Show AllEGE DEATHS DUE TO ABSENCE OF n DIs Char Charges S Ser es Ma Made Ie Against Ste er President Which Lost Men in Storm SAN FRANCISCO x Nov oV 28 28 Charges Chargee that lack of discipline and proper equipment wore responsible for forthe forthe forthe the loss 1089 of a passenger tho fourth officer officer and two seamen of the steamer steam President in a a. heavy blow off oil the tho California California California Cali Cali- fornia coast Wednesday were made mado by passengers to today a. a when the liner reached here An investigation was begun at once by the United States inspectors as ag tho the President was to sail for San Diego later in in the tho day Twenty or thirty passengers wore on tho the steamers steamer's docks decKs when the cry Man overboard JJ was raised A sea soa had boarded the ship sweeping one man over the side Stewards sailors and oft officers cers began began be be- gan running up and down tho the decks said eaid F P. H H. H vice vico president resident and chief engineer of tho H Ho Holland In land Indian In- In dian railways who is tourin touring tho the United Unit ed States with his bia family and was wag an eyewitness The first mato mate ordered a lifeboat lowered There was much confusion about mannin manning it When it swung swung- out the forward fall faU gave way and the boat hung perpendicularly and nud was crush crushed d against the he ships ship's side ide Four of her of seven soven clung to the tackle and wore were saved Tho other three were spilled into the tho osea Bea Van said Baid no lifelines could be bo found about the docks deek and it was Ion long before a second boat boats manned b by a volunteer crew Including Including- the the ships ship's bartender and a n passenger was lowered The Tho four m men men n who had gone one overboard could not be bo found Forty orty minutes la later lator tor the President resumed her ber course Will A. A Barnes Darnes formerly a newspaper news news- paper man of Bellingham Wash who was a passenger er on the ship published a signed statement hero here today saying that the men who were lost drawn down by tho the swirl from tho ships ship's propeller T The e engines he be said were vere going astern in In an effort to hold bold the tho steamer in m position in tho the heavy v J sea |