The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-01-16

/ wreck to be abandoned, and one Q
these was swamped as it lay unde
J the bark's counter. Four Of the 81
!, men in it were drowned In the Othe
, boat was the captain and some sailors
. and although they, too, were upset, tn
captain and three others managed t.
reach the shore and run up the beacl
to the Golden Gate lifesaving station
to give the alarm. The lifesaving crew
pulled down the beach in the mist,
darkness, got out the Lyle gun, and, a
the very first shot sent line across
the hull. Before the sailors had pulled
in more than 80 fathoms of the whip
it caught in the intervening wreckage
and parted. Before another line was
fired, the watchers on the shore heard
a tremendous crash, echoing high
above the monotonous din of the surf
and the heaps of wreckage that came
swirling in upon the following waves
told them that the Atlantic had broken
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the surf, were saved.
More or less similar was the fate OF
| the steam schooner Mendocino, which
stranded on the south spit of the bar
of Humboldt Bay. She was totally de-
stroyed, but the only life that was lost
was that of the engineers child. The
lifesavers did their best to save it
after it had been swept out of the
small boat containing its father and
mother, but when they reached 1t on
the crest of a wave the sea had done
it's work In 1889 the schooner Fidel-
ity also persisted within few miles
of the spot where the timber Of the
Mendocino rested. The entire crew
of eight men was washed overheard
before the lifeboat could be pulled
out from shore.
Another appalling disaster was that
which befel1 the stately American
squafe-rigger Elizabeth of Belfast,
Maine, which was driven ashore few
miles to the southwark of San Fran
cisco bay in a terrific southeastern. Her
captain and 16 men were drowned, as
well as Keeper Charles Henry Of the
Fort Point lifesaving station, who had
taken his crew out to the Elizabeth's
assistance. In the enormous sea that
was running, he soon realized that
they had no chance, and tried to pull
back to safety. But they were re-
peatedly swept by the seas, one of
which snatched Henry from the steer
lng-oar overheard.
In the meantime, although the Eliz-
,beth had been battered to splinters on |
he rocky coast As minutes after she |
struck, the lifesavers on the shore, ig |
lorant of her fate, were making every |
eXertion to get their apparatus to a
point from which they could reach |
ler The Fort Point crew telephoned |
o Keeper Holohan of the Golden Gate
station of the loss of their chief, and
we're ordered to join with his crew in
to get to the coast opposite
he Elizabeth by way of the land The
wo crews worked all that night and
veil int the next morning, and when
hey finally did come out on the beach
It Point Bonito the only trace of the
elizabeth was the wreckage that lit
cred the sand.
The Strathblare Tragedy.
Two years later the British ship
,trathblane drove ashore at a point
line miles north of the Cape Disap-
ointment station. She was bound in
rom Hawaii and had overrun her
although the lack of famil-
ar landmarks and distinctive lights
nay have had something to do with
er captains blunder At any rate,
yhen she first struck, about daylight,
er captain, by clever disposition i,
his sails, managed to bring her off; i,
ut only to ground a second time on
neighboring reef 1t was early in the
a storm had torn down the