The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-02
The Call gives the following list of
saved and lost.
THE DEAD.
Daeepnpare

The Call gives the following list of
saved and lost.
THE DEAD.
Passengers.
CASPAR, WILLIAM, Honolulu.
DODD, DIR. A. w. Honolulu, dentist.
DOWDALL, CHARLES, Shanghai.
FONG CHEONG, Honolulu, student
en- route to Europe.
GUSSINO, A, Honolulu.
GUYON, HENRY, Honolulu.
HENSHALL, W. A., Honolulu, law
HART, A., and wife, Shanghai, mer-
chant
HAwLEY, E. c.. Joined at Honolulu.
JACOX, CHARLES E.. Honolulu.
JEHU, MISS r., of Alameda.
KAWAHARA, o., and wife, Honolulu
| MATHESON, II. c., Yokohama, mer-
chant.
REIDY. MISS KATE, nurse to wild
| man party.
| SEYMOUR, II. F.. Hongkong
/ WAKEFIELD, MRS. S. B., and
] daughter Naomi, of Oakland.
! WOODWORTH MRS. w. A, Homo
lulu.
| wOUDwORTH, MISS, Honolulu.
! WILDMAN ROUNSEVELLE Con-
sui General of United States, Hongkong
wife and two children.
THE SAVED.
Passengers.
BRANDER, WILLIAM, London,
capitalist.
CARPENTER, J. K, Oakland, capt
talist.
HEIGHT, CAPTAIN, German navy
! HARPER, RUSSELL, correspondent,
! from Kobe.
SHOLTZ, X, Shanghai.
! WONG, r. H., from Honolulu.
LEHRAHBN, MISS G., Joined at
Honolulu.
IWADA, j., from Honolulu.
| NUSENBAUM, MR., Joined at Homo
! lulu.
/ MUSSENBLATT, PHILIP, Oakland.
! RIPPLE, MRS. FRANCIS, Joined at
Honolulu.
WEST MRS. X, nurse from Hong
kong.
| The Examiner adds to these lists,
| DIR. ONKAWARA, wife and servant,
and WILLIAM McPHEE, of Honolulu.
! SAN FRANCISCO February 23.-
| Just as dawns coming tinged the east
ern sky yesterday morning the treach-
erous fog veil, which had lain heavily
| over the entrance of San Francisco bay
since the noon before, lifted in false
promise of a clear morning, and the
great Pacific Mail steamship Rio de
Janeiro, full-freighted with human
| souls was lured to sudden ruin on the
sunken rocks just at the entrance of
the Golden Gate.
Ten minutes later the swirling wa
ters had closed over the vessel and she
had sunk thirty fathoms below the sur
face of the bay carrying with her at
| least 12S of the 210 people known to have
been on board. If there were more 1t
will be known only on that day when
the sea gives up its dead. OF the thirty
| three cabin passengers eleven were
| Il.
| sengers three out of sixteen were saw
ed; of the thirty-two officers and crew
twelve were saved; of eighty-three Chi
nese crew forty-one were saved; of the
forty-six in the Asiatic steerage fifteen
were saved.
At noon Thursday the Rio de ia
metro then two days overdue, dropped
anchor four miles outside the Heads
and waited for the dense fog to lift
and give her fair run into harbor
| Toward evening there was a Slight
clearing of the sky and the vessel
steamed in close to Point Lobos, where
she anchored again because of the
thickening weather. All night she lay
while her bell tolled a warning to other
vessels that might be working their
way toward the Golden Gate. At 4
o'clock yesterday morning the fog
lifted and the stars and the bright
lights on the headlands gave promise
of a quick run to harbor. At 4:30 the
anchor was raised and the big vesse
steamed slowly against the strong tide
passing Point Lobos, Lands End and
the Mile Rock on up toward Fort
Point, when, as suddenly as it had
lifted, the fog came down and wrapped
sea, sky and land in an impenetrablt
veil
At 5:25 as she was drifting almost
aimlessly the steamer struck with hel
! Gtarhnarl N
slowly settled back and slid off into
deep water, which closed over her top
most point, and now lies so well hid
den that notwithstanding the search
continued all day by hundreds of boat!
her location remains one of the myste
ries of the Gate, as does the exact
place where she met her destruction
Captain Fred Jordan, better known
among his fellow pilots and sea cap
tains as Little Jordan" who has Ions
borne the reputation of being the luck
lest pilot on the bay, was on the
bridge, but with the enVeloping fol
and the strong ebb tide fortune forsool
him and he lost his bearings. Exactl!
where the ship struck Jordan does no
know. He thinks it was on Fort Poin
ledge, but 1t was all over so quickl!
that he had little time to think befor
he found himself in the water clingini
to plank in company with one of tn
Chinese crew.
The first information to reach shor
was when a frightened italian fisher
man, who could scarcely tell his story
rushed into the Bakers Beach Life
saving Station and announced that
big ship had sunk in the bay. Th
word was passed alone to other sta
tions and soon the rescuing boats sho
from the shore to help those who Nigh
be found struggling in the water Lit
tie could be done, however, on accoun
of the darkness and the heavy fol