Show TS j I t 4 IN V SAN FRANCISCO BA Y Yf f 1 Steamer Steam r Sausalito Crashes into the San Rafael Loaded With Passengers Passenger ip n a Dense Fog and Sends tier to th T Bottom of j to Learn Loss of 1 Life kit But It May Reach Twenty T C I f AN FRANCISCO Nov NOT W The fer ferry SAN 3 ry boats Sausalito and San Salt Rafael Raf t a collided tonight in a dense fog and the San Rafael sank Bank in between bet n ten tan tani 1 i and fifteen minutes It I is 5 tho thought that I J not more than twenty people were drowned although the th San Rafael car carried I 44 j red ried between O 1 and 00 passenger t The Sausalito waa wan not seriously in injured Injured ii and after Kiter rescuing all the pas passengers passengers on the San Rafael that she could find proceeded J d to San Francisco I under her own steam m mAt At midnight it was impossible impo to ob oh obtain b tain tam the th names of any of the missing people peo le and it is believed the estimate of the toss loss of f lie has been gerat exa l iI j J It is barely arely possible that nearly nearl all aU aUth th passengers pa will be accounted for fore eventually e Captain McKenzie of the I San Rafael says that nearly n arly every everyone one was rescued A number jumped into inta the water but they the all got out be bethinks bethinks thinks He said I was the last to leave kave the sinking vessel Ye and there tb was waso no o on one on her when she abe went down don dow n I The Sausalito Sausal to and San Rafael 1 belong to the San Francisco Ie Pa Pacific Pacific elite railway They ply b tween San Francisco and Sausalito a suburb f across the bay in Marin Mann county At Sausalito a train connects tot for Rosa RosaN N ailey vailey and San Sa Rafael where rany r any San Francisco men mak i their summer and winter homes i Dense Peg og on the Bay BayThe BayT BayThe The T San Rafael left San Francisco at 6 15 with between and passengers passengers gers gets There had been beon a dense de fog on oni i the bay all day long and as night fell I it seemed to thicken Mc McKenzie McKenzie Kenzie of the San Rafael bent ent his ship along under a slow sow bell He was waa some somewhere 80 where near new Alcatraz island A when hen the Sausalito coming from Sausalito to San Francisco FrancS o crashed into her There i were but few passengers on the Sausa Sausalito I lito but they were badly seared scared and I for tor a few moments it looked as if both hips going do down n i When it was seen en that the Sausalito vi as us not badly injured she stood by the 2 Fan Ian Rafael and officers crew and aDd pas passengers I engaged in iQ the rescue of the th unfortunate passengers of the sinking vessel Both ship IJ were and ordinal ordinarily ily carried many hundred passengers pas Iap engers Fortunately this was wu the theL L er season and the last trip so 80 there were vere not o 0 many passengers as an usual Marin arin county cJ ty from Sausalito to San Rafael a distance of twenty miles is i lined with homes lomes omes of cf wealthy people I During Juring the th summer t the ferry boat af affie aftic tic fie is if i very heavy havy but in the winter it lightens tight ns and there are comparatively few lew people who travel on the boats beats during the winter season ee son News Hews in San SEt Francisco The n news ws of the disaster did iid not reach tile city until nearly 9 and the news spread with great rapid rapidity rapidity I ity There was intense excitement at atthe atthe atthe the opeia house where an immense e crowd v W wa listening to Calve in Car Carmen Carmen Carnen men nen Many tny people left the house hOIR and andT T to the ne nev T per paper office to ob oh obtain obtain tain lain information about friends and lid rel relatives relatives relatives who might have hae been on board of one ne of the vessels ver Captain McKenzie M Kenzle of or the San Rafael TV was as the last one to leave the ship hip As she was WitS going down he be e seized a rup flunK flung flun to him from the Sausalito and andna MA na n pulled Bulled on board He thinks that most of his passengers were saved as asi i uny ny of them Jumped to the Sausalito t ar an others went on the gang sang plank j ru rUi between bet the two ships to safety The list of ot those lost will probably not it be available a tonight It is safe to toa say a however that those st t were all alli i I prominent pr people in the c Story of a Passenger Attorney Thomas J Lennon Innon one of passengers OU oil board the Sn RR RIt fael ael gae the tte following story The San an Rafael was struck by the Sausa Sausalito Sausalito Sausalito lito twenty minutes after leav leaving leavI I ing jog h hr r berth I was in the restaurant at the time and had Just left the he table Wil h I was wu knocked fifteen or o 0 twenty tw I feet f t by bj the collision I fell face down downward ward vard ard and was covered with ith the wood w od odi i on n partitions After A scrambling out oat outwit 1 