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Show PASSENGERS HAVE CLOSE CALL FOB LIFE SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 13.-The passengers pas-sengers and crew of tne wrecked steam schooner "W. H. Kruger, which went ashore oft the Mendocino county shore Friday, arrived in this city today on board the tug Sea Foam. For nearly four hours the refugees of the wrecked vessel were tossed and buffeted buf-feted about in life boats in a heavy sea before the Sea Foam loomed up in sight and took them on board. The passengers and crew of the Kruger were clad only in scant clothing, having left all their effects on board the vessel. Luckily there were no women or children In the open boats. Several times the boats threatened to turn turtle in the raging sea. but luck was on the side of the shipwrecked crowd and they managed to weather the storm till the Sea Foam picked them up ' at 1 o'clock this morning. |