The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-30

| Pacific Mail Steamship Company oc-
/ CURED an January ;, 1854, when the
| San Francisco went down in the Allan
tic with d loss of two hundred lives.
| The Northerner struck a reef near
Cape Mendocino on January 5, 1850 ana
thirty-eight persons were drowned.
] On July % 1862. the steamer Golden
Gate took fire off ManzaniIlo, with ST.
400, 600 of treasure on board. one hun
idred and ninety-eight lives were lost
az that time.
! The Hermann was wrecked in Japa-
nese waters on February 13, 1853. one
hundred and twenty lives were lost.
| The Sacramento, a ship valued at
$500. 000 went ashore on December .,
| 1882, at Point San Antonio, some two
hundred miles south of San Diego. The
vessel was a total loss, but the crew,
passengers and part of the cargo We're
saved.
| The Pacific, bound for this port from
Puget Sound, collided with the ship Or
pheus. off Cape Flattery, on November
4, 1875 and only two persons-a sailo"
and a passenger-were saved.
Among disasters to vessels Of the Pa
cifc Mail Steamship Company's Line,
the wreck of the City of Chester is
notable. On August %. 1888, while leav-
ing this port for Eureka in a dense
fog, she collided with the Oceanic in
bound. off Fort Point, and six minutes
later the City of Chester was destroyed
by an explosion, and sixteen persons
We're drowned.
On February q, 1891, near Rocky
Point ten miles from the Golden Gate,
the three-masted ship Elizabeth, to-
gether with the captain and sixteen of
the crew, were lost.
The Caleb Curtis foundered on the
bar on April II, 1887, with all on board.
In March, 1900, the City Of Florence
was lost in Halfnoon Bay.
The Hassler, Klondike passenger
steamer, was lost on the inner Skaga-
way passage through the blowing up
OF her boilers. Not one of the fifty or
sixty persons on board escaped.
In 1898, the bark Helen w. Amy,
bound for Alaska, foundered while
day or two out from this port, and all
souls were lost.
On December s, 1895, the lookout at
Cape Flattery saw the steamers Kewee-
nav and Montserrat close together, go
ing in the same direction. a rising
storm hid the vessels from view. They
were never seen or heard of again. They
carried sixty-seven passengers.
In the year 1888, the steamer Julia
was blown up at South Vallejo, the
Earl of Weymess sank in a collision,
and the San Pablo was totally wrecked
off Turnabout Island.
During the year 1905, so far the num-
Der of disasters on this Coast has been
appalling. Indeed. this year bids fair
to have sinister distinction among those
who go down to the sea in ships The
vessels which have been wrecked are
the steamer George w Elder, on the
Columbia River; the schooner Onward.
on the beach near Coquille River; The
schooner Mary Eta, sunk near Bowen's
the schooner Pearl. lost in
Alaskan waters; the schooner G. A.
Klose, wrecked near the Columbia
River: the Martha Davis, burned in
Hilo Harbor; the barkentine Robert
Sudden, ran ashore near Surf; the Nor
wegian steamer Tri-Color, ashore at
Cape Mendocino; the schooner Honolu-
Ia, which sailed from Shanghai for this
Coast. and was never heard from; the
bark Coryphene and schooner Volant,
III Alaskan waters; the ship
Spartan, ran ashore in the Hawaiian
Islands; the schooner J. M. Colman,
ashore OH San Miguel Islands; the
steamer Gypsy, near Monterey.
To this long list must be added the
name of the stout ship st. Paul, valued
at $250,000 which, on Thursday morn
ing. October 5. at three o'clock, during
a dense fog, went ashore near Point
Gorda, and is total loss. The passen-
gers (eighty-seven) and crew were all
rescued without accident. but a valu-
able cargo was lost with the ship.