wit great reat I went Vent on the C upper deck leek in search of my law Jaw Miss Josephine Lenhart I then noticed a boat at the side of ot the vessel which nich had been lowe lowerd d by the pa en eng g ge J I Hayn of San Rafael 1 who was as on n fl board called ailed to me to lower loer Mi Miss li s Lenhart Jt into the th boat This I Idid did didI I hould Jurge juge ju ge that there was wu wa al alI I r ten or twelve people in the boat at 8 t that hat time After around aro nd for 1 more women and not seeing any I II I told mid Haynes Hayres to pull pun to the Sausalito which M w was as standing by b and then to toJ J return It was ry dark and you o i cold not see three feet away of Passengers engers Pu i this thUl time McKenzie I of the th San Rafael and one of ot the crew crewl tarl 1 to break glass windows on ontie I he tie upper deck in to et on board ard b f the which wa as a u up UI against he b side of ol the San I Fafael Py Ity doing nS his the passengers could Ul tb a little assistance mf get on boad the lito even getting the sois of their i shoes hoes wet wELt et The first few fv to get out of the windows s were some ome cut lUt about their hands Those Tho who had broken the gloss helped to pass pas the women and from the San an Rafael to the 8 usa After some tim had passed I no noticed i hoed that the bow of the Sausalito sits sac I tin closer to the San Rafael hen something in the water attracted ny fly attention a and when hen I again looked I t the tEe prow to my m horror I saw sa a 1 aeck eck hand pinned between the pro of ot othe he r e Sausalito and the side of the otner I oat oaL w with his tongue handing out he tw g slow slowly y rushed crushed to death I then thought I fet fe the boat sink aIn I 4 and jumped Into the water ter I am amI airl good swimmer m my 21 pounds and in a short sh rt time ac U alongside alon the th Sausalito au yelling a these on board to tn t throw mo me m a rope pt 1 a reply r pl that a heat boat at would woul be Jb Tow it jL 1 Thinking to rest myself I Z tr tron 1 f on my back and floated around for to fo uli judge about live five minutes minutesT T T r Life Boat is te Capsized T S Sni II a boat was lowered and of u UI got in We then started to 4 looking for the o oar un L 1 hate w 11 3 passed another bout TI bout abOut people in hilt it A A man f f 1 J 4 0 f named Eckles who was in the other boat thinking his ht boat too overcrowded jumped aped into ours oars and in doing so cap I sued aIRd that boat and nd we were again In Inthe inthe the th e water I swam away a Y being afraid of being bet struck by the capsized boat then got pt back into IMo the boat he I had left a few lew minute a previous All ul this t me the people on board the kept throwing life fife pre pee preservers servers into the Ue water greatly to 10 our annoyance e as u 5 we e were afraid of being bem hit with them I finally attempted to get into a pretty well crowded boat but jast just as I was doing so some one grabbed me from Item behind and anti the boat was rowed to 10 the side adde of o the Sausalito Sau After all 11 this struggling I was pret peat pretty pretty ty well exhausted and ud started with dif dlf difficulty for the Sausalito Just as I reached the th side of oi that vessel a tug which i t think was w the Sea King ICing threw her searchlight on us and I heard beard some of the men still in the water cry to the captain of the tug toe they evidently being afraid fraid of the tug toa running them awn n Token Ten Prom From the Writer Water W Finally Ft lly a r ipe pe was lowered and I Iwas Iwas was waB pulled aboard A Mrs Snyder of ofSan Sari San Rafael who was accompanied by her little son BOn got into the I same mine boat with my Be Before Before Before fore getting into lato the boat bot she handed her little son to a man on deck Be B Before I fore for the man got a chance to return I the th boy to its mother the boat pulled pun away He did not know what to do to II with his charge and aDd thinking the San was going down threw the boy i into the water and a d jumped after him Ha H grabbed the boy and swam to a wooden bench upon which be he sat the boy and held on to the bench to rt t tHe He was wan pulled on board some time after alter with the little fellow under his arm armIn In the meantime the childs mother motheral almost al frantic with grief was asking everyone on board for her child She finally discovered the lad wet scared cared and crying on the bow of the boat One ODe of the men who had been on the Sausalito all the time and ad d was not wet took to k off oar his undershirt and wrapped it around the little fellow tellow who was by this time Ume laughing rs as If nothing had happened happe ed When asked as to how many he thought lost their lives 11 Mr Mt Lemon Le non placed the number Bomber at from fifteen to twenty t He said ld Captain ad ned crew deserve greet great r pat raise e for the way they assisted the passengers pa Panic