Show SHIP SINKS i IN PORT t Andelina Goes to the Bottom at Tacoma + SEVENTEEN MEN DROWNED + 1 SHIP CAPSIZED WHILE RIDING AT ANCHOR Hatches Were Open and the Vessel Went Straight to the Bottom Had Discharged Her Ballast and a Terrific Gale Came Up Capsizing the Vessel t Tacoma Wash Jan HThe British bark Andelina 2395 tons of Nova Scotia Sco-tia Captain G W Stalling sunk in twentytwo fathoms of water in front of the St Paul mill wharf and the captain cap-tain mate and fifteen of the crew were drowned No one witnessed the accident acci-dent as it occurred during the night The vessel came four days ago in ballast from Shanghai The ballast had been discharged and the ship was lying at anchor waiting to be towed into the dock Last night a terrific gale raged on the bay the wind blowing thirtysix miles per hour Two great boom logs were placed on each side of the Andelina During the gale between 2 and 4 this morning one of the logs went adrift causing the ship to careen and to capsize cap-size with very little warning to the crew creThe vessel was entirely without ballast bal-last and the hatches were open All onboard on-board were caught like rats in a trap and had no chance to escape The ship simply careened over the water flowed in the open hatches and she sank With daylight this morning the Adelinavas missed Where she had been riding apparently ap-parently securely at dusk the night before there showed but a blank stretch of water The wreckage which strewed the bay told the vessels fate A large number of the crew were discharged dis-charged yesterday or the loss of life would have been far more appalling The ship was to have commenced taking tak-ing on a cargo of wheat for Queenstown today and was to receive further orders or-ders Captain Stalling lived in Annapolis Nova Scotia and leaves a wife and three children He is well known in this port The Andelina left New York May 9 last for Shanghai carrying case oil and arrived there Oct 9 She reached reach-ed this port less than a week ago to load wheat for Eppinger Co of San Francisco for export to England She was built at Workmgton North England in 1SS9 was owned by E F and W Roberts of Liverpool and was rated A 1 by Lloyds Her dimensions were Length 303 feet beam 42 feet depth of hold 24 feet 6 inches tonnage ton-nage 2395 net |