The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-26
Pans on a Submerged Reef and
Breaks in Two Amidships.
|orrlcERs AND GREW ESCAPE.
<s,e raking . Cargo of 1000 Tons
- oyster Bay Coal 60 San Fran
.,seo, the Famous Carrier Meets
3. wer pisaster--In Charge of Cam
/. .a,an Pilot-Loss Of the Owning
!. cenpany VIII BE over e25o,Oo0.

rhs steel collier Miami Is total wreck
I !. sbe eastern shore of Vancouver island.
-. ran on a reef between White rock
- ranger reef yesterday morning at
! s,cIock. and hung hard and fast until p.
when she broke in two and sank In
sstv fathoms OF water. No lives were lost
~ with this comparatively new and valu-
~ marine craft 1000 tons of coal went
"a The bottom. The property loss Is not
hort Of s25o.oOo. and. including cargo II Is
snoO00 more.
Marine underwater tugs and agents have
,cne 10 the scene of the disaster. hoping
q ave something from the wreck, but.
= regards the Pacific Coast Company.
mich owned and operated the Miami,
Sessel and cargo are total loss. Both
Gtre. however, well insured
Preparations to dispatch tugs were COM
senced by the Pacific Coast Company inn
\ nediately upon receipt OF the news. the
~ Lorne, OF the Puget Sound Tugboat
ccmparly, left from Victoria for the wreck
I Last evening the Pacific Coast Company
received another telegram freFu Capt
1cuncing that she had broken in two and
that II would be useless to send tugs. So
the rescue task was abandoned.
Messages giving the first information Of
Ssrchants' Exchange. the Puget Sound
irghpat Company and the Pacific Coast
ComIany. The news created much stir In
! heavier financial loss than has occurred
b North Pacific waters In long time.
Canadian Pilot in Charge.
The Miami was In charge of Canadian
plot. The Dominion government laws
require that American vessels when oper-
sting In British waters shall have Cam
adam pilot, no matter how competent the
sssM Swn n,rsa may be tentv
three feet Of water. She hung there. and
Is the tide receded snapped like break
ing lath. At this time her stern hung in
sbq sixty f bsr e mater and the sow
edged reef. Had she been wooden ship
she would no doubt have gone to pieces
much quicker. As It was, her plates We're
torn loose and generally dslocated AL
e1n to ill with water.
The Miami had taken a cargo of coal
but q few hours before her wreck from
Dunsmuir,s new mine at Oyster bay. on
route to San Francisco. between which
city and Puget Sound and British Column
bia ports she has been running as coll
Aer for several months.
Only Nine Years Old.
The Miami was built in New York by
inc Miami steamship company IN 1881. her
gross tonnage was 3.019 and net 1882. She
had 307-foot keel and a forty-two-foot
beam. The Pacific Coast Company pur-
chased her from T. Hogan & Sons last
spring and started her from New York
city June u for her voyage around the
Horn. She arrived in San Francisco safe
", and has since run as collier.
During the first few years Of her marine
lfe she Piled as a collier between New
York and Galveston. She was then oper-
ated by the Lone Star line. Upon the
declaration of war with Spain she was
chartered by the government for trans
port service between the Atlantic seaboard
and Cuba.
The crew of the Miami will be paid off
today at Chemainus. B. G. 1t includes
thirty men. A majority of them shipped
from San Francisco and Seattle. From
Chemainus they will come to this port on
the steamship Al-Ki, which will call at
that port on the way from Alaska. Those
who live in San Francisco will be sent
to San Francisco from this city.
The loss of the Miami Is especially I'M
fortunate, as the coastwise collier feet is
now already taxed beyond its capacity. j.
D. Farrell. president and general man.
sger Of the Pacific Coast Company, is in
San Francisco, so 1t is not known what
steps will be taken to replace the wrecked
vessel.