on Sa San Rafael James Moore of Ross ROES Valley an em employee Rf ot the th Nevada bank was a passenger on the San Rafael To tie t Associated Press Pre s he be said There was the usual Saturday nit ni t crowd on the San Rafael Rafa 1 when she left at SI for tor There was a dense denae fog s and Captain McKenzie of the San Rafael sent the ship under a slow stow belL belt We were about halfway half hatt way wa between Lombard street wharf I and Alcatraz island leland when the RaS Sa crashed into Inte us I was smoking BroOking a 8 cigar claar on the forward deck of the San Rafael Raf and it ft seemed to me that the theSau Sausalito Sau aUto struck us just about amid amidships amidships amidships ships There Thee was wan a terrific crash and immediately im tin mediately there theft was wild confusion contus on Men women men and children rushed for life lIf preservers There were from to 13 people on the San Rafael Some Somei i of them thesa t lumped jumped overboard as soon as asI the steamers collided but I made up I 1 mv mind to stay by the t ship I had put pat paton on a life Ute knew that I Iv v would float for awhile at least There was an attempt to lower a 2 boat on the San Son Rafael but I do not believe be ve many people got off in it There was too much muck confusion and fog for tvr much Jauch to be badone done Mr lIr TOmpkins T of pt p the B and Shanghai l bank f was with me and Bd he agreed ed with me ne meto neto to stay y on the boat as long as 85 we C could The Boat Went Down Between ten and fifteen minutes aft after after er cc the first crash the San Rafael went under As Aa she went down I jumped tor for the ue Sausalito alito Su which was wan close by and lid caught on her rail I was not strong enough to haul baul myself up so so I hung on and lid shouted for help None of the crew of the Sausalito heard me and I finaly let Jet 90 IJO my hold from ex exhaustion exhaustion and dropped into the water My life preserver kept me afloat and twenty minutes later I got hold of a rope lowered from the Sausalito and was pulled on Oft board that vessel I Iwas Iwas Iwas was almost completely exhausted and had given up all hope when I was finally rescued cued re Mr Moore Moor who Is about 00 60 years old considers that his hie escape was miraculous lout lous In his opinion most of the pea pas passengers Re ers on the San Rafael were saved Sed He said The boats stayed together after the collision It was joon tOOD oon learned on the Sausalito that sh was not seri mci seriously seriously injured and the on board hoard her took immediate steps to secure the unfortunate passengers on the San Rafael They ran a gang plank over overto overto overto to the sinking vessel and many man of our passengers escaped in that way After the San Rafael went down the Sausalito Sau all to stayed by and threw ropes to those tho floating in the water Mr Moore said further Of course I cannot be accurate but I would not place the loss loa of life over sixty It seems to me that most t of the passengers en engers gers must have hare been saved ved Pot Fog Was a Thick One Never had the fog tog been thicker in San Francisco eo and on the bay than to tonight tonight tonight night It was Wall a day and aad night of or sax anxiety lety In the early hours hooN the fog came up as thick as mush mu and tonight it was almost impossible elble Impo to see a boats length The steam schooner Arctic ran down th tM French bark Rostand in inthe Inthe inthe the early morning whit the nd AI the fog Manya vessel d a a escape and the fog tos were e blown in ad nfl directions Most of the ferry fen steamers Ren escaped but one or two tw of g t into trou trouble trouble troubie ble bie The Tiburon had to th make a 8 sec see second second ond attempt at her st t landing The fhe Encinal was as nearly nearl half an hour reaching her dock and the omont had similar experience The Oakland and the San Rafael came very near colliding when they reached this th city at S i in the evening Each boat bot her slip silo one going too high and the other too low tow lowThe The Kimball KimbaU Steamship Arctic arrived from Nome and way ports early in the morning On her herway herway way wa down the coast cout she stopped stepped at As JI Astoria Astoria toria and after alter leaving the Columbia river was caught in I the southeaster and had a very rough roU h experience Mak Making Making ing port in the fog Captain Erickson Erick on decided that it was wu better to come to anchor The Arctic was accordingly hove to and the anchor dropped dropp d When she swung with the tide how however however however ever she was right in under the quarter quarter quarter ter of the French bark Edmond Ros Roe Rostand Rostand tand toad The latter was raked and the Arctic suffered considerably about her upper works and rigging but b t apart from that she is as sound BOund as a dollar The Rostand may ma have to o be sent to dry dock for an overhauling |