The San Francisco call., 1905-05-03
WATER SPOUTS ARE SEEN PLAINLY OFF PORT
Liner cOpt Passes Pair Liquid Pillars Day Trip

The Occidental and Oriental Steam
ship Company's liner Coptic, Captain
William Finch, which arrived Mon
day night from the Orient, passed
quarantine inspection yesterday with
comparatively little delay and was
alongside the Pacific Mail wharf
shortly after 9 o'clock. At Honolulu
il was discovered that a Japanese
steerage passenger was suffering from
q mild form Of varioloid. All the pas
sengers on the liner as well as officers
and crew were vaccinated and the
steerage passengers who had associat-
Cd with the sick man were taken
ashore and fumigated- The liner was
lQmlgated and when this had been
done the vessel was released and the
cabin passengers were allowed to land
During the voyage from Honolulu
surgeon Gates kept a keen lookout
Tor any sign Of further sickness. The
Feoeral doctors at this port gave
every passenger a rigid examination.
The Steerage passengers were trans
ferred TO the steamer Caroline and
taken 10 Angel Island, where they will
be held Tor about week. The Coptic
was then released, but after she
reached the wharf her Oriental crew
vas taken 10 Angel Island for further
tumigauon. They will be released to-
Gay. but VIII be kept under observa-
uQn on the Copuc during the liners
stay in port
The Coptic encountered the rain
which washed the city streets on Mon
cay about fifty miles west of the Far
allones after bucking head winds for
Two days Between two heavy show
ers pair OF enormous waterspouts
were seen, whiriing before the wind
more than half a mile away. Every
BODY rushed on deck to view the
f1sr~
Tor within very few minutes after
lney were first seen heavy curtain of
rain masked them from view
The Coptic brought sixty cabin pas
Sengers. sixteen in the steerage and
eighty-two Asiatics. of whom only six
gers Were many tourists, some of
Them from this city. The local people
included Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Dollar,
Ar. and Mrs :. B. McNear and L. T.
Blanding.
Captain A. Wolkammer of the
Dutch steamer Wilhelmina. which was
captured by the japanese outside of
NtadiNoSt0ks was passenger on the
Coptic. The Wilhelmina's crew passed
through here SOME weeks ago.
Another passenger was H E. NJ.
Wollheim, who has been in Picking as
charge d 'affaires Of the Mexican lega-
o ton Captain Feeder, master Of the
freighter Aztec. was also on the Cop
Tic. There being no other officer avail
able. Captain Feeder will take the
Korea, which sails to-day for the ORR
aent temporarily relieving Captain
Seabury, who is on leave of absence.
g. When going into Yokohama the
Coptic passed twelve of the foreign
blockade runners captured by the
japanese The Hongkong Maru and
rhe Nippon Maru, two of the Toyo
klsen kaisha liners which used TO run
between here and the Orient have
inquired largely in maintaining the
p watch outside Of Nladivostok The
, Hongkong is credited with seven cap
lures, the Nippon with five. One OF
them started after the Dutch steamer
Wilhelmina, but the ponderous old
1reighter was so slow and looked so
easy that the japanese saved coal and
sent steam cutter TO gather in the
sDutchman- The japanese estimate OF
the .Wilhelmina's power of resistance
IS stlll sore point with Captain VOL
hammer, who was a passenger on the
coptic.
Following is a list of the Coptic's
passengers.
Miss Z Bsmbauer. Captain II Behrmsuu
J.. T. Blanoing, NJ Brunig Miss Helen Bur
ringtons Miss Alice Chase. Miss J. NJ Childs
= = Cook; l. ? Crone. H ?. Desteisn.
Stanley Dollar. Mrs Stanley Dollar. NJ FL
lot Rev 7. r. Felt c c. Glib. I Y ellis.
a,aeoaere Ssass, w Harriid, George
Miss NJ Jensen shozs IE-amoto. Y Konori
y krusi j. Lange. Dr.. George T. Leeds.
Mrs George T. Leeds and infant Master A
II Leeds, Y. Liccaro. Anthony LOTUS Rev
p B Mcstyn. J. McMullen. s. B. McNear,
,drs s B. McNear- Miss s E. McNear NJ
- y Melvil. Miss r Mickle. " c. Newton.
III H. Ogilvy r. l. Overton. Mrs r. L.
Overton. r. Rogers. The0d0r Schmidt Rev.
D. B. Schneider, Mrs. j. 3. SCHNEIDER Miss
MARY Schneider, Miss n SCHNEIDER Miss c
Sehneder F. sleehmuyiders. Miss Helen
Smith, AIRS. K r. Swami, Shuichi TaIciori.
Robert Walter. Otto Weber. Miss L WiIkin-
son captain A. WolkaInmer, h E. n. VOL
helm, Woo Nick, Captain A. zeeder