The Portland daily press., 1900-02-27


All Of the passengers were pleased 10
get ashore yesterday moaning. but none
Of them had any excisins stories TO rsiats
Of their experiences when the steamer
had run up against hsm Island ledge
on Sunday morning. with ons or two
exceptions all Of them had turned In for
the night, 30 tnat even when the sooi-
dent occurred the passengers hardly
realized what had taksn place. For
sometime afterwards they were oonsid-
erably alarmed. but IL was not long be-
fore all Of their fears and doubts for
safety were wholly dispelled By Capt.
Franc, and the other officer: Of the ship,
explaining TO tie people that there was
not the slightest danger. There was NO
Inconvenience experienced aside from
the difficulty which they had had In
keeping warm Sunday night, % the
fires had bean sx.inguished and ss the
only heat that could be furnished was
from the lamps In the different rooms
On Sunday evening the passengers with
the officers and crew held a religious ser
vice Oh board, but this was about ths only
event out Of the ordinary that had taken
place on the steamer rs far as tae people
aboard were concerned.
The saloon passengers were Mr.. and
Nrs. ]. Batton Of Montreal, hr.and Mrs.
ID. Wilson of Toronto, Mise Biiiey OF
Ottawa and Mr.. Brownell Of Esquimault.
b q. A valet, cook, kousskeeper and
housemaid of Major General Hutton OF
the Canadian forces were among the pas
ssngers and with them was large
amount of taggags. Major General Hut
ton sailed from New York on the steam
or Erurln several days ago. Mr. and
AIRS. Hutton and Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
arc at the Congress Square hotel.
| The other passengers were James
| CogssweiJ, Montreal; John Nesbttt,
Tacoms, WASH; b Hansen. Minneapolis,
| Mimi; Frank Sharp, Owen Sound, Ont.
Mrs. Fardiff. South River, Ont: Grace
Fardiff, South River. Ont; B'rtram
Bardiff, South River. Ont; Miss John
son, Ottawa, Ont. Mrs. Cannon. London,
Ont; Walter Cannon, London, Ont;
Miss NJ. Muriil, Montreal; Aiss NJ. Will
son, Boston; u. Stevens, Montreal; W.
Oltsr, OTTAWA; NJ. johnson, Montreal.
The baggage of the passengers was also
taken ashore when the Forest Queen
came In. All Of this baggage was pretty
well wet down and some OF 1t was oom-
pletely ruined by the water.
| In the afternoon the Forest Queen
made a second trip to the wreck and this
time she had three scows in tow and sew
eraI men ready to work in the part OF
unloadin g,the immente cargo.
CAPT. BARCLAYS STATEMENT.
In the afternoon the Forest Queen
made another trip 10 the wrecked steam
or and under the direction of Capt. Bar
clay, towed along two barges to be In
readiness to assist In any work. AIon2o
Hight and Andrew NJ. Heseltine. two OF
tn, United States government inspso-
tors, also went out on this trip with the
Forest Queen. MIR. Hight was to maze
an examination, hut Mr.. Heseltine Is to
remain on the ship for few days at
least.
The Forest Queen returned to the city
late in the afternoon and Capt. Barclay
who was seen last evening. said "1he
Californian Is In an Upright position.
| l have been aboard of her for quite q
| long time today and we have made full
examination Of her condition. think
| TO save n great deal Of her cargo. You
ask me whether the steamer herself can
| be pulled off and saved? That Ia quite a
| q uestion and one on which 1t would be
very absurd for anybody. even ne who
has been aboard, TO ven ture to express
an opinion. Nobody can tell whether
we will be enabled to take of the steamer
and save her. Capt. Burgess, who is
| representative Of the Boston Tow boat
company, has been here today and With
me he went out to the Californian this
afternoon. We looked the steamer over
and as result decided to send fur two
tugs from Boston. These tuga will come
from that city tomorrow and thsn We
will at once begin the work Of remov-
Ing what part of the cargo that We can.
But until thess operations are begun 1t
is entirely useless for any person to state
whether the steamer car be saved. As
the present condition of the steamer Is,
this matter of saving the vessel is who'll
ly one Of guess work."
HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
The officers of the ship are keeping
their tongues pretty we'll under control
and are saying very little as to the re-
sponsibility Of the accident. There are
OF course all kinds Of stories afoat, but
none of them come from authoritative
sources Almost every man who is asked
about the matter has theory to ad-
vance, but these theories may be long
way from the facts.
ABOUT INSURANCE.
Manager Wainwright said last night
that he did not know whether or not
the Californian Was insured.
| Miss Margaret Wilson, who was one of