The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-12
Information Wanted.

Carl JohansSon, a native of Saltbo
Nyckeby, Tjrno, Sweden, is inquired for
to receive letter from his relatives. Ad-
dress, 16A Stanley Place, San Francis
co.
Peter Stockton, native of Switzerland,
shipped from San Francisco since De-
cember oath last, stating would leave
for home. Address information u. s.
Shipping Commissioner, Appraisers
Building, San Francisco.
Information wanted Of Thomas Eyrs
Phillips, by his mother Mrs. Francis
Phillips of Little Cloisters, Westminis-
ter Abbey, London. Last heard of in
September, 1899. in one of the U. S.
Transports. The British Consul in San
Tale of the Sea.
SAN FRANCISCO, June captain
Chilean ship Hindostan. which was
burned at sea March Sth, arrived yes
terday afternoon from Tahiti in the
brig Galilee. and bring the first partic-
uiars of the loss of the Hindostan and
the long voyage in small boats of the
crew in the effort to reach land. Captain
WEIGH was almost made blind by the
terrible suffering passed through be-
tween the time the ship was lost and
the time he reached an island of the
Marquesas group. His eyes are still
bloodshot and it is with difficulty that
he is able to see at all as a result of the
suns glare on the sea and the absence
of any shade or covering during the
eleven days and nights he was in a
small boat in the tropic sea. The four
sailors who returned to this port with
Captain WEIGH show no signs Of having
passed through any unusual expert
ence. They are all Chileans, their names
being Ambrosia Andrade, Jose Rude
sindo Neiquel, Manuel Soto and Le-
sardo Gonzalez. They expect to shir
| as seamen on some vessel bound to
! Chile, while Captain WEIGH will take
! the first steamer for Panama, en- route
| to Valparaiso, his home. Captain
! WEIGH is Ga years old, and has been {
master of sailing ships for thirty years
For thirteen years he commanded tn,
! Hindostan, and carried fourteen car
goes of lumber in her from Puge
| Sound to Chilean ports. The ship wa
built at st. Johns, New Brunswick, il
1875, was owned by Marcos B. Peede o
Valparaiso, and was of 1912 registered
tonnage. The Hindostan put into Thu
port early in February last in a leak
ing condition, being bound from Por
Blakeley to Caldera and Valparaiso
| After slight repairs the ship sailed, tax
| ing from here one passenger, a Scotch
boy named Arthur Roberts, who was Ell
route to Valparaiso to join his brother
Although the ship was still leakin,
when we sailed from San Francisco,
said Captain WEIGH last evening, w
kept the water down by strict atten
ton to the pumps. We made good tim
and had good weather, We got tn
northwest trades on February 18th, an,
the leak had about stopped. 1t begal
again on February oath, worse thai
ever but strict attention was given t,
the pumps and we had no fear. As w
got to the southwark the seas becam
very heavy and the ship was leakin.
| badly, when at o'clock on the morn
ing of March Sth 1 was awakened an,
told that the ship was on fire, smok
issuing from the forward hatch. 7 wen
down in the hold, but could see no fire
and returned and had the donkey en-
| sine hIeu UP IoT the purpose OIL pun
ing water into the hold. The carpente
cut hole in the deck, when we say
that the lumber was Attire We all wen
to work with the hand-pump and buck
cts, but it was of no use. The fire gain
ed Roadway rapidly, breaking throug
the deck and attacking the house.
ordered all hands to lower the lifeboa
and ships boat, and to put in the ship