The Washington herald., 1906-12-12
WOMEN SEEK RIGGING
Captains Family and Crew
AlOft ALI Night.
NEW SEA TRAGEDIES REPORTED
Frisco Storm Does Million Dollars
Damage-BostOn Schooner Aban-
dOned and Breaking on Sands on
Massachusetts COast--GRIe I'm Nor
wegIan Waters Causes Much Loss,

Seattle, Wash, Dec. 11-Capt. Willis. Of
the British bark Melanhope, his wife and
two daughters, and eighteen of the crew
were picked up at sea on Friday last by
the American schooner William II. Smith,
bound for Tacoma.
The Melanhope suffered severely in
Tuesdays gale, her ballast shifting, and
she started TO sink. The crew and the
women spent the night in the rigging, and
the next morning managed to get one Of
the boats out after four hours hard work.
After suffering for several hours in the
boat, the schooner was sighted, and they
We're taken on board in an almost ex-
hausted condition and conveyed to Port
Townsend.
Damage I'm San Francisco Severe.
San Francisco. Cal. Dec. u-With We
locity of fifty miles an hour a southeast
gale struck this city yesterday. killed one
man, manned others, and swept over the
burned district. hurling tottering walls
to the ground and here and there literally
lifting buildings from their foundations
and wrecking them.
The havoc in the bay was great. Ferry
boats were tossed about until passengers
were made ILL.,
The financial loss from the gale is esti-
mated at $1.OO0000
After the British ship Palgrave, which
went ashore on Alcatraz Island, had been
towed out into the stream again. the YES
sci was a second tine overtaken by an
unusually heavy blast, which carrie6 her
and two tugs onto the rocks. While the
vessel was pounding, she was not report
ed as leaking. The tugs that had the
vessel in tow have been unable TO move
her again.
Schooner on Sands, Crew Saved.
Highland Light, Mass. Dec n-Aban-
doned first by her own crew and later
by a salvage crew that had gone aboard
the distressed vessel, the three-masted
Boston schooner William Marshall. bound
from St John, " B., for New York.
with lumber. was thrown up on the sands
half mile north Of the Highland Light
Hfe-saving station at o'clock this morn
ing The schooner began TO break up.
and she will be a total loss.
The crew of the Marshall was taken off
by the two-masted fishing schooner, Nat
allie J. Nelson, Of Gloucester, on Satur-
day last, and was brought TO Province
town to-day. The other crew was rescued
by the revenue cutter Gresham yesteT-
day and the Gresham steamed aw9y in
the direction Of Vineyard Haven.
Lives Lost in Norwegian Gale.
Trondhjem. Dec. IA dangerous hUr-
Ticane is raging along the seacoast A
terrible snowstorm has stopped all ocean
traffic causing much damage and. it is
feared, loss OF life. The fishing steamer
Fremand was driven ashore and viii
probably be a complete wreck. Three Of
the eight men on board have been saved
Christiansand, Norway, Dec. 1.-THE
steam trawler Forsoget has been sunk
IN a storm. All OF her crew, numbering
twelve men. were drowned.
Gndsby StfH Ashore.
New York. Dec lit became apparent
to-day that some Of the cargo Of pig iron
Of the British steamer Gadsby, which
went ashore eff Fort Wadsworth yester-
day must be thrown overheard in crder
10 float the vessel.