The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-12
SANTA ROSA
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ferred and hour of Centrala's depart
ure;
2:15 p. INTO Higbee from Faria;
Centrala will take passengers but
will not make any price Matter
must be settled in San Francisco.
2:29 p. m.-To Faria from Barry
Allison Pillsbury left by rail at 8
o'clock. Allison says fill after tanks.
stlllMaking Conditions.
3:45 p. m.-To Faria from Higbee'
Suggest that if conditions are salts
factory you commence Immediately
bending heavy line to crown Of anchor
We will arrange regarding Centralia
compensation.
sos d. INTO Faria from Higbee:
You can get out your anchors by
bendingheavy line to crown of anchor
and towing anchor off with steam
schooner and paying out your anchor
chain as necessary.
Final Urgency order.
5:15 o. m.-To Faria from Higbee:
Give due consideration to passengers
without regard to expense.
500 p. INTO Faria from Higbee:
Special train will leave Port San Luis
for Honda and will await there, TAX
ing passengers to Santa Barbara.
Train will arrive Honda $3.50 p. m.
Those passengers wishing to go to
Los Angeles will get train some
time later at Santa Barbara
Passengers Charges.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.-Acting
on orders from Washington, United
States Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers
Bulger and Bolles adjourned their in
quiry here into the wreck of the
steamer Santa Rosa yesterday after
noon and left for Los Angeles to con-
tinue the investigation. United States
Attorney Mccormick of Los Angeles
has been ordered to cooperate with
Bulger and Bolles, and all the Santa
Rosa's passengers who can be reached
will be questioned.
About twenty passengers at Los An
geles have charged the officers of YES
sci with criminal negligence in han
ding the steamer after she hung up
on the sandbar off the Point Arguello
beach.
Third Mate E. J. Thomas, who, it
developed Thursday through the testi.
mony of Herbert L. Hewson, brother
of the drowned second mate of the
Santa Rosa, was charged by Captain
Faria with having caused the wreck,
was grilled for half an hour on the
witness stand yesterday.
Thomas related how he took the
bridge at 70 o'clock midnight. About
12:45 he picked up lights that he
thought were those of the President
so he called the captain, who was ly-
ing down on a couch, fully dressed
Faria came out on deck, but the lights
proved to be those of tug, and the
captain went back to sleep.
| mistaken IN Light.
81 could see three or four miles,"
| Thomas said.
Then why did you not see the
lights on shore sooner?" asked Inspec-
tor John Bulger.
81 saw one of them, the Point Ar
guello light" said Thomas.
why didn't you call the captain
whenyou saw the first light?" Bulger
continued the questioning.
q thought it was a steamer light"
said Thomas.
Don't you always call the captain
when you see a light-any light? Isn't
it standing order that you shall call
the captain always when you pick up
light or run into fog, or encounter
any other circumstance of the like?"
"No," Thomas answered.
Thomas testified that he has been
to sea for seven or eight years. He
holds mates license.
you heard what Captain Faria
said He blamed you for the wreck"
Eyes"
well, what have you to say to it?"
81 don't see how he can blame me
for the wreck called him"
Faria was called to the deck after
Thomas had puzzled over the Arguello
light and the locomotive light for
some minutes Two minutes after
the captain was summoned the Santa
Rosa went on the sand.
"Guess Work" Admitted.
Faria admitted that off Point Sur
the location of the Santa Rosa was a
good deal guess work" Off Sur it
was foggy and bearings were taken by
the sound of the fog whistle on the
point Faria was sure he was in his