Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-05
Life Boats and Rats, Partly Pro.
viSioned, Came Ashore at
Wardel Beach, Cal.
STEAMER LEFT IN BIG STORM.
Crew Numbered Sc; PASSENGERS, 2
60--Beach Being PatroIIed
Watching for Bodies.
Officials OF Merchants Exchange, San
Francisco. do Not Believe the
Vessel is Wrecked.

san Francisco, Jan. 5.-No further
news has as yet been received here
bearing on the fate of Pacific Mail liner
which sailed from here on Monday last
Tor southern ports. According to the
telephone message received in this city
from Pasacodero last night two life
boats came ashore at Wardell beach. 16
miles south of Pescadero yesterday
morning Dan. ~, at Z o'clock. There
were on the RATS, oars boat hooks a
barrel of water and a box of crackers.
Later III the day two more RATS came
ashore, two and half miles below
Wardell beach similarly equipped, while
off shore a large quantity of wreckage
was seen floating. Both of these RATS,
II Is said, Were marked City of Pana-
ma.
1t is known that the steamer upon
leaving here ON Monday In the teeth of
heavy northwest gale had some truu-
pie on the bar, as she was stopped there
Tor time before proceeding on her way
south
The City OF Panama. one of the oldest
vessels on the Paricific Mail fleet, was
commanded by Capt. A w. Nelson, who
mas the reputation Of being an excel
command of the companys steamer
san Jose.
the vessel carried besides the cap
tain, First Officer Pilsbury, formerly
chlef of the Manchuria when she went
ashore on Rabbit island near Honolulu,
Two other otficers. freight clerk and
storekeeper with crew of H. is men
IN the engineers department and
freight in the stewards department.
IN all the crew numbered So There
were SO passengers on board. Fifteen
occupied the first cabin and Ii were
IN the steerage. The other &c were
Had the city of Panama continued
nninterruptedly on her way she would
haNe been due yesterday at Mazatian.
Mexico, the first port of call.
The Pacific mail boats take the
outer course from San Francisco down,
generally keeping outside the Santa
Barbara channel Islands and standing
wen off shore until they reach the
end OF the peninsula OF Lower Cali
fornia There they turn In to anchor
on the bay of Mazatlan. which is on
inc mainland shore, almost opposite
Cape San Lucas, the extreme lower
end of Baja California.
The beach is now being patroIled
for miles watching for bodies which
may drift ashore.
Advices by Telephone from Pesca-
dero state that a number of people
have gone to Waddell beach. where
out no report from them can he re-
ceiVed until this evening, when they
return, owing to tho absence of tele-
phone and telegraph facilities
DON'T BELIEVE is WRECKED.
San Francisco. Jan. 5.-The officials
of the merchants exchange here do NOT
believe that the steamer City of Pana-
ma has been wrecked. The vessel,
which left this port about o'clock u.
IN. last Monday, was sighted at ?. n.
OF the same date about l6 miles south
west OF Point Lobos. A strong north
west gale was blowing and she was
headed north at the time. 1t is sur
mixed that she had shipped several
heavy seas and had temporarily
changed her course to straighten out
things on board. Her life RATS. which
were always kept partially provisloned,
may have been swept away during the
gale, and If so, they would have had
just about time enough TO have drifted
TO Wardell beach. where they went
ashore.
Additional evidence tending to show
the probable safety OF the City of Pan
anna Is furnished by the master OF the
STANDARD Oil company's steamer, Nav
erick, who reports that she passed the
City of Panama headed south, off Point
Sur In Monterey county. over 100 miles
below Point Lobos. at o'clock D. m.
on Jan. 1.
The City Of Panama is due to arrive
at Mazatian tomorrow.
a prominent official of the Pacific
Mail Steamship company said today
that the owners OF the City of Panama
were not alarmed by the finding OF life
RATS of the City of Panama. They
might easily have been washed over
board and the fact that the steamer had
passed Point Sur indicated that she
was well on her way 10 the Mexican
port of Muzatlan. The company conf
IDENTIFY expects to hear OF her arrival
there tomorrow or next day.