The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-17

which lowered above our masts. We
struck under the cliff and hundreds Of
tons fell on our decks. In fact, 1t
took the men a whole day with sledges
and crowbars to break up our unwel-
come deckload and get it overheard.
Then, as we backed away from the
berg, the whole of the overhanging cliff
fell into the ocean and nearly swamped
US. Had that mass of ice fallen on
the Theodor not a soul aboard would
have lived to tell the tale"
The Theodor is under charter to load
a general cargo for London olrect. She
is 2311 tons net burden. 1926 feet inches
long, 40 feet inches broad and q feet
6 inches deep. She has three decks
and four water-tight compartments,
and would have made a splendid cattle
transport.
The gunboat Bennington and the
patrol steamer Grant are on their way
to Puget Sound, and Engineer Emory
Winship is on his way post haste to
Port Townsend to intercept them Mr..
Winship came from Honolulu on the
Bennington, but on his arrival here
was transferred to the Alert. When
the Alert went out of commission he
was ordered to the Yorktown, but had
barely time to make his lunch on that
vessel before he was told to report for
duty on the Bennington again. He
came down from Mare Island in a
hurry, only to find that the gunboat
had gone. He then got his orders to
proceed to Port Townsend to rejoin the
Bennington there. 1t therefore looks
as though the Bennington is to relieve
the Wheeling, and that the latter Will
come to San Francisco for an over
hauling. The Grant will relieve the
Perry and that vessel will probably be
overhauled at Seattle.
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steamer Gaelic from China were re-
leased from quarantine yesterday and
were taken to the Mail dock by the
tugs Sea King and sea Queen. They
will remain upon the steamer until
passed upon by the customs authori-
ties.
The Yukon River steamer Mary FL
len Calvin had a very successful trial
trip yesterday She is splendidly
fitted throughout and will be one Of the
best vessels of her class on the Daw-
son route The Calvin will be towed
north by the steamer Cleveland.
The American ship Roanoke, which
sails to-day for New York. will take
away an unusually valuable cargo.
Among 1t there are 6S5,351 gallons of
wine, 1858 gallons brandy and 1,2OO,120
pounds of borax.
The tug Annie met with a mishap
yesterday. She started up river with
two barges in tow. One had load of
coal for Darby Legion 6, Co.'S works
near Stockton, and the other was
empty :, hen off Red Rock the sea
became very rough and the load of coal
was washed off the barge and it
swamped. After a great deal of trou-
BILE Captain Titchworth got the two
barges back to the Mission mud flats,
where he left them.
Captain William Hughes, for many
years master of the ferry steamer Oak
land, died at his home $50 Lexington
avenue, last Friday after a lingering
illness. Captain Hughes was IS years
of age, and was native of Wales:
In looS he was captain Of the tug Sal
Thomas, and later was master of the
ferry steamer Vallejo. He entered the
service Of the Central Pacific in 1870,
and at different times was master of
the ferry boats Ell Captain, Capitol, AL
ameda, Newark and Oakland. He
leaves a large family of sons and
daughters One of the daughters named
Stella was drowned near the Cliff
House some years ago, it Is believed.
No trace of her was ever found after
she disappeared from her home.