The San Francisco call., 1898-01-09
Marrow Escape of the ':''''' Lum Der Schooner
 North Bend.
Collided With the Jennie Stella and Then Went on the
 Rocks.
 *Disastrous Ending to a Fast Passage :. of Seven Days From Grays c: HarbOr.

.:.:Another fleet of coasters got in yes :: :terday, and two of them are in trou- 5Ie: One schooner was not only in :: ~,ccllision, but also went ashore, and it :, 1y5II. be some time before she will sail .. :on' another voyage. The other schoon- >:::@I::: only lost her foretopmast backstay >~ac&d' soresail.
 :: Ila schooners North Bend and Jen- :: ::riie. Stella both left GEays Harbor for :: san Francisco seven days ago, and :: Ia5t}3 reached port last Friday night. :-j5-Ffsev crossed the bar in company. and :: :nfatte fair progress past Point Bonita Soon<a after that the trouble began. The wand fell light, and both vessels be- gan to drift The Jennie Stella came : to an anchor as Captain Krebs saw there was no bettering his position with. that tide. Captain Bluhm, who was temporarily in command of the a, North Bend. Captain Wallace having stayed behind at WilIapa on account of sickness. thought he would catch a :1luie, of wind and manage to get off .MeiEgs wharf and held on. The first thing he knew his vessel had drifted
 dQwn on the Jennie Stella. and the lat .-ter:s foretopmast backstay and foresail were carried away.
 The men on board the North Bend
 did not take the time to see what dam
 age their craft had sustained, as she
 was rapidly drifting on Point Diablo.
 Everything possible was done to pre-
 vent the schooner from going ashore,
 but without avail. and about 11:30 p. m.
 on the 7th inst. she struck heavily,
 bow cn. The tide soon swung her
 around. and her starbOard side came
 against the rocky point. Captain Bluhm ordered a tUrpentine danger signal burned, and the Fort Point light house responded. Word was sent to the life saving stations, and two boats were socn on the scene. Spreckels tow
 boat office was also notified. and the
 tug Nigilant was sent to tow the
 stranded schooner off the rocks.
 -: The tug. could not get near the North Bend. so the life-saving boat carried : the towing lines. and after nearly three :.lsours hard work the schooner was got .. off and lowed to HOward-street wharf, .-.JGhere she was dOcked. While on the rocks the schooner lost her keel, had
 several holes knocked in her bottom,
 her starbOard railing, and the rigging
 on the main and fOremasts were con
 sidera bIy damaged, and the load of
 lumber was the only thing that kept the vessel a1Oat. As she now lies the
 water is over her main deck, and as soon as the deck load is removed she
 WILL nave 10 go on the mud Ila Is 10 ClS- charge the remainder of her cargo. The schooner is strained in every seam, and she will have to receive a thorough ov- erhauHng before she can again put to ' sea- ,,.., ..,.. ,,
 has been built for the South Sea Island trade, came down from Beuicia yester-
 day. She will be taken to the Mar
 Guesas by Captain D. Schwarting. who brought the old missionary bark John IL ago. The latter vessel is now 45 years cid. but still trades between the Mar Quesas and Tahiti
 i: The new steamer Dirigo. for the Alas : .l1a trade. was launched at Grays liar .,bor last Friday. She will be loaded 90 Hyith'Ium Der and lowed down here On her. arrival she will have her engines .Dut in and fitted out. The Dirigo is 200 - feet long, 36 feet broad. fl feet deep
 and the contract calls for a speed of 15 knots an hour She will be fitted with electric lights throughout and will have accommodations for 200 pas
 sengers and 1000 tons of freight 70 The British cruiser Phaeton got in
 from San Diego yesterday morning. : The SparTOwhawk. which she is sup Q posed to convoy. got in Friday night
 Both warships will remain here a few 10 days, and will then proceed to the Es-
 Quimalt B. O navy yard
 The following are the officers of the PhaetOu: Captain. Francis Kirby: lieutenant, George '. Cayley, N Guy NJ Marston, Christopher P. MetcaIf, Edgar R. Morant. Charles D. Graham. lieutenant Royal Naval Reserves. -s George Hamilton; lieutenant marines = F. J. W. Harvey; staff surgeon. H Hafries; chief engineer, F. J. Flood; paypaster, Montague Stephens: as- ststant engineer, J. c. Jenkins; gunner ". J. Brothers; boatswain, Tona Glad - Tns, Thomas Hutchenson: carpenter, John N Brown; clerk, Robert A. Jen- lin.
 ...' The following Eastern vessels are on their way to San Francisco to take part in the rush to the KIondike next Spring: From New York, the steam lers Cottage City and City of Columbia pnd brig Harriet G.; from Baltimore . stne steamers Valencia and Curacoa: from Boston, the schooners Stella Sherman. Abbie F. Morris. Julia E WhaIen; from Gloucester, the schooner Hattie | Phillips: from New Haven the schooner Thomas s. Hughes, and from Portsmouth, the schooner Con -Gorf. All these vessels are out from twenty to eighty days, and some of . them should be heard from the latter pasE of this month.
 .'The Oceanic Steamship Company's Moana sails for Sydney via Honolulu. Apia and Auckland to-day. She takes away a full cargo, among which is 2o00 centals of barley, valued at s23OO 70; Among her passengers are c. F. Rich ardson, paymaster of the Southern Pacific; M. Churchill, a Grand Army ::of the Republic man from Ohio. who {s going to Honolulu on a holiday trip. and c. N. and J. s. Post and H. T. ; Weeks, who are going to Hongkong via Sydney The other cabin passen- gers are:
 For Honolulu-George Anderson. John A Buck and wife, W. J. Clifford, w. H.