The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17
Narrow Escape of the w Webfoot While Lying
 Off Meiggs Wharf.
Had to Run Alongside of the British Bark InVersnaid
 for Safety.
1t Is Now Feared That the Bark Forest Queens Deckload of
 Piles Sunk Her.

The Honolulu, the only steel schooner on the Pacific. arrived from Hakodate yesterday in the smart time of thirty three days. The steamer Mount Tabor, from the same port, took twenty-four days to make the trip, so the Honolulu must be rated as a very fast vessel. The Honolulu ran into one heavy storm which lasted three days. On St. Patrick's day 1t blew a hurricane and the schooner lost almost an entire new suit of sails. The Honolulu is almost a brand-new vessel, and was built in England for John Ena of Hawaii. She was here once before with a cargo of sugar, and. as on that oc- casion, she will on this take back a gen. eral cargo to her home port. Captain Thonagle thinks a great deal of his ves .sel and says there is nothing afioat that . m beat her in an ocean race.
 As day after day passes and no news is received from the bark Forest Queen, those interested are one by one giving up hope. On March 6 she sailed from Taco ma for San Pedro with the following crew; J. w. Basley, master; H. Alberts, mate; C. A. Bell, second mate; C. Suzuki, cook and A. BaerstOn, AntOne Roderic, C. Jaesen. C. O. Anderson, Viktor Boden and Harry Anderson, seamen. A. Nelson left here on her as second mate, and Adolph IversOn as cook, but both men lttL her at laCOnla. Ole ElldSOn was shipped as second mate, but did not put in an appearance and Bell was taken in his place. The Forest Queen was lum her laden. Her hold was full of sawn tim Der and she carried a deckload of piles. After passing out through the straits of Juan de Fuca she ran into a series of gales and has not been heard from since.
 About March 24, while on his way to Coos Bay, Captain Donnelly of the schooner Webfoot saw a quantity of WreCkage and piles. He thinks there was a center board among the wreckage, but would not be sure. If there was a center board in it the Wreckage could not have been from the Forest Queen. Captain Nelson, owner of the vessel, is still of the opinion that she was driven off her course by adverse storms, and having lost some of her spars is unable to make port Other masters of vessels, however think that the weight of the piles on her deck caused the Forest queen to open up and go down with all hands
 A great deal of anxiety is being felt among shipping men and the underwrit- CTS about the Chilean ship Lake Leman and the Peruvian bark Santa Rosa. The Lake Leman left GuayaQuil PAS days ago for Seattle and the Santa Rosa left Pay ta, Peru, 263 days ago for Port Town send. Neither vessel has been heard from since leaving port, but the chances are that if they got any of the weather which caused the British ship Ravens Crag to take 1S7 days to get from the Sound to Callao there is hope for them yet.
 The schooner Webfoot had a narrow es- cape from going ashore last Friday night, and as 1t was she had to run alongside the British bark Inversnaid and tie up in order to be kept from going to sea again. The schooner arrived from Coos Bay about 7:30 D. m. and anchored off Meiggs wharf. Captain Donnelly went ashore, leaving Mate E. Erricsen in charge. Soon after the captains depart ure the anchor chain parted and the schooner went adrift. Mate Erricsen said Inf g-lF how l fifteen fathoms of good chain" and at once ordered the second anchor dropped The second anchor fared no better than the first. It held for about fifteen min uteS, and then parted company with the schooner, taking thirty-tive fathoms of chain with Il.
 The schooner now began to drift close toward Black Point. and the mate had tc call all hands to make sail. He sue ceeded in getting headway on the Web foot just in time. and then began the most eXasperating part of the performance. The mate stood the schooner close in shore and yelled for a tOwbOat. he sailed up in the direction of Vallejo street and drought his fog horn into play, he stood her off in the direction of Alcatraz and flashed his lights, but no one paid any scl alongside the lnVersnaid and tied her Gp. The SchOonerS $ rigging suffered in the performance, but anything was bet ter than sailing around the bay all night
 Once sure that his vessel would not go adrift again. Mate Erricsen went ashore in the SchOOner's dingy and made Tor the Redstack Towboat Company's of ice, where he secured the services of the tug Redmond. It did not take long to get the Webfoot away from the Inver- sna1d, and about 9:30 D. m. she was docked at Green-street wharf. Yesterday she was taken to Howard 3 and the work of discharging her lumber cargo began.
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