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Show SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST LINER Lack of Discipline and Proper Equipment Causes Loss of Three Lives San Fr.mcisro, Nov. 28 Charges that lack of discipline and proper equipment wis responsible for h loss of a passenger the fourth officer and two seamen of the steamer President in a heavy hlowoff the California coast Wednesday were made hy passengers pas-sengers today when the liner reached here. An investigation was begun t cm,, bj the United States Inspectors as the President was to sail for San Deo later in the day. Twentj or thirty passengers were on the steamers decks when the cry Man overboard'.' was ralcod. A sen had boarded the ship, sweeping one man over the side. 'Stewards, sailor- and officers began be-gan running up and down the decks," said K II VanKoolbergen, vice president pres-ident and chief engineer of the Hoi land-Indian railways who is tOUlil the United Stales with his family, and was an eye-witness. Story of Eye Witness. "The first mate ordered a life boat lowered, There wa3 much confusion j about manning ii When it swung out the forward fall gave way and the boat hung perpendicularly and was crushed against the ship's side Four of her crew of seven clung to the tackle and were saved. The other three were spilled Into the sea." VanKoolbergen said no life lines rould be found about the decks and thai it was long before a second boat, manned by a volunteer crew including! the ships bartender and a passenger was lowered The four men who had gOne overboard could not be found.! I Forty minutes later the President resumed re-sumed her course Will A Barnes, formerly a newspaperman newspa-perman of Belllngham, Wash., who was a pessenger on the ship. Pub llshed a signed statement here today saying the men who were lost were drawn down by the swirl from the ship's propellor The engines, he said, were going astern In the effort to hold the steamer in os;tlou In the heavj sea. oo |