The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09


arrived yesterday afternoon from Pan
ANA and way ports. Among her pas
sengers We're the captain and crew of
the oaFkentine Tropic Bird, which was
wrecked January 10 at Chamela. about
SIXTY miles north of Manzanillo The
Aroplc Bird had part cargo of hard
Wooo logs and was going into Chamela
10 nnish loading. An unexpectedly
strong inset carried the vessel in
among the rocks and she went to
pieces IN less than an hour All hands
got ashore safely, and the next day
proceeded TO Manzanillo, where they
boarded the Peru.
The crew of the wrecked vessel have
long score of grievances against the
master, Captain T. B. Barrow. one
member OF the crew, who left the bark
entine at Natividad and arrived here
some weeks ago. said he had been com
Peited 10 jump overheard to save him
ser from Barro-s's wrath Captain
barrow admits that he talked pretty
roughly TO the man who jumped over
beard, but in eNtenuation says: Il was
SICK with the fever. Ny mate was fl
and this fellow refused duty at a time
that we were up against it. 1 guess 1
olo make some pretty startling re-
marks AS for the rest of the crew. I
can only say they were all right on
board ship. They are sore because
the owners postponed paying them off
until we arrived here and they are all
suffering from too much idleness at
Manzanillo and on board this steamer"
The Peru's cargo Of 1895 tons in
cluded $4,000 bags OF coffee. She
brought treasure valued at Sl66s
on Acapulco the passengers wit
messed a battle between two whales. a
swordfish and thrasher. The battle
lasted for about twenty minutes, when
the four contestants suddenly disap-
peared below the surface.
The Peru's passengers included:
". Jurgens. L. S. Atkinson, L. A.
Warner, T. A. Waack, Mrs. Edna Min
\. A. Beaton, Mrs. E. Vucanovich, L.
Nucanovich, Mrs. Julia Jolly, Captain
7. B. Barrow, Captain r. A Erratt,
Philip Fletcher, Mrs. Edna Webber.
Both japanese Are Dead
The two japanese so terribly burned
Thursday afternoon on the liner Amer
lea Maru died yesterday at the Hahne-
mann Hospital An investigation into
the accident places the blame on the
victims. They had been cleaning paint
brushes, using for the purpose benZine
which half filled an open coaloil can.
The electric light in the storeroom had
burned out and instead of getting a
new blrlb the brush cleaners lighted a
candle which one Of them accidentally
knocked into the can Of benzine, which
burst into flames As the light cloth
ing worn by the japanese was satur-
ated with the innammable stuff, the
men soon We're wrapped in flames. 1t
was thought that one man might re-
cover. but all hope was abandoned
when it was found that he had inhaled
the flames that filled the little room.
Fire on steamer san Juan
Fire was discovered early yesterday
morning on board the Pacific Mail
steamer San Juan. lying at the Mail
dock bat before either the city fire.
fghters or the State tugs reached the
scene the liners crew had eXtinguished
The flames. The origin of the fire,
which started in the engineers store
room is unknown While il. lasted il
. r7~SeasHercefy.- hut was extin guished
tefo4e' II had consumed anything more
than some light woodwork and a few
coats Of paint Nobody was injured,
and by yesterday afternoon all signs
OF the confagrstiOn had been obliter-
ated. The damage was nominal and
the san Juan will sail at noon today
for Panama and way ports.
COIIides with steamer Arctic
A small boat from the French bark
La ROchejaquelin, in which the master
was being rowed ashore, collided yes
terday morning with the outward
bound steamer Arctic The small boat
was slightly damaged and one of the
by the jar, but was rescued without
difficulty.
Coal Would Not Make Steam
The Norwegian steamer Thode Fage-
iuhd. which left here Thursday for
Portland. returned yesterday for bet
ter fuel Captain Agerop says that
with the coal supplied him it was i'm
possible TO keep up steam and that it
was with the greatest difficulty that
the steamer made her way back to
port
Water Front Notes
The British steamer Boveric arrived
Yesterday from Newcastle. Australia,
with $500 tons Of coal consigned to H.
". Newhall & Co.
The British ship Annesley. bound
from Shields for this port, has put into
Lyttelton for stores.
The steamer Robert Dollar, pur-
chased recently by the s. z. Slade Lum-
Der Company. hereafter will be known
as the Fair Oaks.
The tug Samson. which left Astoria
for this port with the barge Washing
ton in tow, has returned to Astoria on
account of the Samson's boilers becom-
ing disabled. In the mixup which fol-
lowed the breaking down of the tug
the Washington's rudder post was dam
aged.
W Wolferd Of 14o2 Alabama street
was struck on the head yesterday by a
piece OF iron turned loose by blast
al Mission and First streets. Wolferd
sustained a lacerated scalp, which was
treated at the Harbor Hospital
Ed Hunsacker stepped in front of
a California-street car yesterday at
Front street and was knocked down,
but escaped with slight laceration Of
the scalp.