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Show CRUISER PICKS UP VICTIMS t)F WRECK Steamer Fort Bragg Spiked on Eocks Off Point Falmilla in Lower California. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Nov. (5. The cruiser San Diego was believed to be en route to this port tonight with the twenty-four passengers and the crew of the steamer Fort Bragg, wrecked early yesterdav off Point Palmilla, Lower ( alii'orma. Radio messages received today to-day from the cruiser said the victims df" the wreck, who spent last night on the beach, had been taken aboard. Captain Charles C. Graham and the purser were still on the Fort Bragg, the message said. The vessel was spiked on the rocks, but the sea had subsided and there was no immediate danger of her breaking up. It was while wallowing in heavy seas at 3 a. m. with no lights charting the precipitous, rocky coat, that the steamer steam-er struck. The San Jose de Cabo lighthouse light-house was partially buried in a recent sand storm and has not been operated since. A downpour of rain drenched the crew and paseners routed from their bunk? by the smash. Until daylight thov remained huddled on the decks, watching the HfeT;yats that were put off capsize, one bv oup. On a breeches buoy they wftp finj-tilv landed on the boach. where thev shi v-ered v-ered out the night around bonfire. |