The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-01
MANCHURIA CURRENT
WRECKED SHERIDAN
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feet OF water midships. She Is three
fore. 'ou about four feet She is on
midships for a length Of about POO feet,
practically under all of her cabin SUI
pcrstructure,
The plan OF saving the vessel con-
sists i'm righting her to an even keel
and in getting about 1900 tons of coal
out of Hatch No. 2, forward. She has
to be lightened. The rise of the tide
is about II inches at BARRIERS Point
The local island captains think that a
mistake was originally made yesterday
i'm not having a large force of steve
dores sent from Honolulu and have the
coal jettisoned. Such a course is now
being followed today. Captain Web
ster the dock superintendent of the
transport service. game to Honolulu
last night by the steamer Helene and
this morning took a large force of
stevedores on the steamer Niihau to
the wreck for the purpose of having
the men iettison the coal, The Niihau
left here about Z o'clock.
Captain Parker of the Claudne says
that he considers the Sheridan i'm no
danger at present He thinks that the
vessels at hand can hold her safely and
there is no danger of her working in
shore. He is sanguine over her pros
poets of coming off
This morning at o'clock an attempt
to pull the vessel off was made. The
revenue cutter Daniel Manning evil
IDENTIFY misunderstood the signals to|
pull to be for full speed ahead, for she
hauled up on her inch and a half of
wire cable with a jerk that yanked the
Sheridan over and then the transport
heeled back to port. The line on the
Manning parted and within a few min
utes. the line on the Claudine parted.
The pull by the Manning did not last
much over minutes and by the Clau-
dine minutes before their lines part
ed, the Claudine had an S-inch Manila
hawser parted. The Fearless had a IA
inch hawser secured with a wire bit
out. Her line did not part. The Clau-
dine bent a 6-inch line on to the brok-
en- line soon after the break and re-
sumed pulling but the Manning did not
resume the pull last night.
The Claudne with President Ken
nedy aboard came back 10 the city this
morning shortly after S o'clock for the
of taking on freight and pas
sengers and going out on her run to
Maui ports and Hilo at p. M a day
late. The steamer Ike Au Hou reach
ed the scene of the wreck early this
and stopped 'aptain Tullett
of the Ike Au Hou, who went to the
Sheridan The Ike Au Hou was ordered
by President Kennedy to hurry to Ho-
nolulu and then return Immediately to
the wreck to give assistance. The
Ke Au Hou and Kinau departed this
morning for the wreck. They, i'm COM
pany with the Fearless and Manning,
and probably the Niihau, are to put
lines on the Sheridan and at. p. m.
to start to pull.
This pull will be started two hours
before high tide large is reached at
1906 p m., because It is thought that
concerted pulling by the steamers on
rising tide will be favorable to the
stranded vessel. President Kennedy
returned on the Kinau to the scene of
the wreck.
The foreign mail will be brought to
the city by the Niihau today. 1t was
not positively known whether the Nil
hau would have a line on the trans
port, but it was thought that she would
be ordered to add her power to that of
the other boats.
Captain Humphreys the depot quar-
termaster, came up last night on the
steamer Helene with the passengers.
He returned by the Kinau this morn
ing to the scene of the wreck.
The enlisted men are being cared for
at the armory but the army officers
and other passengers are providing for
themselves. The United States Gov
eminent is not concerned in looking at
ter their comfort
Lieut.. Bigler, of the marine guard,
was worried about party of men from
the local post who had gone in a sail
boat to the scene of the wreck yester-
day. An attempt was made by the
wireless operator at the naval station
to get into communication with the