The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
WRECKED ON
THE ROCKS AT
CASPAR HEAD
The Jewel Ashore at
Daybreak.
ALL OF THE CREW SAVED
SECoN . ENGINEER HORNE HAD
HIS LEG BROKEN.
Marrow Escape of the Crew of the
Scow Gaslight-Vessel Filled
With Water While
They Slept.
FALL OF THE CREW SAVED
sECoN y ENGINEER HORNE HAD
HIS LEG BROKEN.

:: The steam schooner Jewel is a total
wreck on the Mendocino coast She left
here on the 9Th inst, and went on the
rocks at daybreak yesterday morning.
The crew was saved, but William Horne,
1.-The second engineer, had his arm broken
while escaping from the wreck.
..Ihe Jewel arrived at Caspar last Tues
day, and as soon as the supplies for the
. MIL were landed she began loading a re-
turn cargo of lumber. BY Thursday night
$4,000 feet had been put aboard, and Cap
tain Madsen decided to give his men a
good nights rest in order TO finish
his loading yesterday. 1t was blowing
"hard and a heavy swell was running into
Caspar Bay. Had the Jewel remained
where she was the sailors would have
been compelled to remain on watch all
night for fear the steamers mooring lines
should part. The captain accordingly
took his vessel out to sea, intending to
stand on and off until daylight, when he
would return to the wharf and take in
the remainder of the cargo.
Captain Madsen remained on watch I'M
I'll about o'clock yesterday morning and
then went below TO get few minutes
rest. The mate was left in charge, with
instructions to call the captain at $50 d.
m. 1t was pitch dark, and the flying spray
made il impossible to see more than the
length of the ship. When ii became time
to call the captain the mate thought the
Jewel was about five miles off shore, md
was on his way to make such report
when the vessel struck. The wind and
current had carried her up the coast and
she was hard and fast on the rocks about
five miles north Of the North Head at
Caspar Bay.
Had there been a lighthouse on the
south head of Caspar Bay the disaster
would never nave happened. There Is a
light on Point Arena and another at
Cape Mendocino. Between those places
there are about thirty harbors and land
ings which are used daily by the lumber
feet, and yet, after leaving Point Arena,
there is no guiding light until Cape Men
dOcino is reached. The shape of the coast
is such that the south entrance to Cas-
par Bay is the most westerly point, and
the Government, noting this fact, as far
back as January, 1867, set aside lot V, sec
ton !, township II north, range Is west,
Mount Diablo meridian, by order of the
President, for lighthouse purposes. But
it has never been put to use.
The crew of the Jewel managed TO get
ashore on life line. One end of haw-
ser was made fast to the stump of the
beach by means of a small heaving line,
which had previously been got ashore.
Engineer Horne had his arm crushed by a
Falling timber just as ne was preparing
10 take his place on the rope. Captain
Madsen displayed wonderful GOODNESS and
bravery, and was the last man to leave
the wreck. 1t was at first thought the
cook was drowned, for he was washed
overheard, but he managed to climb on
washed ashore.
The Jewel was built at Bencia in 1888
and was l34 feet long, 80 feet broad, 1O.5
feet deep and 20255 tons gross burden.
+, A Wilkins was the managing owner
and she was under charter TO the CaspaT
Lumber Company. The insurance on hull
and cargo does not exceed $1,000.
The crew of two on the scow schooner
Gaslight had a narrow escape yesterday
morning. The vessel left here with a
load of lumber for Port Costa last Thurs
day, but could not get any farther than
Portuguese Point, near Sheep Island There
the schooner was anchored and the cap
tain and his man went to sleep in the
cabin. At a. m. yesterday they awoke
30 find that the Gaslght had sprung aleal
and the cabin was Hooded. They made
their way on deck in their night clothes
and finally had to take refuge in the
rigging. For four hours they hung on
and just as they were ready to drop over
board from cold and exhaustion the
schooner Anna Alden, bound from Vallejo
tain Trenmann headed for the water.
logged craft and soon had the men aboard
and. outside a good horn of whisky. The
Gaslght will be raised without much diff.
fCulty as soon as her deckload of lum.
Der has been removed.
A drunken sailor created a disturbance
on the ferry steamer Encinal on the 2:3
p. m. trip yesterday. He made three
bluffs at jumping overheard. ana kept the
When the Encinal reached this side the
crew led the sailor off the vessel anC
told him TO put some rocks in his pocke
and jump off Mission street wharf. 80
won't do it," said he. I'll go and take
another drink" And he did.