The San Francisco call., 1899-12-04
INSTANT DEATH
CAME CLOSE TO
ONE QUARRYMAN
Falling BoWlder Just
Missed Him.
OVERDUE SHIPS HEARD FROM

Lee Cook had a narrow escape yestcr-
day from instant death at Gray Brothers
quarry on Telegraph Hill. He was at
work on the face OF the cliff making a
passage for the men to reach their work
when lot of loose stones began TO tum-
BILE about him. Looking upward, he saw
a huge bowlder tottering. ready to fall
From a cottage on the top OF Telegraph
Hill a rope drops to the ground below.
This rope is used by the quarrymen In
going up and down the hill. Cook sprang
for the rope and missed it. Losing his
footing he fell twenty feet to the street
below. the bowlder coming tumbling after
him. Cook struck on his head but had
enough sense left in him to scramble away
on his hands and knees. He had not
moved five feet when the rock fell right
at his side. The injured man was taken
10 the Harbor Hospital. where DR.. Nor
of his skull and that he was badly bruis-
ed about the body. The doctor considers
that Cook had a marvellous escape. He
was removed during the afternoon TO his
home at 922 Battery street.
The overdue ship Glory OF the Seas ar
rived last night from Comox. b. c. She
was thirty-two days making the run from
the Sound and experienced some very
heavy weather. A heavy southeaster
blew nearly all the time the ship was out
and Captain Freeman found IL impossible
gave out and for a time it looked as
though the men would have TO resort to
seagulls for diet. Luckily, on November
30. the United States training ship Adams
hove in sight and from her the starving
men got enough stores to last them for
ten days. Soon after that there was a
slight change Of wind and Captain Free
man was able to work his way to port.
The collier Bristol. which arrived yes
terday, spoke the CZarina in tow OF the
Holyoke, 100 miles south of Flattery last
Wednesday. The Czarina broke her shaft
a month ago and is being towed here for
repairs. . 49,
schooners Amethyst and S. Danielson.
short OF provisions. The Amethyst was
supplied by the transport Columbia more
than three weeks ago. but those stores
must have given out several days ago
unless the men have been on short allow
ance right along. The revenue cutter Nc
Culloch is now out searching for the
overdues and may pick up both vessels. =,
The scow schooner Excedra anchored
over the Postal Telegraph cable Saturday
night. Word was sent TO the captain
not 10 move and tug would be sent 10
captain OF the scow set his jib and
tried to raise his anchor with the
result that the cable was broken. This
is the fourth time this cable has been
broken within a month.
The battleship Iowa will go outside to-
day for three or four hours cruise to
try her engines
IL D. Bendxsen OF Eureka came down
in the steamer Brunswick last Saturday.
The Brunswick towed the Santa Paula
down. The latter is built TO carry 800
barrels of oil and will be towed up and
down the coast by the oil steamer George
Loomis. In case of an emergency che
Santa Paula is schooner rugged and can
built by Bendixsen. There Is now on
the stocks in Bendixsen's yard a four
masted schooner for Captain Charles Mel
son, three-masted schooner for the
McCollom Fishing and Trading Company
barkentine for Sudden & Christensen,
a steamer for the Humboldt Shingle AS
sociation and steamer for Gray &
Mitchell
The steamer Robert Dollar. now nearing
completion at Grays Harbor, will go into
the Nome trade in the spring. She mas
been chartered by Captain Rathbone late
with the Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company and will run between Seattle.
St Michael, Cape Nome and Cape York.