The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-02
THE FRISCO ACCIDENT
ONLY THREE LIVES LOST IN FER
RYDOAT COLLISION.
TORN FROM MOTHERS ARMS.
MRS. WALLER SAW HER CHILD
SINK OUT OF SIGHT.

About Twenty Passengers Injured
In Panic-GeOrge Tredway, Injur-
ed in the Collision, Rescued From
His Dangerous Position and Then
Lost In the ConfusiOn--Heroic
Fireman Prevented Boiler ExpIo-
sion by Diving Into Boiler Room
of Sinking Vessel and shutting
on Steam.
San Francisco, Dec. $50 far as it
can be determined only three lives were
lost in the collision between the ferry
boats San Rafael and Sausalito last
night
Those drowned were w. C: Crandall,
secretary of the Long syrup works;
George Tredway, a waiter on the San
Rafael, and a S-year-old son of Mrs.
Waller OF Ross Valley. The body of
Crandall was washed ashore at Angel
Island to-day.
In the panic that followed after the
boats collided about twenty passengers
We're more or less injured. A great
many We're cut when crawling through
the cabin windows.
Mrs. Waller of Ross Valley was on
the San Rafael with her two little chill
dren, a boy and a girl. The girl, Ruth.
was safely carried from the San Ra-
fael to the Sausalito by Will
liam Boyd Of the North
Pacific Coast Railroad Company
when the two steamers were locked
together Mrs. Waller had the little
boy in her arms and was following
Boyd to safety when the sinking steam
er gave a sudden lurch, and the little
FELLOW was thrown from her arms. The
mother cried frantically for some one
to rescue the boy, but it could not be
done, and he sank in the sight of his
mother.
Tredway was pinioned by the spllnt-
efing tmbers when the Sausalito
struck, and after some difficulty was
extricateds He was hurried to the up-
per deck of the injured vessel and that
was the last seen of him according to
the survivors.
II there were more than three per-
sons lost it will not be known for sew
eral days. No other persons are re-
ported missing. Al least 200 people
We're on the San Rafael. After the
boats struck the Sausalito was brought
up alongside the sinking san Rafael 1t
was f1fteen minutes at least before the
latter vessel went down. This gave
ample time to transfer the most of the
passengers.
The Captains story.
Capt. Mckenzie Of the San Rafael
said the fog was as thick as he had
ever seen it on the bay, which he has
been navigating since 1S49.
Cant MaL 10 q A "a
lision | sang out to Capt. Tribble of
the Sausalito TO stay alongside ana
pass us line, which he did. then
set about to do what | could to see
that everybody got aboard the Sausa-
Ito We lowered three lifeboats and
the Sausalito lowered two. Men. wom-
en- and children piled into them, but
we put most Of the passengers on the
Sausalito by handing them over the
rail. We passed the women and chill
dren over the rail and through the
windows, and most of the men hustled
on TO the Sausalito without any aid
Nearly all of the passengers had on
-preservers, and after the first
shock they behaved themselves very
well. They were as cool and as nervy
lot of people as l would want to
hnd anywhere. The steamer was not
settling very rapidly during the time
the Sausalito. When her hold got fun
of water she started TO sink rapidly.
But at this time all of the passengers
were aboard the Sausalito
AS the steamer sank she listed TO
the starboard and in going down her
forward mast nearly smashed one of
the lifeboats that was lying alongside
the Sausalito | was the last man to
leave the San Rafael, and when 1 left
the sinking steamer there was not n
living scIl aboard. / took good look
through the cabin, and even went be
low and cut the halter rope OF our
freight horse"
OF the many heroic stories IN connec-
tion with the accident there is one re-
lating TO Fireman Gielo of the Sausa-
Ito. AS the San Rafael was sinking
IL was remembered that her fires were
still burning and her boiler still hot.
There was immediate danger of ter
ible explosion that would have rent
b0th vessels asunder. Without a mo
ments. hesitation, Gielo volunteered to
dive into the hull and shut off the
steam. Diving through the submerged
boiler room he reached the valves and
shut off the steam, coming out half
suffocated.