The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-24
HEAVY GALE
IS BLOWING
OFF THE COAST
National City Came
Back in Distress.
MACKINAW HAD A HARD TIME
MANY SAILORS ON THE IOWA
SICK WITH MALARIA.
Captain Wallace Takes Charge of the
Pacific Coast Company's Wharves.
Knockout Drops for
a Sailor.
MACKINAW HAD A HARD TIME
MANY SAILORS ON THE IOWA
SICK WITH MALARIA.

1t blew a hurricane outside on Satur-
day and Sunday, and vessels that start
ed north had a terrible time of it. The
collier Mackinaw, for the sound, was
sighted rolling in the trough of the sea
with her engines stopped; the steamer
National City, for Unga Island, got such
a buffeting that she had to put back for
repairs, and the barkentine Ruth, from
the Southern seas, had her decks swept
while making port.
The National City was under charter to
the Sitka Consolidated Gold Mining Com
pany and sailed for Unga on Saturday
morning. 1t was blowing fresh when the
start was made and as soon the
steamer was well outside and straighten
ed out on her course The wind began to
increase. When Point Reyes was reach
ed it was blowing a gale from the north
west and the stout little craft was bare
ly holding her own against it. The waves
swept her fore and aft, and one of them
made its way into the cabin, flooding it.
When the National City was seven
miles northwest of Point Reyes a ire
mendous roller broke aboard. 1t broke
in the doors and windows of the engine
room, carried away some of the state
room doors, flooded the forecastle and
engine room and drove the firemen on
deck For a while the vessel lay like a
of the waves The fremen Immediately
went back to their posts, and kept steam
on the boilers until the vessel was run
into brakes Bay An examination of
the vessel was there made, and Captain
Dettmers decided that the best thing he
could do was to return to San Francisco
for repairs. The engine room was fixed
and some repairs made, after which the
vessel came on here, arriving yesterday
ma tKraG of hat or,aI
street and to-day will be overhauled to
see whether 1t is NECESSARY to unload her
The barkentine Ruth made a very fast
run of thirty-six days from Guam. and
ran into the hurricane off Point Reyes
Captain Charleston reports seeing a
fleet of vessels off shore making heavy
weather of it. He saw the collier Mack
NAV, and her engines were stopped and
she was rolling gunwales under in the
trough of the sea. Half an hour later the
Mackinaw got under way and began to
forge slowly ahead. Captain Charleston
thinks something was wrong with her
machinery.
were the bark Prussia for the sound, the
Occidental. Samoa. Mary Winkeiman
Mary BUM and Alice Blanchard for
Eureka; Mackinaw for Tacoma, r. W.
Bartlett for Bristol Bay. Ell Rio Rey for
Bowens Landing, Daisy Rowe for Coos
Bay, Eureka for Coqulile River and the
Westport for Point Arena. All of these
L
in the storm.
The British ship Pyrenees, seventy
three days from Newcastle, n. S. w.
arrived yesterday. On March II the yes
sci was off the Mitchell group of islands
The natives came out TO the vessel, and
the captain presented them with some
books and papers. The Pyrenees also
caught the storm, and both captain and
crew were glad to make port.
Nearly half the crew on the battleship
Iowa are on the sick list, and the men
are loudly protesting. All of them seem
are clamoring for the removal of the ship
to better quarters. The Iowa is living off
the Union Iron Works, and is just in the
position for the crew 10 get the full bene-
fit of the Channel street sewers. This
stencil eddies around the warship twice a
odors from Butchertown are waited
north on the breeze Not very long ago
the battle ship Oregon was lying in the
same place, and all her crew were more
or less sick with malaria In conse-
uuence the vessel had to be removed to
necessary repairs made there.
Captain Thomas Wallace of the Walla
Walla takes charge of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company's wharves to-day.
He has been thirtythree years in the ser
vice of the company, and a better liked
offered the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
wharves three times, and II was only UNI
der pressure that he now accepts the po-
sition.
p. w. O'Donnell, sailor on the United
States ship Badger 50 ger, was taken to the
can District Telegraph messenger boy.
The latter said he found the seaman on
the corner of California and Front
O'Donnell told him that he had been