The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-02
THREE LOST
IN COLLISION
Victims of San Francisco Ferry
Boat Disaster.
TALES OF THE SURVIVORS
BRAVE ACT OF FIREMAN
GIELOW.

San Francisco, Dec. $50 far as can
be determined tonight. only three lives
were lost in the collision on the bay
between inc ferry boats san Rafael
and Sausalito. Those drowned were.
W. G. CrandaI. secretary Of the Long
syrup works
George Treadway, a waiter on the
San Rafael.
The S-year-old son Of Mrs. Waller Of
Ross valley.
The body of CrandaH was washed
ashore at Angel island today.
In the panic that followed after the
boats collided. about twenty passengers
were more or less injured A great
many were cut when crawling through
the cabin windows.
Mrs. Waller Of Ross valley was ON
the San Rafael with her two little
children, boy and girl The girl,
Ruth, was safely carried from the san
Rafael to the Sausalito by William
Boyd Of the North Pacific Coast Rail-
road company when the two steamer.
/ were locked together. Mrs. Waller had
l the little boy in her arms and was fol-
lowing Boyd to safety when the sink
ing steamer 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 out Of sight
Of his mother.
Treadway was piniOned by the splin-
! tering timbers when the SausalitO
struck, and after some difficulty was
! extricated. He was hurried to the up
| per deck of the injured vessel and that
was the last seen Of him, according to
| the survivors.
If there were more than three per
sons drowned it viii not be known for
/ several days. No other persons are re-
/ ported missing. At least 2G0 people
/ were on the San Rafael After the
4 boats struck the SausaIito was brought
1 up alongside the sinking san Rafael
/ 1t was fifteen minutes at least before
/ the latter vessel went down This gave
ample time to transfer the most Of the
/ passengers.
Captain M'Kenzie's Story.
Captain Mckenzie of the san Rafael
| said the fog was as dense as he had
! ever seen it on the bay, which he has
| been navigating since 1S49.
Some time before the Sausalit0 got
near us, said Captain Mckenzie, II
/ stopped my boat and blew the danger
/ signal. The Sausalit0 answered with
/ her two whistles and I backed my boat.
/ 1 kept her backing an the time, for
/ wanted TO take unusual precaution.
/ While we We're backing 1 suddenly saw
/ the dim outlines OF the SaUsalitO's
/ lights steaming head-on under slow
/ bell toward my boat. She was scarcely
a boats length away when I first saw
1 her. The SaUsalitO crashed into the
/ San Rafael Just a little forward of
amidships where the restaurant is sit
uated. 1t was quite a crash, but at the
/ time I did not think it was serious
! enough to sink her. The women and
/ children began to scream and many of
/ the men folks became greatly excited.
! ] held my post and sent my mate be-
4 low to find out the extent Of the dan
| ger and quiet the passengers. My crew
/ took their proper positions and as far
[ as they were concerned they kept their
! heads and worked according to their
accident drill.
/ In the meantime I sang out to Cap
/ tain Tribble of the SauSaliJO TO stay
/ alongside and pass US a line. which he
/ did. I then set about to do what I
/ could to see that everybody got aboard
/ the SausalitO. We lowered three life
/ boats and the Sausalito lowered two.
I men. MUiuen anu ELllLQLEA llllEu AMLU
/ them. but we put most of the passen-
/ gers on the Sausalitb by handing them
/ 6Ner the rail. we passed the women
! and children over the rail and through
/ the windows, and most Of them hustled
/ onto the Sausalito without any aid.
Passengers Were Brave.
Nearly ali Of the passengers had on
! life preservers, and after the first
Oh.
we'll They were as cool and as nervy
a lot of people as I would want to find
/ anywhere. The steamer was not set
| Ting very rapidly during the time we
| were getting the passengers abe ard the
! Sausalito. When her hold got full Of
! water she started TO sink very rapidly,
I but at this time all Of the passengers
] were aboard the SausalitO. If some Of
! the passengers did not jump overheard
during the panic Immediately follow
/ ing the collision. and my personal Opin-
! ion is that there were not any who
were so foolish as to do that / should
say that there were not any lives lost
/ I am quite certain that nobody was lost
/ overheard during the transferring OF
] the passengers. Those that were in the
water were hauled aboard with ropes,
/ and everybody who went into the life
/ boat that capsized had life-preseryers
on.
As the steamer sank she listed to
I the starboard, and in going down her
/ forward mast nearly smashed one Of
I the lifebOats that was lying alongside
/ the Sausalito. I was the last man to
! leave the San Rafael, and when L left
the sinking steamer there was not q
I living soul aboard. I took good look
1 through the cabin. and even went be
! low and cut the halter that held our
/ freight horse. Dick. I tried to lead
him out toward the deck and he
| baked. There was not much time 10
/ lose. so I Just got him started so he
could have a chance to get overheard
when she sank and possibly swim
ashore. / don't know whether Dick got
into the water or not. but when I left
the san Rafael there yas not a single
passenger aboard the sinking steam
err"
There is a discrepancy in the state
ments Of Captain Tribble of the SaUsa-
Tito and of Captain Mckenzie of the
San Rafael concerning the circum-
! stances Immediately preceding the COLI
Hsion Captain Tribble says that the
vessels bore on each others port bows
when first sighting each other, while
Captain Mckenzie says it was the star
board bow.
Acts of Bravery.
OF the many heroic stories told in
connection with the accident a nota-
bic one is that relating to Fireman
Gielow of the Sausant0. As the san
Rafael was sinking it WAS remembered
that her fires were still burning and
her boilers still hot There was imrae-
diate danger of a terrible explosion
that would have rent both vessels