The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-24
SHIP BREAKS ON ROCKS; 40 MAY BE LOST
Steamer Pounded Apart on Reef Near San Francisco Harbor, While Rescue Yes sells Are PoWerless to Aid Wireless Operator Hero of Unusual Coastwise Disaster.
Waist Deep in Water, He Sticks to Post Until Appara- t1s Gives Out-Life-S Savers Unable to Throw Line to Distressed Vessel Captain and Seventeen Others Saved.

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 and Seventeen Others Saved.
 San Francisco. Nov. 24.-The steam schooner Hanah ashore on Duxbury Reef. broke in two just before dawn today with 5s souls aboard.
 Only eighteen persons were saved, it Is reported Three passengers and teen others including Capt. s. s. Carey. were rescued by life saving crews.
 The schooner. which had been pounded by the surf since yesterday noon. when she ran ashore in the. fog, went all to pieces. Her bow which hung over the reef and had been twisted to a right angle, slid into the. dred yards of the beach. The five persons who first came ashore. swan from this wreckage.
 A few more hours would have saved every soul aboard. An hour would have savad many. After all hope had the wreck. the sth line fred by the Golden Gate Park Lifesaving crew un-. der Captain Norman Nelson. went over the vessel. A brooches buoy was rigged and then the line parted AL most immediately thereafter the HanaIef broke apart amid cries which rose above the thunder of the surf.
 Efforts to take off the pazsengers and crew from shore began late -yes- terday after a. dozen vessels had tried to reach her and were prevented by fog and surf. ssssSs 6 S a from the beach fred lines which fell7 short until in desperation they dou- b1e-charEed their mortar and it burst Z An effort was made to launch a boat from the Hanalai and a passenger was drowned A sailor tried to swim ashore with a line and men on the beach could see his arm swing above the. waves but at the line of breakers he sank and his body drifted out to sea- IA passenger. E1wood Schwerin, of BerkeIy. CaI-s toolx~sa line and got ashore but the line became un- fastened as he swan
 One other man. it was reported. also reached shore. A lifesaviiIg crew which went out toward the wreck, was upset The captain reached shore and the remaining i've men got aboard the Hanalei Two later were washed off and drowned and there seemed no hope for any rescue.
 At 2 o'clock in the morning the GoI- lien Gafe Ifesaving crew with a. larg- CT mortar appeared Through the en- ferprise of a local newspaper it had been 1erried across San Francisco Bay, loaded on a mortar truck and sent 10 miles over mountain roads. It began to shoot lines toward the wreck as the tide rose. After the third shot the water was waist deep on the schooner and the wireless operator, nvlao was sending with an i1nprovised outfit held in one hand, reported that the passengers were desperate.
 we will get ashore as best we can 7 he reported. ssWe cannot stay here.''
 But they dared not trust the waves. ssTry once more. Hurry! Hurryr' called the operator a little later.
 The revenue cutter McChlloch, which has been standing by the Hal- Hnie since yesterday sent wireless message saying she had picked up a Boafload Of survivors from the wreck ed steamer. Captain Alger Of the R1cCulloch. asked that the revenue cutter Golden Gate be sent with doc- tors, nurses and emergency hospital equipment as the survivors were in a bad way
 The Hana1ef was a wooden vessel bof e6e tons, built for the Hawaiian sl1- gar trade in 1901 and later diverted to coastwise traffic, running between San Erancisco and Eureka. She left Eure- Hsa Sunday. She was owned by the hndependent Steamship company
 Duxbury Reef is at the end of a nlarroW channel running north from San Francisco or along the very edge of the reef dn clear weather it is easily nayigateds1 The Handel went ashore in a, dense fog
 The steamer went to pieces after a a1ight spent in heroic but futile ef- forts by persons on shore to fit up "a line to the vessel by which the pas sengers and crew could be removed 1rom danger. Those on board kept up Ghefr courage to the last and 1t was not until the hull parted across Hl1e rocks where she had balanced since yesterday morning that they 1eaped into the water and fought to- ward the signal fires which burned on the beach.
 A large portion of the. hull, with g spar protruding from 1t widowed to- ward shore on the combers and to 1t many human beings cIung desper- afely. A search1ig ght had been rigged ID on top of a bluff and by it's rays swimmers were aided in avoiding the heavy tfmbers adrift and in heading towards shore. When the hulk was within 300 feet of shore it struck a submerged rock and heeled over. All those who had been hanging to the spar or to the bits of rigging were hulk however, as it was wrenehed tree from the rock and contiAue to drift shore ward. Finally wave zhrew if so high upon the sand that life savers were able to assist the few aalf drcHnsd men.