The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-01
FERRY BOATS COLLIDE
IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY
Steamer SaUSaGtO Crashes into the San Rafael Loaded
With Passengers in Dense Fog and SENDS Her to the
Bottom of the HarbOr-- Unable to Learn Loss of
Life But IT May Reach TWENTY

named ECkles, who was in the other
boat, thinking his boat too OvercrOWded
jumped into ours and in doing, 50, cap
sized that boat and we were again in
the water. I swan away, being afraid
of being struck by the capsized boat.
Eckles then got back into the boat he
had left a few minutes previous.
All this tine the people on board
the Sausalito kept throwing life pre-
servers into the water greatly to our
annoyance, as we were afraid of being
hit with them. I finally attempted to
get into a pretty well crowded boat,
but Just as I was doing so some one
gra bbed me from behind and the boat
was rOwed TO the side of the SaUsalitO.
After all this struggling I was pref
ty we'll exhausted and started with diff
ficulty for the SausalitO. Just as 1
reached the side o. that vessel a tug,
which / think was the Sea King, threw
her searchlight on us ard I heard some
of the men still in the water cry to
the captain of the tug, they evidently
being afraid of the tug running them
down.
Taken From the Water.
Finally a rope was lowered and
was pulled aboard. A Mrs. Snyder of
San Rafael. who was accompanied by
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same boat with my sister-in-law. Be
fore getting into the boat she handed
her little son to a man on deck. Be
fore the man got a chance to retuIQ
the boy to its mother the boat pulled
away He did not know what to DO
with his charge, and. thinking the San
Rafael was going down. threw the boy
into the water and jumped after him.
He grabbed the boy and swan to a
wooden bench, upon which he sat the
boy and held on to the bench to rA7t.
He was pulled on board some time
after with the little fellow under his
arm.
IN the meantime the chnd's mother.
almost frantic with grief, was asking
everyone on board for her child. She
finally discovered the lad, wet, scared
and crying, on the bow of the boat.
One of the men who mad been on the
SaCsalitO all the time AID was not wet
took off his undershirt and wrapped 1t
around the little fellow, who was by
this time laughing as if nothing had
happened"
thought lost their lives, Mr.. Lennon
placed the number at from fifteen to
twenty. He said: Captain Mckenzie
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way they assisted the passengers.
Panic on San Rafael.
James Moore of Ross Valley, an en-
ployee Of the Nevada bank was a
/ passenger on the San Rafael To tn
Associated Press he said.
There was tine usual Saturday nigRt
crowd on the San Rafael when she left
at els for Sausalto. There was a
dense fog and Captain Mckenzie of
the San Rafael sent the ship along
under a slow bell. We were about haif
way between Lombard street wharf
and AIcatraz island when the SauSa-
/ Ito crashed into US. I was smoking
a cigar on the forward deck Of the San
/ Rafael, and it seemed to me that the
/ Sausalito struck US just about amid
ships
/ There was a terrific crash and i'm
mediately there was wild confusion
/ Men. women and children rushed for
! life preservers. There were from Isl
! to 200 people on the San Rafael. Some
! of them jumped overheard as soon as
: the steamers collided, but 1 made W
nv mind to stay by the ship. had PAT
/ on a life preserver and knew that
/ would float. for awhile at least
! There was an attempt to lower g
/ boat on the San Rafael but 1 do no
/ believe many people got off in it