe harbor, had been lowed into
shallow water and scuttled. 1t is hoped
that some portion of the 1900 tons of Gu
rios in her hold may be saved. Brady
rested on suspicion of having set her on
fire, were released by United States Con-
sui Lyons, as there was no evidence
against them.
Williams Sound yesterday with $4,000
cases of salmon and eighteen disguised
gold hunters. They went to the Copper
River district and say one-half the tale
Of misery endured by those who went out
on that wildgoose chase has not been told.
liams and Stanley Cameron of Oakland.
They say that hundreds of men are
stranded at Copper City unable to get to
this place or the Sound. They are with
out food, and some of them short Of
clothing and if help is not sent there will
be many deaths from starvation before
the winter sets in. The returned gold
hunters say that more poverty-stricken,
God-forsaken country than the Copper
River would be hard to find
The AlbatrosS went up to Mare Island
yesterday, where she will discharge her
armament and he turned over to the Fish
Commission again. The gunboat Benning-
ton came down from the navy yard and
will start this afternoon or tomorrow for
Honolulu to relieve the cruiser Philadel-
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