New-York tribune., 1901-12-02
TzPEE LOST IN THE COLLISION.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY DISASTER NOT SO Sc
RIoITs AS FEARED.

RIOUS AS FEARED.
San Francisco, Dec. $50 far as II can De oe
tern1ined only three lives were ios' III 'he soi-
Hsion between the ferrypoa's san i'' i
Sausalto last night
,r,zo ar.d 1vera w G. Crandall, secre-
~, If tho Long Syrup Works; George Tired
rov a waiter on the San Rafael, and three
vear-oId son of Mrs. Waller. OF ROSS 'aiiey.
The body of Crandall was washed aShore at
Angel Island to-day.
In the panic that followed a1ter 'he 0oa's
oor,a IN collision about twenty passengers were
more or less injured great many were cut
when crawling through the capln "ihuo''
Mrs Waller of Ross Valley, was on the San
Rafael with her two little children Dos ana
p,rl The girl Ruth was safely carried from the
e D<,aI ~ tho Sausalito by William Boyd,
,f tho North Pacific Coast Railroad Company
1,hen the two steamers were locked tosether'
Mrs Waller had the little boy in her arms ana
was following Boyd to safety, When 'le sihhiis
steamer gave sudden lurch ana 'lle i'''S
low was thrown from her arms Ahe iiio.iie
cried franticaily for some one TO resc"e 'He 10y
hut It could not be done. and he SUNK out oi
sight of his mother.
Trs6wav was pinoned by the splintering
+iubers when the Sausalito struck ana alter
some difficulty was extricated He was hurrseo
70 tho ,,nner deck of the injured vessel. and that
u,os tho last seen Of him. according TO the sur
vivors.
1r tbere were more than three persons
drowned it will not be known for seVerai days
No other persons are reported 1nlssins' AZ
least two hundred persons were on liie oa"i
Rafael After the boats struck the Sausal''
was brought up alongside the SINKING Saii
Rafael. It was fifteen minutes at least nerore
the latter vessel went down. This gave ap'pie
time to transfer most of the passengers
Captain Mckenzie, of the San Rafael said the
fog was as dense he had ever seen IL on @ 'iie
bav which he has been navigating since 1919.
He says:
Some time before the sausalito got near neaT Us Tba
stopped my and blew the danger sisnai and me
sausalito answered wi with hs tTe bacng all the time
for wanted take unusual precautions trns
of the sausates light steaning head on Iie under
slow bell toward my boat she she was was Ssr The
Sausalito crashed into the San Rafael Just n1c t
forward Of smdshps whefs fh9 b9t et the time
i did not think it was serious enough to sink her
many Of the men became greatly excited i held ED
post and sent my mate neGw & p TO lilu nassengers
My crew took their proper positions and as faf al
worked according TO their accident drill rr,n,,s
In the mean time sang out 10 Cap,a APP mass rs
ne H the Which he did 10 T' ten set about what
satd s9Hd to w see oWered 1at h2ee oats and the
saiito lowered two. Men women and children piled
ho the saHsato by handing them over ran We
passed the women and children oyer the Fa ana ma
on the Sausalito without any aid ne -o
servers, and after the first shock they behaved
themselves very well. They were as cool ana az
where The steamer was not settling rapidly
during the time We were getting the passengers
II some Of the passengers did not jump overheard
during the panic Immediately following the col
iision should say that there were not any lives
lost am certain that nobody was lost overP8@Te 6se
that We're in the water were hauled aboard with
that caDsized had life preservers on. AS the
steamer sank she listed 10 the starboard. and in
OF the eboats that nat was was iYhF ~ sa pha San Ra7e
d sa9 When w1i eq fe the sinking i steamer there was not
living soul aboard took goo go9a 10 iook thpougn aY,
rope Of our freight horse When I left the San
Rafael there not single passenger aboard
the sinking steamer
There IS a discrepancy in the statements or
Captain Tribble. of the sausalito. and that Of
CAPTAIN Mckenzie Of the San Rafael. concern
ing the circumstances Immediately preceding
the collision Captain Tribble says that the YES
sells bore on each others port bows when first
sighting each other. while Mckenzie says it was
the starboard bow.
OF the many heroic stories told in connection
with the accident is relating 10 Fireman
Gielow of the Sausalto AS the San Rafael
was sinking it remembered that her fires
were still burning and her boilers hot. There
was immediate danger Of terrible explosion
that would have rent both vessels asunder
Without a moments hesitation Gielow volun-
teered 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.
The San Rafael was the fastest ferryboat on
the bay. She built in New-York. and was
shipped across in pieces, arriving on this coast
in 1877.
James s. McCue well known horseman and
old time circus man. who lives ct Corte MADEIRA
was probably the most seriously injured of the
survivors He in the restaurant OF the San
Rafael at the time of the collision, and was
thrown across the room with considerable vio-
lence. He had his right arm broken his right
ear almost torn from his head. and sustained
internal injuries.