Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-14 | Page 20 | Owner Freed in Hearing on Wreck

II fl fREED I IN Ii I i I HEARING ONI UN ON i 1 I I I WRECK Bore Wave in Gulf of California Cali Cali- California I fornia fomia Causes Life of i More Than 80 Lives r 1 Lower California Jan i Enrique owner and Joseph Jor Jo- Jo r j seph Gomez captain of ot tho steamer 11 l wrecked in the Gulf Gul of ot ott t forma November 19 last with the theof t t lQ of more than eighty lives have haver r l t tt held blameless for tor the disaster r st f. f released from detention at the barracks here bJ by federal aU The hp hip was ken in i two vo by a a. huge wave Ua IIa o 0 cargo J been een livestock recovery d have been made for tor the value alue o 0 he cattle I lpt the authorities ruled but there Is Isna 1 no na provision in the Mexican laws covering covering covering cov cov- ering loss of human life lite 3 1 J Tho responsibility of ot the American i Interests for whom the tho victims of ot the I Topolobampo were coming to work at 1 cotton picking In Lower California unI uni un- un I i der contract has been set aside by the I labor commissioner here and other of- of I of the government I t The Topolobampo disaster which took the heaviest toll of ot human life lite InI in inthe th the history of ot the tho Gulf Gult of California I navigation left lert in Its wake one of ot the I most pitiful conditions in southern waters haters I More than persons were drowned evi- evi evidence I to Captain Gomez whose evidence evi evi- dence at the hearings was at variance J I t I with et the tho estimate I of e eighty lives lost I J. J I made by the government officials at atI atLa atLa I La Bomba I The victims and survivors ors It was r stated at the tho government hearings s were from the ranks of ot the poorest r T J r classes In m fa the tho Mexican states of ot Sonora and SInaloa Of ot the thirty known survivors some are demented by rea reason on of ot suffering Buttering Inthe in inthe inthe the desert country after escaping from tho the water as aa shown by b- tho the testimony in the governments government's hearing Only six alx- sixty ty bodies have been taken token from the water The was broken in half halt by a bore wave wave Tho incoming tides of ot the gulf gult the waters of ot the Colorado river back a distance of forty Corty miles When hen the high tides Udes fall taU abruptly In the gulf the waters of ot the Colorado river are turned loose Into tho the gulf gult with terrific force creatIng creating creating creat creat- ing a huge swell or ur bore wave wa forming a wall wail of ot water from nine to thirty feet teet high when it reaches the gulf gult Vessels caught in the upper reaches of the tho Gulf Gult of ot California are ore doomed to disaster shipping experts state when swept by a bore wave Engineering plans in connection conne with the extension of the Southern Pacific Pa Pa- company's compans line from Mexican to toLa toLa La Bomba and for tor the creation of ot adequate adequate ade nde- quate and safe sate harbor facilities at nt Port La IA Bomba Domba will by utilizing connecting connecting ting deep water bays overcome the danger of the bore wave engineers I state i I PUBLIC LECTURES BY EASTERN THEOSOPHIST Professor protessor Ernest Wood principal of ot I the National college of ot Hydera Hydera- bad India and international lecturer I ot of the Theosophical society Odar Madras India accompanied by his I wife has arrived arrival in Salt Lake in the course of ot a world lecture tour Two lectures will be given at Theosophical lodge rooms Continental Bank buildIng building building build build- ing at 8 o'clock on onIon Monday Ion day and Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day nights The first entitled Persona Personal Personal Per sona Problems will touch on the practical things of everyday life lICe and the second Social Problems will discuss local national and international international international difficulties Professor Protessor Wood is isa isa a well-known well author of ot books bools on theosophy education psychology and Sanskrit His Hie tour will extend over a two years years' period and ho ha has already visited China and Japan and continental continental continental conti conti- Europe and will return to In India Inn In- In n dia dla next June The public is invited to these free tree lectures Adv