The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-08
MANY DROWNED
IN LIFE BOATS
STEAMER SANTA ROSA WENT
ASHORE NEAR SANTA BAR
BARA, CALF.
BOAT GOING TO PIECES
Death List viii be Large Twenty
five Left ciirglng to Rigging
OF One Life Boat.

Santa Barbara, Calf. July IA
boat transferring passengers from the
steamer Santa Rosa which went
ashore at dawn today to the lumber
schooner Centralia capsized late this
afternoon.
The Santa Rosa is rapidly going to
pieces and breeches buoy are being
used to transfer passengers remaining
aboard the Centralia.
/ 1t was announced by the officers OF
| the Pacific Coast Steamship CO., to-
night that eleven passengers and five
| members Of the crew of the steamer
Santa Rosa hich went ashore on Point
Arguello early today were drowned,
by the capsizing Of the life boat.
A third life boat capsized as 1t left
the Santa Rosa at 10 o'clock. All OF
its occupants are believed to have
been drowned. A wireless message
from one Of the steamers says that
twenty-five or thirty passengers are
ftill clinging to the rigging.
Twenty or more passengers and
members of the crew OF the wrecked
steamer Santa Rosa Of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Co were drowned In
the surf at dusk this evening at this
point while trying to escape from that
vefsel which stranded near point Ar
guello, six miles south Of here before
dawn today.
In two life boats they left the ship
and plunged into the roaring surf and
in moment were foundering in the
boiling waters The lives of some
were pounded out against the rocks
while others sank to the bottom.
Several bodies were washed ashore,
At $50 o'clock tonight the Santa
Rosa was almost Submerged and
frantic efforts were being made to
save the rest OF the 200 passengers
still ON board.
AT that hour the governments wire.
less station at Port Arguello report
ed that the vessel mad broken mid
ship and that immense waves were
dashing over it.
The doom was sounded shortly
after o'clock when rising wind
stirred up a high sea and forced the
abandonment of efforts to transfer the
passengers of the Santa Rosa to the
steam schooner Ceneralia which with
the schooner Helen T. Drew had
previously made abortive efforts to-
float her.
Up to that time there was no APP
prehension Of danger among officers
and crew of the stranded vessel 1T
was thought she could be fioated
easily. In fact Capt. Faria answered
wireless queries with the statement
that the ship apparently was lying
easily and would be floated at the
crest of the tide tonight.
But as the afternoon wore on the
danger rapidly increased and by night
fall 1t became certain that desperate
efforts would be necessary to save
anyone of the ships company.
Early in the day the Centralia and
the Helen T. Drew has passed Haw-
sers to the Santa Rosa but the rising
wind was to strong for their limited
horse power and at dusk the Santa
The crash of breaking timbers and
Rosa swung broadside to the breaker.
Immediately she began to break up.
oyerstrained steel could be heard by
the wireless at Point Arguello.
The first life boat was launched at
dawn after every effort had been
made to establish boat communica-
tions with the Centralia.
The shore line lay only 500 feet
from the broken ship but the frail
little craft could not make it, 1t bob
bed like cork on the crest of the
mountainous breakers and the next
instant were submerged
There were sixteen persons In this
boat eleven passengers and FIVE OF
the crew. All were dashed to death
against the rocks or drowned.
Another boat was launched by the
frantic people aboard the steamer. 1t
met the same fate. There were
about nineteen persons In this boat
Fifteen managed to reach shore alive,
battered and most of them uncon.
seious.